Telekom Austria leading shareholder OeIAG is backing a division of the telco into separate fixed and mobile businesses, reports Der Standard....
Greece and Deutsche Telekom are expected to reach an accord on OTE next week, according to a Dow Jones report citing a senior finance ministry official....
Sweden is buzzing with reports that Microsoft is eyeing local vendor Ericsson....
Danish telco TDC is to outsource its IT to CSC in a contract worth a minimum of SKr2bn (E268m)....
A day after the winners of the Swedish 4G licence were announced, local vendor Ericsson has presented its rollout plans....
Bulgaria's Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) plans to award a fourth GSM licence....
Bulgarian WiMAX operator Max Telecom is in talks with Greek counterpart Cosmoline to set up a regional company, Dnevnik reports quoting executive director Krasimir Stoichev....
China Mobile remains interested in the African market but has not submitted a bid for MTN Group, the South China Morning Post has reported....
Qtel will launch its QR5.87bn (US$1.61bn) rights issue on June 8, the company has announced....
State-owned telco Sierra Leone Telecommunications (Sierratel) will launch a CDMA fixed-wireless network by September 2008, according to the country's deputy minister for information and communication, Mohamed Koroma....
Chinese company Huawei is considering selling a stake in its mobile phones division to a foreign investor....
Indonesian telco PT Indosat is reportedly seeking a syndicated loan of US$200m, having mandated ING Bank and DBS Bank as advisers....
Macquarie Media Group has obtained the necessary Taiwanese regulatory approvals for the sale of its 60% interest in Taiwan Broadband Communications to Macquarie Korea Opportunities Fund....
Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has indicated that the government would consider a structural separation of Telstra....
State-run Indian telco BSNL has invited bids for a US$6.5bn contract to supply 93 million GSM lines....
US cable operator Cablevision has announced it will spend US$350m on a new wireless broadband network to serve New York area subscribers....
Juris Gulbis has been appointed executive director and board chairman of Latvian telecoms incumbent Lattelecom....
Carphone Warehouse has announced a JV with US electronics retailer BestBuy, which will pay £1.1bn for 50% of Carphone's European and US retail interests. Carphone intends to use proceeds to pay down debt, invest in broadband customer growth and infra...
Swedish telecom regulator PTS has announced that its spectrum auction for frequencies in the 2.6GHz band (4G) has raised a total of SKr2.1bn (E225.8m)....
Whilst presenting its Q1 figures yesterday, France Telecom CFO Gervais Pellissier said the operator remained interested in acquiring TeliaSonera but that negotiations had not yet begun....


