American Tower Corporation (ATC) has closed the Latin American tranche of its Telxius Towers acquisition, comprised of over 7,000 communications sites in Brazil, Peru, Chile
American Tower Corporation announced that it has closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany
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Categories 5G, Business, Carriers, EMEA, mergers and acquisitions, O2, Telefonica, Virgin Mobile, Wholesale, Wireless
UK regulator clears Virgin Media/O2 JV
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to allow the proposed merger between mobile operator O2, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, and fixed
Verizon has requested that the Federal Communications Commission “move expeditiously” to approve its acquisition of TracFone, arguing that the deal will benefit both TracFone and
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Categories 5G, Business, Infovista, mergers and acquisitions, Network Management, network slicing, Software
Infovista acquires Empirix, bolstering its 5G network management offering
Infovista has completed the acquisition of network performance monitoring and testing company Empirix, allowing the software vendor to offer a carrier-grade, cloud-native network lifecycle automation
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Categories 5G, Business, Carriers, EMEA, Liberty Global, mergers and acquisitions, MVNO, O2, Telefonica, Virgin Mobile, Wholesale, Wireless
UK regulator provisionally clears Virgin Media/O2 JV
The U.K.’s competition authority dismissed concerns that a merger of mobile operator O2 and fixed operator Virgin Media would have negative implications on wholesale services,
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Categories 5G, Business, Canada, Carriers, mergers and acquisitions, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications
Rogers and Shaw to merge, shaking up Canada’s telecom industry
Rogers will purchase Shaw for $16 billion Rogers Communications has announced that it will purchase Shaw Communications Inc. in a C$20 billion ($16 billion) deal. If
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U.S. distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless says it has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Digital Colony Management in
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Categories 5G, Business, Carriers, EMEA, Liberty Global, mergers and acquisitions, O2, Telefonica O2, Virgin Mobile, Wireless
Liberty Global confident on closing Virgin Media/O2 JV by mid-2021: CEO
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries said that a merger of its Virgin Media UK brand with Telefonica’s local mobile operator O2 was on track to
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Categories Archived Articles, cell towers, mergers and acquisitions, Mobile Phones, Motorola, Nokia, telematics
#TBT: Dude, where’s my tower?; Nokia claims top spot in phone manufacturing; Towers boom, mergers bust … this week in 1998
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up
Merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector will be robust at least well into 2019, driven by several factors,
Vodafone and TPG also created a new joint venture focused on 3.6 GHz spectrum acquisition United Kingdom-based Vodafone Group confirmed that Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has
T-Mobile CEO says combination will prompt increased 5G investment by AT&T, Verizon As company executives work Washington D.C. circles to develop support for the proposed merger,
Judge Richard Leon called government’s case against the merger “weak” “If there ever were an antitrust case where the parties had a dramatically different assessment of