Qatar Telecom to acquire majority stake in Kuwait's Wataniya
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Qatar Telecom (Qtel) is to acquire 51 percent of Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications Co. (Wataniya) in a 3.7 billion dollar deal, a major Wataniya shareholder said on Friday.
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Qwest Communications International Inc.  offered more than &#36;7 billion for MCI Inc. , topping an earlier bid by Verizon Communications Inc. , Bloomberg News said on Sunday.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said it would provide telecom network equipment to MTC in Bahrain with the aim of rolling out third generation 3G mobile services across the Gulf state by the end of 2004.
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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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Oil-rich Gulf Arab state Qatar has made a bid approach for J Sainsbury Plc , which newspapers said valued Britain's third-biggest supermarket group at about 12 billion pounds ($24.5 billion), including debt.
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India's Essar Group will remain as a key shareholder in Indian mobile services provider Hutchison Essar, but will likely negotiate stronger minority shareholder rights with Vodafone Group, which Sunday announced it wasÂ acquiring a controlling 67 percent stakeÂ in the company.
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Vodafone buys a controlling stake in Indian mobile phone firm Hutchison Essar for $11bn (Â£5.7bn).
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Rural telephone company Alltel Corp.  on Monday said it would acquire Western Wireless Corp.  for &#36;6 billion in a move that will increase its customers in the Western United States and make it the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
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(InfoWorld) - India's Essar Group will remain as a key shareholder in Indian mobile services provider Hutchison Essar, but will likely negotiate stronger minority shareholder rights with Vodafone Group, which Sunday announced it wasÂ acquiring a controlling 67 percent stakeÂ in the company. Essar Group does not intend to exit Hutchison Essar, and will run the company together with Vodafone, Essar Group Vice Chairman Ravi Ruia told reporters late Thursday after Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin met him in Mumbai. The terms for cooperation between Essar and Vodafone were laid out later in a statement from the Essar Group. "We will ensure that all of our shareholder rights, including under our shareholders' agreement with Hutchison, are adhered to," Essar Group said late Thursday. This gives the Essar Group theÂ right of first refusal to the proposed saleÂ of its equity by Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. (HTIL), according to informed sources. This right does not apply to the sale to Vodafone, Sarin told reporters this week. But the Essar Group could tie down Vodafone in protracted litigation. It is more likely to use this clause in the shareholder agreement with HTIL to negotiate a more favorable shareholder agreement with Vodafone, the sources said. The Essar Group holds 33 percent in Hutchison Essar. Vodafone has said it would prefer Essar stayed as a partner, but if it chose to exit it would offer to buy its stake for the same price per share it is offering HTIL. Essar hasn't entirely ruled out divesting from Hutchison Essar. Vodafone has approached Essar to discuss a possible partnership as regards Hutchison Essar, the Essar Group said in its statement. It will decide its future course of action in due course and in the best interests of the Essar group, it added.
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Saudi Arabian Basic Industries   2010.SE, the largest listed company in the Arab world, said   on Thursday it would buy the UK division of U.S. chemicals   manufacturer Huntsman Corp HUN.N.
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Business & money: Shares in the supermarket group soared by almost 5% after the State of Qatar announced it now owned 25% of the supermarket giant's shares.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone 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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Qatar's state investment fund is set to win the auction of Nasdaq's 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange Group after lodging a bid of 2.8 billion pounds ($5.6 billion), the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
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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.
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Some of the world&#39;s largest telecoms companies were given clearance by regulators yesterday to bid for a mobile phone operating licence in Qatar.
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Alltel, the nation's sixth-largest wireless carrier, is in advanced negotiations to buy Western Wireless for roughly $4 billion.
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A Qatari firm could pay as much as Â£1bn to snap up Nasdaq's stake in the London Stock Exchange.