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...Then there were hefty bribes paid by VimpelCom (now Veon), a Dutch-headquartered telecoms group, to the daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan....
...The original merger with the VimpelCom business required more than a year of regulatory approvals....
...The original merger with the VimpelCom business required more than a year for regulatory approvals....
...Telia is the latest Nordic mobile operator to leave the ex-USSR market after Norwegian rival Telenor began to sell its 33 per cent stake in Veon, formerly known as Vimpelcom, after getting ensnared in a...
...Veon, the mobile operator formerly known as Vimpelcom, paid a $795m fine last year after admitting paying bribes to Ms Karimova....
...“This is a transaction that came at a very delicate moment of European consolidation,” says Mr Bavasso, who advised Veon (formerly VimpelCom)....
...Everyone said it would not be possible in Italy,” Jean-Yves Charlier, chief executive of VimpelCom, said on a visit to the Financial Times....
...We can approve the deal because Hutchison and VimpelCom have offered a strong remedy that enables a new mobile network operator, Iliad, to enter the Italian market....
...However, a move by 3 Italia and VimpelCom to sell some of their spectrum to France’s Iliad in July eased the concerns of competition regulators....
...CK Hutchison and VimpelCom are in talks with Iliad and Sky among other companies in a bid to address regulatory concerns over the €20bn merger between their local businesses....
...Alexey Reznikovich, managing partner of the L1 Technology fund and chairman of VimpelCom, said that FreedomPop had opportunities for growth in the developing world but also had the potential to shake up...
...Many of the emerging markets in which VimpelCom operates are only starting to see the widespread adoption of 3G and 4G technology....
...VimpelCom and Hutchison will agree to create a fourth mobile group to win approval for the Italian deal....
...Iliad has signed an agreement with CK Hutchison and VimpelCom to buy a package of assets that would set the French low-cost telecoms group on course to become Italy’s fourth mobile operator....
...by VimpelCom in Uzbekistan....
...Problem number one is VimpelCom’s heavily indebted Italian subsidiary, Wind. Italy has contributed almost a third of VimpelCom’s earnings before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation....
...Telecom Italia launched an initial public offering of its Inwit towers business last year — following the 2015 flotation of Spain’s Cellnex — while VimpelCom sold more than 7,000 of its towers in Italy....
...Mr Lunder’s lawyer told Norwegian television channel NRK that his client insists that he had nothing to do with any corruption at VimpelCom....
...Hutchison’s joint venture with VimpelCom in Italy is also currently the subject of a commission investigation....
...The company plans to create a jointly owned company with VimpelCom, the telecoms company whose largest shareholder is Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group....
...Hutchison’s joint venture with VimpelCom in Italy is also the subject of a commission investigation, and telecoms executives will need to rethink corporate strategies more widely that had relied in part...
...Telenor was also last year dragged into a scandal around Russian telecoms group VimpelCom. Read more here....
The countdown has merely paused on consolidation involving the four mobile operators
...VimpelCom announced earlier this year plans to sell its smallest operations in Zimbabwe and Laos....
...The proposed merger is seen as a test case for similar deals across Europe, including in Italy where CK Hutchison is trying to combine its mobile business with the operator owned by VimpelCom....
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