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New UK foreign investment law to impact telecoms, digital and data transactions

24 May 202124 May 2021 by Rob Bratby

Summary By the end of 2021, many corporate transactions in the communications, data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, satellite and space technologies sectors (and some others) will …

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Goodbye from Watching the Connectives

16 April 202030 March 2017 by Rob Bratby

To all my readers, thank you and goodbye. This blog is now an ex-blog.

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India opens telecoms sector to 100% foreign investment

17 July 2013 by Rob Bratby

On Tuesday 16th July the Indian Government announced its decision to relax its foreign direct investment rules to permit 100% foreign investment in the telecoms sector, up from …

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How serious is India about foreign investment as an engine for growth?

13 April 2012 by Rob Bratby

I will be spending next week in Mumbai and Delhi (with @singarbitration), and in preparation have been contemplating the impact of the recent budget proposals on foreign …

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Continued growth in Asian technology, media and telecoms sectors in 2012 despite Eurozone troubles

23 February 2012 by Rob Bratby

With the launch party of Olswang Asia happening tonight, I have been musing on the economic outlook for Asia in 2012 and beyond. At a very micro-level …

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Indian Supreme Court decision in Vodafone tax case good news for international investors in India

22 January 2012 by Rob Bratby

The judgement of India’s Supreme Court on 20 Jan in the Vodafone tax case, removes (at least for now) some of country-specific risk that has …

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Patent power (part 2) – Google buys Motorola Mobility

15 August 2011 by Rob Bratby

Today’s big news is Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. What is fascinating is the logic for the deal. This is not a deal driven by …

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Microsoft buys Skype: comparison with eBay deal logic

11 May 2011 by Rob Bratby

The big story yesterday was the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. It was only 6 years ago that eBay bought Skype for …

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Reform of UK Competition law to lead to flood of merger notifications?

18 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

On 16 March the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (although as regular readers will know, no longer telecoms) published a consultation on options …

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Mobile operators to acquire more fixed assets in 2011?

1 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

Any twitter followers (to follow go to: @rbratby) may have seen my live tweet commentary from the AnalysysMason city briefing last night. I thought the four speakers …

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