mergers and acquisitions
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The Spanish government has greenlighted the proposed merger between Orange’s Spanish business and its rival MasMovil, digital transformation minister Jose Luis Escriva said earlier this week.
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The European Commission has approved the merger between Orange and MasMovil in Spain. The deal will take the form of a 50/50 joint venture, co-controlled by both companies.
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EU regulators could ease rules against telco mergers to get Big Tech and others to help rollout 5G, a Reuters report indicates.
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Vodafone and Three have responded to the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) who launched a formal investigation into their proposed merger.
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Orange has signed an agreement with the Romanian government to form a single, combined mobile operator.
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Three UK has come under fire from UK union, Unite, for a $2 billion dividend payment made to its parent company, which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
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Manchester-based full fibre connectivity provider Telcom Group has acquired Luminet – London’s largest fixed wireless network operator.
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on Vodafone’s merger with rival network Three.
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to announce its decision on the updated US$75 billion merger between Microsoft and Activision.
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BT is preparing itself for a bid from Deutsche Telekom according to several reports.
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Microsoft has won its court case against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), potentially clearing the way to acquire Activision in a deal worth US$68.7 billion.
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The potential merger between Vodafone and Three UK will shake up the battle to be Britain’s leading telecoms brand, new analysis from Brand Finance indicates.
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Satellite companies proposed deal will not be taking place after three months of official talks
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Vodafone and Three have announced their long-anticipated merger, claiming that a tie-up would be beneficial to customers, the country and competition, but not to China.
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Turning around results in Germany should Vodafone’s leading priority, but there is also much work to do to arrest perennial struggles in Spain and Italy, according to Kester Mann, director of consumer and connectivity at CCS Insight.
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Connectbase has announced the acquisition of London-based LastMileXchange (LMX).
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Vodafone and CK Hutchison-owned Three UK are reportedly close to agreeing a merger of their UK telecoms businesses, in a deal worth around £15 billion.
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is reportedly eyeing a sale of part or all of its share in the UK’s largest mobile tower network according to the FT.
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The Orange and MasMovil merger will be the subject of an in-depth investigation by The European Commission.
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Paris-based Iliad has bought a majority stake in iTrust, a French specialist in cyber security.
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Canada has granted approval for Rogers Communications’ US$15 billion buyout of Shaw Communications, creating the second-largest telecoms company.
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Poland now has a unified company planning to build an open access 5Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, serving Play Group and other operators.
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Intelsat, the grandaddy of satellite companies, is talking to Luxembourg-based SES about a possible merger.
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Enterprise network company PacketFabric has completed its merger with Unitas Global, only 11 weeks after deal was announced.
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Adtran, the optical networking company that last year merged with Adva in a US$1.2 billion deal, is to appoint an Adva veteran as its new CFO.
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A reported sale of TalkTalk’s B2B arm would be unsurprising, according to an industry analyst.
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Private equity group Cube Infrastructure Managers is buying control of Glesys, a Nordic data centre company.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has moved into the cyber security market in Egypt, by acquiring Cysiv MEA, a technology company headquartered in Cairo.
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The European Commission has approved the acquisition of 75% acquisition of VOO SA by Orange Belgium.
