Vodafone Spain rumoured to be considering fixed network sale
The rumour mill is churning at maximum speed as Vodafone Spain is reportedly considering a sale of its fixed network for €1.2 billion.
The rumour mill is churning at maximum speed as Vodafone Spain is reportedly considering a sale of its fixed network for €1.2 billion.
Telefónica Deutschland will be able to sell services that run on the combined Vodafone and Unitymedia cable network in Germany.
Liberty Global has continued its great withdraw from the European markets with another sale, this time convincing Sunrise its 1 million Swiss customers are worth $6.3 billion.
A recent Nielsen report on the evolution of US TV viewing habits reveals a 48% increase in the number of households switching entirely to over the air access.
At the Cable Next-Gen Europe event in London a panel discussed the lessons learned from offering 1 Gbps domestic broadband.
In a characteristic move, T-Mobile US has announced it intends to disrupt the US cable market in same way it has the mobile one.
The laying of the ‘highest-capacity’ transatlantic cable by Microsoft and Facebook has been completed in just over a year.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said he’s no longer interested in big cable M&A.
Not content with turning the Indian telecoms market upside down Reliance Jio has been a primary player in a new 100 Gbps submarine cable system.
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.
The two biggest US cable operators have publicly vowed to hold each other’s hands when exploring future business opportunities in the wireless space.
Private equity fund TPG Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire broadband providers RCN Telecommunications and Grande Communications for $2.25 billion.
Nokia has acquired US startup and cable access specialist Gainspeed in a bid to bolster its fibre access portfolio.
Multinational cable company Liberty Global has completed the $7.4 billion acquisition of Cable & Wireless Communications Plc, which gives it a strong presence in the Caribbean and Latin America.
The $55 billion merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable has been given the green light by the FCC, creating the second largest ISP in the US market. An additional $10 billion deal for Bright House Networks has also been approved.
Comcast’s NBCUniversal is buying DreamWorks Animation, in a deal valuing the toon studio around US$3.8 billion, reports TBI Vision.
Broadband connectivity and digital services in Africa are to get a boost from a 5,000km extension to its cable connectivity with Europe.
French telco conglomerate Altice has made a major strategic move into the US market with the acquisition of Cablevision for $17.7 billion to become the fourth largest US cable operator.
French telco Orange has announced it will be focusing on Africa and the Middle East for growth in the coming years and noted the connection of the Canary Islands to the ACE submarine cable.
Charter Communications, the fourth biggest cable company in the US, is expected to formally announce a $55 billion bid for larger rival Time Warner Cable, according to Bloomberg and corroborated by many others
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