www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In the next three months, decisions will be taken regarding the planned merger between Telecom Italia and Spain’s Telefonica. Telefonica has 46.18 percent stake on Telecom Italia which is a holding comJoin Now Feee
January 19, 2010
January 11, 2010
Cheap Valuation & dividend highlight better year for China Mobile
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Cheaper valuation compared to its competitors, China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CHU) and China Telecom Corp. (CHA), an attractive dividend yield and improving growth prospects with the launch of more third-generation value-added telecom services is highlighting a better year for China Mobile in 2010.
After the merger of China’s six telecom operators into 3 nationwide [...]
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December 7, 2009
FTC approves LG telecom’s merger plans in South Korea
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: LG telecom got antitrust approval from Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to merge its three local telecoms subsidiaries- LG Dacom, LG Telecom and LG Powercom.
The South Korean antitrust regulator was satisfied after examining the proposal saying that the tie up is unlikely to harm competition either in the fixed line or wireless sectors.
FTC also claimed [...]
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Merger may solve Vodafone- Verizon tensions in the USA
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to US analyst, the solution to the problem between Vodafone and Verizon wireless over the latter’s lack of dividend payment from the US operator could be merger. According to Execution analyst Will Draper the likelihood of the two companies merging together is 30% to 40% as compared to 10%, a couple of years [...]
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November 12, 2009
October 7, 2009
MTN and Bharti now rivals in a bid for Zain.
What was to be a merger is now likely to turn into a battle to acquire Zain. Reliable sources have revealed that a dialogue between Airtel and Zain has now been initiated via intermediaries. With this Bharti will now take on MTN in a bid to acquire Zain.
Last month, MTN CEO Phutuma Nhleko had stated [...]
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October 2, 2009
Why the Bharti-MTN deal failed & a $48 Million loss for the bankers.
Reliable sources have revealed that the Bharti-MTN merger’s fate was sealed three weeks before it was called off on SEP 30, 2009.
It is learnt that the South African governments treasury wrote to MTN on September 11 demanding that the merged entity be domiciled in South Africa (a request earlier made in mid August as well) [...]
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August 31, 2009
NEC, Hitachi & Casio in talks to merge handset divisions by April’10 (Japan)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NEC, Hitachi and Casio, the Japanese handset manufacturers are reportedly in talks to for a merger of their mobile phone operators in order top create nation’s second largest handset firm after Sharp.
According to the media reports, the three firms have confirmed the that they are in talks over merging their handset divisions by April [...]
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MTN intends to finalise merger talks as soon as possible
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MTN, the South African mobile operator intends to finalise the merger talks with Indian giant Bharti Airtel as soon as possible, a media report suggests. MTN Chief Executive Officer Phutuma Nhleko reportedly said that they wanted to finalise the talks with Bharti Airtel as quickly as possible in order to remove shareholder uncertainty.
According to [...]
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MTN intends to finalise merger talks as soon as possible
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MTN, the South African mobile operator intends to finalise the merger talks with Indian giant Bharti Airtel as soon as possible, a media report suggests. MTN Chief Executive Officer Phutuma Nhleko reportedly said that they wanted to finalise the talks with Bharti Airtel as quickly as possible in order to remove shareholder uncertainty.
According to [...]
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