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...also serves as chief strategic advisor to Vodafone Airtouch PLC, which he helped to build into the world’s largest mobile network telecommunications company through a series of aggressive acquisitions in the 1990s...
...outbid American phone giant Bell Atlantic for control of AirTouch Communications, then turned around and hooked up with Bell Atlantic to combine both companies' wireless networks in the U.S. under the Verizon umbrella...
...Bertelsmann and Napster b) Time Warner and AOL c) Vodaphone and AirTouch d) Gucci and LVMH
...further deregulation of a true single market where prices are increasingly denominated in euros rather than in marks, francs or pesetas. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a major consolidation--the $198 billion proposed takeover of German mobile-phone provider Mannesmann by British giant Vodafone AirTouch will surpass the AOL-Time Warner/deal as the largest merger ever. The most auspicious development of the past year, given Europe's historic fragmentation along national lines, is the cross-border merger. Aventis is the new, conspicuously neutral name for what used to be Germany's Hoechst and France's Rhone...
...firms have a special focus on wireless, mobile communications. Wireless is a key part of the new international telecoms order because wireless systems are far easier to build and maintain than in-the-ground copper or fiber-optic networks. And in an age of globalization, Vodafone--which also owns AirTouch--could offer to let its users roam freely from nation to nation without having to pay the exorbitant special charges that they face today. Observes Frank Wellendorf, a telecommunications analyst with Westdeutsche Landesbank: "Clearly, Vodafone is in a very good position in comparison to other mobile operators...