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NTL, Britain's cable operator, bought Virgin Mobile, a mobile operator, for £962m.
Then it snared O2, Britain's second-largest mobile operator, for €26 billion.
In July, France Télécom, another former state monopoly, bought 80% of Amena, Spain's third-largest mobile operator, for some €8.5 billion.
But Vodafone's acquisition of 67% of Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest mobile operator, for $11.1 billion, has run into regulatory trouble.
Mannesmann also joined the bidding for Cablecom, Switzerland's biggest cable company, valued at around $3 billion.See article: Europe's mobile leadFrance Telecom agreed to acquire a 60% stake in E-Plus, Germany's third-biggest mobile operator, for euro7.4 billion ($8.0 billion).
Italy's telecommunications minister said he was "very concerned" at an offer from AT&T and América Móvil, a Mexican mobile operator, for most of the controlling stake in Telecom Italia held by Pirelli, a conglomerate and compatriot.
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In September, a leading maker of mobile banking technology for SIM cards, a French company called Gemalto, bought Trivnet, an Israeli company that makes financial transaction management software for mobile operators, for $40 million.
Has anyone asked each of the mobile operators for all of the countries MH370 could have flown over to see if any of the passengers IMEI data was recorded?
Starting in 2017, the universe of available frequencies will expand again in Europe, when some countries begin to sell portions of their 700-megahertz spectrum to mobile operators for the first time.
The Mobile Telecommunications Company, a Kuwait-based mobile phone company with 15 million subscribers, said its Celtel International unit had reached a tentative agreement to buy a controlling stake in V-Mobile Nigeria, one of the country's leading mobile operators, for about $1 billion.
Mobile operators, for instance, take a big cut when payments are made using "premium" text messages.Facebook, Apple and a raft of start-ups are all trying to develop a low-cost payment system, which could be a lucrative undertaking in itself.
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