All posts tagged: telcos

Why Telia wants to sell TV4 – 1.5 years after the big deal

SvD Näringsliv

This column was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on June 22nd, 2021. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Only one and a half years in its possession – but already Telia is rumored to want to dump the Swedish broadcaster TV4. Surprising? Not at all. The world’s telecom companies never seem to learn from history – and all indications are that Telia will soon […]

The Telco Identity Loop: What Disney+ does for Verizon

The Daily

May 2015. Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, is on CNBC. He is wearing a navy blazer, no tie, blue shirt. He’s talking fast, and in bursts of excited management speak. He has a lot to be excited about. It has just been announced that Verizon is going to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. This is of course good news for Mr Armstrong. CNBC anchor, Andrew Ross Sorkin, asks him the key question for the […]