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The Telecom Digest for August 31, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 185 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
AT&T Hungry to Expand Into Europe (Bill Horne)
Big surprise: Ex-FCC chief defends the cable industry (Bill Horne)
Vodafone's U.S. Dream Ends in Once in Decade Verizon Deal (Bill Horne)
Lightsquared proposes reorganization (Bill Horne)
Verizon-Vodafone Impact: 'Colossal' (Bill Horne)

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:27:25 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T Hungry to Expand Into Europe 
Message-ID: <kvr9os$p7$1@dont-email.me>

AT&T Hungry to Expand Into Europe

by Karl Bode 04:33PM Friday Aug 30 2013

As Verizon eyes expanding into the Canadian wireless market, AT&T has
their eyes set on expanding into Europe. Bloomberg notes that AT&T has
explored possibly acquiring portions of Vodafone, European carrier EE,
as well as part of Spain's Telefonica SA. Rumors that Verizon would be
buying out Vodafone's 45% ownership stake in Verizon Wireless
re-emerged this week; AT&T's interested in buying some of what's left
of Vodafone, but wireless only -- not any of the company's fixed line
ambitions. AT&T could pay about 80 billion pounds ($124 billion) for
what's left of Vodafone, according to Wall Street analysts.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324009304579042523492899800.html

-or-

http://goo.gl/BWE84L

-- 
Bill Horne
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:39:47 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Big surprise: Ex-FCC chief defends the cable industry 
Message-ID: <kvrag1$3uk$1@dont-email.me>

By Michael Hiltzik
August 30, 2013, 1:59 p.m.

Former FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell, who is now the chief lobbyist
for the cable industry, takes issue with my Aug. 25 column about how
cable monopolies such as Time Warner and Comcast have made Internet
access slower and more expensive than in many countries around the
world.

Powell, in a letter to The Times, grouses that I overlooked "the fact
that America is among the world's leaders in broadband choice,
availability and quality."

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:05:42 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Vodafone's U.S. Dream Ends in Once in Decade Verizon Deal 
Message-ID: <kvr8g7$r51$1@dont-email.me>

Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) is poised to exit the best investment it ever
made, pocketing as much as $130 billion from the 45 percent it owns in
U.S. mobile company Verizon Wireless and focusing its attention on
Europe.

Vodafone and Verizon Communications Inc. have been in talks on and off
for years over the partnership that left payouts from one of Newbury,
England-based Vodafone's most profitable assets at the whims of the
Americans. Verizon jumped the most in four years in New York trading
yesterday, and Vodafone surged as much as 9.6 percent to the highest
price since 2002.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-29/vodafone-s-american-dream-ends-in-once-in-a-decade-verizon-deal.html

-or-

http://goo.gl/DV7tz4

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:53:04 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Lightsquared proposes reorganization 
Message-ID: <kvr7oh$nrv$1@dont-email.me>

Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. proposed a reorganization that
includes a potential sale of wireless spectrum instead of an auction
led with a $2.2 billion bid from a unit of Charlie Ergen's Dish
Network Corp. (DISH)

LightSquared filed the plan outline today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in
Manhattan and said it will continue to seek approval from the Federal
Communications Commission to use its airwaves. The company said it
also will weigh a sale of the assets and didn't identify any potential
bidders.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-30/lightsquared-proposes-outline-for-reorganization.html

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http://goo.gl/YpPBaH

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:17:20 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon-Vodafone Impact: 'Colossal' 
Message-ID: <kvr95u$u15$1@dont-email.me>

Talks for Verizon Wireless Could Give Vodafone Cash to Spend in Europe, 
Create Openings for AT&T.

By RYAN KNUTSON, THOMAS GRYTA and SAM SCHECHNER

Verizon Communications Inc.'s push to take full control of its
U.S. wireless business could spark a new round of mergers across the
telecom industry.

Verizon's talks with Vodafone Group PLC, which owns 45% of Verizon
Wireless, could soon result in a deal worth as much as $130 billion,
said people familiar with the matter. That would be the second-largest
acquisition on record, bigger than Exxon's purchase of Mobil or the
ill-fated merger of America Online and Time Warner Inc. in 2000.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324009304579042523492899800.html

-or-

http://goo.gl/wwjrud

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)






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