Telecom Sector

T-Mobile making barbed comments at Sprint after merger falls through

After third-ranking US wireless carrier Sprint having revealed in a recent announcement that it is withdrawing its plans to acquire smaller rival T-Mobile, barbed comments at Sprint are being made by T-Mobile, especially by the company's CEO and President John Legere.

Vodafone announces plans to fix 100 ‘not-spots’ in UK

On Tuesday, telecommunications bigwig Vodafone said that it plans to bring about an improvement in mobile coverage in remote areas of the UK, by fixing 100 mobile `not-spots.'

Technical glitch in EE network bombards customers with unwanted marketing messages

As a result of a technical error in the EE network, customers of EE's Orange brand were bombarded with unwanted text messages over the weekend.

The marketing messages which the customers received from the mobile carrier were related to the Magic Numbers service which offers users free calls to favourite Orange Mobile and Orange Broadband Wireless and Talk numbers.

Sprint plans for intense regulatory review of proposed T-Mobile takeover

Against the possibility of an intense regulatory review of Sprint's proposed $32 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile, Sprint owner SoftBank's founder and Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly asking banks to commit funds for a longer-than-usual period of time.

Outage of Verizon’s online billing system affects customers across the US

USA Today revealed in a Friday report that the online billing system of bigwig wireless carrier Verizon Wireless is experiencing a problem which has apparently affected the carrier's subscribers all over the country.

AT&T announces launch of VoLTE and HD Voice support in US

AT&T has revealed in a recent announcement that it is launching Voice-over-LTE (or VoLTE) and HD Voice support in the US. The combination of the two new features announced by AT&T is expected to bring about an improvement in phone calls.

Carlos Slim agrees to Consolidate his Company and Family Stakes in Telekom Austria

Mexican billionaire and business tycoon Carlos Slim is looking forward to consolidate his company and family stakes in Telekom Austria. He has given a signal to regulators about his position. The regulators monitor that when stake-holdings attain the big enough volume to trigger takeover bids.

Ex-Telekom Austria Top Executives Sold Property at Half the True Value: State Prosecutors

A fourth corruption trial involving Ex- Telekom Austria Bosses was started on Thursday.

Former CEO Heinz Sundt and Finance Chief Stefano Colombo of Telekom Austria are accused of selling a property at the half rates of its true value without the actual process.

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