Local Firm to Buy Pennsylvania Telecom in Deal Valued at $60 Million
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By Alicia Wallace, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  May 25--A local holding company founded by former area telecommunications  executives and bankrolled by five institutional investors announced plans  Thursday to acquire a Pennsylvania telecom in a deal valued at $60 million.
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Regional US telecommunications group Alltel announced it had agreed to buy Western Wireless Corp. for about six billion dollars in cash and stock.
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Penn National Gaming Inc. has offered to buy Argosy Gaming Co. in a deal valued at $2.2 billion that would create the third-largest gaming company in the United States, the companies said after the market closed Wednesday.
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Canadian phone firm Bell Canada agrees to be bought for US$48.5bn, the largest deal of its kind in the country.
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BCE Inc , Canada's largest telecommunications group, has agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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MILAN Telecom Italia will approve a plan Tuesday to buy the 44 percent it does not already own of the mobile phone unit Telecom Italia Mobile in a deal valued at about â¬20 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
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The telecommunications company is said to be in negotiations, in what may be the latest round of deal making in its industry.
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General Electric Co.'s  energy unit will pay $603 million for a controlling stake in Regency Energy Partners LP , an owner of natural gas pipelines and processing equipment.
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BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications group, has agreed to a C$51.7 billion ($48.5 billion) offer from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in what the purchasers said was the largest buyout in Canadian corporate history.
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The French telecommunications operator France Telecom wants to buy the 46 percent of business telecom-services unit Equant it does not already own, marking another step in its general integration strategy.
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Telecom carrier consolidation in the U.S. trickled down to competitive service providers on Monday as Paetec Holding Corp. agreed to acquire McLeodUSA, creating a company that will serve businesses in most of the country's largest metropolitan areas.
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The Motley Fool - Knowing the responsiveness of huge, monopolistic organizations, it should be heart-warming news as we approach the cold winter months that Chicago-based Exelon (NYSE: EXC - News) plans to buy Newark, New Jersey-based Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG - News) to create the country's largest utility, serving some 18 million customers stretching across Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
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AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon â were awarded a federal telecommunications contract worth $20 billion.
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Bell Canada agreed Saturday to be bought by a private partnership led by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan in a deal valued at C$51.7 billion (US$48.5 billion) that would be the largest leveraged buyout ever.
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Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N  said on Monday it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI  Communications Inc. MCIP.O in a deal worth $6.75 billion,  giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large  corporations.
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Power company Dominion Resources Inc. said Monday that its electric utility unit agreed to buy a North Carolina plant for $40.2 million in cash plus the assumption $60.5 million in debt and associated costs.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group.