Global operator strategies - 16/03/06

DT denied any intent to buy a stake in a media company (have a look at previous post at ....more.).

SonaeCom (Portugal) is in talk with Telefonica and Telkom (S. Africa) for its proposed acquisition of Portugal Telecom.

TDC (Denmark) has agreed to sell its 15% stake in PolkomTel to Polish shareholders.

Verizon should have offered $40bn for Vodafone’ s stake in Verizon Wireless. As a response to last week’s announcement that AT&T Inc. was acquiring Cingular and Bellsouth, Verizon is on the buying side, and Vodafone should be pushed by its shareholders to ask a (very) good price.

Google has bought Writely.com, which enables users to create and store documents online and challenge Microsoft' s Office software.

Telenor sold its 5% remaining stake in satellite network operator Inmarsat.

Brazil will order 1m $100-PCs for schools.