Telecoms

Mobile phone brand Nokia has returned as the main shirt sponsor of the Indian Premier League’s Kolkata Knight Riders, a position it occupied for seven years between 2008 and 2014.

Chinese telco China Unicom has become a domestic partner of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games to showcase its smart technology and raise its brand profile versus rivals China Mobile and China Telecom.

Chinese telco China Unicom has become the Official Telecommunication Services Partner of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in deal valued in the high tens of millions of dollars.

Orange, the former state telco of France, this month agreed a deal to become a Main Partner of the Fédération Française de Football, the French football federation, for the next rights cycle. 

The success of last weekend’s 'Wembley Cup with EE', the third annual exhibition match between two YouTuber tribes, with a few football legends thrown in, presents an interesting problem for the event’s title sponsors and organisers, the UK network operator EE.

Telecommunications company Vodafone New Zealand signed as a Regional Partner of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) for four years, from 2017 to 2021, in a cash and technology services deal.

Multinational telecommunications company Telefónica this month signed a 17-month agreement to become a Global Sponsor of Spanish LaLiga club Real Madrid as part of a strategy shift towards properties that offer experiences for its customers and to promote and supplement its Spanish LaLiga media rights contract.

Multinational telecoms company Orange has title sponsored the French Football League’s (LFP) companion esports Fifa 17 competition to engage more fans with its football sponsorship activation platform Le 12eme homme (The 12th man) and promote its ‘Fiber’ broadband product.