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September
HSBC and RBS are providing set-top box maker Pace with $450m in loans in order to buy 2Wire
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The TM Forum has decided to switch its Management World conference and exhibition in 2011 from Nice to a new convention centre in Dublin
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August
Reports suggest that the owners of Nokia Siemens Networks are talking to private equity companies about a stake
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Polish mobile operator Polkomtel has sold bonds worth $319m to fund operations and refinance debt
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Gothenburg now has LTE and will be joined by over 200 other towns and cities in Sweden by the end of 2011
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The GSM Association is thinking of moving Mobile World Congress away from Barcelona after 2012. Global Telecoms Business looks at the alternatives
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A new cable serving west Africa is to be extended from Portugal to the UK following a contract with Alcatel-Lucent
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Under European pressure, the French government is reported to be considering an increase in tax for triple play services
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65 phones in O2 stores to be given environmental sustainability score, with Sony Ericsson getting highest rating
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The German city of Emden is to try out smart electricity and gas metering in a project with Deutsche Telekom
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Orascom and Wind in Europe, the Middle East and north Africa may merge with VimpelCom and Telenor’s operations in Russia and eastern Europe, say reports
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Telenor has signed a deal with ZTE to build a unified mobile network delivering 2G, 3G and LTE
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The GSM Association is considering five rivals to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress after 2012
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Serbia’s telecoms minister Jasna Matic says the government will sell 50% plus one share in Telekom Srbija
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Next has signed a five-year contract with Cable & Wireless Worldwide for a network covering the UK and Hong Kong
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The European Union has lost the latest stage in a battle with the French government over state aid to France Telecom
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There’s an increasing pace of deals between operators, banks and mobile money specialists as the industry seeks to win a share of a fast-growing business
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Telekom Austria converges operations in new search for innovation and efficiency
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July
First carriers sign up to exchange international ethernet services, says new CEO
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Those behind the £100m deal for Easynet see cloud services as a key attraction — and are looking for consolidation opportunities
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China Telecom looks for IT investment opportunities in European market, says the head of its EMEA business
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CEO David Rowe stays in charge as Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB sells its interest in Easynet to a private equity arm of Lloyds Bank for £100m
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Revenue from Motorola’s wireless infrastructure business will boost Nokia Siemens Networks by 23%
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Telefónica is telling squeezed governments, insurers and even relatives about the benefits of electronic health systems. Global Telecoms Business interviews Álvaro Fernández de Araoz, director of the new unit
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Telefónica launches electronic health venture as nations squeeze spending on medical care
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Ofcom, the UK regulator, is following its US opposite number, the FCC, is reviewing whether ISPs restrict net traffic
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Japanese operator NTT has made an agreed bid worth £2.1bn for South African IT group Dimension Data
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Telefónica’s O2 operation in Europe has launched cheap international calling following the group’s takeover of Jajah in January
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The Hungarian government is to seek bids for new mobile bandwidth, to expand wireless internet access
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Egyptian reports suggest that Naguib Sawiris’s Orascom is looking for investments in Serbian and Polish mobile operators
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Telefónica CEO César Alierta has launched a electronic health unit that will sell services in 11 countries
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Yota and Rostelecom have been given permission to switch operations from WiMax to LTE, using existing frequency allocations
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Vivendi’s French mobile and fixed line operation, SFR, is to invest €1.5bn in network enhancements this year
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TeliaSonera has offloaded its Danish cable TV business Stofa to a private equity group for $187m
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Openreach local loop order for fibre programme
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Si.mobil, part of Telekom Austria’s Mobilkom Austria, has picked Nokia Siemens Networks to improve its backhaul network
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CEO Stéphane Richard sets out new strategy
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Telefónica is seeking an €8bn loan to support its offer for Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazilian operator Vivo
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Chinese vendor sole supplier for transformation
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Ericsson has won a managed services contract to supply telecoms to Endesa, the Spanish electricity company
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Finnish export credit agency offers loan
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Nokia Siemens Networks is supplying a service to Vodafone Portugal to converge circuit-switched and data services
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Regulator Luc Hindryckx says cut the fees
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New company is Everything Everywhere
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Cloud platform for infrastructure as a service
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June
Investment opportunities are changing in central and eastern Europe
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Mikhail Shamolin, CEO of Russian mobile operator MTS, wants to take over the 38% of Comstar the company does not already own
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The government of the Russian Federation is completing its delayed proposal to buy a 20% stake in Russian controlled Indian operation Sistema Shyam
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Telefónica, which is bidding for Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazilian operator Vivo, has sold most of its own shares in Portugal Telecom
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TeliaSonera has awarded Nokia Siemens Networks a contract for LTE base stations in Gothenburg
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France Telecom is to invest $632m in Switzerland after the regulator banned it from merging with TDC’s Sunrise
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Goldman Sachs and a Russian private equity group are planning to take over AriaDSL, a bankrupt Italian WiMax operator
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Russian operator MTS has raised $750m in a bond sale organised by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and RBS
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The government of Spain has announced plans to reallocate spectrum to expand mobile broadband services
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Greek operator Wind Hellas is restructuring €1.7bn of debt only six months after restructuring €1bn
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Vivacom, owned through Richard Li’s Pinebridge Investments, is in talks with creditors about its €1.5bn debt
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Huawei has won business from Wind in Italy to build 3G and 4G mobile networks and will set up a joint lab
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Telefónica O2 will stop ‘all you can eat’ data plans in the UK when it introduces the Apple iPhone 4
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Nortel is selling one of the last equipment making units in its bankrupt empire, Turkish group Nortel Netas
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May
Russian telecoms consolidation continues as Svyazinvest’s VolgaTelecom buys Teleset Networks foor $134m
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VimpelCom is to spend $470m on acquiring the remaining shares in its Russian subsidiary
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BT Global Services is adding cloud-based features from the group’s Ribbit subsidiary to its offering to multinational enterprises
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Yota has dropped plans to expand its WiMax operations in Russia and will use LTE instead, the company says
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KPN dropped out of Germany’s spectrum auction but Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica are paying €4.4bn for 4G capacity
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Management World 2010: Dynamic charging for cloud services, smart bundling of broadband offerings and collaboration between networks in disasters were among innovative projects in the TMForum’s catalyst section in Nice
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Management World 2010: Mobistar is part of the Orange group but the CTO of the Belgian operator pursues an independent line on suppliers and product offerings
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French Vivendi-Vodafone joint venture SFR is borrowing €1.2bn to refinance a 2004 facility
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SFR and Orange have beaten Iliad in the auction for the remaining French 3G frequencies, with capacity for MVNOs
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Invitel Holdings is selling wholesale division Invitel International to Turkey’s Türk Telekom for €197m
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Mobilkom Austria has launched its own Visa card to ease mobile payments for customers and seeks growth in a market where credit cards are still a rarity
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Management World 2010: Slovak Telecom tells TMForum event that it has achieved 20% operational cost reduction in Amdocs OSS project
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BT CEO Ian Livingston says the company plans to spend £1 billion on expanding fibre coverage to 66% of UK households
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Global Telecoms Business will be publishing news stories and a daily email newsletter from the TMForum’s Management World conference in Nice
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Iliad, Orange and SFR are competing for the last two allocations of 3G spectrum in France, while Bouygues did not bid
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Nokia is to put chief development officer Mary McDowell in charge of its mobile phones unit, with a new emphasis on smartphones, as Rick Simonson steps down
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BT is planning to increase coverage of its UK superfast broadband network from 40% of homes by 2013 to 66% of homes
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Four operators have won spectrum to operate LTE services in Denmark and at least two want to start this year
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The owners of Denmark’s TDC have postponed a planned share sale while the appeal Switzerland’s block of a deal to merge its Sunrise offshoot
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Vodafone, Wind and Swisscom’s Fastweb are collaborating to build a rival Italian broadband network to Telecom Italia’s
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BT has signed up Alcatel-Lucent to increase the capacity of its 21st Century Network all-IP project
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France Telecom has launched Tunisia’s first 3G network in association with a local group, Investec
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April
Telefónica, headed by Cesar Alierta, has been trying out NEC’s LTE equipment on its network in Argentina
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Google has dropped plans to make a CDMA version of the Nexus One for Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone will sell directly from its stores
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Mobile TeleSystems in Russia has outsourced operations in 16 regions to Nokia Siemens Networks
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The number of mobile subscribers has increased over 2009 in six countries although Italy and the Netherlands have shown a decline, writes Margrit Sessions
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Cable operators plus KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile have emerged as winners of the Dutch spectrum auction, but prices have not yet been disclosed
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Vladimir Butenko’s CommuniGate Systems offers hosted unified communications services via telecoms operators to 150 million users worldwide
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Bidding for frequency blocks in Germany’s spectrum auction has reached €562bn, with KPN’s E-Plus offering a total of €188m for two blocks
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In a last minute decision, the Swiss competition authority has blocked the merger between France Telecom’s Orange Switzerland and TDC’s Sunrise
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Telenor and Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group have consolidated their peace deal by completing the merger of VimpelCom and Kyivstar
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Researchers at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs say that they can boost commercial DSL speeds to 300 megabits within a few years — faster than fibre will reach all homes
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One of Nortel’s last operations, its joint venture with South Korea’s LG to make mobile equipment, is being bought by Ericsson
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BT’s UK rival TalkTalk is to expand its fixed broadband service from 1,700 to 300 exchanges, using its own optical network
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to expand the operations of MBNL, the shared network operated by T-Mobile and 3 in the UK
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The Orange brand was born in the UK 16 years ago but will disappear there following the merger with the local branch of T-Mobile
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Egypt’s telecoms minister Tarek Kamel has helped to broker a deal between France Telecom and Orascom to end their dispute over control of Mobinil
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Nokia Siemens Networks has won two contracts with Telefónica O2 to expand its mobile network in Germany
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to expand Cable & Wireless Communications’ 3G network, Sure, on the island of Guernsey
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Broadband operator Ono has won bank approval to issue new debt to refinance its loan, and has €200m of new private-equity capital
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Alcatel-Lucent has set up Optism, a broking and hosting service so that advertisers can book text and picture ad messages with operators’ customers
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Vladimir Putin’s Russian government is considering taking a stake in Sistema’s Indian operation, MTS India
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The Orange brand was born in the UK 16 years ago but will disappear there following the merger with the local branch of T-Mobile
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The German regulator has started to auction frequencies for 4G services
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Ericsson has continued a process of building up its consultancy and systems integration business by buying Pride, an Italian specialist in telecoms, energy and utilities. Consulting chief Paolo Corella explains the logic
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AT&T has sold the European division of its Wayport wifi hotspot business to Swisscom
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France Telecom’s new CEO Stéphane Richard says that the company plans to spend €7 billion on acquisitions in Africa and the Middle East
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AT&T is to spend $1bn on network expansion in 2010, says company’s business solutions president Ron Spears
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Russian operator MTS has secured a $754m loan and is considering bidding for internet service provider Multiregion
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Two Chinese companies have ordered $2 billion worth of handsets from Nokia, but one of the orders shows a substantial decline on 2009
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TeliaSonera plans to launch LTE in 25 cities in Sweden and four in Norway, following a commercial launch in Stockholm and Oslo
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Telefónica’s Movistar network in Spain is being upgraded to HSPA+ at 42 megabits a second, with a contract from NSN
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The joint venture of the UK operations of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom has gone into operation today, with a new management team headed by Tom Alexander
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March
Serbia’s telecoms minister Jasna Matic is planning to sell half the state’s 80% holding in incumbent operator Telekom Srbija
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The rebranded Cable & Wireless Communications — split off from Cable & Wireless this morning — is looking at asset sales and aquisitions
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Following the separation of C&W, Phil Male of Cable & Wireless Worldwide explains how the newly independent business is integrated like never before
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The UK regulator is saying that BT should offer access to fibre and ducts to rival operators
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With 51% of fixed provider Comstar, MTS is preparing to sell bundled services through its own outlets. Mikhail Gerchuk hints at the new strategy
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UK prime minister Gordon Brown is preparing for the imminent general election by promising super-fast broadband to every household
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Ukraine’s authorities have approved the merger of Kyivstar with Telenor and Alfa’s Russian business VimpelCom
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Russian telecoms group Svyazinvest, which includes Rostelecom and Sibirtelecom, has decided to use LTE for its fourth generation services
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CEO Srinath Narasimhan is re-investing the cash from that wholesale voice in wireless networks and value-added services in India and other emerging markets
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Orange has agreed three new mobile virtual network operator deals in the UK through an MVNO aggregator partner
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Nearly one third of Deutsche Telekom managers will be female in five years, says CEO René Obermann
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Providence Equity Partners, owner of Kabel Deutschland, plans to float 30 million shares at up to €25.50 each
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Belgium is offering a fourth licence for 3G services and is expected to follow with licences for LTE and WiMax capacity
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Germany’s four existing mobile licence operators — and no others — have been cleared to bid for new spectrum by regulator Matthias Kurth
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Hans Vestberg has reorganised Ericsson in the few weeks since he took over. He wants the new team to listen to customers
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Vivendi is hoping to secure mobile frequency spectrum for its new Brazilian acquisition, GVT
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Russian operator MTS is to rise $1 billion in a eurobond issue to refinance its debt
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NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia
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Belgian cable operator Telenet plans to invest in LTE technology for its own mobile network
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The European Commission has started a public consultation on updating the EU’s law on whether broadband should be included in universal access rules
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The merger of the UK business of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom will go ahead after regulatory approval
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Travellers within the 27 member countries of the European Union will pay no more than €50 a month for roaming data
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Ericsson is to supply VDSL2 equipment to TeliaSonera so it can boost its copper network in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
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February
Orange is planning a quadruple play offer in France, including fixed and mobile phone, internet and TV
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Private equity shareholders in German cable operator Kabel Deutschland are planning to raise €1 billion in a share sale
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Telekom Austria is to merge the businesses of its fixed and mobile operations in its home country, aiming at €100m annual savings
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Truphone’s CEO Geraldine Wilson has announced the first of what she hopes will be 25 MVNO deals with leading global operators
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Dubai-based Oger Telecom wants tio raise its stake in Türk Telecom from 55% to 65% or more
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Lars Nilsson is to replace Harri Koponen as CEO of Tele2 after Kopenen left because of differences with the board
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France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom are prepared to release spectrum to other operators to help win approval for the merger of their UK operations
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Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs is to work with Telecom Italia’s labs on LTE developments such as picocells
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Alcatel-Lucent is to take over network operations and 3,000 staff of Bulgarian operator BTC
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BT Wholesale is launching a content delivery network to allow ISPs to offer guaranteed quality to consumers
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ISPs are struggling to cope with consumers’ demand for online video. In the UK, BT is responding by launching its own wholesale content network for video.
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France Telecom is to invest €2 billion in fibre networks to homes in Paris and 15 other French cities
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Reports from the UK suggest BT is considering plans to open up its cable ducts to rival operators
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Deutsche Telekom is consulting with banks over a possible offer of shares in its US business T-Mobile USA
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The Russian government is planning to offer some of its shares in telecom operator Svyazinvest on the London Stock Exchange in 2011
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Telecom Italia, subject of talks by the Italian government on a Telefónica takeover, is to raise a further $1.25 billion of debt
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The proposed merger of T-Mobile and Orange’s operations in the UK is to be reviewe by the competition regulator
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Stéphane Richard will take over from Didier Lombard as CEO of France Telecom on March 1, though Lombard will continue as chairman until June 2011
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Once it has completed its demerger from Carphone Warehouse, UK broadband operator TalkTalk plans to launch TV and mobile phone services
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January
The French regulator, Arcep, is to auction two remaining 3G bands and is preparing for an auction of 4G spectrum
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A lobby organisation of European telecoms operators has been urged to support Telecom Italia, which has been ordered to sell its stake in Telecom Argentina
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Private equity-controlled Kabel Deutschland is considering an initial public offering of its shares, potentially valuing the company at €5 billion
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Interviews with Süreyya Ciliv, Rob Pullen and Jeong Kim are now online
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Former Microsoft executive Süreyya Ciliv has been steering Turkcell to become one of the most innovative operators in Europe
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Carphone Warehouse in the UK is considering building its own optical fibre network in competition with BT and other operators
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Deutsche Telekom is seeking regulatory approval for wholesale prices for access to its optical fibre network
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The French government is to offer telecoms operators low-interest loans in order to stimulate the growth of fibre to the home
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XConnect is offering a free three-month trial of a new peering service to operators providing high-definition voice services
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O2, now part of Telefónica, is to start competing with former parent BT in the fixed-line market in the UK
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The Russian government is opposing mergers that affect VimpelCom and MegaFon plus stakes in Ukrainian and Turkish operators
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The Russian government is postponing plans to invest $677 million in Indian operator Sistema Shyam, which is controlled by Russian group Sistema
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Norwegian operator Telenor has emerged as the single bidder for the competitive fixed-line licence in Serbia
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The owners of TDC, the Danish incumbent operator, are talking to investment banks about listing the company on the stock market
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The company that holds a dominant 22.5% of Telecom Italia is refinancing $3.77 billion of its debt via bond and loan deals
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Clearwire International, headed by Barry West, has announced plans to build a WiMax network covering the Spanish city of Malaga
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Former EDS executive Jeff Kelly is taking over from former BT group CFO Hanif Lalani at the top of BT Global Services
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Turkey’s communications minister Binali Yildirim is considering a plan to reduce the government’s 30% stake in Türk Telecom, by a public offering, a block sale or a combination
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Russian investment group Altimo was five minutes late to bid for Zambia’s Zamtel but has been confirmed as a bidder