Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week

Noteworthy expenditures of the week
Basquiat photograph by Sotheby's/Bloomberg

1. Stepping up acquisitions to cope with competition at home, Qatar Telecom offered to buy the shares of Kuwait’s National Mobile Telecommunications it doesn’t own, valued at about $1.9 billion.

2. SBA Communications will purchase 3,252 wireless network towers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico from TowerCo for $1.5 billion in cash and shares.