Raised eyebrows among the banks at the behaviour of JPMorgan. The investment bank gave a $20 billion (£12 billion) bridging loan to AT&T to enable it to go ahead with the $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom... more
The Office of Fair Trading asks the European Commission for a say in the planned merger of Orange and T-Mobile because it fears the deal could hurt competition... more
T-Mobile needs to merge with Orange in the UK or the two groups will struggle to compete with the biggest operators, the boss of the German firm’s British arm says... more
You just know that when it comes to it, T-Orange will not be pronounced the way the French and German owners would like but in the way a Yorkshireman refers to the citrus fruit in his sandwich box ... more
Britain’s mobile industry is facing its biggest shake-up since the first call was made in 1985 as T-Mobile and Orange agreed to the £7 billion merger of their operations in this country
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Dave Whelan has a few regrets when it comes to arch rival Mike Ashley but the main one is this: that he didn’t nuke him when he had the chance.
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Once again, this Government has created a beast it cannot control. When Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland turned to the Treasury for their combined £37 billion bailout last year, wiser voices than mine argued for full rather than part privatisation ... more
The biggest shake-up in the UK's mobile phone industry for more than a decade is under way with Vodafone looking to buy its German-owned rival T-Mobile... more
The Duke of York is off to Azerbaijan - again. At the beginning of June, Prince Andrew will fly to Baku for a four-day official visit, his third trip to the oil-rich country in 12 months and his sixth foray into the Caspian state since May 2005.
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Mobile phone customers are changing their phones and contracts less frequently than before the recession but spending more on music downloads and internet services ... more
Speculation that Britain's T-Mobile may soon go up for sale was heightened today as its owner Deutsche Telekom cut its valuation on the business by €1.8 billion (£1.6billion)... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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