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After looking into buying Telefonica’s O2, BT announced it has entered into exclusive talks to buy mobile operator EE for $19.6 billion. If successful, the deal would combine the U.K.’s largest fixed-line provider with its largest mobile network operator. Part of the proposed purchase includes …

British Telecommunications in preliminary talks to buy EE Deutsche Telekom and Orange may be considering selling consumer network EE to BT. EE is the largest mobile operator in the United Kingdom. Orange and Deutsche Telekom have previously considered whether they should …

U.K. mobile operator EE plans to make some structural changes, including cutting 350 administrative jobs and adding other employees in sales and customer support. The company told Bloomberg that the structural changes are part of their strategy “to expand U.K.-based customer …

Despite economic troubles and the impact of conflicts in neighboring Iraq and Syria, Jordan has one of the most competitive mobile markets in the Middle East. And this competition has led to a great deal of innovation. Jordan’s mobile market is the …

Last week I mentioned the Orange-Tesla partnership announcement and since then have had the opportunity to discuss in more depth with Samuel Loyson, Orange Business Services Head of Connected Car Program, details behind the announcement. In 2011, the Smart Cities …

Editor’s Note: Wireless industry trade group GSMA and its GSMA Intelligence division recently released its rankings of the world’s 30 largest mobile operators based on an equal weighting of total connections at mid-year and total revenues over the past 12 months. …

French telecom operator Orange showed more signs of stabilizing when it released results for the first half of 2014 . To keep its momentum, the telecom upped its cost cutting goal to about $402 million from its previous goal of …

Vodafone selected Alcatel-Lucent as a “supplier of reference” for small cell and Wi-Fi technology as part of its Project Spring investment program. Through Project Spring, Vodafone plans to spend about $11 billion to expand and improve its LTE and 3G …

The European Union’s new caps on mobile phone roaming charges began July 1, cutting data rates for users traveling to other EU countries by more than 50%. The data roaming cap dropped from 61 cents to 27 cents per megabyte. …

NICE, France – Digital health is certainly one of the hottest topics in the wireless industry, but many questions remain as to how the mobile operators can play in this growing market. At TM Forum Live this week I had …

The Orange Group has named Ramon Fernandez, the current director general of the French treasury, as its next CFO. Fernandez will start his new position on Sept. 1. The current CFO, Gervais Pellissier, will take over the management of Orange’s …

Despite suffering from slow sales and tough competition in Europe, Vodafone Group said it was still looking to invest in its mobile network. When the London-based carrier reported earnings for its fiscal year ending March 31, it noted $11.1 billion …

Deutsche Telekom is paying the price for T-Mobile US’s success. U.S. expenditures were blamed for the decline in Deutsche Telekom’s earnings this quarter. The Bonn, Germany-based carrier posted a 3.9% decline in core profit, falling to $5.62 billion, even as …

Deutsche Telekom has begun a quest to convince its cash-loving countrymen to accept mobile payment. The carrier this week launched MyWallet in Germany, allowing its customers to make purchases with their smartphones―and the offer included a sweetner, an introductory bonus …

In reaching a relatively stable first quarter, France’s leading carrier, Orange, believes that the French telecom price war is finally coming to close. “This quarter is satisfying for us especially as the margin stabilizes,” Orange finance chief Gervais Pellissier told Businessweek. “Orange’s profitability has been under pressure since …

TeliaSonera, the dominant carrier in Sweden and Finland, saw its profits slip as mobile sales continued to slow. Sales for the carrier’s main mobile unit decreased by 3.5% to $3.64 billion. Net income fell 4% to $600 million in line with …

Orange SA pursues consolidation in this week’s capital markets round-up.

An AT&T acquisition gets approved in this week’s capital markets round-up.

Comcast releases its first transparency report and other carriers face down Congress in this week’s policy news round-up.

This past week, several well-known device vendors unveiled new products, including BlackBerry’s flagship smartphone and Fujitsu’s STYLISTIC S01. Additionally, eRecyclingCorps also announced the collection of 20 million devices, 10 million of which were gathered last year alone.