United Group

The market interprets the agreement between BC Partners and Deutsche Telekom to broadcast each other’s sports programs as a prelude to developments in the business and sports fields – The reasons that led the two competitors to form an alliance and the significant benefits for viewers.

The telecommunications sector has found itself in a new cycle of acquisitions and mergers at the European level, as well as in Greece.

The sale of the entire United Group and its activities in all countries where it is present is the main option being considered by BC Partners, its majority-stake owner.

United Group has reached an agreement with Crystal Almond Holdings Limited for the acquisition of Wind Hellas.

The deal is reportedly worth 950m euros.

Providing mobile, landline and television services, Wind has a total of 4.2 million users and has revenues of over € 500 million per year.

Ljubljana – Having acquired frequencies for wireless broadband in a national auction, the telecommunications provider Telemach is launching its 5G network on Tuesday, initially making it available to users in the centre of Ljubljana and the commercial district BTC.

The Bulgarian incumbent telco Vivacom generated 29% of United Group's revenues in the first quarter.

News that the Croatian branch of N1 TV could go off air within days has angered viewers, media unions and democracy watchdogs - especially as screens will go blank at a politically sensitive time, in the run-up to local elections.

Telenor Serbia has filed a lawsuit before the competent judicial authorities in Serbia for unfair market competition against United Group B.V. Netherlands, Srpske kablovske mree d.o.o. Beograd, Adria News s.a.r.l. Luxembourg, and Adria News d.o.o. Beograd.

Ljubljana – Slovenian clothes retailer Sportina is in talks with telecommunications group United Group to enter strategic cooperation in the field of online shopping. It thus denied the business newspaper Finance’s report that United Group was about to buy it. United Group did not comment.

Ljubljana – United Media, the media division of United Group, plans to expand to the Slovenian market this year by setting up a news portal under the N1 brand, which is already active in the region.

The Luxembourg-based United Media has already opened the Adria News subsidiary in Ljubljana under which the N1 Slovenija web portal will operate.