Fighting Fit

Mobile technology will help speed broadband

Minister hints that mobile and wireless services will do for broadband and video what they have done for the spoken word

BCE leveraged buyout in doubt

BCE said it was unlikely its $34.8bn leveraged buyout by private equity would close next month after accountants warned of insolvency

Eircom put on the block

Eircom will be formally put up for sale this week when its distressed Australian owner appoints investment bank UBS to find a buyer

UK redundancies reach 25,000 in just a week

BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, AstraZeneca and Sony Ericsson were among the latest companies to reduce their headcounts

Ballmer: only Yahoo! search link appeals

Microsoft's chief executive has disappointed investors by ruling out an acquisition of the struggling internet company

Carphone Warehouse hit by chairman's warning

Stock goes to a five-year low, wiping £35.7 million from the value of Charles Dunstone's 32.6 per cent stake in the group

Carphone shares dive on demerger plan

Group launches structural review to release value for shareholders by splitting its retail and telecoms operations

Division a possibility at Carphone Warehouse

Company founder Charles Dunstone is likely to retain a key role if the business is split into its constituent halves

Grameen hears the call to take on poverty

Bangladesh's largest mobile company is pushing ahead with its expansion plans and intends to float on the stock market

China giant sets sights on US telecoms

One of China’s big export successes, Huawei inspires admiration and suspicion in equal measure in the US

Carphone boss looks at break-up

Charles Dunstone studies demerger to hive off broadband and release value for the £1.3bn company

Anger as non-executives line up for £2m bonus

Electric power and fibre-optic cable-maker Volex has come under fire from shareholders for long-term incentive scheme

Hanif Lalani's double life

Chief executive of BT's GS division is having to tackle years of accumulated excess in a 90-day streamlining programme

Nokia issues second profit warning

The world's largest mobile phone maker forecast that global handset sales will fall in 2009 as the downturn picks up speed

Nokia cuts sales forecasts as downturn looms

Mobile giant expects to sell fewer phones in 2008 than previously thought on tougher Christmas trading