Indonesia's largest telecom tower company Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel) has reportedly purchased 803 telecoms towers from local telecom infrastructure company Gametraco Tunggal for a cash consideration of USD113 million. The Nikkei... more

Mexican telecoms company America Movil (AM) has announced that it has increased its overall shareholding in A1 Telekom Austria Group to 58% through a series of open market transactions. Earlier... more

US investment fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) is working on a new bid for Sparkle, the international submarine cable business of Telecom Italia (TIM). A non-binding offer for... more

Angola’s State Assets & Participations Management Institute (Instituto de Gestao de Activos e Participacoes do Estado, IGAPE) has indicated that a planned part-privatisation of mobile market leader Unitel has been... more

Romania’s Digi Communications has struck a preliminary deal to purchase assets from Orange Group and Grupo MASMOVIL in Spain, in a move that could pave the way for the proposed... more

Discount Investment Corporation (DIC), the largest shareholder in Israel’s Cellcom, has confirmed that it is in talks to sell its entire stake in the company. According to local press outlet... more

France’s Orange Group has withdrawn from the tender process being undertaken by the Ethiopian authorities for a 45% stake in local telecoms incumbent Ethio Telecom. According to Mobile World Live,... more

The General Superintendence of the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica, CADE) has approved – without restrictions – the sale of a minority stake in Phoenix... more

The sale of the government’s 50.23% stake in Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT-Mobitel) has reportedly run into problems due to a legal challenge instigated by its mobile arm Mobitel against the... more

The Competition Superintendence of the National Telecommunications Agency (Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes, Anatel) has approved the proposed merger between Brazilian ISPs Vero and AmericaNet, after finding ‘no regulatory obstacles’ to... more