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December
Ericsson has acquired OSS company, Optimi, a US-Spanish company, for an undisclosed price
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Despite political disputes, Belgium is expected to auction a fourth 3G licence in 2011
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Vivendi’s French operator SFR is to upgrade its network to 42 megabits HSPA+ using NSN kit
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VimpelCom’s plan to buy Naguib Sawiris’s telecoms business is unravelling because of opposition from 36% shareholder Telenor
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Turkcell, Etisalat, Mobily and other operators are building a 12.8 terabit cable linking Istanbul to the Gulf
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TeliaSonera has launched its LTE services in a fifth country, Estonia
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to build an LTE network for Elisa and upgrade its 2G and 3G networks
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Intel is selling its broadband wireless spectrum in Sweden to Hutchison’s Three
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Nokia has decided that its new E7 smartphone will not be released until 2011
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Swedish regulator PTS, headed by Göran Marby, is to auction six licences in the 800 megahertz band, starting in February
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Denmark is the fourth country where TeliaSonera has launched commercial LTE services
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AT&T has announced two network services contracts with European engineering groups, Smiths and Linde
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The Nexus S, the latest version of Google’s own Android phone, is to go on the market by the end of December
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TeliaSonera is paying $160m to increase its stake in its Asian holding company to over 75%
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European Commissioner Neelie Kroes wants Europe to coordinate use of former TV bandwidth for 4G
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Orange and SFR is to start selling the iPad as Vodafone aims to sell its 44% stake in SFR
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The satellite industry is responding to the worldwide demand for broadband access by funding new projects to expand services
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TeliaSonera, which has already started LTE in Sweden, has launched commercial service in Finland
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Nokia Siemens Network is to expand Tušmobil’s 3G network in Slovenia
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November
The first LTE services in Germany are due to be switched on by Vodafone at the start of December
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Alcatel-Lucent is to raise €500m, partly to refinance convertible/exchangeable bonds due in January
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Dutch and Spanish incumbents are to work together to serve multinational clients in 20 countries, but not Germany
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TDC’s private equity owners are to sell 210m shares and repurchase $1.6bn worth
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Stockholm-based TeliaSonera has invited six banks to join a seven-year high-grade loan
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Yota has expanded from Russia to Nicaragua and Peru, and is poised to switch technology from WiMax to LTE
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Orange is to subsidise the Apple iPad in France and through its UK joint venture with T-Mobile
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Russian WiMax operator Yota is switching technologies to LTE, company CEO Dennis Sverdlov tells GTB
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Polish wholesale operator Aero2 is to install an LTE TDD network from Huawei
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Italy’s Wind is borrowing €3.9bn to refinance debt before its parent group is merged with VimpelCom
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Transforming a 25 billion minute network to NGN in two nights
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Russian phone retailer Evroset, 50% owned by VimpelCom, is planning to raise up to $5bn in a share listing
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The UK regulator is now scheduling its auction for broadband wireless spectrum for early 2012
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Norway’s Telenor and alternative carrier Tele2 are working together to launch LTE services in Sweden
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TeliaSonera has extended its LTE deal with NSN and Ericsson from Sweden and Norway to its network in Finland
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Albania has awarded its first 3G licence to Vodafone for a payment of €31m
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France Telecom, which operates under the Orange brand, is to buy back bonds and other securities
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Seven operators in Italy, including Telecom Italia, are planning to collaborate to build a national broadband network
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The Symbian operating system, dropped by Sony Ericsson and Samsung, is to be wholly owned by Nokia
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TDC in Denmark has awarded Ericsson a contract to build and operate its LTE network, due for launch in January 2011
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Machine-to-machine specialist Jasper Wireless is working with Telefónica to set up a control centre for embedded mobile devices
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The UK’s new government should be spending more than £530m on sponsoring broadband, a senior analyst tells politicians
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Orascom’s Italian operation, Wind Telecomunicazioni, is to borrow €3.4bn ahead of its merger agreement with Russia’s VimpelCom
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US wholesale ethernet operator Neutral Tandem has integrated its new acquisition, Tinet, the former wholesale division of Tiscali
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Nokia Siemens Networks is supplying a security-as-a-service package that Telefónica O2 will offer customers in the Czech Republic
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Vodafone and other investors in Poland's Polkomtel are discussing selling the company for an estimated $5bn
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October
Analysts believe the market for machine-to-machine communications is about to take off
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The UK regulator says 900 and 1800 megahertz bands, now used just for 2G, should be available for 3G services
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BICS, Belgacom’s international wholesale network, is upgrading its technology to 40 gigabits over existing fibre and is planning to move to 100 gigabits
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BT is saving IT spend by virtualising its data centres, 21CN executive Rob Thomas tells Broadband World Forum, and the company will use cloud for a new IPTV service
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A Salesforce.com executive tells the Broadband World Forum that telecoms companies have a huge opportunity in selling cloud-based services to customers
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Makers of smartphones are contributing to the problem of mobile data explosion because of a lack of coordination with equipment makers, says an equipment maker
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Alcatel-Lucent director Stephen Carter tells the Broadband World Forum that Europe should invest in digitally-based public services
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Telecoms providers are treating customers poorly, as people are sold technology that they can’t make work, the Broadband World Forum is told
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Italy's Wind, soon to be merged into VimpelCom, is talking to banks about refinancing $5.6bn of loans
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Russia is one of Europe’s fastest growing markets for fibre to the home, with 1.2m customers, but most of Europe is lagging behind the world
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NSN is to build Vivendi’s SFR a rural 3G network in France which it will share with Orange and Bouygues
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Vendors were completing on the first day of Broadband World Forum in Paris to claim the fastest DSL speeds
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Deutsche Telekom is rolling out LTE using digital dividend spectrum, with NSN as the equipment provider
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The Italian regulator should review the fees Telecom Italia charges to rival companies, says the European Commission
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Telecom Italia’s TIM has increased the speed of its HSPA network to 21 megabits and plans a further increase to 42 megabits
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The UK government is winning cost-cutting deals from Cable & Wireless Worldwide and other providers
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3UK, owned by Hutchison, will not renew a managed services deal with Ericsson after the initial contract expires in 2012
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Greece’s Wind Hellas will be debt free after a restructuring deal that wipes out the interests of founder Naguib Sawiris
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The government of Serbia is seeking to sell about 50% of Telekom Srbija, in which Greece’s OTE owns 20%
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Denmark’s TDC, 88% owned by private equity groups, is consulting banks about a share sale
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Turkcell is working with Deutsche Telekom to launch an MVNO in Germany
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Telefónica O2 and Vodafone have lost a court ruling under which the regulator is preventing them refarming 2G spectrum for 3G
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Following a ruling by UK regulator Ofcom, Virgin Media plans to use BT infrastructure to reach customers
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Reports say TalkTalk will become a wholesale customer of BT’s fibre network to deliver fast fixed broadband
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Vodafone is planning a four-year programme to boost rural mobile coverage in Italy, at a cost of €1bn
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The Autorité de la Concurrence, France’s competition authority, is investigating Orange Open, France Telecom’s quad-play package
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Orascom’s operations including Italy’s Wind are likely to transfer to the control of VimpelCom under a deal with Orascom’s owner Naguib Sawiris
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Telecom Italia has sold its €20m submarine cable business, Elettra, to France Telecom
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September
ZTE has won a network infrastructure project worth $270m from Pannon, now Telenor Hungary
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Apple, already fighting Nokia over patents in the US, is now starting proceedings in the UK
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France Telecom’s Orange Business Services has formed a cloud computing alliance with Cisco, EMC and VMware
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Apple has conceded that European buyers of iPhones can have them repaired in other EU member states
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TeliaSonera customers who pay €65 a month will get faster LTE speeds and more data than those who pay just €29
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400 IT employees at Nokia Siemens Networks are to transfer to Capgemini under an outsourcing deal
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Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop has delayed to launch of its new N8 smartphone for ‘final adjustments’
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France Telecom is to buy 40% of Morocco’s Meditel, the first acquisition since Stéphane Richard took over as CEO
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The European Commission plans to allocate more spectrum for broadband services by the end of 2012
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Fastweb, Wind and Vodafone in Italy have agreed to work together on a national broadband network project
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Danish operator TDC has sold its Swiss subsidiary, Sunrise, to private equity group CVC after failing to merge it with Orange
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Telekom Austria is to use Nokia Siemens Networks to replace and modernise five of its networks and has bought two cable systems in Bulgaria
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Telenor has picked Ericsson to supply an all-IP transformation for its fixed network in Norway
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As Anssi Vanjoki announces his departure from Nokia, the company launches three new smartphones
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ZTE is to upgrade the 450 megahertz CDMA network for Poland’s Polkomtel operator
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Wind, Fastweb and Vodafone have left a next-generation network committee in Italy, saying their views were not being considered
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The European Commission is trying to make the 27 EU member states release 800 megahertz spectrum by 2013
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AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless have all signed deals with Samsung to sell Samsung’s Galaxy Tab
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Nokia has responded to doubts about its performance in the smartphone sector by ousting its CEO and appointing Stephen Elop of Microsoft
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Swisscom is offering to pay €265m for the shares in Italian broadband operator Fastweb that it does not already own
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Norwegian operator Telenor is one of those expected to bid for Greek operator Wind Hellas next week
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The long tradition of Vodafone supplying the CFO to Verizon Wireless, in which it is 45% shareholder, continues
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France Telecom has sold $750m of global notes and €500m of euro bonds to pay back debts due next year
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Vodafone has sold its holding in China Mobile, worth $6.5bn and plans to sell other minority holdings
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BT has asked independent communications providers in the UK to let them know which local exchanges should be provided with fibre
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Four private equity groups are said to be preparing bids for Polkomtel, as Vodafone considers selling its 24% stake
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Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, wants to make ITU Telecom World into an annual event
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France Telecom is to invest €500m in upgrading its fixed and mobile networks in Spain
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Vodafone and Telefónica O2 will sell the iPhone in Germany, after Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile loses exclusivity
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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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T2B is about reinventing the service provider’s actual business, says Erwan Ménard, as they compete against “over the top” suppliers
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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