The negotiations are over: pending regulatory approval, BT will get back into the U.K.’s mobile scene in a big way by buying EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for £12.5 billion… Read more »
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office has dropped its investigation into Hewlett-Packard’s allegations of fraud by the management of British big data firm Autonomy, which HP bought in 2011. In a statement… Read more »
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Orange’s proposed takeover of Spain’s Jazztel. France’s Orange already has a Spanish subsidiary, whose connectivity Jazztel resells as a mobile virtual network operator… Read more »
The one-time U.K. monopoly carrier BT may be sniffing around O2 and EE as it considers how best to get back into the mobile carrier game, but it seems it’s not… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
Telefónica will cut 1,600 jobs in Germany following the merger of O2 Deutschland with E-Plus, to get rid of duplicate roles. The jobs will be phased out by 2018, the firm… Read more »
The buy, which requires regulatory approval both in Spain and the U.K., would give Orange a better shot against its bigger rivals in Spain, Telefonica and Vodafone. Read more »
The European Commission has green-lit the acquisition after checking that Telefónica’s divestment of network capacity to MVNO Drillisch met its requirements. Read more »
Vodafone’s share price rose Friday on rumors of a takeover bid by AT&T. We’ve so been here before — AT&T promised back in January that it wouldn’t launch a bid for… Read more »
The latest twist in that very long-running rumor about AT&T(s t) buying Vodafone(s vod)? AT&T said in a statement on Monday that it “does not intend to make an offer for… Read more »