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  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    LexVodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone needs a stronger signal on UK telecom failings Premium content

    The CMA’s chief concern will be the merged company’s impact on consumer tariffs and on its wholesale customers

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Lycamobile UK Ltd
    Auditor refuses to sign off accounts of Lycamobile UK

    Disclosure puts further pressure on telecoms group and former Conservative party donor

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  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    Broadband groups Netomnia and Brsk agree tie-up

    Deal is latest example of consolidation in fast-growing sector providing alternative full-fibre networks

    Workers prepare the ground to lay full-fibre cables in Pimlico, London
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    LexBT Group Plc
    BT should welcome the call of its latest billionaire investor Premium content

    Less affluent shareholders in the telco might take heart from Carlos Slim’s interest

    Carlos Slim
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    EU faces telecoms ire over new Standard Essential Patent rules

    While companies may agree on need for more transparency, questions are raised over draft law’s practicality

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  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    Mexican billionaire Slim takes 3% stake in BT

    Latin America’s richest man is latest high-profile investor in telecoms group

    Carlos Slim
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
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    Billionaires Mittal and Ambani take on Musk in India’s internet space race

    Bharti Airtel’s joint venture with Eutelsat OneWeb could start operating in June

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral., Florida, in December 2023
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    LexLiberty Media Corp
    America’s ‘cable cowboy’ lost out in infrastructure boom Premium content

    Wrangling media and telecoms products into business models that produce durable profits has proved to be tough going

    John Malone, chair of Liberty Media
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT’s CEO says she ‘loves to squeeze’ short sellers as shares jump

    UK’s biggest telecoms group rises 17% as Allison Kirkby announces strategy and raises dividend

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  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    Investors place record £300mn bet against BT

    New chief executive Allison Kirkby is battling to reverse declining share price

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  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    What I wish I’d known before my smartphone was snatched

    As phone theft surges, how can you protect your financial data?

  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Intelsat SA
    Satellite group SES to acquire Intelsat in $3.1bn deal

    Merger marks last major consolidation in industry as operators look to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink

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  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    European companies
    Ericsson chief says overregulation ‘driving Europe to irrelevance’

    Continent ‘at risk of falling behind’ on digital infrastructure, undermining its competitiveness

    Börje Ekholm
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Two died after UK shift from analogue to digital phone lines

    Government says it met Virgin O2 chief executive and Ofcom after incidents last year

  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Telecom Italia SpA
    Telecom Italia chief defeats attempt to unseat him

    Pietro Labriola secures fresh mandate after phone carrier averted clash with biggest shareholder Vivendi at AGM

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  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Vodafone idea Ltd
    Vodafone’s India unit staves off collapse after record $2.2bn fundraising

    Country’s largest share sale draws investors including GQG Partners and Fidelity

    A woman speaking on her mobile phone walks past a bus stop with an advertisement for mobile carrier Vodafone Idea in Mumbai
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT installs McKinsey partner to head new strategy unit

    Secondment marks first move by telecoms group’s new CEO Allison Kirkby in her turnaround push

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    LexTelecom Italia SpA
    Wrecking Telecom Italia’s landline deal would widen shareholder losses Premium content

    Only those shorting the shares would be winners if KKR’s purchase is scuppered

    TIM chief executive Pietro Labriola
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    MTN Group Ltd
    South Africa’s MTN to boost investment in generators to combat blackouts

    Telecoms group joins growing list of companies plugging shortfalls from state electricity provider

    A woman uses a paraffin light while cooking during an electricity blackout at her home in Soweto, South Africa
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    Australia’s Commonwealth Bank tie-in gives More Telecom a boost

    Small Melbourne-based telecoms company is thriving with investment from the country’s largest bank

    A woman in a street smiles as she looks at a mobile phone screen
  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    BT Openreach
    BT’s Openreach pushes Labour for easier access to flats in fibre rollout

    Group wants existing agreements with landlords to be extended to automatically permit full-fibre upgrades

    An Openreach engineer works on phone lines in a residential street in London
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    LexVodafone Group PLC
    UK mobile merger must ring in changes for troubled sector Premium content

    Fierce competition has hammered the market’s economics

    A pedestrian passes a Vodafone store in west London
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    UK competition watchdog plans full probe into Vodafone-Three deal

    Competition and Markets Authority gives companies days to resolve concerns that merger will reduce choice

    Two smartphones respectively showing the Three and Vodafone apps
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Altice Europe NV
    Altice France on collision course with creditors

    Bondholders’ group hires lawyers after telecoms company declines to use proceeds from asset sales to repay debt

    Altice logo
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Telecom Italia SpA
    Telecom Italia targeted by short sellers with €1bn bet

    Short positions in debt-laden company’s stock have almost doubled since share price plunge this month

    Telecom Italia logo on display at its HQ in Rome
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