Swisscom rebuys mobile stake from Vodafone
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Swisscom  has agreed to repurchase a 25 percent stake in Swisscom Mobile from British mobile phone company Vodafone  for 4.25 billion Swiss francs ($3.48 billion), in a long-awaited deal.
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Mobile-phone giant Vodafone's purchase of a 11.1-billion-dollar stake in India's Hutchison Essar has been welcomed by local contenders, smoothing its entry into the world's fastest-growing wireless market.
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OPTUS and Vodafone yesterday formalised an alliance in which they will together spend $1 billion on third-generation mobile phone networks.
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Britain's Vodafone Group  has  won the auction for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar with  an offer that gives India's fourth biggest mobile operator an  enterprise value of just under $19 billion, a source close to  the auction said on Sunday.
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Mobile phone firm Vodafone is to enter the UK fixed-line broadband market after striking a deal with BT.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy an 11-billion-dollar controlling stake in India's Hutchison Essar in an attempt to move into the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market.
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Global telecommunications giant Vodafone on Thursday said it would retain its 45 percent stake in US company Verizon Wireless, rejecting proposals from an activist shareholder group.
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Vodafone Group Plc, the world&#39;s largest mobile-phone operator, expects cost cuts and bulk-order savings to boost earnings by more than a third before 2008, as the company reins in spending from Germany to Albania.
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As it reported results on Tuesday, the Vodafone Group, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone operator, said that it would double dividends and increase a share buyback program by Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion).
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone PLC doubled its dividend payment and extended its share buyback program after posting half-year results Tuesday that exceeded market expectations.
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Worth waiting for summer 2009 Vodafone boss Arun Sarin could be cashing in Â£45m, in shares and options, if he can keep Vodafone on an even keel until summer 2009. Even if he jumps ship now he could sell off what he already owns for a tidy Â£10m.â¦
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BT Group Plc, the UK&#39;s largest phone operator, agreed to sell its stake in Eutelsat SA for 363 million pounds ($685 million) in cash, marking the company&#39;s exit from the satellite operating business.
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Verizon Communications has reportedly gained the backing of its wireless partner, Vodafone Group, for a potential bid for Sprint Corp, clearing a major hurdle to such a deal.
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The pound finished higher across the board, benefiting from merger and acquisition flows after news of Vodafone's 1.8 billion pound sale of its 25 percent stake in Swisscom Mobile.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone Group has denied a Monday report by the Financial Times that it was considering buying Verizon Communications in a huge $160 billion deal. The paper, citing unnamed sources, said the international mobile operator was contemplating such a deal but hadn't approached Verizon and wouldn't necessarily go ahead with it. But Verizon's shares were up $1 at $42.76 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Vodafone issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange to squelch the report. "Vodafone notes press speculation that it is considering a possible offer for Verizon Communications. Vodafone wishes to make it clear that it has no plans to make such an offer," the statement said. Vodafone owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless, the rest of which is owned by incumbent wireline carrier Verizon Communications. The dual ownership could tie Verizon's hands as it goes up against rival AT&T, which now owns all of its mobile business and is moving toward "quad-play" bundles of broadband, video, wireline voice, and mobile services. The arrangement gives Vodafone a stake in a profitable U.S. mobile business but doesn't allow it to chart its own course in the market. Vodafone tried to acquire AT&T Wireless in 2004 but was outbid by Cingular. The company has expanded aggressively in other countries, including Germany, where it bought Mannesman in 2000. Buying all of Verizon would create a company valued at about $300 billion. But as part of the deal, Vodafone might spin off Verizon's wireline business in order to build an all-wireless carrier, the Financial Times said. Verizon is the second-largest U.S. carrier behind AT&T in both wired and wireless customers. It had 60.7 million wireless subscribers and 7.4 million broadband customers at the end of the first quarter. Its Fios TV fiber-to-the-home service had attracted about 348,000 households. Verizon also operates a global enterprise communications business. Vodafone, based in Newbury, U.K., had 198.6 million customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Â and the Asia-Pacific region at the end of last year.
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Vodafone Group Plc  has  won the battle for a controlling stake in India's No.4 mobile  operator Hutchison Essar with a bid that values it at around  $19 billion including debt, a source and India's Essar group  said on Sunday.
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The misinformation and confusion over whether or not the US mobile phone company Verizon Wireless, part owned by Vodafone, is going to muscle in on the $35bn (Â£18bn) merger of rivals Sprint and Nextel continued yesterday with hedge funds playing both