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...bank's ability to turn tired old assets into lucrative investment vehicles has become so well known in financial circles that some have dubbed deals like the proposed PCCW acquisition "Macquisitions." Macquarie "has developed a lot of intellectual capital in this area," says Jack Chemello, an investment analyst with BT Funds Management. "They are way ahead of their competitors...
...biggest loser could be international calls from fixed-line phones. VoIP is already making big inroads in the world of fixed lines. A report last week by JupiterResearch analyst Ian Fogg even predicted "the end of the home telephone," as consumers increasingly embrace VoIP technology. Established operators such as BT and Orange are quickly trying to catch up, bundling VoIP in with their other services. The technology isn't yet perfect; in Rebtel's case, users need to sign up first on its website, and remain at the mercy of local mobile networks for the quality of calls, which...
...biggest tech players are not going to sit this game out. For some companies, that will be liberating. "Making calls from a mobile handset is no longer the preserve of just the mobile operator," says Ryan Jarvis, head of convergence products for British mobile and fixed-line provider BT. Because BT only recently entered into the mobile-service business, it has been among the first of the old-line telecoms to cautiously embrace mobile VoIP. Since June, BT has started 400 of its home broadband customers on Fusion, a Motorola-supplied phone that makes cheap Internet Protocol (IP) calls from...
...impact of the Marks & Spencer case is likely to be wider and far more costly. Even pending the final ruling, dozens of big companies including BT Group, French bank BNP Paribas and U.S. machinery firm Caterpillar have filed for tax relief in Britain using the same criteria as Marks & Spencer. "This potentially opens the floodgates for claims over the past six years," says Michael Hardwick, a corporate tax partner at Linklaters in London. Simon Whitehead of solicitors Dorsey & Whitney, which is representing Marks & Spencer, says that 70 multinational firms have already signed up for a group action that...
...have been working and playing for generations, and with which they feel a strong bond. They've pledged tens of millions of euros, millions of doses of drugs, and the people and equipment needed to reconstruct damaged infrastructure. On Dec. 30, Christopher Bland, chairman of the U.K. telecommunications group BT, began phoning top executives at Britain's 20 largest companies to urge them to donate to the relief effort, but he soon gave up because so many of those he called had already made large pledges. "I think it's an unprecedented response in terms of corporate giving," Bland told...