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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Vodafone and Three offer UK regulator new concessions on £16.5bn merger

    Companies say they will keep £10-a-month package for ‘value-focused’ customers in effort to win CMA’s approval for tie-up

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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    The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
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    Chief executive says new partners needed if EU constellation project fails to reach agreement

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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
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    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    UK regulator demands changes to £16.5bn Vodafone-Three merger

    Competition and Markets Authority says deal could lead to higher bills for tens of millions of customers

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    Virgin Media O2 to sell stake in mobile towers business

    Deal for holding in Cornerstone joint venture comes as telecoms groups monetise infrastructure assets

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
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    Nokia seeks to replace CEO in bid to revive falling sales

    The active search comes as Pekka Lundmark has failed to revive growth

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Transsion Holdings
    China’s smartphone ‘King of Africa’ hit by detention of finance chief

    Shanghai-listed Transsion also facing growing competition in African market and legal challenges over intellectual property

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
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    Verizon’s pricey high-fibre diet won’t suit telco investors Premium content

    Acquisition part of sector’s push to converge phone, internet and television

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
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    Verizon to expand broadband reach with $20bn Frontier acquisition

    US telecoms group says deal will ‘significantly’ increase its fibre footprint ‘across the nation’

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  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Elon Musk’s Starlink agrees to block X in Brazil

    Partial climbdown by billionaire follows freezing of satellite internet group’s finances over fines levied on social media site

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  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
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    UK government taps telecoms industry over boosting broadband in blocks of flats

    Department for Science, Innovation and Technology wants to know where barriers ‘can be mitigated or removed’

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
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    Sotheby’s earnings plunge as art market catches a chill

    Arch-rival Christie’s also suffering from slowdown in auctions

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  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    UK business calls for automatic recompense for broadband outages

    Institute of Directors among those pushing Ofcom to make redress compulsory rather than on case-by-case basis

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  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    UK ‘altnets’ raise fresh funding as finance deals heat up

    Fibrus and Community Fibre secure £160mn to take on broadband incumbents such as BT

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  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    BT still has a big pension problem

    (And it’s got worse)

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
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    The ‘altnet’ threat to BT is overdone Premium content

    Sky’s deal with CityFibre complements, rather than replaces, its existing arrangement with Openreach network

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  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
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    BT suffers blow as Sky opts for CityFibre’s network in broadband deal

    FTSE 100 group’s existing agreement with media company will remain but choice of rival ‘altnet’ puts it under pressure

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  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
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    Sunil Bharti Mittal, Indian telecoms tycoon turning the tables on BT

    Company that drew investment from UK group in the 1990s is now becoming its biggest shareholder

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  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
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    Why Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal reconnected with BT

    UK telco used to own 21% of Bharti’s group. The roles are now reversed

    A montage of the BT logo and euro notes with photos of Patrick Drahi and Sunil Bharti Mittal
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
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    BT can ring the changes with Drahi’s exit Premium content

    Bharti’s acquisition of a stake alongside other telco investors is a vote of confidence in the company’s strategy

    BT Group logo displayed on BT tower
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    Indian billionaire to buy 24.5% BT stake from Altice

    Sunil Bharti Mittal’s conglomerate says it has no plans to make an offer for the UK telecoms group

    Sunil Bharti Mittal raises his right hand while speaking
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
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    Lycamobile UK loses £51mn value added tax case

    Size of payment to be made by the telecoms company to HMRC still to be decided

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  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone sells further €1.3bn stake in European phone masts business

    Sale part of CEO’s plan to simplify telecoms group’s sprawling business and reduce debt

    An engineer climbs a 5G telecommunication network mast at the Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH campus in Duesseldorf
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT fined £17.5mn for ‘catastrophic’ 999 call failures

    UK telecoms group ‘fell woefully short of its responsibilities’ in incident last year, says Ofcom

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