Telecom
Canada’s BCE to buy local mobile phone retailer Glentel for $586 mn
29 Nov 2014
Better known by its brand name Bell, Canada's largest communications company BCE, yesterday struck a deal to buy local mobile phone retailer Glentel, in a $586-million deal
OnePlus opens online sale of latest smartphone
28 Nov 2014
Payments bank tailor-made for telcos: Crisil
28 Nov 2014
Lava may acquire Nokia's Chennai plant: report
27 Nov 2014
After O2, BT in talks to buy mobile phone operator EE
27 Nov 2014
British telecom giant BT Group Plc is in talks to buy EE from its joint venture partners Orange of France and Deutsche Telekom, a few days after it initiated talks with Telefonica's O2
OnePlus One coming to India
26 Nov 2014
Amazon drops unlocked Fire Phone price to $199
26 Nov 2014
BT Group in talks to buy O2 mobile network from Telefonica for $7.5 bn
25 Nov 2014
British telecom giant BT Group Plc today confirmed media reports that it is in talks with Spain's Telefonica to acquire its O2 mobile network
Xiaomi launches Redmi Note 3G and 4G models
25 Nov 2014
After Nigerian sale, Bharti to sell towers in Brazil to ATC
25 Nov 2014
Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's biggest telecom operator, has struck a deal to sell its towers across Nigeria and Brazil to American Tower Corp. (ATC) in two separate deals for more than $2.2 billion
Supreme Court bars CBI chief from probing 2G scam
20 Nov 2014
The judges found "credible" information that CBI director Ranjit Sinha has been trying to subvert his own agency's inquiry into the "2G scam
TalkTalk signs deal with O2, dumps Vodafone
19 Nov 2014
Project Loon: Google to run another test flight of internet-beaming balloons
18 Nov 2014
Google plans to have helium balloons equipped with antennas capable of beaming 4G-type signals to phones and homes circling the globe on stratospheric winds
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