Telecommunication Report

Monday, July 30, 2007

Rebel shareholders focus minds as Vodafone mulls Verizon’s future
TELECOMS JON ASHWORTH
The Business
28 Jul 2007

SIR John Bond had an easy ride at Vodafone’s annual general meeting (AGM) in London. The gathering brought none of the riotous protests sometimes seen at such events, when environmental protestors chain themselves to their seats and extremists lob... read more...

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Europe’s telecom sector seems ready to rebound
By Peter Stiff And Wade Koenecke —Daniel Thomas and Lilly Vitorovich contributed to this article.
The Wall Street Journal Europe
23 Jul 2007

European telecom shares are primed to rise higher in the second half as companies unroll new services and consolidation talk accelerates. After languishing in the doldrums for the past year, stock prices for some of the sector’s key players could be... read more...

Monday, July 16, 2007

Telefónica insists it won’t make big deals
By Keith Johnson
The Wall Street Journal Europe
16 Jul 2007

Madrid SPAIN’S TELEFÓNICA SA spent more than OE100 billion ($138 billion) during the past decade to build a sprawling empire with operations in 22 countries. This year, in an effort to shed its label as a serial buyer, it vowed not to make any major... read more...

Monday, July 02, 2007

Why world’s police turn to text messaging
By Li Yuan
The Wall Street Journal Europe
02 Jul 2007

THREE WEEKS ago, when police in The Hague in the Netherlands got a report that a boat had been stolen, they sent out a text message about the case to residents who had signed up to receive neighborhood crime alerts on their cellphones. An hour later,... read more...