Three leaders of the telecoms giant are ordered to appear before a government committee to answer questions on the accounting fraud.

The new Everything Everywhere chief has already shaken up management and after a grand tour of the company's call centres and outposts, the no-nonsense Dutchman is getting to grips with the rest of the telecoms giant.

Workers at the telecoms giant have been on the picket line before - for example, during the four-month long strike of 1989 at the predecessor company, NYNEX.

Some 56xx machines produced between 1994-1996 were badged as "AT&T" rather than "NCR", mirroring the company's brief ownership under the telecoms giant in the mid 1990s.

Vodafone suffered a backlash in Egypt earlier this year after its agency JWT released a video suggesting the telecoms giant had helped inspire the nation's January revolution.

After fighting hard for months against the idea that an internet provider should have any role in blocking piracy, the telecoms giant put out a statement welcoming "a helpful judgement which provides clarity on this complex issue".

BRITAIN'S telecoms giant, BT, has been unlucky in love.

Although Morgan Stanley was still bullish on the telecoms giant, it pointed to "headwinds" in the near term, believing that European revenues could come under pressure.

Diagonal ZeroZero hosts the corporate headquarters in Catalonia of Telefónica Group, a telecoms giant, as well as its Research&Development Center.

The telecoms giant has aggressive expansion plans for Europe but has all but given up on the US after authorities repeatedly blocked it from entering that market on national security grounds.