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Liberty Global PLC

  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    UK government ‘anxious’ altnets could collapse, Liberty Global boss says

    Mike Fries claims business secretary Jonathan Reynolds wants big telecoms companies to rescue struggling altnets

    A worker erects fencing around a broadband installation site in the West Kilburn district of London
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Telefonica SA
    Telefónica plots push into cyber and data centres to clear way for deals

    Spanish group hopes investment pledge will help secure regulatory approvals for M&A in Europe

    A pedestrian on a smartphone outside the Telefónica flagship store on Gran Via in central Madrid, Spain
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Liberty Media Corp
    F1 rival calls for Brussels scrutiny of Liberty Media’s €4bn MotoGP takeover

    Formula E’s Alejandro Agag warns deal would hand US group significant power with broadcasters

    Francesco Bagnaia of Italy leads a pack of MotoGP riders into a curve during the San Marino Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Misano circuit in Misano Adriatico, Italy
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Liberty Global restructures European units in effort to revive shares

    Telecoms group to list Swiss business later this year and draws up plan to separate Virgin Media O2’s fixed-line business

    Liberty Global chief Mike Fries
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    Media
    RedBird IMI closes in on £1bn deal for UK studio All3Media

    Zucker-Cardinale investment group leads rivals circling the ‘Fleabag’ and ‘Call the Midwife’ producer

    ‘Fleabag’ creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, actress Sian Clifford and director Harry Bradbeer at an event in 2016
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    ITV PLC
    ITV abandons talks to buy ‘Gogglebox’ maker All3Media

    UK broadcaster says it is no longer exploring a deal for Warner and Liberty-owned production company

    Sophie and Pete Sandiford in reality show ‘Gogglebox’
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Liberty Global plays down EU hopes of cross-border telecoms deals

    Mike Fries says being in fewer, more lucrative markets is better strategy in struggling sector

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Liberty Global buys 5% stake in Vodafone worth £1.2bn

    Acquisitive US group bets forthcoming deals and restructuring will revive UK telecoms company

    Pedestrians pass a Vodafone store
  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
    Virgin Media O2
    Virgin Media O2 secures £4.5bn investment to expand fibre footprint

    Owners Telefónica and Liberty Global joined by investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners

    Fibre optic cables
  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    News in-depthTelecoms
    Lutz Schüler answers a £31bn call of duty at Virgin Media O2

    Telecoms veteran vows to take on BT as CEO of newly merged group

    Lutz Schuler at a Virgin Media office
  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    Liberty Global to tap demand for data centres close to 5G customers

    Telecoms group and US investor Digital Colony look to unlock value of real estate assets

    Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries
  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Virgin Media Ltd
    O2-Virgin Media £31bn merger cleared by UK competition watchdog

    Telecoms deal agreed last year judged unlikely to lead to higher prices

    The O2 and Virgin Media logos
  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Liberty Global targets deals in Ireland and Poland

    Telecoms group see opportunities for further consolidation in European market as it prepares to merge Virgin Media with O2

    O2 logo on a mobile phone in front of a Virgin Media logo
  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    O2 PLC
    UK watchdog to probe O2-Virgin deal over risk of higher prices

    Competition regulator outlines areas of potential harm in proposed £31bn telecoms merger 

  • Sunday, 30 August, 2020
    Salt says it rebuffed Liberty Global prior to Sunrise deal

    Xavier Niel’s Swiss telecoms group says the $7.4bn merger of rivals will cost it billions of francs

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Sunrise Telecom Inc
    Salt Mobile considering suing Sunrise over $7.4bn Liberty deal

    Xavier Niel’s mobile telecoms group argues that sale is in breach of exclusivity arrangement

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Liberty Global/Sunrise: good morning Premium content

    With Freenet backing the plan, a deal looks likely

    Impressive customer relations and fast rollout of services have enabled Sunrise to add customers in a shrinking Swiss market.
  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Telecoms
    Liberty Global to buy Sunrise in $7.4bn Swiss telecoms deal

    Move by US group will create stronger challenger to incumbent Swisscom

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Electric vehicles
    Liberty Global forms alliance to create UK electric car charging network

    Telecoms group teams up with government-backed fund to roll out on-street charging points

    An electric vehicle charging station in London. Making residential broadband networks available for use as charging points could speed up development of the infrastructure
  • Friday, 8 May, 2020
    Due Diligence
    A £31bn merger and a master dealmaker in action Premium content

    John Malone shows his adroitness in deal between Liberty Global and Telefónica

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    News in-depthTelecoms
    Liberty Global and Telefónica dial up changes in ‘deal of decade’

    O2 and Virgin Media’s £31bn merger is one of the biggest examples of virtual dealmaking during pandemic

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    Virgin Media and O2’s tie-up will leave customers cold

    Deal’s architects say it will improve connectivity, choice and value, but consumers have heard that before

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Telecoms
    Liberty Global and Telefónica agree £31bn deal to merge UK groups

    Combination of O2 and Virgin Media set to transform British telecoms market

    The parent companies expect to invest £10bn in the UK over the next five years
  • Tuesday, 5 May, 2020
    Due Diligence
    The Cable Cowboy gets back in the saddle Premium content

    Liberty Global’s buccaneering owner sets his sights on Telefonica’s O2

  • Monday, 4 May, 2020
    LexTelecoms
    Telefónica/Liberty: rainy day dealmaking Premium content

    Potential cost cuts should not be used as justification for a UK telecoms tie-up

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