Austria backs off from full Telekom sale
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The Austrian government said Friday it had retreated from previous plans to fully privatize Telekom Austria.
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Germany's national railway on Wednesday backed off a target of selling shares on the stock market by mid-2006, saying that it "does not appear realistic."
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Germany's biggest cable operator Wednesday abandoned plans to buy its three domestic rivals &#151; a deal that would have created one of Europe's largest cable companies but drew opposition from regulators.
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LONDON - Spanish communications giant Telefonica has rejected Time Warner&#39;s Â£1.38bn offer for &#39;Big Brother&#39; production company Endemol, according to reports.
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Telstra Corp., Australia&#39;s biggest phone company, agreed to buyback A$750 million ($576 million) of its own stock at the lowest price in a range offered to shareholders.
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Telecom yesterday denied its AAPT consumer business in Australia was on the block, reports NZPA. The company played down chief financial officer Marko Bogoievski&#39;s statement in a media report from New York
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The European Commission says Vodafone and T-Mobile abuse their dominant positions in the German mobile phone market.
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Mobile network giant Vodafone Group declined to comment today on a report that it was backing a bid by US partner Verizon Communications to buy Sprint.
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The Polish group Elektrim Telekomunikacja (ET/Telco), which holds a 51 percent stake in the country's largest mobile phone operator PTC, accused Deutsche Telekom of trying to take control of PTC for "a token price."
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Hold the line Foreign IP Telephony firms such as Skype and Yahoo! will not be able to sell their services to Indian businesses under a proposed government clampdown, The India Times reports.â¦
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Any mandatory EU intervention to cut  the price of sending text messages or using the Internet while  traveling abroad would be limited to the wholesale level, the  European Union's top telecoms regulator said on Thursday.
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The European Commission was wrong to bar the takeover bid by U.S. telecoms firm WorldCom for rival Sprint, a European Union court said on Tuesday, annulling the action taken four years ago.
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Stake in Deutsche Telekom AG may be sold by Germany for â¬4.45 billion ($5.5 billion) as EU faces finance deficits and seeks for the ways to resolve the problem.
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A back-to-basics mobile phone aimed at older people will be sold online, as stores and networks reject it.
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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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BONN - The German state announced plans Monday to reduce its stake in telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom by some 7 percent in a transaction which could generate revenue amounting to nearly EUR 4.5 billion.
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Business & money: Â· Two years of strife over dual control ends  Â· France and Germany fall out over raising new funds