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The alleged wrongdoing went back even further than 2011.

MakTel once dominated the mobile market in North Macedonia, operating since 2001 as a joint venture between the state and Magyar Telekom, the Hungarian subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Its only competitor was the far smaller Cosmote network.

Cosmote is Greece's first mobile communications provider to prepare for the 5G era via a network upgrade contract it is to sign soon with Sweden's Ericsson.

The estimated €170 million contract, expected to be signed early January, includes both fourth- and fifth-generation equipment. It involves upgrading existing base stations and antennas across Greece as well as creating new ones.

Germany's largest mobile service provider put into use the first 5G network in the country, Deutsche Welle said, quoted by Iconomist.bg

It is clear that only Bonn and Berlin residents have the opportunity to use the new network, and only if they use a particular smartphone model, which currently costs about 900 euros.

The Bulgarian entrepreneur Spas Rusev has confirmed he is in talks to buy Telekom Romania.

Speaking to Capital, he added that because of the size of the possible transaction he is undertaking it with a partner.

Furthermore, he will at a future date also enter into talks to buy the Macedonian incumbent.

Cosmote has been named the fastest network for mobile internet in Greece again this year, taking the title for "Greece's Fastest Mobile Network 2018" in the SpeedTest Awards presented by Ookla, a global leader in internet testing and analysis.

The Cosmote mobile network's download speed is 68 percent faster than the second-placed provider.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere's least connected countries.

The US Department of Justice is blocking a billions of dollars deal for the merger of Time Warner with the AT & T communications concern, Bloomberg reports.

Greece is seeking a financial adviser for the sale of a 5 percent stake in its biggest telecoms operator OTE, its privatization agency (TAIPED) said on Thursday.

The sale is a condition of Greece's international bailout.

OTE, a former national monopoly, is now 40 percent owned and managed by Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

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Türk Telekom has vowed to offer very high speed Internet services close to the speed of 5G technologies by April, in line with a deal with Korea Telecom struck at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. 

Turkcell is looking for acquisition opportunities to expand regionally and Iran could be a target market as sanctions against Tehran are lifted, the chief executive of Turkey's largest mobile operator said on Jan. 18.