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Saturday, March 18, 2006

 
Softbank acquires Vodafone KK for $15B
Vodafone KK is the Japanese branch that hasn't gone very well lately (or ever). They have 15M customers, which indicates the cost per customer is pretty high.

Is this a sign of overall problems within Vodafone? There are also rumours about selling off Vodafone Sweden.

Quote: Its (Softbank) business includes online gaming, electronic stock trading, Net broadcasting and an investment arm.

Softbank agrees to buy Vodafone's Japan mobile unit in $15 billion US deal - Yahoo! News

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