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Telecoms

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Elisabeth Braw
    Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business

    Holding shady sailors to account would be a lot less perilous than risking war with a powerful nation

    oil tanker Eagle S at sea outside Porkkalanniemi, Finland.
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Copper
    Telecoms groups forecast to reap $10bn windfall from recycled copper

    Industry is decommissioning legacy lines as demand for metal expected to grow

    A worker inspects large coiled bundles of 8mm copper wire in a warehouse
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Mobile devices
    UK mobile users had least reliable experience in G7 in 2024, data shows

    Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT fights off £1.3bn UK class-action lawsuit

    Ruling is latest setback for claimants in new breed of collective legal action

    A BT logo on a building
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Space industry
    Taiwan in talks with Amazon’s Kuiper on satellite comms amid China fears

    Minister says Eutelsat OneWeb network falling short and Elon Musk’s Starlink ‘not an option’ given his Chinese links

    A rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Space industry
    Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Musk’s Starlink

    Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade

    An image showing a satellite in orbit aroun Earth
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Lex
    Why the broken telecoms sector could be upwardly mobile Premium content

    Approval of Vodafone/Three merger suggests something may have shifted in minds of competition authorities

    A Vodafone logo outside a mobile phone store in London
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone’s black forest addiction

    Not out of the woods yet

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Explainer
    Vodafone-Three UK merger set to ring changes on Britain’s mobile landscape

    Deal will reduce number of operators in the country from four to three

    Montage of the logos of Three UK and Vodafone
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    UK regulator approves £16.5bn combination of Vodafone and Three

    Merger is expected to create Britain’s largest mobile operator

    A Three UK mobile phone store on Oxford Street in central London, U
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Brazil
    Chinese satellite company to challenge Musk’s Starlink in Brazil

    Billionaire Trump ally had clashed with Brasília this year over alleged misinformation on X

    Xi Jinping stands at a podium during a news conference, with Brazilian and Chinese flags behind him
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Europe
    Germany and Finland ‘deeply concerned’ about severed undersea cable

    Foreign ministers do not rule out sabotage as part of Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’

    Finnish foreign minister Elina Valtonen and her German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Porvoo, Finland, in June
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT CollectionsReinvention Champions 2024
    Cailabs sees the light on transmitting big data from space

    French business started out in telecoms — until a client suggested a switch to optical communications

    Aerial view of a modern red-roofed industrial building with large glass windows, an observatory dome on one side, and a smaller pavilion nearby. The surrounding area includes green lawns, a parking lot, and neighboring buildings
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    LexVodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone may yet be worth hanging on for Premium content

    Turnaround signal distorted by interventions from politicians and regulators in Germany and the UK

    A woman walks past a Vodafone store
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone’s revenue drops in Germany

    UK telecoms group hit by law changes over bundling TV with rent in its biggest market

    A pedestrian walks past a Vodafone mobile store in London, with promotional signage for the iPhone 16 Pro visible in the window
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Verizon Communications Inc
    Verizon-Frontier deal goes to the wire as investors demand higher price

    Telecoms group offered rich premium in $20bn deal but some shareholders may hold out for more

    Exterior of Frontier’s headquarters
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    LexBT Group Plc
    Simplifying BT is a tough ask for boss Kirkby Premium content

    Chief’s dilemma is that it is easier to earmark disposals than to snuffle out buyers

    BT chief Allison Kirkby
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    UK regulator paves way for £16.5bn Vodafone-Three merger

    CMA signals support for deal as long as companies commit to delivering joint network plan and retaining certain mobile tariffs

    A Vodafone logo displayed on the bright red window of a store in Barcelona, Spain. In the foreground, two people are looking at their phones
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT explores sale of Radianz unit as part of overhaul

    UK telecoms group is working with Citigroup on possible disposal

    BT Group sign
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Debt impasse threatens $23bn bid to build satellite rival to Netflix

    New correspondence between DirecTV and Dish creditors shows the two are stuck at an impasse

    A DirecTV satellite dish on the roof of a home
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    Sky Group
    Sky’s annual losses double after sports and filming push

    Media and telecoms group bets on sporting coverage to give it competitive edge

    Pep Guardiola the head coach / manager of Manchester City being interviewed by Sky Sports
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Satellites
    Elon Musk battles Indian billionaires over satellite internet spectrum

    Starlink head in spat with owners of Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel mobile networks who have called for space bandwidth auctions

    Elon Musk, second from left, at a ceremony to launch Starlink service on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in May 2024
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    The AT&T-DirecTV mistake Premium content

    How a $67bn deal went wrong

    DirecTV logo outside its headquarters
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    News in-depthStreaming services
    TPG bets it can build a streaming disrupter from satellite TV’s decline

    Private equity group’s DirecTV and Dish deals are about creating a budget rival to Netflix and Apple

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    TPG takes on pay-TV bondholders to ride to Ergen’s rescue Premium content

    Private equity firm leads rescue deal to keep EchoStar afloat

    TPG’s satellite TV provider, DirecTV, will acquire its arch-rival Dish Network from EchoStar
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