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  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    UK Broadband
    Broadband operator saddled with £1bn debt pile tries to find buyer

    Gigaclear’s investors and creditors including NatWest, Lloyds and the National Wealth Fund

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  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Orange agrees €4.25bn deal to take full control of Spanish joint venture

    Final agreement would mark end of French telecoms company’s joint venture with private equity group Lorca

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  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
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    Our experts discuss which companies to buy, sell or hold this week

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  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Lex
    BT dials up competitive tension in low-cost mobile

    The genie is now out of the bottle, and ubiquitous low-cost mobile is here to stay

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  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    UK Broadband
    Virgin Media O2 in talks for £2bn takeover of broadband rival

    Deal for Netomnia would signal start of consolidation in UK fibre broadband market

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  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
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    ‘Cable cowboy’ John Malone to step down from media and telecoms empire

    Tycoon is relinquishing board roles at Liberty Media and Liberty Global after buccaneering 50-year career

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  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    BT Group Plc
    BT explores new mobile brand to take on budget rivals

    Telecoms titan could create new venture or buy virtual network operator as likes of Revolut and Monzo enter market

    BT Group logo in large white letters on a glass building, with colorful rectangular bars underneath the text.
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    UK Broadband
    NatWest and Lloyds scale back new lending to broadband challengers

    Two UK banks are among the biggest backers of the highly indebted ‘altnet’ sector

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  • Thursday, 16 October, 2025
    KKR forgoes dividends as €22bn Italian telecoms bet goes awry

    Customer losses at FiberCop come as global investment firm resists government pressure to merge company with state-backed rival

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  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    Drahi rejects €17bn offer for most of Altice France

    Rivals Orange, Bouygues and Free had proposed buying and carving up SFR in major consolidation of French telco market

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  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    UK telcos step up efforts to combat ‘epidemic’ of handset fraud

    Surge in scams forces VodafoneThree, EE and Virgin Media O2 to tighten controls on mobile phone purchases

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  • Monday, 6 October, 2025
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    Verizon appoints former PayPal boss Dan Schulman as new chief

    CEO and chair Hans Vestberg steps down with immediate effect as US telecoms group splits roles

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  • Thursday, 2 October, 2025
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    China curbs use of Nokia and Ericsson in telecoms networks

    Beijing’s national security drive hits European groups even as Huawei maintains its business on the continent

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  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
    BT Group Plc
    BT chief raises concerns over ‘government-inflicted costs’ ahead of Budget

    Allison Kirkby claims burden is 10 times higher for UK telecoms group than its European peers

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  • Monday, 22 September, 2025
    Middle Eastern companies
    Egyptian billionaire Sawiris seeks to invest $50bn in US infrastructure

    Industrialist’s latest pivot comes as he merges OCI Global into Abu Dhabi-listed Orascom in major business overhaul

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  • Friday, 19 September, 2025
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    EQT kicks off sale of Nordic broadband and data centre business

    GlobalConnect is the latest major digital infrastructure asset to come to market this year

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  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
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    How a deal with Musk helped a telecoms tycoon save his company from bankruptcy

    Billionaire struck deals with bondholders and rivals to trade his empire out of trouble. But at what cost?

    Charlie Ergen in front of large Echostar text with logos of Dish Network and SpaceX, and a jagged line chart overlaid.
  • Tuesday, 16 September, 2025
    Patrick Drahi
    Patrick Drahi set to restart sale of stake in €10bn French broadband business

    Fresh sale process for stake in XpFibre comes year after efforts stalled amid differences over valuation

    Patrick Drahi smiling while wearing a dark suit and blue tie, standing indoors before a plain background.
  • Tuesday, 16 September, 2025
    Japan set to make subsea cables a national security issue with support for new fleet

    Subsidies planned for country’s leading undersea cable provider to buy ships as demand grows for more data links to power AI

    The cable ship Ile de Brehat lays the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable near Helsinki, with two small boats and workers nearby
  • Monday, 15 September, 2025
    BT Group Plc
    Mittal moves to increase influence over BT Group with board seats

    Directorships follow last year’s purchase of 24.5% stake in UK telecoms operator by Bharti Enterprises

    Sunil Bharti Mittal delivers a speech on stage in front of a large red and white digital network graphic.
  • Monday, 15 September, 2025
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    American Tower among potential bidders for €10bn TDF Infrastructure

    Ardian and EQT also possible suitors in deal that could fetch €8bn to €10bn for tower company’s owners

    The hertzienne tower rises above residential buildings in Romainville, with apartment blocks and greenery in the background
  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russians lose internet access as Ukrainian drones hit close to home

    People memorise bus schedules and revert to cash payments amid disruption to online services

    A hand holds a smartphone displaying a connection error message, with Moscow cityscape and railway lines in the background.
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
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    SpaceX finds a peculiar route into investors’ orbit

    EchoStar has gone from brink of bankruptcy to a way of betting indirectly on world’s biggest ‘unicorn’

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    A SpaceX logo is displayed on a building on at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    Musk’s SpaceX to buy spectrum licences from EchoStar for $17bn

    Deal follows pressure from regulators and is expected to help Starlink expand

    The SpaceX logo and an American flag displayed on the side of a large building.
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