Irish telecoms infrastructure company Cignal has been acquired by Spanish company Cellnex Telecom for €210m.

Phone and broadband company Pure Telecom faces trial on 99 counts of breaking communication regulations.

The telecoms regulator is supporting the retention of public payphones as the country’s largest telecom firm has signalled that it wants to remove all existing units on a gradual basis.

UK price rises at Virgin Media helped lift revenues in the fourth quarter, although the telecoms giant suffered a 73% drop in new subscriptions as it pared back a raft of customer promotions.

German landline operator Yourtel has been fined €66,000 for ripping off hundreds of elderly Irish customers.

Vodafone is to merge its Indian operation with Idea Cellular in a deal that will create the Asian country's biggest telecoms firm.

Seeking out new revenues, big phone firms at the Mobile World Congress are trying to loosen Google, Amazon and Facebook’s grip, write Eric Auchard and Sophie Sassard.

Vodafone has confirmed its Indian unit is in discussions to merge with Idea Cellular, a deal that would create the Asian country's biggest telecoms firm.

Britain’s biggest telecoms operator BT avoided being broken up when the regulator proposed putting the firm’s network into a legally separate company within the wider group in a bid to improve broadband coverage.

US telecoms firm Verizon has agreed to buy online portal Yahoo for roughly five billion dollars, according to reports.

Telecoms giant Virgin Media said it notched up a record start to the new year as a jump in broadband customers helped offset a further hit to its TV arm after recent price increases.

Telecoms firm TalkTalk said it will take a hit of up to £35m (€49.3m) from last month’s cyber attack and announced a free upgrade for all its customers.

The country’s consumer protection agency has declined imposing sanctions on Vodafone despite finding the global giant giant to be in breach of consumer law just weeks after issuing similar findings against four other telecoms.