 ^^ [continues at Bloomberg]: Liberty Global has expressed interest in a deal and held on-and-off talks with Vodafone in recent months, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the information is not public. Any transaction may value Vodafone’s stake at more than €2 billion ($2.2 billion), according to some of the people.
It’s unclear if Vodafone is willing to sell, and there’s no certainty the discussions will lead to an agreement, the people said. If successful, Liberty Global could later possibly merge the Dutch fixed and mobile operator with its Belgian cable company, Telenet, to create a large Benelux operator.
Representatives for Vodafone, Liberty Global and VodafoneZiggo declined to comment.
European telecommunications operators are increasingly looking to consolidate their operations after years of telling regulators they need scale to boost returns. Politicians in Brussels have warmed to the idea and will unveil new telecoms regulations at the end of this year that could prompt a new wave of deals.
Liberty Global and Vodafone created fixed and mobile operator VodafoneZiggo as a joint venture in 2016 with both companies holding 50% stakes. Negotiations have moved slowly as Vodafone has focused on sales of under-performing markets such as Spain and Italy.
Liberty Global Chief Executive Officer Mike Fries said at a conference last year that while the joint venture has been successful, “seven years is a long time for a joint venture. So, we need to think about where we’re going with that business.”
Liberty Global started a restructuring last year to revive its share price. It listed its Swiss fixed network Sunrise Communications AG and split UK-based operator Virgin Media O2’s fixed network into a separate company. This model is likely to serve as a framework for what Liberty could do with other European telecoms assets. |
Stake would be worth around 2bn |
the chatter recently was that there are far too many operators in europe. us has 3 big ones, many more across europe. vod-3 tie up seems in the bag, but cross-european tie up might need to be on the cards. have been some big up & down days |
Could be a bid coming from US? |
Vow! Never seen such a rise in Vod! |
elon needs it |
Pretty futile trying to second guess stuff like that .. VOD is cheap and US funds are always looking for a good home for their cash |
Once Russia agrees on the seize fire deal what chance the tariffs are put on hold?... |
Investors taking profits from the SP500 and looking for places to hide until the orange genius stops destroying his own economy maybe? There could be some upside here as long as he doesn't destroy the entire world's economy... |
Was right on the open in the US so presumably someone over there placed an order in the ADR |
Wow this thread is quiet. All the bears been silenced? Anyone know the reason for the sudden lunchtime rise? |
With fleas. |
This sorts only happen during black swan events...like Covid 2000, financial crisis 2008, tech boom and bust 2000...in between you get mini events...
spacedust10 Mar '25 - 18:38 - 4407 of 4409
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Steve you dirty boy....I too had 10,000 rolls royce shares. Sold at 150p. They were 800p laat week.
Not making same mistake with vod |
VOD normal service resumed?... |
1DirtySteve10 Mar '25 - 16:37 - 4405 of 4407
Surprised you’re really rich if you always sell this early. Let the trend be your friend. This dog has finally turned and trend is firmly up. Holding for 90+ then will reevaluate.
Had them for just over a year and had 2 higher divi amounts and 1 lower divi. they have been going up nearer to my breakeven share price of 73.5 i sild out at just over 72.3. I did not like the usa market and sold, they then dropped yesterday and today, so it was the right thing. i the bought barcays at 278 or so and went up so trading does workout sometimes.
will e back into vodaphone soon as they do have a good future |
Deputy Dawg. |
Don't panic normal service has resumed |
Vodafone and IBM have embarked on a strategic collaboration aimed at protecting customer data from emerging threats associated with quantum computing technology. |
Steve you dirty boy....I too had 10,000 rolls royce shares. Sold at 150p. They were 800p laat week.
Not making same mistake with vod |
the share price got above the 200dma twice last year. let's see some persistence above it and ideally get above 80p before getting too excited. the only trend i see is that the downtrend might have ended. it might get rangebound. the good news is that it is quite a while before it goes xd again, which gives it some time to stay above the ma's
am in overall profit now but would like some more before i get out. vod owes me, and probably quite a few others on here. a few pennies on the share price makes a big difference |
Surprised you’re really rich if you always sell this early. Let the trend be your friend. This dog has finally turned and trend is firmly up. Holding for 90+ then will reevaluate.
I did sell out of RR for 20% profit instead of holding for a ten bagger though lol. |
Am out today 50000 shares sold lost a bit on average price but had 3 divis |
Wait Vod going up. Wtf. |
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