Latest Regional News – Page 12
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M&A
Spanish M&A rolls on as Inveready said to reach Avatel deal
Asset management group reportedly reaches deal with Avatel co-founder to jointly acquire the business, continuing wave of consolidation in Spanish telecoms market. Read more…
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M&A
GIP said to seek reboot in India after completion of BlackRock mega-buy
Change reportedly already underway at GIP following BlackRock acquisition, as the digital infra investor gauges interest from the likes of Macquarie, KKR, and Stonepeak on a sale of Ascend Telecom stake. Read more…
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Public Affairs
Unions reject MásOrange’s revised lay-off plan
Newly-merged joint venture wants to push through nearly 750 redundancies to progress its four-year ‘synergy’ extraction programme and broader ‘two into one’ integration effort.
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Venturing & Investments
DTCP gives Irish data centre player a cash injection
Infrastructure investment group invests in Northern Ireland- and Republic of Ireland-focused Atlantic Hub, seeking to expand data centre ambitions beyond initial interest in Germany…
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M&A
Brazil’s Vivo eyes more B2B M&A after closing out IPNET buy
Up-to-BRL 230m acquisition of cloud services player finalised following greenlight from national regulatory bodies.
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M&A
Italian government returns with shinier Sparkle bid
Country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance teams with Spanish investment group Asterion on bid to take control of Telecom Italia’s long-distance fibre business.
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Products & Services
O2 Germany expands in B2B with fresh automation, rental services
Operating business widens its enterprise offerings to include workflow automation and device-as-a-service, enabled by tie-ups with Apple Financial Services and Workato. Move sees Group continue B2B revenue push as part of wider strategy…
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Financial & Performance
Tesco–VM O2 MVNO cracks £1bn sales nut
Tesco Mobile reaches ten-digit revenue milestone for the first time, as premium handset and postpaid sales continue to grow, though profitability proving more challenging in UK’s cutthroat MVNO market…
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Public Affairs
T-Mobile takes $31.5m FCC hit for data breaches
The US operator is to spend $15.75m alone on fixing its cybersecurity after data breaches.
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Premium
T.Capital: a dip into DT’s growing tech funding pool
TelcoTitans provides a rundown on the make-up and back story of T.Capital, DT’s evolving and expanding in-house stable of tech investments.
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M&A
IQGeo: KKR’s latest tech buy adds geospatial smarts to sprawling infra portfolio
Private equity giant KKR is taking Cambridge-based geospatial software specialist IQGeo private in £333m deal, pledging to fuel new phase of growth. Log in to understand this hot specialist and what it provides network operators worldwide…
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Partnerships & Alliances
Meta ends peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom in Germany
War of words erupts between DT and Meta in the dispute over who should pay for data traffic.
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Strategy & Change
T-Mobile ups enterprise momentum with three-pronged approach
Callie Field sets out key strategies to drive up T-Mobile’s share of this ‘under-penetrated’ market.
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Consumer (B2C)
OpenAI: Altman to assign ‘best people’ to T-Mobile churn challenge
OpenAI CEO bullish on commercial potential of AI tie-up with T-Mobile, based on letting its platform explore operator’s “massive pools of data” for better and more rapid support decisioning.
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Operations
Telefónica Hispam CEO: upskilling ‘crucial’ to overcoming LatAm challenges
Alfonso Gómez Palacio says generative AI and “democratised” access to digital services set to help with training employees.
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Network & Infrastructure
Vi delivers ‘quick win capex’ in kit vendor mega deal
Ericsson and Nokia re-up Vi relationship, Samsung added to partner roster.
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M&A
stc said to be back in Telefónica stake-building mode
Saudi operator reportedly considering increasing Telefónica stake beyond 9.9% should Spanish gov approve September 2023 share purchase.
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Products & Services
DT teams with Perplexity on new ‘Magenta AI’ help tool
Group set to bring expanded AI info-gathering and support features into My Magenta customer app, using Perplexity engine.
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M&A
Telefónica, Asterion ‘select finalists’ for data centre sale
Goldman Sachs, Igneo Infrastructure Partners, and Wren House among candidates reportedly selected to purchase Nabiax.
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Strategy & Change
T-Mobile lifts 5G FWA user target into double figure millions
Factors behind target expansion include advancements in network and device quality, more spectrum, and precision marketing.