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  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
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    Private equity group’s DirecTV and Dish deals are about creating a budget rival to Netflix and Apple

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
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    Private equity firm leads rescue deal to keep EchoStar afloat

    TPG’s satellite TV provider, DirecTV, will acquire its arch-rival Dish Network from EchoStar
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Vodafone and Three offer UK regulator new concessions on £16.5bn merger

    Companies say they will keep £10-a-month package for ‘value-focused’ customers in effort to win CMA’s approval for tie-up

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
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    Eutelsat explores partnerships to fund Europe’s space-based network

    Chief executive says new partners needed if EU constellation project fails to reach agreement

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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depthSpace Exploration Technologies Corp
    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

    Montage of Elon Musk, Brazil flag, Starlink logo
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    UK regulator demands changes to £16.5bn Vodafone-Three merger

    Competition and Markets Authority says deal could lead to higher bills for tens of millions of customers

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Virgin Media O2
    Virgin Media O2 to sell stake in mobile towers business

    Deal for holding in Cornerstone joint venture comes as telecoms groups monetise infrastructure assets

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Nokia
    Nokia seeks to replace CEO in bid to revive falling sales

    The active search comes as Pekka Lundmark has failed to revive growth

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  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Transsion Holdings
    China’s smartphone ‘King of Africa’ hit by detention of finance chief

    Shanghai-listed Transsion also facing growing competition in African market and legal challenges over intellectual property

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Lex
    Verizon’s pricey high-fibre diet won’t suit telco investors Premium content

    Acquisition part of sector’s push to converge phone, internet and television

    Frontier Communications headquarters in Dallas, Texas
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Verizon Communications Inc
    Verizon to expand broadband reach with $20bn Frontier acquisition

    US telecoms group says deal will ‘significantly’ increase its fibre footprint ‘across the nation’

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  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Elon Musk’s Starlink agrees to block X in Brazil

    Partial climbdown by billionaire follows freezing of satellite internet group’s finances over fines levied on social media site

    A user of X browses through Brazilian posts on a mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    UK Broadband
    UK government taps telecoms industry over boosting broadband in blocks of flats

    Department for Science, Innovation and Technology wants to know where barriers ‘can be mitigated or removed’

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Sotheby's Inc
    Sotheby’s earnings plunge as art market catches a chill

    Arch-rival Christie’s also suffering from slowdown in auctions

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  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    UK business calls for automatic recompense for broadband outages

    Institute of Directors among those pushing Ofcom to make redress compulsory rather than on case-by-case basis

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  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    UK ‘altnets’ raise fresh funding as finance deals heat up

    Fibrus and Community Fibre secure £160mn to take on broadband incumbents such as BT

    Workmen installing ducting for fibre optic cable in trench cut in road
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    BT still has a big pension problem

    (And it’s got worse)

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    LexBT Group Plc
    The ‘altnet’ threat to BT is overdone Premium content

    Sky’s deal with CityFibre complements, rather than replaces, its existing arrangement with Openreach network

    An Openreach engineer attaching fibre optics to a control unit
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT suffers blow as Sky opts for CityFibre’s network in broadband deal

    FTSE 100 group’s existing agreement with media company will remain but choice of rival ‘altnet’ puts it under pressure

    CityFibre van
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    News in-depthCorporate Person in the News
    Sunil Bharti Mittal, Indian telecoms tycoon turning the tables on BT

    Company that drew investment from UK group in the 1990s is now becoming its biggest shareholder

    Sunil Bharti Mittal
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Why Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal reconnected with BT

    UK telco used to own 21% of Bharti’s group. The roles are now reversed

    A montage of the BT logo and euro notes with photos of Patrick Drahi and Sunil Bharti Mittal
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Lex
    BT can ring the changes with Drahi’s exit Premium content

    Bharti’s acquisition of a stake alongside other telco investors is a vote of confidence in the company’s strategy

    BT Group logo displayed on BT tower
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    Indian billionaire to buy 24.5% BT stake from Altice

    Sunil Bharti Mittal’s conglomerate says it has no plans to make an offer for the UK telecoms group

    Sunil Bharti Mittal raises his right hand while speaking
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Lycamobile UK Ltd
    Lycamobile UK loses £51mn value added tax case

    Size of payment to be made by the telecoms company to HMRC still to be decided

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