Liberty plans to offer assets in Kabel bid
Liberty Global is structuring a bid for Germany’s largest cable group that offers assets instead of cash in the hope of overcoming regulatory opposition to its proposed €7.5bn putative bid…
Dish decides against raising Sprint offer
Dish Network said it would not submit a revised offer for Sprint Nextel – a move that clears the way for SoftBank to proceed with its $21.6bn offer for 78…
Alcatel overhaul aims to cut €1bn costs
Alcatel-Lucent will reveal a restructuring plan to cut costs by €1bn and raise €1bn via asset sales to try to reverse the decline of the once mighty French-US telecoms equipment…
Bullish Huawei open to Nokia deal
©Getty Huawei would consider buying Nokia to help it become the world’s leading smartphone maker, according to the head of the Chinese telecom group’s consumer business. “We are considering these…
EU trade chief heads to China amid thaw
Europe’s trade chief will travel to Beijing for high-level discussions on Friday amid signs that the EU and China are seeking to cool an escalating trade fight over solar panels.…
Liberty Global enters race for KDG
Liberty Global, the media group controlled by John Malone, has entered the bidding for Kabel Deutschland with a potential offer that would top a price tabled by Vodafone last week…
Talk of AT&T bid lifts Telefónica shares
Telefónica, the eurozone’s largest telecoms group by market value, and the Spanish government have denied reports that Madrid had knocked back a takeover approach from AT&T, the US telecoms operator.…
Stéphane Richard receives France Tel board backing
Stéphane Richard has been given a vote of confidence by the board of France Telecom following support from France’s Socialist government despite being placed under suspicion of fraud last week.…
French government swings behind F Tel chief
Stéphane Richard was set to stay at the head of France Telecom despite being placed under suspicion of fraud by a Paris court last week, after France’s socialist government decided…
New TeliaSonera head appointed
TeliaSonera, which lost its last chief executive amid an Uzbek corruption scandal, has appointed the head of South Africa’s Vodacom International to run the Swedish telecoms operator. Johan Dennelind will…
Brussels to push for telecoms alliances
Europe’s telecommunications regulator will encourage alliances between mobile operators in carrying customer data, similar to co-operation in the airline industry, as part of far-reaching proposals to create a single market…
Dale Murray: Brought top-up phones to UK
The woman who introduced pre-pay mobile phone top-ups to the UK has been appointed a CBE for services to business. Dale Murray emigrated to London from Auckland after helping to…
Vodafone prepares second bid for Kabel
Vodafone is preparing to make a fresh bid approach to Kabel Deutschland as early as next week, following the rejection of the UK mobile phone operator’s initial offer of nearly…
Ooredoo retires from Maroc Telecom bid
Ooredoo, the renamed Qatar Telecom, has pulled out of the bidding for Vivendi’s Maroc Telecom, casting doubt over the French group’s review of its operations, which could lead to a…
Indian telegram service stopped stop
©AFP At Mumbai’s historic Central Telegraph Office, where generations of Indians once went to dispatch news of births, deaths, and weddings to family and friends across town or across the…