France Telecom is close to buying the IT business of communication infrastructure provider GTL in the next few days for about $70 million, intended to enter the fast growing Indian telecom space.
The two companies in a joint statement said that they have entered into exclusive negotiations to combine T-Mobile UK, an arm of Deutsche Telekom, and Orange UK in a new 50:50 joint venture company. The new joint venture would create the country's leading mobile operator with a combined mobile customer base of around 28.4 million, representing about 37 per cent of subscribers in the UK, the statement said.
Network services provider GTL has sold its enterprise network services and managed services business to Orange Business Service, an arm of France Telecom, for about Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) in cash.
The Anil Ambani group company is in advanced talks with France Telecom for a branding, marketing and franchisee agreement. The company plans to launch the brand by the second quarter of FY09, according to sources close to the development. Initially, the Orange may be launched on RCom's CDMA network -- spanning across 23,000 towns and 5 lakh villages in India -- and later extended to its 8 GSM circles. The Indian company has a total of 44.5 million subscribers in India.
Dailymotion could be valued at roughly $300 million.
Indian businesses can start by raising the profiles of the leaders at an individual level to build globally recognised brands.
The Company Law Board on Monday adjourned for July 30 the hearings of the main petition filed by BPL Group patriarch T P G Nambiar against the alleged sidelining by his son-in-law and CEO of BPL Communications Rajeev Chandrasekhar in the telecom busi
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister.
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