Verizon has been bulking up on rich telecom assets for four years, transforming itself into the 21st century's biggest telephone company.
Cash-rich telecoms companies such as AT&T are facing a crisis as their wireless businesses reach maturity and fixed-line income continues to erode.
Vivendi Universal rallied on Wednesday, after credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's said the media giant's bid for control of cash-rich telecom unit Cegetel was positive for its credit standing.
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Opposite it stands the Soumaya museum, belonging to the world's richest man, telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim, which opened two years ago.
Mexico's richest man, telecom magnate Carlos Slim, appeared to welcome the new president's pledge to rein in wasteful spending and fight corruption, saying: "Everybody wants spending to be efficiently managed".
From severe poverty, Bunny's father became a rich and knighted telecom tycoon.
In the depths of the 1990s recession the Finnish government revisited this rich history of telecom competition and liberalized the industry.
He got rich with a telecom company, started a coding school, started a seed fund with Kima Ventures, invested in some of the most famous Silicon Valley companies (Square, Nest, Snap, Airbnb, Uber…), acquired newspapers and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on buildings for startups.
So says Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone, who is miffed that India's richest man is offering telecoms services for free as a promotional stunt.
Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in Mexico, where Carlos Slim, by some estimates the world's richest man, dominates the telecoms industry.
