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Articles tagged with: Kpn and Telefonica
Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity
Fitch Ratings says, in report published today, that European high-grade telecom issuers have continued to maintain good liquidity and that their access to capital markets remained relatively healthy during the course of Q109. more
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EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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Germany's E-Plus Doesn't See Itself as a Takeover Target - CEO
FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Dutch Royal kpn's German unit, E-Plus, doesn't consider itself as a takeover target, E-Plus Chief Executive Thorsten Dirks said Sunday. more
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Europe Telecom Giants Call the Shots Again as M&A Picks Up
As the global financial crisis nears its one-year anniversary, Europe's top telecom operators are rediscovering an appetite for deals and preparing to pounce on vulnerable rivals, armed with solid balance sheets and needled by a rising threat from newcomers like Google and Apple. more
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Telefonica Mulling KPN Takeover Bid
The wave of European telco consolidation continued today with reports that Spain's Telefonica is considering a bid for the Dutch kpn Group. The German language Financial Times Deutschland reported that Telefonica had been mulling its options and had begun working out the financial viability of a takeover and the potential cost savings it could engender. more
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Spanish Mobile Content Firm Gets Investment Funding
Savia Capital Innovaci�n - a venture fund which includes the local government and Telefonica as shareholders - has taken a minority stake in mmCHANNEL, a Spanish mobile content firm. mmCHANNEL is headquartered in Madrid and recently opened a second office in Dubai. more
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KPN CEO Says Co is Not in Any Merger Talks With Others
AMSTERDAM -(Dow Jones)- Dutch telecommunications company Royal kpn isn't in talks with other companies regarding a merger, the company's Chief Executive Officer Ad Scheepbouwer said Tuesday. more
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Telefonica Chairman Denies Interest in Tie-up With KPN
MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Spain's Telefonica, the world's fourth-largest telecommunications company by market value, isn't interested in a tie-up with Dutch peer Royal kpn, Chairman Cesar Alierta said Tuesday. more
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Industry Bodies Agree to Promote Single Standard for Mobile Barcodes
GSM Association (GSMA) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), two of the global mobile phone industry's representative bodies have agreed to support the addoption of a single standard for barcode "coupons" and readers on mobile phones. more
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Telefonica CFO: To Limit M&A to Brazil, Mexico and Germany
BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- Telefonica said Thursday it is limiting future merger and acquisition activity to Brazil, Mexico and Germany after years of aggressive acquisitions in Latin America and Europe. more
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