Sprint
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SoftBank has named a successor to Michel Combes, who has announced his departure after only a few months as CEO of the group’s international arm. -
Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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Chris Harper, the former VP of international network services at Sprint, has joined Neterra as chief commercial officer.
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Deutsche Telekom has raised its profit outlook for the second time this year in is Q2 financial results.
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Last year’s acquisition of Sprint by its T-Mobile US has pushed Deutsche Telekom’s group revenues up by almost a third in the year, the company announced today.
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Interconnect and roaming specialist Syniverse has appointed Andrew Davies, a former Sprint, Vodafone and Verizon executive, as CEO.
Forthcoming events
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Deutsche Telekom has posted a 25.4% increase in group revenues for the full year 2020, reaching €101 billion for the period.
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Masayoshi Son is stepping down from leadership of SoftBank on 1 April, to be replaced by the group’s CTO, Junichi Miyakawa.
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T-Mobile US has announced a five-year programme to expand its 5G coverage, with contracts to both Ericsson and Nokia.
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Verizon is leading T-Mobile and AT&T in the 5G experience to urban users in the US, according to a new survey.
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Deutsche Telekom has posted revenue growth of 31.9% in the third quarter, prompting the telco to raise its guidance for the year.
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Dish Network, set to become the fourth mobile network in the US, has chosen to go with a cloud approach, using technology from Nokia.
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Verizon provides the fastest 5G speed in the US, almost 500Mbps – but its customers can connect with it only 0.4% of the time because of coverage issues.
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T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) has divested its interests in Sprint’s prepaid wireless business Boost Mobile, to DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) for US$1.4 billion.
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SoftBank last night set a price of US$103 for each of the shares in T-Mobile US that it is selling – $4 below last night’s closing price of $107.16.
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Loss-making SoftBank Group is to sell around two-thirds of its stake in T-Mobile US in order to raise 2 trillion yen (US$21 billion).
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It was a failure by a wholesale fibre provider in the south-east of the US that caused widespread outages to T-Mobile US’s network this week.
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Operator wants to acquire rival telcos across Europe, according to CEO Tim Höttges.
