France Telecom completed the £25.1bn acquisition of Orange on Tuesday morning in a deal that will also see the operator taking over £1.8bn of the UK mobile providers' debt. Analysts have welcomed the acquisition of Orange by France Telecom, which...
Patrick Wiart, director of Bouygues operations in Lyon, claimed the mobile operator already offers 96 per cent coverage in the area, but wanted to boost this to 99 per cent. Over 200 base stations will initially be installed throughout the region...
The only unaffiliated operator in France is Bouygues Telecom, whose owners include the Bouygues family, Bernard Arnault and a selection of French banks. T-Mobile closed the $25bn acquisition of US mobile operator VoiceStream in May.
We saw recently that the troubled telecom operator WorldCom may be on its shopping list and now there is news the Redmond software vendor may be taking on other struggling telecoms companies in the 3G space.
Coming hot on the heels of Vodafone's £155m acquisition of Project Telecom last week, the mobile operator will now fork out another £405m for Singlepoint. Gavin Darby, CEO of Vodafone UK, said in a statement: "Together with the proposed acquisition...
Industry groups are concerned that the telecom operator is not setting broadband trigger levels for some parts of the country where there is considerable interest from local residents in getting ADSL.