Telefónica’s €7.7 billion towers sale is good news for Vodafone
Telefónica has agreed to sell its towers portfolio in Europe and Latin America to passive infrastructure specialist American Tower for €7.7 billion.
Telefónica has agreed to sell its towers portfolio in Europe and Latin America to passive infrastructure specialist American Tower for €7.7 billion.
Four European newspapers have investigated Huawei’s internal policies and found evidence that some of them punish Chinese employees for marrying Westerners.
Chinese vendor Huawei is doing everything it can to make it impossible for Sweden to sustain its ban.
The European Commission seems to think that if it improves data sharing within the bloc, that might give it a better shot at taking on US big tech.
The rumoured €10 billion, 30,000 site, European tower megadeal between Cellnex and CK Hutchison has been completed.
E-commerce giant Amazon also acts as a conduit for other sellers and the EC reckons it may be abusing that position to favour itself.
Chinese vendor Huawei has continued its fight back against its exclusion from European markets by launching a legal challenge to the Swedish decision.
The European Digital Media Association wants its members to be given better legal protection when they act against illegal content in Europe.
Europe has finished testing its platform for allowing COVID-19 contact tracing apps to work across national borders, but only a few countries are up to speed.
The inevitable Chinese retaliation against US sanctions is taking form. Meanwhile a European telecoms lobby group has objected to politically motivated bans.
Two of Japan’s biggest car makers have enlisted Orange and KDDI to help them offer connected car services to more than a million drivers in Europe.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that it’s illegal for countries indiscriminately collect electronic communications data, unless they have a really good reason.
Drawing on his considerable experience in such matters, Facebook’s Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications has fine-tuned his company’s position on data transfers.
Telcos all over the EU are celebrating after their overlords at the European Commission officially gave 5G and fibre the green light.
The Court of Justice of the EU has made what is widely considered to be a precedent-setting ruling on net neutrality, but it doesn’t make much sense.
It looks like most European Union members have taken the sensible approach to developing contact tracing apps, which enables cross-border interoperability.
Patrick Drahi, the founder and 40% shareholder of telecoms conglomerate Altice Europe, reckons the time is right to take it private.
It looks like Google will be increasing the cost of its ads by exactly the rate of a new digital sales tax in the European countries imposing it.
With Sprint now bolstering operations at T-Mobile US, the transatlantic business unit now accounts for 63% of total revenues at the German telecoms operator.
TikTok has seemingly taken Huawei’s position as the primary focus of US aggression in recent weeks, though the social media app is planning a data centre investment to ease European concerns.
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