Carlyle picks up 25% stake in Airtel’s data centre business
Bharti Airtel has revealed that Carlyle Group will pick up nearly 25 percent stake in Nxtra Data, a data centre business subsidiary of Airtel,...
Play explores selling telecom towers in Poland
Play Communications, a mobile operator in Poland, is considering selling some of its network infrastructure, Reuters reported.
The company could follow similar moves by other...
Globe to add new cell sites in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas
Globe Telecom is set to start building of of several new cell sites in different parts of the Philippines in the next three months...
BSNL employees did not receive May salary
BSNL has not paid to salary to its employees for the month of May, according to media reports.
This is despite significant reduction in the...
China telecom service revenue to dip 3.7% in 2020
The revenues for telecom and pay-TV services in China will drop 3.7 percent in 2020 to $220 billion, due to Covid-19 impact, according to...
TRAI asks telecoms to deploy blockchain to block marketing calls
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with a new regulation asking mobile operators to deploy blockchain, or digital ledger technology (DLT) to ensure...
Bezeq chairman Shlomo Rodav steps down
Bezeq The Israel Telecommunication (Bezeq) announced the resignation of Shlomo Rodav, its chairman, with immediate effect.
Bezeq did not reveal reasons for the resignation of...
Airtel to pay salary of employees of its retail partners
Airtel has decided to pay May salaries of nearly 30,000 staffers employed by its retail and distribution partners to reduce financial burden during the...
Fitch Ratings revises outlook on Airtel to negative
Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on India-based Bharti Airtel’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (FC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Negative from Stable, and affirmed the...
Telia presents executive management team with changes
Telia CEO Allison Kirkby on Monday announced a new executive management team as part of its new growth strategy.
The development follows Telia’s renewed Nordics...
Telecoms Capex dips 1.3% to $70.2 bn in first quarter
Capital expenditures (Capex) of telecom operators fell by around 1.3 percent to $70.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, MTN Consulting said.
Revenues of...
Europe reviews free mobile roaming charges
European Commission has sought feedback to its planned extension of rules which ended mobile roaming charges in Europe three years ago, with the move...
Orange to pay $280 mn to Digicel for anti-competitive practice
The Paris Appeals court has ordered French telecoms operator Orange to pay rival Digicel nearly 250 million euros ($280 million) in compensation for anti-competitive...
Deutsche Telekom does not want ban on Huawei
Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges said it would be wrong for Germany to impose ban on foreign vendors of telecoms network equipment, in an...
UK telecoms urged to keep more stock of Huawei network
British security officials have told UK telecom operators such as Vodafone, Three, BT’s EE and Telefonica’s O2, to keep adequate stock of Huawei network...
AT&T to cut 3,400 technician and clerical jobs
AT&T is planning to cut over 3,400 technician and clerical jobs over the next few weeks despite keeping huge Capex on its 4G and...
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