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March
Verizon’s capex will be about $17 billion in 2010, with a strong cash flow, mainly from Verizon Wireless, according to CFO John Killian
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Indian operator Bharti Airtel is negotiating a loan so that it can buy most of Zain’s African businesses
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Ciena, headed by Gary Smith, is to raise $250 million to fund its purchase of Nortel Networks’ metro ethernet unit
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Telefónica is talking to independent operators in Mexico about a consortium to bid for the electricity company’s optical fibre network
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Private equity company Abry Partners is to buy US cable and broadband operator RCN for $531 million plus $730 million debt
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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is setting up a Taiwanese subsidiary, but it will not be allowed to invest in local telecoms operators
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Carlos Slim’s América Móvil has raised $1.17 billion in debt to finance purchase of fixed-line operator Telmex Internacional
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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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Belgian cable operator Telenet plans to invest in LTE technology for its own mobile network
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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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Qualcomm plans to buy back $3 billion worth of shares and boost its divided by $134 million a year
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China Mobile is considering taking a 20% stake in a Shanghai bank, according to reports from China
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February
The FCC is planning a second attempt to auction a block of spectrum in the 700MHz band, though it will be shared with public safety services
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Standard Chartered, Barclays and a number of other banks are discussing loans to Bharti to buy Zain’s African business
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US cable operator Comcast is raising $2.4 billion to help fund its purchase of 51% of NBC from General Electric
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Emirati operator Du, which made a $143m profit in 2009, plans to invest $587m in enhancing its network in 2010
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Genband has won control of Nortel’s carrier VoIP business for $182 million after no other companies bid in an auction
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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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Private equity owned Pacnet, created from Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, plans to raise $500m in an IPO for acquisitions and expansion
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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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Dubai-based Oger Telecom wants tio raise its stake in Türk Telecom from 55% to 65% or more
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Telefónica is to increase Brazilian investment from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $1.9 billion this year
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The biggest shareholder in Egypt-based Orascom is to lend the company $225 million free of interest
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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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China Unicom has made China;s biggest ever bid for international telecoms expansion with a $2.5 billion offer for Nigeria’s Nitel
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Willcom, a Japanese operator owned by Carlyle and Kyocera is expected to file for bankruptcy protection but is seeking investment from rival operator Softbank
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India's Bharti Airtel is buying Zain's African operations for $10.7 billion, more than three times what Zain paid for the company in 2005
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Carlos Slim has succeeded in bringing together his Mexican fixed and mobile operations, Telmex and América Móvil
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A former Kuwait politician, Nabil Bin Salama, has taken over from Saad al Barrak at the top of Zain
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The Brazilian government is planning to invest over $10 billion in state-owned telco TeleBras
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Motorola is reported to be rethinking its restructuring, selling its wireless network unit and spinning off a merged handset and set-top box unit
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Smartphone maker HTC is to buy back 15 million shares at a cost of around $1.8 billion
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SingTel’s Australian business, Optus, is refusing to sell its hybrid fibre coax network to the state-controlled National Broadband Network
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Media conglomerate Televisa is to acquire a 20% stake in Nextel Mexico for $1 billion
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MTN of South Africa and local operator Globacom are shortlisted for a 75% stake in the Nigerian state-owned incumbent
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Globe Telecom in the Philippines is to spend nearly $500 million in 2010 on expanding its mobile and broadband activities
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Operators in India can save $1.5 billion in 2010 alone from tower sharing, with many companies saving around $300 million each
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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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A US-based private equity company is to invest $300 million in an Indian operator of mobile phone towers
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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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With investment from Saudi Telecom and Malaysia’s Maxis, Axis has started to build its market in Indonesia, explains CEO Erik Aas
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US operator Leap Wireless, which sells under the Cricket brand, has appointed advisers to seek a buyer
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Essar, the company that owns 33% of Vodafone’s Indian operation, is planning to invest $2 billion in up to seven African mobile businesses
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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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Zain is seeking a loan from international banks to help fund its expansion in Saudi Arabia
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January
The Indian government has turned down a plan that would give Telstra a majority stake in its local offshoot and is reviewing plans by other investors
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Etisalat has settled a dispute with the government of Pakistan over the amount owed for a stake in incumbent operator PTCL
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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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Atlantic Tele-Network in the US has negotiated a $300 million loan to help it buy former Alltel operations from Verizon Wireless
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The Indian government says that winners of next month’s 3G auction will be able to refinance their licence fees with a long-term overseas loan within a year
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A family group is buying a 20% stake in Liberty Media’s Chilean cable and broadband operator, VTR
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As operators struggle to tune up their backhaul networks to deliver data to smartphone users, Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen believes they can save money by moving to ethernet connections
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Orascom’s lenders have granted the company a waiver of a credit agreement in relation to a $600 million tax claim from the Algerian government
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Nextel Mexico, owned by NII in the US, is to bid for 3G spectrum in the country’s forthcoming auction
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The Opposition parties in Australia’s federal parliament have come out against the government proposals to break up Telstra
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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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Reliance Communications in India is in talks with potential investors in its infrastructure company, Reliance Infratel, which is planning an IPO
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Auditors working for Oi have increased their estimates of the potential cost of lawsuits facing Brasil Telecom and so Oi will recalculate the price of a share takeover
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The company that runs the Wind brand in Canada is looking to raise several hundred million dollars in debt to fund expansion
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Good planning and communications is the key to successful crisis management
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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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Telecom Italia is saying that the government of Argentina is being unjust in requiring it to divest its stake in Telecom Argentina. Telefónica, which owns a large stake in Telecom Italia, is also active in Argentina
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Carlos Slim is planning to bring together his Mexican fixed, mobile and international phone companies with a $21 billion offer by América Móvil for Telmex and Telmex Internacional
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GTL, an Indian telecoms infrastructure company, is to buy Aircel’s mobile phone towers for $1.8 billion, beating four others to the deal
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According to sources, Singapore Telecommunications is to sell 25% of its Australian operator, Optus, raising around $3.7 billion
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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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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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Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong industrial giant Hutchison Whampoa is offering $542 million to acquire the shares in its mobile telecoms offshoot, HTIL
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US operator Qwest is to raise $800 million through a note sale, for general corporate purposes and refinance of investments
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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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US-based Level 3 Communications is to raise $640 million in order to buy back existing high-yield debt
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Where did Verizon, China Unicom, CenturyTel, VeriSign, MTN, VimpelCom and Telefónica come in Global Telecoms Business's annual table of deals of the year?
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Apple is to buy Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising specialist, for $275 million
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Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa is considering taking complete ownership of HTIL, its telecommunications subsidiary with interests in emerging markets
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Telkom Indonesia is to raise $214 million to help fund its planned $2 billion capital expenditure for 2010, according to CEO Rinaldi Firmansyah
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Egypt’s Mobinil plans to raise $273 million with the issue of bonds to expand its network