Midweek Mergers: December 9
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Midweek Mergers: December 9

Capacity brings you the latest mergers and acquisitions in the wholesale arena. If you have any deals you'd like us to share, please tweet us @capacitymag or email editorial@capacitymedia.com

 

Deal of the week




 

Kiwi telco Spark – formerly Telecom New Zealand – has signed a conditional agreement to acquire cloud services firm Computer Concepts (CCL) for NZ$50 million ($33.3 million). [read more]

  


Midweek Mergers




 

Nokia’s shareholders have approved the company’s €15.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent at its extraordinary general meeting. [read more


 

Telefonica Deutschland will begin integrating the UMTS and GSM networks of O2 and mobile operator E-Plus in January 2016. [read more

 

America Movil said that the trading in the shares of Telesites – its spun-off towers unit – will begin on December 21, 2015. [read more


 

Orange is reportedly in early discussions about acquiring Bouygues' telecoms and media assets. [read more


 

EU regulators have rejected a request by the UK’s competition authority to investigate Hutchison Whampoa’s £10.3 billion bid to acquire O2. [read more]

 


International Investments





 

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has delayed its planned auction of spectrum in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands following threats of legal action from Telefonica and Hutchison. [read more


 

Norway has raised €95 million in its 1800MHz spectrum auction after seven days and 83 rounds of bidding. [read more







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