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		<title>THE DEAL is OFF AGAIN !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                          
 
One of the biggest deal  in the Telecoms sector between MTN and BHARTI-AIRTEL was called off for the second time !
If the M&#38;A Operation had gone through, it would have catapulted Bharti Airtel to become the third largest telecom services provider spanning 20 countries and 200 million subscribers globally. MTN is leading the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=armelopost.wordpress.com&blog=2987934&post=888&subd=armelopost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">One of the biggest deal  in the Telecoms sector between </span></strong><a href="http://www.mtn.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">MTN</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"> and </span></strong><a href="http://www.airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/about+bharti+airtel/Bharti+Airtel/About+Bharti+Airtel/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">BHARTI-AIRTEL </span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">was called off for the second time !</span></strong></p>
<p>If the M&amp;A Operation had gone through, it would have catapulted <a href="http://www.airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/about+bharti+airtel/Bharti+Airtel/About+Bharti+Airtel/" target="_blank">Bharti Airtel </a>to become the third largest telecom services provider spanning 20 countries and 200 million subscribers globally. <a href="http://www.mtn.com/" target="_blank">MTN </a>is leading the pack in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and would have expanded its reach to Asia thanks to tie-ins via Airtel. But, it has been said that the South African Government did not want to give away such a flagship Iconic company. MTN represents way too much for Pretoria, and forking over its control to Bharti would leave a bad taste no matter the exchanged price.</p>
<p>With that said, it&#8217;s not completely over.. Something might pop again soon between these two.</p>
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		<title>BIG DEAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                               
Big Deal en préparation qui risque bouleverser le paysage du marché télécoms 
Le secteur des télécommunications dans les pays émergents continue à faire parler de lui avec une opération d&#8217;une toute autre ampleur en préparation depuis plus d&#8217;un an. L&#8217;indien Bharti Airtel et le sud-africain MTN Group se seraient accordés pour des prises [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=armelopost.wordpress.com&blog=2987934&post=877&subd=armelopost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>        <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-186" title="mtn2" src="http://armelopost.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mtn2.jpg?w=131&#038;h=66" alt="mtn2" width="131" height="66" />                       <img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-183" title="airtel" src="http://armelopost.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/airtel.jpg?w=150&#038;h=79" alt="airtel" width="150" height="79" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffcc00;">Big Deal en préparation qui risque bouleverser le paysage du marché télécoms </span></strong></p>
<p>Le secteur des télécommunications dans les pays émergents continue à faire parler de lui avec une opération d&#8217;une toute autre ampleur en préparation depuis plus d&#8217;un an. L&#8217;indien<a href="http://www.airtel.in/" target="_blank"> Bharti Airtel </a>et le sud-africain <a href="http://www.mtngroup.com/" target="_blank">MTN Group </a>se seraient accordés pour des prises de participation croisées, prélude à une fusion, selon Bloomberg news. Bharti prendrait 49% de MTN pour 14 Milliards de Dollars, tandis que MTN investirait 10 Milliards de dollars dans Bharti pour 33% des parts. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://armelopost.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/allo-africa/" target="_blank">Post orginal de Mai 2008 sur le sujet</a>:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.airtel.in/" target="_blank"><em>AIRTEL</em></a><em> le plus grand operateur télécom en Inde veut profiter de la croissance sur le marché Africain en passant par MTN. </em><a href="http://www.mtn.com/" target="_blank"><em>MTN </em></a><em>détient a ce jour 62millions d’abonnés sur le continent Africain et le Proche-Orient. Parmi les régions desservies, l’Afrique du Sud, le Nigeria, et le Cameroun sont les pays ou les marges de progression sont les plus elevées.</em></p>
<p><em>Dans mon post précedent sur la </em><a href="http://armelopost.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/the-decoupling-theory-and-africa/" target="_blank"><em>théorie du DECOUPLAGE</em></a><em>, je mentionnais l’interet soudain que representait les acteurs du marché Africain (Sud-Sahara), vis a vis du ralentissement des activités de M&amp;A (Fusions-Acquisitions) aux USA et en Europe continentale. L’apport de 12milliards de Dollars de la banque </em><a href="http://www2.goldmansachs.com/" target="_blank"><em>Goldman Sachs</em></a><em> vient confirmer (en quelque sorte) la validité de cet argument</em></p>
<p>S/ce:  Finance  Plus, Bloomberg News</p>
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		<title>TELECOMS &amp; AFRICA:The Fix is in</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[               
&#8220;Subprime&#8221; Over charging  is the bread and butter of Telecom Companies  in Africa.
There is a research that basically confirmed with factual data what we&#8217;ve been saying on Armelopost for a while now. The project was conducted by RIA (Research ICT Africa) a network of Universities and Research Institutions from 19 African Countries. They used data representative of over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=armelopost.wordpress.com&blog=2987934&post=787&subd=armelopost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#cc99ff;"><strong>&#8220;Subprime&#8221; Over charging  is the bread and butter of Telecom Companies  in Africa.</strong></span></p>
<p>There is a research that basically confirmed with factual data what we&#8217;ve been saying on Armelopost for a while now. <a href="http://whiteafrican.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/researchictafrica-ictd2009.pdf" target="_blank">The project </a>was conducted by <a href="http://www.researchictafrica.net/" target="_blank">RIA (Research ICT Africa) </a>a network of Universities and Research Institutions from 19 African Countries. They used data representative of over 17 countries to analyze Mobile Telephony Access and usage in Africa.</p>
<p>By looking at the entire project, there are many conclusions you can draw including those already found by the researchers. I was particularly interested on the different results on Cameroon  because I can&#8217;t speak with certainty about the economic balance in other African countries except in general terms. What this research confirmed that is worth noting is that the lower class and the poor continue to be the bread and butter of companies operating in essential sectors .</p>
<p>Believe it or not, Mobile Telephone expenses are now an integral part of the budget of most Africans. But if we are to believe the data out of <a href="http://www.mtncameroon.net/LoadedPortal" target="_blank">MTN</a> and <a href="http://www.orange.cm/EN/" target="_blank">ORANGE</a>for example, the vast majority of new accounts are prepaid SIM cards with the highest per minute rates on calls in Cameroon. It&#8217;s practically impossible for people to sign up for longer contracts (crazy requirements!) and spend less on phone calls like the upper class is allowed to do.</p>
<p>Overall, it&#8217;s very simple if you ask me, just as <a href="http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/03/16/story31271.asp" target="_blank">Digicel made huge profits in the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere</a>, poor people remain the bread and butter of the telecoms industry in Africa no matter how you look at it. Contrary to perceived assumptions, as people income rise, their Mobile Phone expenditure does not increase accordingly, hence my earlier conclusion.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t end there, if you listen or read the 2009 guidance from global phone operators and handset makers after their quarterly reports, they continue to look towards Emerging Markets (Asia, Mid-East, Africa) for any growth. That growth is only coming from lower or poor households since they are the category fueling the current subscribers boom.</p>
<p>The only difference between the higher rates being charged to sub-prime customers in the mortgage and credit card industries and most African (Cameroon for instance) mobile phone subscribers is that there is no premise on which to judge the credit rating of the latter. Between those prepaid customers, a lot more could have qualified for lower fees and handset buy-in plans, but those are so far reserved only to the well-off minority.</p>
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		<title>RAID sur les telecoms en Afrique !!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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BATAILLE POUR LE CONTROLE DU MARCHE AFRICAIN.
Le CEO de France Telecom Didier Lombard indique dans son rapport trimestriel aux shareholders, que la nouvelle strategie de la compagnie est de faire du continent africain, ce que la compagnie espagnole Telefonica a fait en Amerique latine (source). Bref, le moteur principal de sa croissance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=armelopost.wordpress.com&blog=2987934&post=15&subd=armelopost&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><span><font color="#ff0000" face="Times New Roman"><span><strong>BATAILLE POUR LE CONTROLE DU MARCHE AFRICAIN.</strong></span></font></span></p>
<p><span>Le CEO de France Telecom Didier Lombard indique dans son rapport trimestriel aux shareholders, que la nouvelle strategie de la compagnie est de faire du continent africain, ce que la compagnie espagnole Telefonica a fait en Amerique latine (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f716ddc6-a100-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">source</a>). Bref, le moteur principal de sa croissance pour les annees a venir. Objectif : une augmentation du nombre de clients vers 50millions dans le court terme a travers le reseau <a target="_blank" href="http://www.orange.com">ORANGE</a> ( part of France Telecom).<br />
Tout ce que je souhaite, c&#8217;est que ce nouvel engouement pour les networks Africains soit benefique pour les utilisateurs locaux en termes de reduction drastique des couts de telecom (High Speed, GSM, GPRS). Il faut avouer que malgre les deux dernieres baisses des tariffs, la minute / unite sur mobile reste toujours chere a mon avis. Pareil pour le cout d&#8217;abonnement au High Speed Internet ou Wi-Fi.<br />
Quoi qu’il en soit, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.orange.com/en_EN/">ORANGE </a> a fort a faire contre le Sud-Africain <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mtn.com/">MTN</a> qui est le leader inconteste sur le continent Africain pendant que <a target="_blank" href="http://www.orange.com">ORANGE</a> n&#8217;occupe que la 5 eme place (pour l’instant).</span></p>
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<p><span>Ces derniers temps France Telecom passe a l’offensive !</span></p>
<p><span><a target="_blank" href="http://nino.akopo.com/post/2007/11/28/france-telecoms-s-offre-ghana-telecom">Nino</a> sur son site revele egalement que &#8220;&#8230;<em>quelques temps seulement après son entrée au capital de <span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.telkom.co.ke/">Kenya Telkom</a></span></span> (contre 390 millions $) à hauteur de 51% (en partenariat avec d&#8217;autres investisseurs), </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/thestory.asp?id=4591"><em>France Telecom a remporté</em></a><em> les 51% de part de </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ghanatelecom.com.gh/gt_home/"><em>Ghana Telecom</em></a><em> mis en vente par le gouvernement du Ghana. Les 49% autres parts seront mis en vente à la </em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gse.com.gh/"><em>Ghana Stock Exchange</em></a><em> (GSE).D&#8217;autres opérateurs comme Vodacom, Portugal Telecom ou Singapore Telecoms étaient aussi sur la liste de départ. </em></span><span><em>Les rumeurs dont état d&#8217;une transaction entre 500 et 600 millions $, ce qui valorise Ghana Telecoms à environ 1 milliard $</em></span></p>
<p><span><em>Voilà presque coup sur coup un investissement de près de 900 millions $ en Afrique de la part de France Telecoms, asseyant petit à petit son emprise en Afrique&#8230;&#8221;.</em> <a target="_blank" href="http://nino.akopo.com/post/2007/11/28/france-telecoms-s-offre-ghana-telecom">(Source)</a></span></p>
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