The message was only half-heartedly denied: "We always look at the market," said a spokesman for Vodafone. The Handelsblatt reported earlier, the German subsidiary of British mobile giant plane, the TV cable operator Kabel Deutschland to take over. Vodafone let the value of the company and a possible financing durchrechnen. Further details were not to know yesterday.
Clearly, however, is among industry experts that such an exercise a high degree of plausibility has. In mobile communications, the core business of Vodafone, has allowed the group with an increasingly tough price war to do so.
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Therefore, management has decided that the fixed subsidiary Arcor, which some time ago should still be sold, even more in the group to integrate. This is aimed at the so-called triple play: telephony, Internet access and Internet television from a single source. The TV division is the least developed so far in this triad. As a cable operator would be just right. On mergers of this kind in the industry has long been speculated, since the infrastructure for the transport of television images in the hands of financial investors, whose return is far ideas have not been met.
Kabel Deutschland is by far the largest operator of cable networks, he is in the new countries, in the north of the old countries as well as in Bavaria and has good eleven million customers. The company is controlled by U.S. financial investor Providence Equity Partners.
Clearly, however, is among industry experts that such an exercise a high degree of plausibility has. In mobile communications, the core business of Vodafone, has allowed the group with an increasingly tough price war to do so.
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Therefore, management has decided that the fixed subsidiary Arcor, which some time ago should still be sold, even more in the group to integrate. This is aimed at the so-called triple play: telephony, Internet access and Internet television from a single source. The TV division is the least developed so far in this triad. As a cable operator would be just right. On mergers of this kind in the industry has long been speculated, since the infrastructure for the transport of television images in the hands of financial investors, whose return is far ideas have not been met.
Kabel Deutschland is by far the largest operator of cable networks, he is in the new countries, in the north of the old countries as well as in Bavaria and has good eleven million customers. The company is controlled by U.S. financial investor Providence Equity Partners.
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