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Spanish telecommunications group operating the Movistar and O2 brands in Europe and Latin America.
AT&T agreed to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash. Bloomberg puts AT&T's outlay on the unit at roughly $4.4 billion, so the sale recovers about 45% of it.
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O2 will pay about £20m a year for the naming rights to AEG's London venue until at least 2038, in what is thought to be the UK's largest renewal of its kind. The fee is priced on one arena's record run, so it says little about what other UK venues can charge.
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Virgin Media O2 called BT's £400 million rescue of TalkTalk a stitch-up, days after the CMA said it could block Nexfibre's Netomnia deal. The CMA's objection there is that CityFibre, another challenger, would be squeezed out of wholesale competition.
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Bloomberg reports Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica are in early talks about one bid for the European third of the 2 GHz band, a licence that changes hands well before any EU constellation can carry phone traffic.
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The cornerstone at Alcalá de Henares starts a build that adds up to 100MW of IT capacity in stages through 2029. Nabiax runs about 33MW in Spain today, so most of the 135MW it will hold there is still a construction schedule.
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