To: HAL9000
It should tell us something about this deal when the loser's stock price goes up.
2 posted on
02/17/2004 2:18:02 AM PST by
snopercod
(When the people are ready, a master will appear.)
To: snopercod
Still up on the drudgreport:
NYT: AT&T WIRELESS LEANING TOWARD VODAPHONE IN BIDDING...
3 posted on
02/17/2004 2:23:52 AM PST by
snopercod
(When the people are ready, a master will appear.)
To: snopercod
Vodafone is tangled up in Verizon, and can't easily do any deals without being held hostage to their lack of a backup plan. For example, to buy ATTWS they would have to sell off VZW. But if their bid failed, they could end up with no wireless partner in the U.S.
As far as I cna figure out, Vodafone's backup plan would have been to then turn around and buy all of the combined Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless and hope they could spin out the landline stuff without taking a bath.
5 posted on
02/17/2004 4:23:10 AM PST by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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