Russiaâs Vimpelcom Buys Golden Telecom
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The second-largest cellphone operator in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States said the $4.3 billion deal will create the regionâs first integrated fixed-to-mobile provider.
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Russia's United Company RUSAL will buy a strategic stake in Norilsk Nickel  from Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group as it seeks to build a globally competitive Russian metals and mining major.
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay US$3 billion to buy the remaining spectrum of a bankrupt wireless firm, allowing Verizon to expand its network capacity in big markets such as New York and Los Angeles.
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Cable mogul John Malone moved to  consolidate his holdings on Tuesday, announcing that Liberty  Media International agreed to buy the rest of cable provider  UnitedGlobalCom Inc. for about $3.5 billion.
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France and Russia sign deals in the transport and aviation sectors worth more than $10bn.
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Alarm spread through the investment community in Russia as authorities slapped a back tax bill of almost 160 million dollars (121 million euros) on the number two mobile phone operator Vimpelcom, in what is widely seen as a government-linked campaign against the firm.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin will soon sign a decree allowing for the privatization of Russia's Aeroflot airline and Svyazinvest telecommunications holding in 2005, a top economic official said Thursday.
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Austria's largest mobile phone operator Telekom Austria said Monday it won the right to purchase 100% of Bulgaria's largest cellular phone operator MobilTel (M-Tel) for EUR1.6 billion.
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Russia will pay $2 billion to acquire 60 German high-speed trains, The Moscow Times reported Wednesday. The deal was announced Tuesday during Russian President Vladimir
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group.
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The Golden Telecom acquisition would cost it $4.3 billion.
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ECI Telecom, an Israeli maker of telecommunications equipment, agreed to be bought by the Swarth Group and the Ashmore Group for $1.2 billion.
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Ericsson has inked a supply contract with Poland&#39;s Polkomtel to deliver GSM, EDGE and wideband-CDMA equipment. The Polish operator has called on Ericsson to implement 2G and 3G network elements
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Telekom Austria, Austriaâs largest telecoms operator, obtained access to the relatively underdeveloped East European mobile services market by winning the right to purchase the Bulgarian mobile operator MobilTel for â¬1.6billion ($2.12billion).
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By Tony Glover - Technology Editor  NORTH American networking giant Nortel is looking to Russia for growth and is currently installing technology designed to give Moscow a better communications infrastructure than London before the end of 2006.
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Russiaâs largest metals producer Norilsk Nickel and two South African gold mining companies Gold Fields and Harmony Gold Mining Co.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.