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Telecom Italia and Vodafone have picked advisers to sell a stake in their Italian tower business and will kick off the process soon, two sources said on Wednesday.

Vodafone <VOD.L> has secured a seven-year technology partnership with Ryanair <RYA.I> to handle services including online booking, passenger boarding and in-flight transactions for the Irish airline in Europe.

INWIT, the mast group controlled by Telecom Italia <TLIT.MI>, said on Monday it would pay a special dividend of 0.5936 euros (£0.5072) per share once a merger of its assets with the Italian mobile towers of Vodafone <VOD.L> is completed.

A merger of telephone networks in Italy is something that can be considered as long as control does not end up with Telecom Italia (TIM) <TLIT.MI>, the head of Vodafone's Italian operations said on Friday.

Telecom Italia <TLIT.MI> (TIM) plans to sell a stake in the mobile mast business it is creating in Italy with rival Vodafone <VOD.L> to infrastructure funds, the Italian group's chief executive said on Thursday.

Vodafone <VOD.L> said its future in India could be in doubt unless the government stopped hitting operators with higher taxes and charges, after a court judgment over licence fees resulted in a 1.9 billion euro (£1.6 billion) group loss in its first half.

Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator, increased its full-year earnings guidance, reflecting improving organic growth trends as difficult markets in Spain and Italy start to ease and it integrates its German cable acquisition.

Britain's Virgin Media is ditching BT's <BT.L> mobile network for rival Vodafone <VOD.L> from late 2021 in a five-year deal that will allow it to launch new services such as 5G to its more than 3 million customers.

Virgin Media is ditching BT's mobile network for rival Vodafone from late 2021, saying the five-year deal announced on Wednesday would bring innovative new services such as 5G to more than 3 million customers.

INWIT, the mast group controlled by Telecom Italia <TLIT.MI>, still expects to wrap up a deal with Vodafone <VOD.L> to merge their tower infrastructure in Italy in the first part of next year, INWIT's head said on Tuesday.

Ukraine's anti-monopoly committee said in a statement on Thursday it had granted Azerbaijan's Bakcell mobile operator permission to go ahead with a deal that may result in its acquisition of the Vodafone Ukraine mobile operator.

Both Vodafone <VOD.L> and MasMovil <MASM.MC> denied a report by the El Confidencial news website saying the Spanish mobile operator was working with Goldman Sachs to buy the British telecom's business in Spain for 6 billion euros (£5 billion).

Both Vodafone and MasMovil denied a report by the El Confidencial news website saying the Spanish mobile operator was working with Goldman Sachs to buy the British telecom's business in Spain for 6 billion euros ($6.67 billion).

Vodafone <VOD.L> will shut 15% of its 7,700 stores and upgrade some of the remaining outlets as customers buy more online and change their expectations of in-store shopping, chief executive Nick Read said on Tuesday.

Vodafone will reduce its store footprint by 15%, chief executive Nick Read said on Tuesday, as the telecoms firm makes better use of data to optimise its store estate.

Vodafone is testing innovative open access radio technology in Britain - a first for Europe - in a move that could break the grip Huawei, Ericsson <ERICb.ST> and Nokia <NOKIA.HE> hold on the telco equipment market.

Germany's BNetzA network regulator on Monday said it had annulled a charge Vodafone imposes on other providers if clients decide to keep their previous phone number, a move that could also affect other telecoms operators in Germany.

Australia's antitrust regulator has hurt competition by blocking a A$15 billion ($10 billion) merger between the nation's third- and fourth-largest telecoms providers, the companies said in court on Tuesday as their legal appeal got underway.

Australia's antitrust regulator has hurt competition, not helped it, by blocking a A$15 billion ($10 billion) merger between the third- and fourth-largest telecoms providers, a lawyer for one of the companies told a court on Tuesday.