(ShareCast News) - London stocks closed higher after earlier declines as the European Central Bank's president fuelled hopes of further stimulus. Mario Draghi said the ECB will re-examine its quantitative easing programme in December and would consider extending €60bn monthly purchases past the plan
Read more(ShareCast News) - Macquarie upgraded Vodafone to 'outperform' from 'neutral' and reiterated its 235p price target, saying the company was turning a corner. "At last the operational outlook for Vodafone is constructive on a 12-18 months view. We believe the positive combination of European improving
Read more(ShareCast News) - Vodafone has struck a deal to extend its strategic partnership with Russian mobile group MTS and expand its scope in Ukraine. Under the new, non-equity partnership, the companies will roll out 3G and develop a number of new services in the market using the Vodafone brand in Ukrain
Read more(Repeats story published late on Thursday, with no changes) * Rivals complain about Safaricom dominance * Regulator to amend telecoms competition law * Safaricom dismisses critics, says does not abuse position By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Safaricom do
Read more* Rivals complain about Safaricom dominance * Regulator to amend telecoms competition law * Safaricom dismisses critics, says does not abuse position By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Safaricom dominates the Kenyan mobile market, sweeping up more than 90 percent
Read moreMADRID, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Spain's anti-trust watchdog CNMC said on Thursday it had fined Telefonica 5 million euros ($5.7 million) for failing to comply with regulation on renting broadband connections to its competitors for more than four years. The CNMC said Telefonica had applied charge
Read more* EU's Ansip sides with Vestager in debate on telco M&A * EU competition regulators seen taking a harder line * Danish merger deal abandoned last month due to opposition (Adds investor comments) By Julia Fioretti and Leila Abboud BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The European
Read more* Competition regulators in Brussels seen taking a harder line Danish merger deal abandoned last month due to opposition By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Regulators should take a more favourable view of consolidation in European telecoms markets, the CEOs of 10 European
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