BERLIN — Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom said Tuesday that they were planning to merge their struggling mobile operations in Britain, creating the largest mobile operator there.
Deutsche Telekom and France T com said Tuesday that they planned to merge their struggling mobile operations in Britain, creating the largest mobile operator there.
"We have no choice but to innovate," says Olaf Swantee, head of mobile operations at Orange, a big European operator.
China Telecom, the country's biggest fixed-line operator, will acquire one of the mobile networks run by China Unicom, which will merge its remaining mobile operations with China Netcom, another fixed-line operator.
Royal KPN, the largest telephone operator in the Netherlands, and DoCoMo, the mobile operations of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, have been negotiating in fits and starts for over a month now.
The Europe operating segment encompasses all fixed-network and mobile operations of the national companies and also offers ICT services to business customers in individual national companies.
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Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's founder, has been praised by analysts and investors for quickly turning around his company's Japanese mobile operations.
Last April, Mr. Scheepbouwer retired and was succeeded by Eelco Blok, the KPN board member responsible for international mobile operations.
By buying Nokia's handset business, Microsoft may have strengthened its control over the destiny of its mobile operations and gained a potential new chief executive.
"KPN confirms it is in talks on the sale of its mobile operations in Germany," the Dutch company said in its statement.
