Liberty Global to acquire Sunrise Switzerland for $7.4 billion
Having tried and failed to do it the other way around, the parent of UPC Switzerland has decided to take Swiss consolidation into its own hands.
Having tried and failed to do it the other way around, the parent of UPC Switzerland has decided to take Swiss consolidation into its own hands.
Sibilant Swiss service providers Sunrise and Salt are forming a strategic partnership for the rollout of fibre across the country.
Sunrise has entered 2020 with the surprise announcement that Olaf Swantee, previously one of the favourites to take over the top-job at BT, will no-longer be CEO.
Sunrise has cancelled an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to secure acquisition funds to acquire UPC Switzerland after investors rejected the move.
Swiss operator Sunrise is happy to work with Huawei on 5G and their collaboration is yielding some impressive download speeds.
It might be a small country, and its citizens might be concentrated in the cities, but Switzerland is driving forward with 5G like few other countries around the world.
Swiss telco Sunrise has jumped on the 5G bandwagon with the launch of a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) offering aiming to bridge the digital divide.
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.
Telecoms infrastructure company Cellnex has bought 2,239 towers in Switzerland from Sunrise, as part of an investment consortium.
The former head of UK mobile operator EE will take over as CEO of Sunrise, a Swiss telco that is trying to challenge state-owned Swisscom with a full multiplay offering.
The four leading Swiss service providers, as well as the country’s cable operator association Swisscable, have joined forces to formulate an official code of conduct on net neutrality. Swisscom, Sunrise, UPC Cablecom and Orange, as well as Swisscable, are working to keep the internet open in Switzerland, according to an official statement from Swisscom.
The Swiss postal service Swiss Post has launched a trial that will allow consumers to pay to send letters using premium SMS. If a customer who wants to send a letter has no stamps they can text “STAMP” to a dedicated short number and receive a numerical code in return. If they write this code on the envelope where they would normally attach a stamp delivery will be authorised.
ComCo, the Swiss Competition Commission has ruled that the merger of France Telecom’s Orange Switzerland with competitor Sunrise, owned by Denmark’s TDC, will not be allowed to go ahead. The regulatory authority said that the merger would give the firm too dominant a position in the Swiss market.
France Telecom and Danish carrier TDC said Wednesday they have agreed to combine their Swiss operations – Orange and Sunrise – creating a new entity with fixed and mobile service offerings.
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