For years the telco industry has condemned the EU’s approach to competition, though green-lighting DT’s acquisition of Tele2’s Dutch business could indicate a loosening grip on the idea of four operators.
President Donald Trump’s administration certainly has been a different shade of politics for the Oval Office, though actions and alleged prejudice could come back to haunt the Commander in Chief.
With AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Dish arguing over a distribution deal, one AT&T executive has suggested Dish and the Department of Justice are collaborating to reverse the green light on the Time Warner acquisition.
Veon has announced it has backed out of plans to acquire GTH assets in Pakistan and Bangladesh due to the falling Pakistani Rupee and the reaction from GTH shareholders.
Comcast has emerged as the winner of the drawn-out Sky acquisition battle with 21st Century Fox, offering shareholders £17.28 per share.
Budget MVNO Ting Mobile has come out in support of the proposed T-Mobile US and Sprint merger, standing pretty lonely opposite the waves of opposition.
With conflicting predictions on the outcome of the industry’s biggest will-they/won’t-they flying everywhere, opposition to the deal from a communications union, Dish and Altice has started to scrap for attention.
Orange has given its enterprise cloud business a shot in the arm after completing the acquisition of infrastructure and critical application services company Basefarm.
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Duo Security for $2.35 billion in its quest for more subscription based deals.
The European Commission has given its blessing for Telenor to offload assets in Eastern Europe to Dutch financial and investment group PPF.
Only a matter of days after Telia announced the purchase of GET and TDC Norway to bolster its convergence play, the Swedish telco has confirmed the acquisition of Bonnier Broadcasting.
Back in 2016, Qualcomm just wanted to buy NXP in the continued quest for self-improvement, unfortunately the business has become one of the rarely moving pawns in the prolonged chess game between the US and China.
The acquisition has been bubbling away behind the scenes for months, but Vodafone’s €18.4 billion acquisition of Liberty Global assets in Germany and eastern Europe will test the resolve of regulators.
Telkom Kenya has announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell up to 723 towers to American Tower, expanding the latter’s footprint to a fifth country in Africa.
Networking vendor Nokia has snapped-up machine learning-powered analytics firm SpaceTime Insight, which it says will augment its IoT offering.
Cisco has announced it will sell its Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business to a company backed by private equity firm Permira, the company it bought it from in the first place.
CityFibre has agreed to an £537 million all-cash takeover offer from a US infrastructure investment consortium, backed by some of Wall Street’s heaviest hitters. It turns out loud, attention-seeking behaviour sometimes works.
Vodafone has announced the completion of the sale of its Indian tower business to American Tower in a move to build the spreadsheets in preparation for the Jio battle.
Plantronics has announced it will acquire unified communications specialist Polycom in a cash and stock transaction worth $2 billion, expected to close by the end of the third quarter.
Qualcomm has announced it will not re-nominate Paul Jacobs to the Board of Directors after the executive made the decision to explore the possibility of making a proposal to acquire Qualcomm.
Pelosi rips into Facebook for 'shameful' behaviour https://t.co/FOD49iRhcO #CloudApps #ContentApplications
17 January 2020 @ 16:50:32 UTC
BT and Vodafone set to moan to PM about Huawei https://t.co/jpiqqCi55n #5G #Security
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Europe urges UK to call Trump's bluff on Huawei https://t.co/4ABlgjbaXp #5G #Security
17 January 2020 @ 13:12:05 UTC
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