2:18pm

Vivendi’s Charlier takes top job at SFR

Boardroom shake-up comes ahead of possible IPO

12:01am

Soros pumps £50m into UK broadband group

Money will fund group’s expansion

Cable & Wireless Communications company logo ©Bloomberg 5:27pm

Cable & Wireless to relocate from London

Group’s planned move to south Florida will mark ‘end of an era’

Lombard from ENERGY 8:34pm

SSE successor faces unenviable task

Chief times retirement fortuitously

May 22, 2013

Dish aims to scuttle rival bid for Sprint

Satellite TV group campaigns against rival for US wireless outfit

May 21, 2013

Sprint in late boost to Clearwire offer

Mobile phone operator bolsters proposal in runup to shareholder vote

A pedestrian with an umbrella passes a Vodafone store in London, U.K ©Bloomberg From LEX May 21, 2013

Vodafone: crackling lines

Full-year numbers are hardly a cause for celebration

May 21, 2013

Southern Europe’s woes take toll on Vodafone

Mobile group to reinvest £2.1bn Verizon payout

May 21, 2013

SoftBank grants Sprint disclosure waiver

US telecoms group clears hurdle to discussions with rival bidder Dish

Vodafone ©Bloomberg May 19, 2013

Verizon venture puts pressure on Vodafone

Results could reveal a weak hand at a critical time

May 16, 2013

TalkTalk defiant amid pay-TV price battle

TalkTalk added 150,000 customers in first three months of 2013

May 15, 2013

Dish lines up $9bn financing for Sprint bid

US group overcomes spoiling tactic by SoftBank

From WORLD May 15, 2013

Brussels seeks China trade concessions

Trade chief vows to press ahead with Huawei probe

May 14, 2013

Vivendi and Bouygues hit by price war

French telecoms operators report lower earnings amid battle with Free Mobile, which has slashed the cost of wireless calls

Business Blog from WORLD May 14, 2013

Business blog: Just when you thought it was safe...

From LEX May 14, 2013

Verizon / Vodafone: bid or no bid?

$7bn dividend from Verizon Wireless to its parents sparks conspiracy theories

May 14, 2013

Verizon Wireless in $7bn payout to parents

Potential friction between Verizon Communications and Vodafone removed

May 13, 2013

SoftBank asks banks to spurn Dish

Japanese group seeks to thwart rival’s offer for Sprint Nextel

From WORLD May 13, 2013

Paris turns to smartphone ‘culture’ tax

Defence of ‘l’exception culturelle’ via levy on devices

From UK May 13, 2013

Anger as no-tax company wins mobile deal

Fresh call to exclude those that ‘do not pay their proper share’

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