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    US to probe Chinese telecom groups it suspects of posing security risk

    Huawei, ZTE and China Telecom among companies targeted by new FCC investigation

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK regulator says plan for competitive broadband market by 2031 on track

    Rising impact of rival networks may see Ofcom lifting restrictions on BT’s Openreach

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  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
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    CityFibre targets 1mn customers as it seeks crucial £1.5bn financing

    Altnet believes it can double subscribers this year after warning it would run out of funding in 2025

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  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
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    Indian billionaire Mittal weighs up increasing his BT stake

    Bharti founder has privately suggested he could expand his position in UK telecoms group

    Sunil Bharti Mittal in Davos, Switzerland in January 2017
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
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    Alphabet spins off laser-based internet project from ‘moonshot’ hub

    Taara start-up aims to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink to connect remote areas to the internet using light beams

    Taara works by firing a beam of light from one terminal to another
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Liberty Global in talks to acquire Vodafone’s stake in Dutch JV

    Potential deal could value UK telecom group’s share of VodafoneZiggo at more than €2bn

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  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    Musk gets telecom tycoons’ double backing for Starlink in India

    Country’s two biggest mobile operators drop opposition and sign deals

    The image shows the Starlink logo and the Jio logo
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    Musk’s Starlink in tie-up with domestic tycoon to enter India

    SpaceX founder and Sunil Mittal join forces against Mukesh Ambani in satellite battle

    Starlink satellite antennas
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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    Nasdaq halts high-speed trading service after regulatory pressure

    US exchange ends $10,000 a month fast fibre optic business following complaints from rivals

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  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
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    Musk blowback lights a rocket under European space companies Premium content

    Concerns about Starlink speed up an existing trend towards more homegrown European satellite spend

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    European telcos find growth elsewhere as Brussels mulls deregulation

    Vodafone and Orange seek scale in emerging markets as continental growth stalls

    Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle (L) and Orange CEO Christel Heydemann attend a session on the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Eutelsat SA
    Starlink rival in talks to boost satellite services to Ukraine

    Eutelsat shares surge as investors bet that European competitor could replace Elon Musk’s company

    Technicians and media personnel observe a part of the Eutelsat Quantum satellite
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Telefonica SA
    Telefónica chair vows to challenge US tech supremacy with European deals

    Marc Murtra says the Spanish group will pursue acquisitions to boost the region’s independence

    Marc Murtra, CEO of Telefónica,
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Milei pledges antitrust probe after Telefónica sells Argentina unit

    $1.25bn sale to firm part owned by Grupo Clarín is first big move by Spanish telecoms company’s new chair

    Telefónica’s Madrid HQ
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    KKR
    KKR confronts €449mn earnings hole as flagship Italian deal sours

    Private equity group clashed with management over diverging forecasts for telecoms business

    Fibre optic cables being fitted by FiberCop workers in downtown Rome
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
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    Satellite telephony launches into low-earning orbit Premium content

    Mobile operators strike deals to use satellites to deliver services in areas terrestrial networks cannot reach

    Starlink satellite antennas
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Could Trump resurrect the idea for US to buy Nokia or Ericsson?

    Rationale behind proposal in his first term has not gone away

    Montage of Donald Trump photo and Nokia and Ericsson logos
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Nokia
    Nokia replaces chief executive as it struggles to lift sales and share price

    Senior manager from chipmaker Intel will tackle Finnish company’s ‘growth problem’

    Two attendees walk past a large Nokia logo at a technology fair
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    News in-depth
    Mobile operators look to satellite technology to end ‘not spot’ plague

    Race to bring satellite-connected phones to wider market heats up as some question bullish promises from operators

    Screen grab taken from video showing Vodafone making world’s first space video call from an area of no coverage
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Satellites
    Investors fret over Eutelsat and SES finances as Starlink threat looms

    Growing competition from US rivals weighs on indebted European satellite operators

    SpaceX launches a pre-dawn (under a crescent moon) a Falcon 9 rocket in Lompoc, California
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    UK business
    Vodafone chief says UK’s under-fire competition watchdog is ahead of EU

    Della Valle suggests Brussels should ‘broaden the horizon’ of its own assessments to allow mergers to happen

    Vodafone chief executive Margherita Della Valle standing on a balcony in London, UK
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    BT Group Plc
    BT braces for two-day strategy meeting with billionaire investor Mittal

    Move signals hands-on approach by telecoms operator’s largest shareholder over its future

    Sunil Bharti Mittal
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Telefonica SA
    Spanish government aligned with Saudi investors on Telefonica overhaul, minister tells FT

    Comments in Davos came after ousting of José María Álvarez-Pallete, chair since 2016

    A pedestrian on a smartphone outside the Telefonica SA flagship store in Madrid
  • Sunday, 19 January, 2025
    Telefonica SA
    Telefónica ousts chair after Saudi stake prompts shake-up

    José María Álvarez-Pallete replaced with defence executive Marc Murtra after Gulf kingdom’s STC becomes shareholder

    Telefonica’s Madrid headquarters
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Oligarch-linked telecoms group to float Ukraine’s Kyivstar on Nasdaq

    Veon signs letter of intent with Cohen Circle for US listing of subsidiary

    A pedestrian walks past a Kyivstar store in Kyiv, Ukraine in December 2023
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