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December
German and US operations to benefit from rapid rise in network spending, announces CEO René Obermann
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Telecom Italia approves proposal to consider plan to separate access network into a new company with state investment
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BT’s Openreach local loop division is to cut the wholesale cost of fibre to the premises to £38 a month
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Canadian company Redknee has emerged as the winning bidder for Nokia Siemens Networks’ business support systems unit
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Cable & Wireless Communications holds onto Panama and Caribbean operations after selling Monaco and Islands to Batelco
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Herbert Merz to lead unit as NSN sells optical network business to Sycamore and Openwave owner Marlin Equity Partners
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November
TeliaSonera’s Kazakhstan mobile operator Kcell is planning to sell 25% of its shares on the Kazakhstan and the London stock exchanges. CEO Veysel Aral explains the potential in a growing economy
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Hutchison’s Austrian unit completes roll-out of ZTE system for national roaming with multi-operator core network
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France Telecom-Orange creates enterprise-focused content delivery service in alliance with Akamai
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New virtual operator plans to back charities with 25% of profits and 10% of customers’ monthly spend
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Nokia launched the world’s first mass-produced GSM phone on November 10 1992
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Ericsson announces plan to reduce staff in Sweden by 8.7% in ‘global efficiency’ drive
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TeliaSonera aims to raise $800m by floating up to a quarter of Kazakhstan’s Kcell in London, says report
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Ericsson forms partnership with Russian operator MegaFon to develop machine-to-machine revenues
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Telenor CEO says he will be ‘realistic’ if Altimo offers to buy out its minority stake in VimpelCom
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October
VimpelCom confirms report that it is looking at businesses in emerging markets about possible sales
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Russia’s MTS takes over part of stake in bank from parent company Sistema to develop mobile banking
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Russia’s Yota commissions ‘first commercial LTE Advanced network’, but says no terminals until 2013 and admits it’s a test
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Telenor lets customers in Sweden pay for Android apps and games via their phone bill, with ‘exclusive’ offers
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Patrick Biewer, CEO of SES Broadband, tells Global Telecoms Business in an exclusive interview about the new satellites, the first launched in September, that will provide rural broadband to Europe's remoter rural regions
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All four UK mobile operators set up new company to manage 800MHz spectrum to prevent digital TV interference
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TeliaSonera to implement ‘new business model’, says CEO, but needs to cut 2,000 employees because of ‘weakness’ in mobility
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Telefónica to start selling up to 25% of O2 Germany in bid to raise €1.1-€1.6bn
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Vivendi is reported to be talking about merging its SFR telecoms unit with French cable operator Numéricable
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Eight European economies plus South Korea and Japan in the ITU’s list of top ten nations in the information society
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Russian train network RZD awards $100m contract to ZTE to install railway version of GSM technology
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Karin Ahl is trying to get people to understand the importance of fibre broadband. But politicians and some operators are focusing on the wrong thing, she tells Alan Burkitt-Gray. Symmetry is more important than speed: that’s what will stimulate jobs and boost revenue
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Telefónica to contribute €7.8m to Barcelona’s GSMA-backed Mobile World Capital project
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Russia’s second largest operator to make initial public offering on Moscow and London stock exchanges
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Fibre-to-the-home is growing fast in some European countries, but not in Germany or the UK, says the FTTH Council
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Saudi Arabian operator links with French drug company to launch mobile health service for diabetes
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Turkish operator Turkcell has launched an advanced mobile wallet with the aid of Garanti Bank and MasterCard and, says CTO Cenk Bayrakdar, it wants other operators in Turkey and neighbouring countries to join in the project
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Orange tells employees that it will hire 4,000 staff and ‘provide job stability’ for people at end of careers
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Google has increased the amount of money it has set aside to restructure its handset unit Motorola Mobility to $390 million
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Telefónica expected to sell up to 20% of shares in Telefónica Deutschland on Frankfurt stock exchange
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Turkcell launches mobile wallet for all 28m customers and offers technology to Middle East rivals
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Operators agree interconnect so that telepresence customers can hold video meetings
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Nokia Siemens Networks sells IPTV business to Accenture and grants Belgacom a perpetual licence
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Telenor increases stake in VimpelCom to 42.95% after buying 71m shares from Weather for $113m
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September
Ireland’s incumbent operator Eircom has had a mixed history since it was privatised in 1999. Mike Corner-Jones and Richard Hudson explain how the latest restructuring may be a model for other struggling telecoms operators
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Edward Evans is the CEO of the company that used to be Neutral Tandem, which acquired Tinet two years ago. He tells Alan Burkitt-Gray how they picked the new name to match the merged company’s ambitions in the enterprise business
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After buying Cable & Wireless Worldwide for £1bn in July, Vodafone needs to spend £500m more to integrate the business and it will take up to March 2016
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Ericsson takes over Canadian lifecycle management company ConceptWave to join Telecordia, LHS and maybe parts of NSN in its OSS/BSS unit
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Should bosses have an obsessive attention to detail, or should they demand high standards but treat colleagues as adults? Ashley Ward believes that big hitters are successful because they have the talent, and because they are themselves
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A new satellite going into service in October will offer US consumers in remote areas two-way broadband at speeds and prices comparable with DSL. Regulation is the main obstacle to selling to consumers in other parts of the world, says Hughes Network Systems president Pradman Kaul
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We’re heading for a skills shortage in the telecoms industry, warns Ann Potterton. Where will the industry recruit its new generation of talent from, and will they be enough?
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The ‘cloud’ remains a buzzword in boardrooms around the globe, with the market size of cloud computing set to increase six-fold by 2020. Masaaki Moribayashi assesses the real demand for the cloud
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Bahrain’s Batelco looks at buying Monaco and islands division of Cable & Wireless Communications
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Belgacom Group’s Tango unit aims to cover 90% of Luxembourg population with LTE by end of 2012
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Telefónica O2 to offer free wifi to customers on any mobile network after equipment deal with Cisco
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Russia’s Sistema may buy into Malaysian parent with rights to restructure and take over Aircel
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Italian operator in talks with state lender on possibility on setting up new company to control copper infrastructure
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Optical conference hears of 400 gigabyte transmission over 2,800 km as ZTE claims world record
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Swisscom’s Italian unit to spend €400m on fibre and to work with Telecom Italia on combined infrastructure
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VimpelCom to transfer Russian regional operations with 1,300 staff to Huawei management
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Telefónica selects Alcatel-Lucent to overhaul global network management systems
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Reports say Virgin group in discussions about launching MVNO in Turkey with Turkcell
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Nokia Siemens Networks starts job-cutting programme in Finland as part of 25% in global staff
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ZTE carries out interoperability testing of evolved packet core in E-Plus’s LTE trial network
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It’s taken a year since France Telecom moved Olaf Swantee into its UK joint venture with Deutsche Telekom for him to simplify the name to EE and persuade the regulator to let him be first in the market with LTE
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One third of UK to be covered by Everything Everywhere’s LTE as France Telecom/Deutsche Telekom JV rebrands as EE
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Board of Russian operator approves plans to buy half share in Euroset retail chain
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Agency reserves blocks for two newcomers but KPN, T-Mobile and Vodafone expected to bid in Netherlands auction
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Greek operator hopes to sell Bulgarian business and satellite unit for total of €950m
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London court approves banks’ takeover of Bulgarian operator from Richard Li’s PineBridge
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BNP Paribas unit talking to Bouygues about buying wireless towers and property to reduce operator’s debt
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Nokia Siemens Networks to expand Polish operator’s broadband coverage with HSPA+ and LTE
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The automotive industry will be one of the first to use M2M, driven by European regulations, says Jürgen Hase, vice president of Deutsche Telekom’s machine-to-machine centre in Bonn. But that will be followed by a range of other applications as telcos exploit their expertise in the industry
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Russian operator MegaFon plans to raise $4 billion by selling 123m shares on London exchange
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Source says Ericsson is likely victor to acquire Nokia Siemens Networks’ business support systems unit
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UK-based mobile operator will be first full mobile virtual network operator in US
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France Telecom CEO says network sharing is in interest of all operators in France as margins are cut
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Tashkent court orders seizure of MTS’s Uzbekistan unit Uzdunrobita after dispute over tax
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August
Hibernia Atlantic unit takes over MediaConnect business from TeliaSonera International Carrier
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BT may raise $90m by selling part of its 23% stake in Indian IT group Tech Mahindra
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Report says Nokia Siemens Networks talking to Amdocs, Ericsson and private equity about selling BSS unit
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French owner of Free network to use €200m loan from European Investment Bank to expand optical fibre services
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Carlos Slim’s company said to in race with private equity for stakes in telecoms operators in Poland
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Hutchison is planning to offer low MVNO tariffs in Austria if competition authorities all its H3G to buy Orange Austria
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Telekom Srbija up for sale again as Serbian government aims to raise €2.5bn for 100%
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Sony switches HQ of mobile business back to Japan after end of Ericsson JV, with loss of 1,000 jobs
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Tamares Telecom connects Haifa to European points of presence via cable to Cyprus and Marseille
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As Russia’s MTS is weeks away from launching its first LTE services in Moscow, vice president Michael Hecker tells Alan Burkitt-Gray about the company’s attempts to get its Uzbekistan executives out of jail
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The UK regulator is allowing Everything Everywhere to launch the country’s first LTE, using refarmed 1,800MHz spectrum
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MTS subsidiary to restart Turkmenistan services at end of August, but stalemate goes on in Uzbekistan
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Hannes Ametsreiter comments on the European Commission’s policy on telecoms. Brussels needs to take action now to avoid the inevitable collapse of a once booming industry, says the Telekom Austria CEO
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Openreach is on track to offer fibre to the cabinets serving two-thirds of UK homes by the end of 2013. Beyond that milestone, CEO Olivia Garfield plans to offer 330 megabits, aims to widen coverage to 90% and is looking at the last hard-to-reach 10%
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Dispute between shareholders Telenor and Altimo leads to delay in VimpelCom’s listing plans
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‘Unsatisfactory’ offers for Base means KPN decides to abandon plans to sell Belgian mobile unit
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Ericsson wins contracts to supply 3G and LTE infrastructure for two operators in Poland
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Russia’s MTS challenges Uzbekistan tax ruling as court withdraw’s company’s operating licences for three months
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Greece’s OTE may sell Bulgarian operator to biggest shareholder to help pay off €3.4bn debt
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Russian Railways’ operator TransTeleCom to launch WiMax in 2013 but already planning to switch to LTE
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The London Internet Exchange, a co-operative of over 400 internet providers, content companies and telecoms operators, put in a major upgrade just two months before the 2012 Olympics expanded demand as never before. CEO John Souter explains the strategy
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Russia’s MegaFon blames eurozone crisis on delaying IPO on London Stock Exchange
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Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank and Russia’s VTB Bank to buy Bulgarian incumbent Vivacom
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CEO of Liberty Global’s German business considers bid to buy PrimaCom Berlin
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Movistar, Vodafone and Orange said to be out of bidding for TeliaSonera’s Spanish unit
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Irish incumbent appoints new CEO and CFO to take over in September after rescue from bankruptcy
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July
MTS, VimpelCom, MegaFon and Rostelecom beat Tele2, TTK and Summa Telecom to win 4G licences
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Report that TeliaSonera plans to sell 76% share in Spanish mobile operator Yoigo for €1bn
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Vivendi looks to cut 11% of jobs in Morocco’s Maroc Telecom to save $33m a year
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Alcatel-Lucent is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Telstar, the first communications satellite, at its Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
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Private equity-backed NewNet adds Tekelec’s mobile messaging unit to portfolio
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Rival groups warn that platform could provide monopoly powers to Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere
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Belgacom to expand Belgian LTE to Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven, Liège and Namur by end of 2012
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UK local loop operator launches wholesale FTTP products up to 330 megabits downstream
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Partnership with Etisalat increases Telefónica’s addressable market for digital services by 17 countries
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Romanian regulator requires applications by August for spectrum auction in four bands in September
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French mobile operators struggle with cut-price competition from Iliad’s low-cost operator Free Mobile
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The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami was Japan’s biggest on record, killing thousands. But, amazingly, NTT managed to restore its networks and exchanges in six weeks. Now the company is applying lessons from that disaster to its plans to offer cloud services from data centres around the world, says NTT Europe’s Masaaki Moribayashi
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Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs will arrange debt financing for acquisition
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Vodafone and Hutchison Whampoa discuss network sharing in Ireland, but will keep spectrum and brands
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Combined company will operate in 45 states in US and seven countries in North America and Europe
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Carlos Slim in effective control of KPN as América Móvil buys 27.7% stake in Netherlands incumbent
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George Malim looks at the challenges facing Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop as the company tries to cut costs while launching a new range of smartphones
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Joao Sousa and Beltran Simo look at the reasons behind Vodafone’s planned purchase of Cable & Wireless Worldwide. The move will enable Vodafone to manage data growth and boost its UK enterprise business
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Vodafone names new CEOs to head northern and central Europe and southern Europe operations
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June
Deutsche Telekom-controlled OTE plans to refinance €3.4bn debt by selling Bulgarian operator
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Deutsche Telekom director says company will fire 1,300 staff from Bonn headquarters by 2015
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KPN to use earnings from sale of Base to improve credit profile and financial flexibility
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France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom say they are happy with UK joint venture and have enough cash to invest
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KPN and Huawei claim first pan-European trial at 400 gigabits over Amsterdam and Düsseldorf link
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Financial climate means Dutch incumbent KPN abandons plan to spin off German mobile business
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Alcatel-Lucent to supply 3G residential and enterprise femtocells to Telefónica in Europe and South America
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Tom Alexander said to be planning €8bn bid for UK’s largest mobile network operator
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Remains of Motorola to buy Psion, UK maker of rugged mobile computers, in agreed offer worth $200m
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Telekom Austria CEO welcomes move by Carlos Slim’s América Móvil to buy 23% stake in group
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Nokia’s Vertu phones likely to go to Swedish private equity company EQT for €200m
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Tata aims at high frequency traders in Asia, Europe and the US with ethernet-based low latency network
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Irish operator emerges from bankruptcy with former owners losing ownership to lenders led by Blackstone
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Telefónica reduces stake in China Unicom by selling shares to parent company but will hold on to 5.01%
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CEO of France Telecom-Orange says company will keep out of ‘mature’ market in Brazil
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Staff from Switzerland’s Sunrise to be transferred to Huawei’s global services firm following management deal
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Yota owner to close WiMax network in Belarus after only six months to focus on Russian operations
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Telefónica O2 and Vodafone to run independent spectrum on combined network of 18,500 base stations
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NTT takes 85% stake in UK data centre operator, Gyron Internet, as part of expansion outside Japan
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Telefónica aims to raise funds by selling shares in German and Latin American operations to improve debt ratings
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May
Polish energy group drops plans to sell Exatel telecoms business despite loss of profits
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Mexican mobile group América Móvil offers €3.14bn for 27.7% stake in Netherlands incumbent KPN
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Italian state fund to invest €200m in Metroweb fibre network and has option of investing another €300m
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BSkyB said to be in discussions with Everything Everywhere to launch UK mobile services
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France Telecom-Orange increases stake in Egypt’s Mobinil by buying 93.9m shares from Naguib Sawiris
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CFO Timotheus Höttges tells shareholders that Deutsche Telekom has no plans to sell units or exit joint ventures
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Russian operator Rostelecom increases stake in Moscow’s Mostelecom from 74% to 100%
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Huawei signs five-year managed services contract with Telefónica O2 to plan and managed UK network
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China Telecom Europe becomes first Chinese telecom operator to launch MVNO services outside China
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Court wipes out 40% Irish operator’s €4bn debt and hands company to secured lenders after restructuring
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It’s been raining in Nice this week, but CEO confirms that Management World will return to the Riviera in 2013
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TM Forum’s Management World expected to leave Dublin and return to refurbished Acropolis Centre in Nice
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Owner of América Móvil reported in discussions with Austrian group’s two biggest shareholders
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Senior lenders will take control of Eircom after court backs examiner’s decision to reject Hutch’s €2bn bid
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US data centre operator Equinix expands European service by taking over Ancotel
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Ciena equipment boosts euNetworks’ European network to 100 gigabits
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Vodafone restructuring likely to begin with search for successor to departing CEO Michel Combes
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MTS, VimpelCom, MegaFon and Rostelecom plan undersea cable project to connect Russian Far East
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KPN’s largest shareholder Capital Group wants company to sell German mobile unit, E-Plus
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Swedish operator considering sale of Norwegian broadband unit for up to $200m says local report
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Vivendi plans 500 job cuts at French operator as it looks for savings of €450m
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Chairman Franco Bernabè says Telecom Italia ready to sell media unit including television channels
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Hutchison Whampoa’s Three Ireland unit makes new cash offer for bankrupt Irish phone company
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América Móvil offers €2.6bn to raise stake in Dutch incumbent to 28%, but KPN says it is too little
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Russian 4G licence winners to be announced in July 2012 with licences taking effect in 2013
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Hutchison’s Swedish operator to spend $74 million on 3G/4G base stations from ZTE
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Report suggests rejected bid for Irish operator Eircom was submitted by Hutchison’s 3 Ireland
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Russian operator MegaFon selects Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to raise $4bn in share offering
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Turkmenistan government to allow Russian mobile operator MTS to resume services to compete with state company
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Private investment company buys KPN’s Getronics IT businesses in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia
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Russian government backs competition regulator’s attempt to overturn Telenor’s stake increase in VimpelCom
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Bulgarian operator Vivacom unsold as creditors fail to secure deal with Turkcell or other bidders
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Bankruptcy examiner declines non-binding offer for Irish operator Eircom due to level and conditionality
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Partners in Telecom Italia's unlisted shareholder Telco to take up stake in capital increase for an undisclosed amount
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April
Share purchase deal with Deutsche Telekom provides Greek government with ‘too much say, says European Commission
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Nokia reported to be in advanced talks with UK private equity firm Permira about selling Vertu for €200m
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Russian operator MegaFon prepares for IPO with funding to buy out Mikhail Fridman’s 25.1% stake
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Cable & Wireless Worldwide decides to recommend Vodafone’s £1bn bid in favour of new CEO’s strategy
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Cable & Wireless Worldwide says deadline extended until lunchtime Monday for a bid from Vodafone
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Irish high court puts Eircom under creditor protection as Morgan Stanley is appointed to look for a buyer
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Tata Communications fails to agree on price for Cable & Wireless Worldwide, leaving Vodafone in the running
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Russia’s Yota may sell WiMax broadband operator in Belarus to focus on home LTE market
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Sale of T-Mobile Netherlands and Everything Everywhere stake could help DT preserve dividend and re-invest in US
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Russian operator MegaFon looks for $2-$3 billion loan to buy its 25.1% stake from Alfa Group
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Russian competition regulator FAS attacks Telenor’s stake increase in VimpelCom, claiming breach of law
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OTE considers selling one of its units in Albania, Bulgaria or Romania to tackle debts
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Private equity bidders tipped to be interested in paying estimated €1.8bn for KPN’s Belgian mobile unit, Base
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Deutsche Telekom looks at German cable operator Tele Columbus to boost broadband speeds and fight competition
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Russian operator Rostelecom agrees to launch FDD-LTE services as MVNO on Yota’s 4G network
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Russian investor Alisher Usmanov said to be in negotiations to swap MegaFon stake for control of Yota
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T-Mobile-Orange joint venture in UK appoints Morgan Stanley to sell surplus 1,800MHz spectrum
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Telecom Italia chairman tells newspaper that company is considering raising €4bn from spinning off access network
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Union representative calls for state’s dividends in DT to be reinvested on upgrading networks in Europe and US
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Polish operator Netia ‘ready to allow due diligence’ for potential sale and opens books to three potential buyers
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Investment firm Reggeborgh sells Dutch operator Eurofiber to private equity firm Doughty Hanson
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Ericsson hopes deal to buy BelAir will help drive coexistence of wifi and mobile technologies
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Irish government hopes to raise €500m by auctioning spectrum for high-speed broadband and 4G
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March
There’s a shortage of investment in the venture capital industry as those with money want to protect their wealth rather than seek to expand it. But there are some successes, and operators are looking to invest themselves in innovative projects
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Russian president directs operator Rostelecom and telecommunications holding firm Svyazinvest to merge within a year
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Russian operators discuss joint bid for Alexander Mamut’s majority stake in mobile-phone retailer Euroset
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German cable network operator Kabel Deutschland reported to be considering Tele Columbus takeover
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Deutsche Telekom’s Croatian unit launches commercial LTE network and plans expansion
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Ofcom faces criticism for attempts to award four UK licences and provisional 4G approval to Everything Everywhere
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Finnish state-owned fund reduces holding in TeliaSonera via €1.05bn share sale and bond placing
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NEC has bought Convergys’s information management business and will merge it with its NetCracker operation
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Czech government to offer frequencies for 4G network development and to allow entry of new operator
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Orange denies Polish reports of plans to sell Telekomunikacja Polska’s fixed line network
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Ericsson boosts managed services for broadcasters with €19m acquisition of former Thomson division
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Everything Everywhere andPCCW’s UK Broadband to introduce UK’s first LTE services in 2012
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Consortium including Corporate Commercial Bank and VTB Bank offers €850m for stake in Bulgarian operator
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Irish operator to invest €400m in super-fast broadband in spite of looming restructuring
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Operator challenges decision naming post office consortium winner of 900MHz spectrum auction in Hungary
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France Telecom Orange and advertising agency to invest €150 million in venture capital in digital economy
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From now until 2018 Barcelona will not just be the place the industry goes every February for Mobile World Congress: the city is now the Mobile World Capital. Agustín Cordón, CEO of the project, explains how the city will become a testing ground for new mobile services
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Portugese operator Sonaecom is not discussing merger with cable TV company and will develop business alone, says CEO
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Iliad’s mobile venture responds after Vivendi, Bouygues and Orange attack start-up for low cost services
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Czech Republic’s minister of industry and trade criticises regulator and calls for ‘agressive competition’ for 4G
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All local authorities in England but two have bid for government money to help fund 2 megabit broadband
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Nokia Siemens Networks sells former Motorola fixed wireless unit to CN Tetragen but retains industry-standard business
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Nokia Siemens Networks to outsource mobile OSS maintenance, technical support and R&D to Tieto
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French operators to install mobile coverage in Channel Tunnel, but only for travellers from France to Britain
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Deutsche Telekom converts UMTS network in Czech Republic from TDD to FDD
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Operators to set up joint infrastructure company to manage 2G, 3G and 4G networks in Denmark
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Turkcell board to discuss bid, which may value Bulgarian operator at as much as $1.4 billion
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Tata Communications to challenge Vodafone in potential bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide, but Indian government may object
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A total of 67,000 people from 205 countries took part in the last Mobile World Congress at the Montjuic site in Barcelona
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February
Joint venture with Vodafone mainly targets Tesco retail chain’s customers in Hungary
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France Telecom Orange CEO believes LTE will give competitive edge over France’s fourth operator
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GSMA study shows there will be 24bn connected devices by 2020 in global market worth $4.5t
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Huawei claims it will triple smartphone sales in 2012 from 20m to 60m as it launches quad-core Android
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Barcelona’s bus and metro drivers settle pay deal as world’s mobile industry gathers for Mobile World Congress
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CEO Rajeev Suri says ‘there are one too many’ vendors in mobile equipment business as NSN records 1.4 gigs for LTE Advanced
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BT plans global IP interconnect system for wholesale customers using Genband system
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Swisscom doubles bandwith as it, Sunrise and Orange pay $1.1bn to Swiss government for new frequencies
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Ericsson buys privately held wifi specialist BelAir to boost integration of wifi and mobile technologies
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France Telecom-Deutsche Telekom joint venture in UK seeks approval for 4G network roll-out
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Russian operators to share backhaul, base stations and property to save on capex and opex
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Cukurova Holding to pay $1.4bn or lose controlling stake in Turkish mobile group
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Swiss Competition Commission approves France Telecom’s sale of Orange Switzerland to private equity buyer
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Telekom Austria pulls away from talks with creditors about buying Bulgarian incumbent Vivacom, say reports
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GSM Association looks for transport alternatives as Barcelona metro and bus workers plan strike for Mobile World Congress
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Nokia Siemens Networks contracted to deploy and upgrade combined GSM and HSPA networks
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Report says Deutsche Telekom considers sale of share in Everything Everywhere joint venture to raise cash
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Interviews with Dan Mead of Verizon Wireless, Jo Lunder of VimpelCom and Anne Bouverot of the GSMA in free iPad/iPhone app of the latest issue of Global Telecoms Business
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Telenor buys 234 million preferred shares of VimpelCom for $374.4m and ends claims against Russian partners
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Private equity investors in Danish operator TDC sell part of stake in company for $982m, but KKR retains shares
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Telefónica partners with Sybase 365 for mobile wallet services to be launched in first half of 2012
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France Telecom Orange in talks with Orascom to buy stake in Egyptian mobile operation
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Vodafone may offer £700m for global telecommunications company
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Workers’ council believes Alcatel-Lucent likely to cut workforce as part of efforts to reduce costs
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Cyprus is a member of the European Union yet is a short hop from the coasts of Africa and the Middle East, and incumbent operator Cyta gains valuable business acting as a connecting point for all, says wholesale chief Yiannis Koulias
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Danish operator’s private-equity owners consider selling part of or complete 59% stake
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Ericsson to enhance French operator’s 2G and 3G networks and help roll out LTE network
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After last year’s merger VimpelCom’s two big beasts are Beeline in Russia and Wind in Italy, but the group extends from Canada to Cambodia and CEO Jo Lunder wants to centralise equipment purchasing and roaming deals
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Partnership between Sprint and France Telecom Orange will extend machine-to-machine reach to 180 countries
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Telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris considers selling non-core units and buying network operator permits
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BT Openreach to expand fibre-to-the-premises installation after successful trial
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As wholesale operators seek to make themselves stand out in the commoditised fibre market, Stefan Amon says quality is the selling point
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Difficulties in obtaining approval could lead to Vodafone calling off merger with Greece's Wind Hellas
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Hutchison Whampo’s H3G Austria completes negotiations to buy Orange Austria from France Telecom and private equity
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Wind Hellas will merge with Vodafone’s Greek unit which will own 60% in new entity
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Deutsche Telekom and NetCologne challenge regulatory approval for Liberty Global’s takeover of Kabel BW
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January
Qatar reported in talks to buy Saudi Oger’s 55% control of Oger Telecom, which owns 55% of Türk Telecom
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Russian regulator FAS approves Rostelecom’s proposal to acquire broadband internet firm Enter
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ARCEP will look into allegations that Iliad’s Free is using under-equipped infrastructure for low-cost services
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Chinese vendor buys Centre for Integrated Photonics, former BT fibre optics group, from development agency
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European group Interoute to connect with Bezeq’s 2,300km Jonah submarine cable
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Dutch operator will consider serious bids for domestic and overseas assets, says new CFO Eric Hageman
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Telekom Austria’s A1 says vectoring technology will increase data transmission speeds across its network
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Lattelecom and Deutsche Telekom agree to provide internet services between Russia and western Europe through Baltic states
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Nokia Siemens Networks raises loan from 14 banks and has option to add more banks in the first quarter
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Israeli operator teams up with Alcatel-Lucent to launch 100 gigabit submarine cable from Italy
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Owners of Bulgarian operator Vivacom said to be talking to Turkcell and Telekom Austria about takeover
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France Telecom-Orange follows SFR and Free deals with partnership with Bouygues to share fibre to the home
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Post office in government-backed consortium expected to win Hungarian spectrum auction with $122m tender
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Group likely to merge 3 Austria if it achieves $1.4bn deal to buy Orange Austria from France Telecom and private equity
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Estonian acquisition for $32m will enable Tele2 to grow presence among business clients
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Huawei Marine Networks to supply cables and plant for Global Financial Network Project Express across Atlantic
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KDDI and Rostelecom launch low-latency service between Japan and Europe utilising shortest route through Russia
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Telefónica O2 signs backhaul agreement with Deutsche Telekom to connect German base stations
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UK regulator Ofcom to auction 800 MHz digital dividend plus 2.6 GHz spectrum and sets coverage obligations
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Multimedia head Per Borgklint in charge as Ericsson completes purchase of Telcordia, two weeks behind schedule
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Multi-technology platform from Nokia Siemens will allow MegaFon to switch to LTE services
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UK venture of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to appoint RBS to manage sale of surplus spectrum
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Xavier Niel’s start up venture’s new services is aimed at breaking incumbency in French mobile sector
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Sea Fibre signs contract to link low-latency CeltixConnect cable with Colt network
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Dutch ministry will reserve spectrum blocks for new entrants during mobile spectrum auction
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Spanish operator has tested DWDM channel for 400 gigabits speeds on fibre-optic network
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Regulator NMHH allows four companies to bid for 900MHz spectrum but excludes Viettel and Romanian operator
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Spanish anti-trust unit CNC probing BT complaints against Vodafone, Orange and Telefónica
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Everything Everywhere to provide infrastructure for MVNO aimed at Chinese tourists and business travellers in UK
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T-Mobile Hungary introduces LTE mobile internet services in Budapest after three-month trial
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Serbian operator signs agreement to buy back 20% stake from Greece’s OTE for €380m