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  • It’s been an active few months for India’s Bharti Airtel: in early June the company confirmed that its $10.7 billion bid for Zain’s Africa assets had been successful.
  • The grid that delivers electricity to end users – the infrastructure from high-voltage power lines and substations to house meters – is undergoing radical change and becoming intelligent.
  • The top 10 broadband service providers globally gained 23.3 million subscribers between Q1 2009 and Q1 2010, according to a broadband provider rankings report by Telegeography.
  • Telecom Italia Sparkle’s internet backbone Seabone has been extended to Catania in Sicily, with Cypriot carrier Cyta announced as its first customer.
  • The West Africa Cable System (WACS), under construction and lined up for launch in 2011, is gaining an extension from Portugal to the UK.
  • The telecoms landscape of today is vastly different from 10 years ago, but we can learn from these differences, writes Camille Mendler
  • The heavyweights of European telecoms have been flexing their muscles again – Telefonica is shoring up its investment in Latin America with the acquisition of Vivo, finally, from Portugal Telecom, while France Telecom Orange’s new CEO Stephane Richard has laid out his five-year plan “Conquests 2015”.
  • Spain’s Telefonica has won its bid for control of Brazil’s largest mobile network operator Vivo, buying out former partner Portugal Telecom’s (PT) 50% share in the business for $9.7 billion after an at-times bitter battle.
  • Tyco Electronics has acquired fellow vendor ADC Telecommunications in a deal worth approximately $1.25 billion, giving it a stake in the market for broadband connectivity.
  • South Korea has the highest number of broadband subscribers per capita of any nation, reveals a report from the Buddecomm consultancy.