Telecom Italia Considers Sale of Mobile Unit
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A sale of part or all of its mobile phone unit would allow Telecom Italia to focus on broadband and content.
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Orascom Telecom, a leading mobile operator in emerging markets, has raised the possibility that it could be sold as part of further industry consolidation.
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Purchase for $870 million in cash expected to make Telecom Italia second-largest broadband provider in Germany.
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A mobile gadget with a scrollable display is due to go on sale in Italy in late 2007.
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Telekom Austria yesterday said it had agreed to buy MobilTel, Bulgaria&#39;s leading mobile telephone operator, in a step widely seen as preparing the way for a big share placement in the Austrian group.
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The company plans to spend &#36;27 billion to buy the 44% of Telecom Italia Mobile it does not already own.
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(InfoWorld) - Google and Intel have already expressed interest in the forthcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. Now, speculators say Apple may throw its hat into the ring. TheÂ auctionÂ is creating a bit of a frenzy because the winner will obtain some of the last available prime spectrum, ideal for delivering broadband wireless Internet access. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expects to auction it off next year. While Google has said that it may bid in the auction, Apple's participation is pure speculation, and analysts appear split on whether it makes sense for theÂ iPhoneÂ maker to become a network operator. Apple's entry into the carrier business, while interesting to speculate, is difficult to imagine since the company already has a "sweetheart deal" with AT&T, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research. In an unusual arrangement for the mobile industry, Apple is thought to receive a portion of the monthly service revenue that AT&T earns from iPhone customers. AT&T is the iPhone's exclusive carrier. Gartner analyst Van Baker finds it "highly unlikely" that Apple would be interested in buying the spectrum. "It's a very different business than they're in, and it's not something they have a whole lot of expertise in," he noted. Apple could decide to partner with another company that has more experience in the mobile operator business, which could make more sense, Baker said. Still, the arrangement between Apple and AT&T looks beneficial to both companies, so there probably isn't a significant incentive for Apple to want to change that setup, especially because the operator business comes with "lousy margins," he said. However, Apple might have at least one good reason for wanting to operate a network, said Avi Greengart, an analyst with Current Analysis. "They do like to control the end-to-end experience," he said. While becoming a mobile operator would be a "tremendous stretch" for Apple, it wouldn't surprise Greengart if Apple was considering it. An Apple network would likely be very tightly integrated with Apple products and come with very simple pricing, he said. Such a strategy could have a ripple effect across the industry. Operators tend to watch what competitors are doing and make adjustments to their own strategies accordingly, he said. Greengart and the others cautioned that they hadn't heard directly from the company or other sources that Apple was considering the auction. "But they're pretty good about being tight-lipped," Greengart said. Apple is known for being very secretive, with big announcements leaking out only days in advance, if ever. BusinessWeek first reported on the rumor that Apple might be interested in the spectrum auction.
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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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Telecom Italia will approve a plan to buy the 44 percent it does not own of its mobile phone unit, Telecom Italia Mobile.
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The Telecom Italia board was meeting to review strategy and press reports forecast the group would eventually sell mobile telephone assets, switch into media content and slash debt of 41.0 billion euros (52.0 billion dollars).
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Finalmente l&#39;offerta UMTS di Wind Ã¨ stata resa pubblica, completando di fatto il panorama sul mercato italiano di servizi telefonici di terza generazione. Il servizio Ã¨ giÃ  attivo in 15 cittÃ  (Alessandria
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Sprint and Nextel, two large US mobile companies, are discussing a possible $70bn merger, according to newspaper reports.
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Telecom Italia is poised to pay 20bn euros for the 44% stake it does not already own of its mobile unit TIM.
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Telecom Italia, in a reversal of a recent and expensive consolidation, announced plans to spin off its fixed-line and mobile phone businesses into two companies.
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Congster, nuovo marchio di T-Online International, divisione di Deutsche Telekom (Germania), ideato per lÂ´internet a basso costo si presenta sul mercato con unÂ´ offerta molto competitiva: un abbonamento ADSL a soli 3,99 euro al mese.
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Telecom Italia plans to  use cash for a  bigger-than-expected chunk of a 20 billion-euro ($26.69  billion) buyout of its mobile unit TIM, a source close to the  deal said on Monday.