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Europe Telecom Giants Call the Shots Again as M&A Picks Up

As the global financial crisis nears its one-year anniversary, Europe's top telecom operators are rediscovering an appetite for deals and preparing to pounce on vulnerable rivals, armed with solid balance sheets and needled by a rising threat from newcomers like Google and Apple.  more

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UPDATE: France Telecom Shares Sag on TeliaSonera Bid Talk

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- European telecoms analysts were poring over maps of the continent Wednesday after a report in French daily Le Figaro floated the idea of a giant merger between France Telecom and Nordic operator TeliaSonera.  more

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Europe's Top Ten Networks - All Now Over 20m Customers

In Issue 98 of the Mobile World Briefing, when last reviewing the European market, we suggested that "if the normal seasonal pattern is repeated in Q4, then the final period of the year should see something between 25-30m new connections, enough to take penetration up to 110%". We mention this, because the normal seasonal pattern was repeated, we did see 25m new connections across the region and penetration is now standing at exactly 110%.  more

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Europe's Top 10 Operators - Still producing robust growth

Although the 100% penetration level was reached in Q1 of this year, mobile growth has not slowed to any great extent and in fact, the third quarter saw more new connections than either of the earlier quarters, with 20.14m new connections, against 14.5m in the second and 16.3m in the first. Curiously, the 20m figure is almost exactly the same number as in both Q3 06 and Q3 05, when net additions totalled 20.4m and 20.2m respectively. more

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