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Dogan offers USD 742 mln for Digiturk
2013-09-03 08:51:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Turkey's Dogan Holding made a USD 742 million non-binding offer for a 53 percent stake in Turkish pay-television operator Digiturk, writes The Financial Times. The offer, which values Digiturk at USD 1.4 billion, is higher than Turk Telekom's July bid of USD 530 million for the 53 percent stake in the television operator. Dogan already owns D-Smart, Turkey's second-biggest pay television operator. The remaining 47 percent of Digiturk is owned by US private equity group Providence.
Mobile operators add 105 mln new subscribers in Q2 - study
2013-08-28 11:20:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Mobile operators recorded 105 million net additions in Q2 and reached a total of 6.5 billion mobile subscriptions, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. The mobile net additions estimate is based on historic information from external sources and regulatory and operator reports combined with Ericsson analysis. China added the highest number of customers, namely 30 million. Indonesia (9 million), India (8 million), Bangladesh (5 million), and Nigeria (4 million) follow in terms of net additions. Mobile broadband subscriptions grew by approximately 150 million to 1.8 billion subscriptions, representing a 45 percent year-on-year growth rate. There is continued strong momentum for smartphone uptake in all regions, Ericsson found. Around 55 percent of all mobile phones sold in Q2 were smartphones, compared to around 40 percent for the full year 2012 and around 50 percent in Q1 2013. Of all mobile phone subscriptions, around 25 percent are associated with smartphones, leaving considerable room for further uptake.
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Telekom Austria eyes EUR 500 mln capital increase - report
2013-08-27 11:22:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Telekom Austria is looking to secure fresh capital of around EUR 500 million, reports DerStandard newspaper. This figure is understood to have been discussed at a recent supervisory board meeting. America Movil reportedly supports the plan in order to avoid its 23.7 percent stake in the operator being diluted. It is not clear if government holding company OIAG will participate. It currently holds 28.42 percent of Telekom Austria and would have to contribute around EUR 70 million to maintain a minority stake (25% plus one share), or double that to maintain its existing shareholding. Telekom Austria declined to comment on the report.
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Court approves USD 20 mln Facebook advertising settlement
2013-08-27 09:59:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Facebook has secured a San Francisco court's final approval for its USD 20 million settlement of a lawsuit over targeted advertising, despite critics seeing the deal as falling short in protecting childrens' privacy, Reuters reports. The BBC writes that as a result of the settlement, some 614,000 Facebook users whose personal details appeared in ads on the site without their permission will receive a payout of USD 15 each. Child rights groups argued that minors' content should be shared with advertisers. Under the deal Facebook will pay USD 20 million to the plaintiffs and pledged to give users more control over the way in which their content is shared.
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Dutch consumer fixed lines grow to 6.25 mln in Q2
2013-08-23 11:01:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The Dutch consumer fixed telephony market grew by 18,000 connections or 0.3 percent during the second quarter to 6.25 million lines, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Fixed Telephony Market report. Growth in VoIP lines of 1.6 percent during the quarter was enough to offset a 5.8 percent drop in PSTN/ISDN connections and 0.7 percent fewer WLR connections. Fibre VoIP reported the highest growth of 9 percent, followed by cable at 1.4 percent, while DSL VoIP connections only increased by 0.2 percent during the quarter. The revenues generated from consumer fixed telephony lines decreased by 2.9 percent in the second quarter to EUR 338 million. The fixed telephony market is expected to continue to grow, at a CAGR of 1.2 percent per year over the period 2013-2017, as growth in VoIP lines continues to outpace the decrease in PSTN/ISDN and WLR users.
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