Mobile devices Toolkit

News Burst: Is One 2 One up for grabs?

Chiyo Robertson ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 07 Jul 1999 11:56 BST

Germany's Mannesmann, which runs the country's mobile-phone network, and France Telecom are understood to be circling UK mobile phone company One 2 One, according to a Financial Times report today. One 2 One, which is owned by Cable and Wireless and US group Media One, are understood to be offering around £8 billion, well under the £11 billion mark the company is looking for. The report says C&W and MediaOne may cancel the sale and consider a share listing.

Did you find this article useful?
25 out of 63 people found this useful

More In Mobile devices

Company/Topic Alerts

Create a new alert from the list below:

Video

Install Flash Player plugin

Find out more: Nokia releases 'point and...

Official Organizations Losing Data

How does this article from earlier today make you feel? How many more government, health service, or military officials are going to lose pen drives, DVDs, USB hard disks and even entire... More

1 comment

Using Bluetooth on Linux

I have mentioned before that I use a number of Bluetooth peripherals with my portable computers. This is one of those things where, the more I use it the more I like it. I've now... More

Toshiba JournE Touch

Look around the room at any meeting these days and you see the back of a lot of laptop screens, with as many people catching up on email as taking notes or doing relevant research.... More

1 comment