Bell Canada agrees to go private
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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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An investment banking firm proposed recapitalizing Bell Canada as an alternative to the three competing privatization offers and one takeover bid for the company.
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Money men gone fishing Rumor has it that private equity firms are interested in taking born-again telecom equipment maker 3Com off the market.â¦
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Government regulators approved rules yesterday that would phase out discounts the four major regional telephone companies offer rivals for access to their networks, a move likely to lead to higher phone bills for some 18 million residential phone customers served by AT&amp;T Corp., MCI Inc., and other carriers.
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Control of French telecommunications operator France Telecom is to be privatized, with the state cutting its stake below 50 percent to reduce national debt two years after helping the group dig itself out of a debt crisis.
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The 51.7 billion Canadian bid to take Bell Canada private unquestionably rewards the companyâs shareholders. But getting there was not a pleasant experience for everyone.
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AT&amp;T Wireless has inched ever so closer to shedding its stake in Rogers Wireless. The carrier has reached a tentative agreement with partner Rogers Communications to sell its 34 percent stake.
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LORD BLACK of Crossharbour plans to privatise Hollinger Inc, his Canadian holding company, following a very public investigation into the way he ran his former media empire.
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Outback Steakhouse's parent finally seals a deal to go private.
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Toronto-based Rogers Communications Inc. has agreed to do what it can to help AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc. unload its minority stake in subsidiary Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.
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MONTREAL (CP) - BCE Inc., a major media company and the parent of a Bell Canada, is increasing its annual common share dividend by 12 cents, or 10 per cent, to $1.32 a share.
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The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, said on Monday it had agreed to buy privately held U.S. mobile advertising firm Enpocket, but did not disclose financial details.
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The family that controls Cox Communications Inc., the third-largest US cable-television operator, will take the company private after raising its offer to buy out shareholders to $8.
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The F.C.C. relaxed rules that had required the nation's four large Bell telephone companies to give their rivals access to their networks at discounted wholesale rates.
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IT services vendor LogicaCMG Plc's involvement in the mobile communications software space is over following the sale of its telecoms products division to a private equity group for 265m pounds ($348m) in cash.
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The Onex Corporation, Canadaâs largest investment firm, has joined the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board in its bid for Bell Canada, the countryâs largest telephone company. Onex will bring additional capital to the bid and help ensure that the pension fundâs bid meets Canadian ownership requirements for telecommunications companies. Others in the bidding group include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Caisse de DÃ©pÃ´t et Placement du QuÃ©bec, that provinceâs biggest pension fund. Bell, which changed its name from BCE last week, has formally recognized two other bidding groups, one led by the Ontario Teachersâ Pension Plan, Bellâs largest stockholder with 6.3 percent of its shares, and the other led by Cerberus Capital Management working with unnamed Canadian investors.
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The very private Cox family is about to get more so. Cox Enterprises said yesterday it will buy out the public shares of Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) for about $8.