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...Verizon is also expanding its partnerships with school districts in the US to provide students with discounts on unlimited wireless internet plans and hotspots, tablets and other tools to stay connected....
...For five years, Mr Colao had been conducting an elaborate courtship with Lowell McAdam, chief executive of Verizon Wireless, the US mobile operator in which Vodafone held a 45 per cent stake....
...A Deutsche-Goldman tie-up would have its own problems, of course, and be far more politically sensitive, but it’d be a cheap deal....
...“The Verizon deal was $50bn and that was investment grade,” referring to the largest corporate bond that was used to back a deal for Verizon to buy full control of Verizon Wireless from Vodafone....
...“When I look in the mirror, I see a 15-year-old curious kid, not a 52-year-old tired executive,” he told the Financial Times, in his first interview since joining Verizon Wireless....
...He is perhaps best known for helping to orchestrate the $130bn sale of Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless in 2013....
...Deals included the rancorous acquisition of Mannesmann in 2000 for $183bn and more recently the $130bn sale of Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless and the acquisitions of Kabel Deutschland and Ono....
...The deal, if completed at that size, will rank as the second largest on record, trailing only the $49bn Verizon raised in 2013 to finance its acquisition of Verizon Wireless....
...stake in Verizon Wireless it did not already own....
...In contrast, Vodafone has been concentrating on growth in Europe ever since it sold its Verizon Wireless stake in the US for $130bn three years ago....
...Wireless which backed Softcard....
...Google wallet will be preinstalled later this year on Android phones sold by AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, which backed Softcard....
...Mr Halford had “retired” at 55 as Voda’s finance director in March, having solved the puzzle of how to unlock the minority shareholding in Verizon Wireless....
...But the group’s T-Mobile US business, in which it holds a 67 per cent stake, said last week it had added more subscribers in the first quarter than both AT&T and Verizon Wireless combined – selling 1.3m...
...The latest figures from T-Mobile US and its three larger rivals – Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Sprint – show that the total number of subscribers grew by 4.1 per cent in the first quarter this year...
...to Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, which control more than 75 per cent of the US wireless market....
...Wireless to Verizon Communications for $130bn was completed....
...And the UK-based group, with ample balance sheet capacity in the wake of the Verizon Wireless stake sale, does not seem to have overpaid....
...use as a fixed wireless broadband network....
...Rather this was an accounting requirement after the $130bn sale of Vodafone’s Verizon Wireless stake and amounts to a £14.5bn gain net of the tax charge related to that sale....
...Vodafone shareholders are already awaiting a payout of more than £50bn from the $130bn sale of its 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless....
...However, his last act will also be the most significant in overseeing the financial aspects of a sale of the $130bn stake in its US wireless business to Verizon....
...Instead, it focused on acquiring the 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless....
...There was much hoopla late on Wednesday as Verizon got the world’s largest corporate bond sale away — some $49bn of paper which will help to buy the rump of Verizon Wireless back from Vodafone....
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