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Vodafone Group Plc’s investors have ideas for the $100 billion or more that the company stands to pocket for its stake in Verizon Wireless: first, a fat dividend -- then, deals.
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Telecom Italia SpA, Italy’s biggest phone company, forecast declining earnings for this year and said it plans to cut its dividend after reporting 2012 profit that trailed analysts’ estimates. The stock fell.
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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc has won safety approval to power Airbus SAS A350 airliners as the British turbine maker shifts the program’s focus to an unprecedented ramp-up in production.
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Nokia Oyj rose 1.4 percent in Helsinki trading today after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its price target for the world’s biggest mobile-phone maker.
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Virgin Media Inc., the U.K.’s second-largest pay-television company, said third-quarter operating profit rose 11 percent as subscribers opted for its faster and more expensive broadband products.
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A disposal of Verizon Communications Inc.’s fixed-line operations would clear the way for the company to merge its wireless and enterprise units with partner Vodafone Group Plc, analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.
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Portugal Telecom SGPS SA agreed to buy a stake in Telemar Norte Leste SA to remain in the Brazilian telecommunications market as it sells its shares in the country’s biggest mobile-phone operator to Telefonica SA.
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Telecom Italia SpA Chief Executive Officer Franco Bernabe , who presided over a 19.7 billion-euro ($27.3 billion) loss of market value, has boosted his chances of a second term by cutting debt and promising higher dividends.
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Ericsson AB, the largest maker of wireless networks, reported profit that missed analysts’ estimates on slower services growth and bigger-than-anticipated job-cut costs, sending the stock to its biggest drop since 2009.
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Nokia Oyj fell as it forecast smaller margins in the first quarter, underscoring Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop ’s challenge in the fight against Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android.
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