Sky spends £600m on football rights
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Nokia takes telcos further under its WING
Finnish equipment maker adds market entry services to its WING IoT platform
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EE refarming 1800-MHz spectrum to boost 4G speeds
U.K. mobile operator upgrading 600 4G sites in U.K. cities
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Combes steps up as SFR CEO quits
French telco says media head Alain Weill will oversee the integration of telecoms and media assets
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SK Telecom boosts LTE-A Pro coverage
South Korean operator says 1 Gbps-plus mobile services will come with ‘evolution of smartphones’
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Vodafone unveils €2bn Germany fast broadband plan
Telco to work with partners to extend Gigabit broadband to businesses, rural consumers over four years; will also accelerate DOCSIS 3.1 rollout
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US govt to OK AT&T/Time Warner deal this month
DoJ in final stages of merger review, according to U.S. press report
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Eye-watering debt financing and micro lending
The telecoms industry is one of extremes, from multi-billion-dollar, debt-backed takeover deals to the transfer of tiny sums via emerging market mobile wallet services. But it’s all relative.
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Telia tackles churn by keeping an eye on customer devices
Swedish telco launches self-care app to help it retain high-spend users and win the battle for customer ownership
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Nokia, ZTE win €780m BSNL network deal
Finnish vendor is lowest bidder in Indian BTS tender, followed by ZTE; Ericsson misses out
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Bankers pitching debt financing to Altice for Charter deal
Sources say bankers are working on debt financing of around $70 billion to back possible U.S. cable takeover bid
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Huawei sees cloud convergence coming
Chinese vendor to spend US$500m on cloud services; teams up with Microsoft on enterprise cloud apps.
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Telenor Bank gets new leader
Pakistan microfinance bank welcomes back one of its co-founders as new chief executive.
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Vodafone sells down Vodacom stake to meet stock market regs
Telco offloads 5.2% stake in South African operator, reducing its holding to 64.5% and raising free float above 20% threshold
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Open Fiber sees late-2019 flotation
Italian network operator due to formally sign €1.2 billion deal to roll out network in underserved areas in coming weeks
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Liquid Telecom upgrades East Africa ring to 100G
African network operator to offer 100G links to major cities in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya
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Huawei needs a hero despite overtaking Apple in smartphone stakes
Research firm advises Chinese vendor to put ‘more muscle behind fewer products’
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SK Telecom lowers latency on LTE
South Korean operator working with Nokia to reduce latency between handset and base station to 2 milliseconds.
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Australia to sell 5G spectrum with no ownership caps this year
Omnibus auction to take place in late 2017; spectrum caps will only apply to 1800 MHz band, not 3.4 GHz, government rules.
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Chile OKs AT&T/Time Warner deal with conditions
Watchdog accepts competition safeguarding measures proposed by U.S. companies, does not require sale of assets.
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