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Telefónica’s new chair lays out ambitions as DT’s CEO celebrates success

The Spanish group's new boss Marc Murtra talks up scale and being a European champion as the German group's leader announces record results and dividends

S Africa 2024 revenues reach €12.8bn – affordability and accessibility still issues

According to the regulator Icasa's annual report, mobile data services grew 10% year on year and fixed internet income rose 15% – social media was key driver

Brussels outpaces Britain on 5G – but better policy could fix it

Britain has learned that 5G networks don't run on ambition alone and its time to change the current rollout model

Raxio secures $100m to expand African data centres

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) loan will help to operator expand its footprint in sub-Saharan Africa

Iliad completes hyperscale deal with InfraVia

Europe now has a new sovereign “made in Europe” competitor to the US hyperscalers

FT says MasOrange’s private equity backers considering a 2026 IPO

Separately, MasOrange's fibre JV with Vodafone Spain is seeking an investor

Vivendi sells 15% stake in TIM to Post Italiane for just €684m

French media conglomerate sells most of its remaining stake to state-backed Poste – a fraction of the €4bn it invested in TIM over an eight year period

Nokia to upgrade VIL’s 4G network, support 5G deployment

Finnish vendor also signs patent agreement with Amazon for video technologies, ending all pertinent litigation in all territories

Brussels expands probe into alleged bribery of MEPs and staff by Huawei

Lobbyists, MEPs and European parliamentary assistants are under investigation by Belgian authorities for allegedly accepting gifts in exchange for promoting the vendor's interests

Arcep sees first evidence of EU Digital Markets Act working

Despite the plaintive cries from big tech, the French regulator reports that users are seeing browser choices on handsets

Telenor and Jotta merge their cloud storage businesses

Data sovereignty in Europe is inevitably going to get redefined in the current geopolitical climate

Xavier Niel boosts Eir ownership to over 70 percent

As US hedge fund Davidson Kempner exits, Niel is making good his promise of owning Irish incumbent Eir shares until the day he dies

Liberty Global looking to buy Vodafone out of Netherlands JV for more than €2bn

Liberty Global's CEO Mike Fries reportedly said it was "inevitable" that there would be discussions about the future of VodafoneZiggo

EQT acquires Crown Castle’s small cells business for $4.25bn

The deal by the Swedish asset owner bags 115,000 small cells on air or under contract spread across 43 US states

Qualcomm acquires Edge Impulse to beef up edge AI 

Qualcomm said the deal enables more than 170,000 developers to create, deploy and monitor AI models for edge applications and hardware
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