Orange Business Services has completed its acquisition of Basefarm Holding, a Nordic cloud services and analytics company, for €350 million (US$410.2 million). Basefarm, which recorded revenues of more than €100 million (US$117.2 million) in 2017 and employs 550 people, has a presence in several European countries. OBS is banking on the acquisition raising its profile in the burgeoning multicloud services market.

EE , the mobile operator owned by BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA), has been named the UK's best mobile network for the fifth year in a row by testing company RootMetrics . RootMetrics carried out 593,008 tests (including calls, data and text messages) on all four of the UK mobile networks in the first six months of 2018.

Switzerland-based Kudelski Group has transferred its SmarDTV device business to SmarDTV Global, a newly established entity affiliated with Neotion , a provider of security products for the pay-TV industry. The deal, initially worth $20 million, is expected to close by the end of the month. Kudelski will retain all patents.

Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT) has extended what it describes as its "fiber-optic rollout" to an additional 226,000 households in 151 municipalities. Cities covered by the latest buildout include Werdau and Aachen. Though classed by DT as a fiber rollout, the 100Mbit/s program uses so-called vectoring technology to boost legacy copper lines for the "last mile." (See Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom Sets Out Broadband Targets .)

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading