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  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
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    South Africa’s MTN to boost investment in generators to combat blackouts

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    UK mobile merger must ring in changes for troubled sector Premium content

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  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
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  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
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    Altice France on collision course with creditors

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  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
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  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone to sell Italian business to Swisscom for €8bn

    UK telecoms group pledges to return €4bn to shareholders after ‘final step’ in reshaping of European operations

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  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
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  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
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    French prosecutors probe corruption allegations linked to telecoms group Altice

    Investigation follows arrest of co-founder Armando Pereira in Portugal last year

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  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
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    How private equity is behind the latest loss from London’s stock market Premium content

    Nasdaq-listed Viavi has turned to Silver Lake for investment to back its £1bn deal to buy Spirent

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  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Spirent Communications PLC
    UK telecoms specialist Spirent agrees to £1bn takeover offer from US rival

    Deal would remove another UK-listed business from London market

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  • Saturday, 2 March, 2024
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    The Italian CEO is determined to hive off significant parts of the telecoms giant while also changing its internal culture

    Illustration of Margherita Della Valle holding her mobile phone in her right hand and smiling againt a backdrop of the Vodafone logo
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: BT’s new chief builds stake

    Telecoms group faces multiple challenges

  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    MTN Group Ltd
    South Africa’s MTN warns of 90% hit to profits from naira devaluation

    Mobile multinational says removal of currency peg from its Nigerian unit has increased cost of doing business

    A vendor serves a customer at an MTN Group mobile money kiosk in Ghana
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Investor activism
    Elliott Management named in suit blasting ‘sweetheart’ activist deal

    Co-founder of telecoms group Crown Castle criticises agreement to offer board seat to powerful hedge fund

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  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    LexVodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone faces reality with Italian exit — and reality bites back Premium content

    The telecom group’s remaining markets are not problem-free

    A woman looks at her phone as she passes a Vodafone store
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone in talks to sell Italian business to Swisscom

    UK telecoms group says deal would value unit at €8bn

    Margherita Della Valle
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT Tower sold to US luxury hotel group

    Landmark building opened in 1965 will be retained as ‘iconic hotel’ in £275mn deal

    The BT Tower in London
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Liberty Global PLC
    Liberty Global restructures European units in effort to revive shares

    Telecoms group to list Swiss business later this year and draws up plan to separate Virgin Media O2’s fixed-line business

    Liberty Global chief Mike Fries
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Corporate bonds
    How distressed debt brought a billionaire’s satellite empire to earth

    Charlie Ergen’s audacious restructuring plan at Dish Network is emblematic of telecoms industry’s troubles

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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Infrastructure investment
    Brussels open to telecoms mergers to support investment

    European Commission says industry fragmentation could prevent operators reaching ‘scale needed to invest in the networks of the future’

    A telecoms engineer on a network mast
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT reports rising earnings as Kirkby takes helm

    UK telecoms group reports better than expected revenues in third quarter but says broadband customer losses continue

    Allison Kirkby raises both hands as she speaks during a presentation
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    LexVodafone Group PLC
    Time is not on Vodafone’s side in Italian M&A punch-up Premium content

    Turning down Iliad’s €15bn bid is a mistake for telecoms group

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