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FinanceSweden's Tele2 Plans to Cut More Than 600 Jobs in 2025
FinanceCourt Rejects Italy's Request to Freeze 1 Billion Euro Payment to Tim
FinanceItalian Court Could Rule This Week on $1 Billion State Payment to Tim, Sources Say
FinanceTelefonica Shares Hit by Concerns of Government Meddling in CEO Change
Court to Decide Soon Over Govt Request to Suspend $1 Billion State Payment to Tim, Sources Say
Date: January 20, 2025
ROME (Reuters) - An appeals court in Rome is expected to decide shortly on a request by Italy's government to suspend a 1 billion euro ($1 billion) payment the state owes to Telecom Italia (TIM),...
EU Takes China to WTO Over High-Tech Patent Royalties
Date: January 20, 2025
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday against what it said was China's "unfair and illegal" practice of setting worldwide royalty...
Italian Court Rejects Vivendi Claim Against Telecom Italia's Grid Sale
Date: January 14, 2025
MILAN (Reuters) -An Italian court rejected a request by Telecom Italia's (TIM) top investor Vivendi to annul the former phone monopoly's decision to sell its landline grid to a consortium led by KKR,...
Italy Will Fully Control Data in Any Starlink Deal, Musk Adviser Says
Date: January 10, 2025
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy would have full control of its data under any potential deal struck with Elon Musk's Starlink for secure satellite communications, an Italian representative for the...
Telecom Italia Seeks Vivendi’s Views on Simpler Structure, Sources Say
Date: December 27, 2024
By Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM) is seeking to engage with its main shareholder Vivendi to try to eliminate a dual class of shares and simplify its structure following the sale of its landline grid, two sources said. Relations have been strained by Vivendi’s opposition to TIM’s decision to sell its prized...
Finland Boards Oil Tanker Suspected of Causing Internet, Power Cable Outages
Date: December 27, 2024
By Essi Lehto and Andrius Sytas HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines. The Cook Islands-registered ship, named...