Deals & M&A – Page 2
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M&ATelefónica mulls offers for logistics unit Zeleris — report
Telco has reportedly kicked off another sale process for its distribution and logistics unit, with OnTime and Everwood Capital suggested to be frontrunners for the buy…
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Financial & PerformanceGuidance: jitters fail to jolt
Q3 FY25: DT looks set to end the FY with another set of record-breaking top-level financial numbers.
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M&ANordics: DigitalBridge offloads wireless infra player Digita
US-based investment group DigitalBridge agrees to previously rumoured sale of Nordics towerco Digita, as buyer GI Partners sees “great opportunity” for the business to expand in data centres, IoT, and wireless infra…
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M&ATelefónica, Vodafone Spain secure AXA backing for fibre JV
Operator duo firm up investment from AXA for their Fiberpass joint venture, with the asset manager seeing it as a “rare opportunity” to expand in a key European market. Zegona affirmed the move “completes” Vodafone Spain’s fibre transformation strategy, as wider cost-cutting programme starting to show results…
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Financial & PerformanceIliad CEO: Telco trio’s Altice offer is ‘generous’ and only ‘global’ option
Q3 FY25 highlights: Thomas Reynaud sticks to party line on three-way bid for Altice France, while also making clear that Iliad Italy will not be sold to finance M&A in France. Updates on OpCore and Scaleway data centre ambitions, including AI Gigafactory…
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M&ADigi confirms mulling part-sale of Spanish unit
Romanian group confirms recent reports that it has appointed advisors to explore an IPO of its fast-growing, disruptive Spanish unit.
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M&ATelefónica assumes full command of FiBrasil with CDPQ buyout completion
Vivo completes acquisition of the 50% stake held by its FiBrasil joint venture partner CDPQ, aligning with Telefónica’s refreshed strategy to become more hands-on when it comes to managing network and infrastructure assets…
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Analyst BriefingFrancewatch: Bouygues and Orange keep M&A hopes alive
Analyst Briefing: Aftermath of joint bid by Bouygues, Iliad, and Orange for Altice France, and the hope that discussions will resume despite the offer’s initial rejection.
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Partnerships & AlliancesCellnex reinforces telco M&A defences with France, Italy moves
Cellnex renews access agreement with Fastweb+Vodafone and moots a potential RFI from Iliad to build new towers in France, as CEO Marco Patuano has reaffirmed that the towerco is well positioned to navigate telco consolidation…
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M&AVodacom ‘keeping powder dry’ for fibre, data centre M&A opportunities
Q2/H1: CEO Shameel Joosub teases more deals and partnerships to come as South African fibreco deal nears completion, with more wireline infra and potential data centre tie-ups under consideration. While tower deals in Egypt are off the table, ears are open for a change at Safaricom…
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M&AGreece looks to reboot rural fibre scheme with OTE-Terna takeover
Deutsche Telekom’s Greek business set to take over Terna Fiber, a venture that alongside OTE, took responsibility for supporting the government’s rural fibre build programme, but has been quiet on progress …
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Financial & PerformanceAfter nine years of decline, BT now stands at B2B turnaround ‘start line’
Q2 FY25–26: CEO heralds a reshaping, fully-focused BT Business now beginning its turnaround, nearly a decade after the Group last posted enterprise revenue growth. With International carved out, and several assets offloaded, greater scrutiny should be expected of what is left…
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M&ABouygues prepared to play waiting game for Altice France assets
Following the rejection of French telco trio’s €17bn joint offer for SFR, Bouygues Group hopes they will be able to change parent Altice’s mind over time.
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch: satcos look towards future tech; telcos adjust to infra competition
Latest on EMEA digital infra: Vodafone ‘finding its niche’ in subsea cables; SES charts course to launching satellite-based quantum services; Indus Towers eyes possible acquisitions to fuel African expansion; more…
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M&ALiberty, Vodafone begin sale of Dutch towers
Liberty Global Q3: operator confirms sale of VodafoneZiggo’s masts is underway, with Mike Fries earlier confirming “alignment” on the issue with co-parent Vodafone Group. Divestiture one part of wider monetisation and deleveraging efforts across the Liberty portfolio…
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M&AOrange heads off Spanish IPO with co-owner buyout
French group secures a provisional, €4.25bn deal to buy out its fellow shareholders in Spain’s MásOrange, as it continues to pro-actively push for telco consolidation in European markets.
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M&AProsegur: Telefónica home security JV ‘not on table’
Operator’s partner happy to sit on fast-growing alarm joint venture, despite signals that its worth may have more than trebled since being formed six years ago. The success of rival Verisure’s recent IPO has been noted but will not prompt a similar move by Prosegur in the short term, CFO indicates.
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Venturing & InvestmentsEquinix ploughs £3.9bn into UK data centre build
International data centre operator acquires work-in-progress Hertfordshire site, with plans to develop more than 250MW of IT capacity in the future. Equinix’s move is the latest multibillion-pound investment in UK data centres, with several others seen in recent years…
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M&ANetomnia takeout rumours: first billion-dollar M&A for UK fibre?
Deep dive: Reports suggest Netomnia is in play, with cashed-up nexfibre/VM O2 and CityFibre tagged as frontrunners in the race to build a national fibre challenger to Openreach. TelcoTitans Infrawatch explores the backdrop, leading players (including Liberty Global and Telefónica), netco-servco dichotomy, and likeliest outcomes…
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M&ATelefónica makes another Hispam withdrawal: pockets $380m Ecuador deal
Spanish group secures another wadge of cash to pay down debt by completing a sale of Telefónica Ecuador to regional peer Millicom. While Telefónica cannot get out of Hispanoamérica fast enough, Millicom is bulking its regional business up and out, talking up Ecuador as a “high potential market” with “solid” macro fundamentals.