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...She ran Swedish telco Telia for most of the past four. BT faces numerous “tail risks” in 2024, analysts at Berenberg warned in January....
...Kirkby — who has previously worked at UK-based Virgin Media, Danish telco TDC and Sweden’s largest challenger telco Tele2 — has led Telia since May 2020, where she oversaw a period of major transformation...
...The results chimed with a better reporting season for the telecoms sector as a whole with companies including Telia, Telenor and Verizon all raising full-year profit expectations....
...Liberty Global, Virgin’s US owner, has argued repeatedly that its share price does not reflect the value of its assets....
...Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, owns TV3 in Ireland and a stake in ITV....
...It has since sold its Norwegian cable business Get to Telia in July in what has proved to be a significant year in the reshaping of the Scandinavian telecoms and media sectors....
...Stobart and Virgin Atlantic said they had reached an agreement with Flybe management to buy the regional airline at just 1p per share, a 93 per cent discount to Thursday’s closing price....
...Partnerships with telecoms operators including Virgin Media, Telia and KPN, which offer extended trials or discounted subscriptions to their customers as part of a broadband package, are also likely to improve...
...The tie-up, announced on Tuesday, follows Spotify’s deal with Virgin Media, as cloud music services look to bundle themselves with mobile and broadband providers and device manufacturers....
...In court cases that stretched from New York, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands to Siberia and Ukraine, oligarch Mikhail Fridman’s group fought “extraordinary hardball”, according to one industry insider...
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