Telecoms.com

Siris Capital makes half a billion bucks in 10 months with Intralinks sale

Private equity firm Siris Capital is selling Enterprise collaboration software vendor Intralinks for $1.5 billion, having bought it for a billion less than a year ago.

• 06 Sep 2018

Nokia gets half a billion euros from Europe to get better at 5G

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been granted a €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank to help with its 5G R&D efforts.

• 28 Aug 2018

Xiaomi IPO was compromised by Chinese regulators

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s initial plan for a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong was hamstrung by the draconian requirements from Chinese regulators.

• 02 Jul 2018

IPO fails to Xiaomi the money

The initial public offering of Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi seems to has raised considerably less cash than it hoped.

• 29 Jun 2018

Xiaomi launches $6 billion IPO in Hong Kong

Chinese gadget giant Xiaomi has launched its initial public offering in the Hong Kong stock exchange that could raise over $6 billion.

• 25 Jun 2018

Virgin Media Business launches Voom Pitch 2018

The latest iteration of Virgin Media’s take on Dragon’s Den launched today, claiming to be the UK & Ireland’s biggest pitching competition.

• 07 Mar 2018

Softbank might IPO its Japanese telecoms unit, then again it might not

In response to a report claiming it’s going to flog $18 billion of shares in its Japanese mobile units. Softbank has said it might, but no decision has been made yet.

• 15 Jan 2018

The circling sharks are starting to nibble at Reliance Communications

The problems at Reliance Communications are starting to become very well known, and it would appear one of its creditors has finally lost faith in the struggling telco.

• 29 Nov 2017

Altice could flog Dominican Republic business to address debt pile

French telecoms group Altice is planning to sell its business in the Dominican Republic to show it’s serious about whittling down its debt pile, according to a report.

• 24 Nov 2017

Altice tries desperately to restore investor confidence

Embattled telecoms group Altice has been forced to issue a statement addressing recent market speculation as its shares have continued to dive.

• 20 Nov 2017

State-owned China Unicom unveils $11.7 billion of strategic investment

China’s third-largest mobile operator has unveiled the details of its ‘mixed ownership reform’, involving a bunch of new ‘strategic investment’.

• 16 Aug 2017

Play IPO values the Polish operator at €2 billion

Play Communications, owner of polish mobile brand P4, is on the IPO trail, with a value of roughly €2 billion.

• 17 Jul 2017

Altice USA IPO goes quite well – pockets a cool $1.9 billion

The results are in from the Altice IPO which has caused a stir recently, and they are some good ones; the team has raised roughly $1.9 billion through the sale of around 6.5% of shares.

• 22 Jun 2017

Orange thinks BT is a bad bet

French operator group Orange has decided to further reduce its stake in BT despite the shares being worth considerably less than when it acquired them.

• 20 Jun 2017

Polish Play plugs public push

Polish operator Play has announced its intention to to float on the Warsaw stock exchange, in what could be one of the largest telco IPOs in recent years.

• 19 Jun 2017

Altice tries to raise some cash with US IPO

The US arm of French telecoms conglomerate Altice is heavily in debt following a spate of acquisitions, so it’s having a whip-round in the public markets.

• 13 Jun 2017

Ericsson debt downgraded to junk by Moody’s for the first time in 12 years

There was more bad news for networking giant Ericsson as credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded its debt to junk status for the first time since 2005.

• 04 May 2017

Go on Son – SoftBank boss intensifies quest to dictate the future of tech

The name Masayoshi Son is coming up ever more frequently in Telecoms.com stories as the Chairman of SoftBank steps up his technology investment activities.

• 08 Mar 2017

The Snapchat speculative bubble – an infographic

Snap’s most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the team are chasing after an IPO which would value the business at $18.5 billion, less than half of its initial ambitions.

• 16 Feb 2017

What’s the point of Snapchat?

Some of the biggest IPOs of recent years have been social media companies and Snapchat will be no exception, but it may be one dotcom gamble too many.

• 03 Feb 2017