Balancing M&A Activities Amid Telecommunications Market Uncertainty

Industry expert Jonny Parkinson, managing partner at Marktlink, offers an insight on Telecoms.com into telecommunications mergers and acquisitions, despite current challenges, such as economic instability and global tensions. Communication technology M&A remains a force to contend with in a world that is increasingly becoming digitised. Reflecting this, in 2022, the TMT sector accounted for a…

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Biden’s BEAD Program Unveils $42.5 Billion Allocation

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have unveiled the allocation of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds among U.S. states and territories. The announcement took place at the White House on June 26 and was accompanied by remarks from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, who highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s…

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Virgin Media O2: Navigating Job Cuts and Mergers in UK Telecom Sector

Virgin Media O2 is reportedly planning job cuts, joining its UK counterparts BT and Vodafone in reducing workforce size. The Mirror recently reported that anywhere between 800 and 2,000 jobs could face elimination, with an imminent pay rise for staff being rescheduled to August 1 in an effort to avoid including the pay hike in…

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