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Prisa accepts Telefonica's EUR 725 mln offer for Digital+
2014-05-08 09:15:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Prisa's board of directors has accepted Telefonica's EUR 725 million offer for its stake in Spanish pay-TV platform Digital+. In a statement to Spain's market regulator CNMV, Prisa said that the companies now have 30 days to close the details of the agreement. The acquisition of Prisa's 56 percent stake in Digital+ will raise Telefonica's stake in the broadcaster to 78 percent. The remaining 22 percent is held by the Spanish unit of Italian broadcaster Mediaset. Digital+, which is also said to have interested companies such as Al Jazeera, News Corporation, Liberty Global and Vivendi, comes with a large customer base in the form of the 1.6 million subscribers to Spanish pay-TV channel Canal+. Highly-indebted Prisa is said to have initially sought well over EUR 1 billion for its stake, but Telefonica's final offer values the company at 45 percent less than four years ago, when it acquired 22 percent of Digital+ for EUR 500 million. Prisa's net loss more than doubled last year to EUR 648.7 million euros, prompting shareholders to approve an agreement in December to restructure around EUR 3 billion of debt to give it time to sell broadcasting assets and its Spanish-language book publishing divisions.
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Telefonica bids EUR 725 mln for controlling Digital+ stake
2014-05-07 09:09:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Telefonica has informed Spain's market regulator CNMV that it has made a EUR 725 million binding bid for the controlling 56 percent stake in Spanish pay-TV platform Digital+ held by local media group Prisa. Telefonica already owns 22 percent of Digital+, while the remaining 22 percent is in the hands of Italian broadcaster Mediaset. The deal is pending regulatory approval but if it goes through Telefonica would acquire a large customer base in the form of the 1.6 million subscribers to Spanish pay-TV channel Canal+. These customers, who pay an average EUR 43 per month in subscription fees, could subsequently be transferred to Telefonica's growing fibre optic network. The acquisition of Digital+ would also give the operator access to Prisa's TV catalogue, including its rights to live Spanish football games, above all the highly lucrative Barcelona-Real Madrid 'classic'.
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C&W sells Monaco Telecom for EUR 322 million
2014-04-25 11:56:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Cable & Wireless Communications has agreed the sale of Compagnie Monégasque de Communication, the holding company for its 55 percent stake in Monaco Telecom, to a private investment vehicle controlled by Xavier Niel, the French entrepreneur controlling Iliad, for EUR 321.79 million. Monaco Telecom is the incumbent operator in Monaco where it is the market leader and only full service telecommunications provider. It also owns 36.75 percent of Afghan mobile operator Roshan, supplies international carrier and country code services to Kosovo, and works with OnAir for onboard telephony. CMC had USD 74 million of EBITDA on a USD 218 million revenue in the year to March 2013, when it had USD 537 million of gross assets and some 35,000 mobile customers, 34,000 fixed line and 17,000 broadband users. The parties have regulatory approval and only await a C&W shareholder vote to complete the deal. The disposal puts C&W in a strong position to pursue growth opportunities, both organic and inorganic, in the targeted Caribbean and Latin America region, the operator said.
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Vivendi to redistribute EUR 5 bln from SFR sale
2014-04-25 08:57:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Vivendi announced that it will have about EUR 5 billion of cash after the sale of French operator SFR to Altice/Numeriable and will initially redistribute EUR 3.5 billion to its shareholders in the form of dividends and/or share buy-backs. Chairman and CEO Jean Fourtou also confirmed that he would step down at the AGM of 24 June to be succeeded by Vincen Bollore.
Vivendi sells SFR to Numericable for EUR 13.5 bln, 20% stake
2014-04-06 20:12:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Vivendi's board has unanimously chosen to sell French mobile and broadband operator SFR to cable company Numericable, rather than to Bouygues Telecom, for EUR 13.5 billion of cash and a 20 percent stake in the combined Numericable-SFR. Vivendi will receive another EUR 750 million if the new company meets profitability targets. The deal means that France will continue to have four MNOs, Orange, SFR, Bouygues and Free Mobile. By joining Numericable, SFR adds a large installed base of fixed line customers to its traditional mobile business. The board cited the synergies to be gained from combining the two networks, customer benefits based on fixed-mobile convergence, a lower risk of competition issues, and the best overall value from the sale, over EUR 17 billion in cash and shares.
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