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...Thaksin's family wanted him to concentrate on politics. Indeed, the sale provides the Prime Minister with a vast war chest should he decide to campaign for a third term. But the motivation could also be commercial: an offer too good to refuse at a time when Thailand's telecom sector is being deregulated and will become more competitive...
...same way - instead of dialing his NTL fixed-line telephone. "I'm just trying to find a way to keep down the costs," says Tuttle. His life could obviously be simplified if all his communications came through a single pipe, and that's what tomorrow's telecom companies are hoping to offer. As digital technology enables more customers to bypass traditional paid services, telecoms are scrambling to introduce services that combine telephone, broadband and subscription television into a single package that can be piped into every home - and eventually to mobile devices. So far only 5% of Europeans have "triple...
...subscribers and advertisers, France's two leading pay-TV satellite channels agreed to merge. The CanalSat-TPS deal would create a broadcasting giant in France worth at least $7 billion. That's modest compared with the year's biggest deals: the $28 billion acquisition last June by Telecom Italia of the 44% stake in mobile phone company Telecom Italia Mobile it didn't already own, and the $22 billion purchase by Italian bank UniCredito of Germany's Bayerische HypoVereinsbank. Other major deals included Pernod Ricard's acquisition of British drinks firm Allied Domecq, and a continuing three-way fight...
InnovaLight CEO Burke, whose roots are in sales, marketing and physics, was a fast riser at AT&T and its Lucent spin-off. In 2000 he joined an optics firm called OMM Inc. that tanked with the telecom sector in 2003. Stints with a venture-capital firm and optical- component maker Bookham Inc. followed. Burke's former boss Phil Chapman, now CFO with Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. in San Diego, calls him "fearless." Fearlessness will serve Burke well now. "You don't want to be partnering with a customer who expects this to be simple," says another of Burke's former...
...million mobile-phone users; the number grows more than 2 million each month. The Indian mobile-phone-services market is worth about $5 billion. And this time the welcome mat won't get yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert at Ernst & Young India, expects more big deals in the next couple of years. This freer market has its hang-ups, though. Vineet Nigam, an analyst at ICRA, an Indian ratings agency, points out that average revenue per mobile-phone customer is declining as competition increases...