Bahrain Telecom mulling acquisitions up to $4 billion
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Bahrain Telecommunications Co  (Batelco), facing growing competition at home, said on Monday it would spend up to $4 billion to expand abroad.
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Management leads a $4.7 billion buyout bid. Are other bids on the way?
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Telstra Corp., Australia&#39;s biggest phone company, offered to buy back shares for as much as A$4.65 each, the first stage in a plan to return A$4.
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Wireless telecommunications company Vodafone Group Plc  has been considering a $160 billion takeover bid of Verizon Communications , the Financial Times reported on Monday on its Alphaville site.
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The iPhone won't be just for customers living in the big cities. On the day it is introducing the hugely hyped cell phone, AT&T announced it will acquire wireless provider Dobson Communications for $2.8 billion in cash.
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Vodafone Group Plc  has  won the battle for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar,  India's No. 4 mobile operator, with a bid that values it at  around $19 billion including debt, a source and India's Essar  group said on Sunday.
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Nordic market operator OMX looked set Thursday to become the centre of takeover bidding battle between Gulf rivals Dubai and Qatar.
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The search giant said it could bid up to $4.6 billion for a share of wireless spectrum being auctioned off by the federal government â if certain conditions are met.
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Swiss telecoms group Swisscom  has proposed a 3.7 billion euro ($4.9 billion) friendly takeover bid for Italian broadband operator Fastweb  in a move to break free from stagnant growth in its home market.
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Swisscom AG  will repurchase a 25 percent stake in Swisscom Mobile from Britain's Vodafone Group Plc for 4.25 billion Swiss francs ($3.5 billion) in a long-awaited deal to fortify its home market position.
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As AT&T prepares billions in write-offs, speculation of a potential takeover heats up.
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NEW DELHI: The government is planning to hike the FDI limit in telecom from 49 per cent to 74 percent, a move that is expected to help Richard Branson and the Virgin group in their plans to step into the sector in India.
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US telecom giant AT&amp;T is not considering a bid for British mobile phone operator Vodafone, but is likely to make smaller acquisitions to better meet the needs of multinational companies, the company&#39;s chief executive said in an interview published Tuesday.
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Vodafone spent billions on acquiring 3G licenses throughout Europe and in Japan four years ago, but as it repeatedly delayed the launch date of high-speed services, investors started to wonder
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Stock index futures rose on Monday, with takeover news in the telecommunications sector, including a $48.5 billion buyout, likely to offset concern about the subprime mortgage market.
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Telecom Italia on Tuesday released details of its offer to buy the 44 percent it does not own of its mobile phone unit, Telecom Italia Mobile.
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Vodafone is interested in more deals in emerging markets, the UK mobile phone group said on Tuesday as it reported a 4 per cent increase in operating profit in 2006-07.