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UK: Project Canvas key to Digital Britain
Project Canvas, the UK IPTV venture is the key to implementing Digital Britain, Broadband Stakeholder Group chairman Kip Meek has said. While fibre and spectrum are vital to the government plan to achieve 100% broadband coverage by 2012, take-up will...
UK: AT&T preparing CWW bid?
UK corporate telco Cable & Wireless Worldwide is being chased by US-based AT&T or another company looking to snap it up to expand internationally, according to reports....
ITALY: Telecom Italia trials LTE in Turin
Italian incumbent Telecom Italia has partnered with European vendor Nokia Siemens Networks to trial LTE technology in Turin....
ITALY: Swisscom reacts to buyout speculation
Swiss mobile operator Swisscom has reiterated that no decision has been made to acquire the 18% it does not already own in Italian broadband business Fastweb....
UK: Strike three for Canvas
Plans to roll out UK-based IPTV venture Project Canvas have been dealt a further blow after Six TV became the third company to request an official competition inquiry....
SPAIN: Telefonica to launch content delivery network
Spanish incumbent Telefonica will launch a new content delivery network before the end of the year to expand its video services for the home, the company has confirmed....
UK: Founders Club completes investment round
UK-based Founders Club, the venture capital equity exchange fund, has completed an angel investment round with personal investments from high-profile investors....
ISRAEL: Israeli mobile interconnect fees cut by 80%
Israeli mobile phone companies are cursing the decision of the telecoms regulator to cut fees they charge to connect to each other by nearly 80%. The operators argue that this will damage their profits and revenues....
ALGERIA: Algeria pulls Djezzy advertising
Algerian state television has refused to renew an annual advertising contract with Orascom Telecom's local mobile network Djezzy, according to Reuters citing an unnamed source....
INDIA: India starts allocating 3G bandwidth
The Indian government yesterday started allocating 3G spectrum to seven mobile operators, according to a release from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)....
INDIA: Videocon to build more towers
Videocon Telecommunications (VTL), the telecom arm of Indian industrial conglomerate Videocon, is to invest up to Rs. 5bn (US$107m) in telecom infrastructure over the next 18 months, reports Business Standard....
INDIA: Vindhya Telelinks outbids rivals for cable project
Indian conglomerate Vindhya Telelinks has emerged as the winner of a contract to lay fibre optic cable across India for defence forces, beating out six other players with the lowest bid, according to Business Line....
URUGUAY: Antel's monopoly on fixed voice services fixed by government
The government of Uruguay has passed a law stating that only state-owned telco, Antel, will be permitted to offer IP telephony services in the country, reports local newspaper El Pais....
PERU: Three in-it-to-win-in in rural telecoms tender
Peru's state news service has announced that three companies have tendered for its concession to build out a rural telecoms network...
USA: AOL buys Rally Up to 'put mobile first'
Internet and communications company AOL has made a move into the mobile market through its acquisition of apps company Rally Up. AOL has been dragging its heels over its mobile strategy, while competitors Yahoo and Google have stolen a jump on the po...
IRELAND: Eircom warns on banking covenants
Irish fixed-line operator Eircom is considering a debt restructuring to avoid breaching bank covenants in 12-18 months' time....
LUXEMBOURG: Cisco dials up Skype?
US IT networking firm Cisco is bidding to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype, according to blog Techcrunch, citing what it called one of its more reliable sources....
FRANCE: Vivendi reiterates wish to own 100% of SFR
French communications group Vivendi is still keen to buy out Vodafone's 44% stake in French mobile operator SFR, CEO Jean-Bernard Levy has said....
EGYPT: Orascom admits talks with Vimpelcom
Naguib Sawiris, the head of Orascom Telecom and Weather Investments, has confirmed to Canadian journalists that he is in talks with Russian mobile operator Vimpelcom about a possible takeover....
SARABIA: Zain Saudi Arabia eyeing US1.2bn rights issue
Zain Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian subsidiary of Kuwaiti incumbent Zain Telecommunications has announced plans to raise US$1.2bn through a rights issue to fund its network expansion according to local media reports....