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[Imax_Cool]

SYDNEY (dpa-AFX) - Australiens größte Telefongesellschaft, Telstra , hat am Mittwoch Verhandlungen mit dem Internet- und Mobilfunkunternehmen Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) in Hongkong über eine Allianz bestätigt. Wie die "Australian Financial Review" berichtete, will Telstra sich für drei Milliarden Dollar bei der Mobiltelefongesellschaft einkaufen. Der Handel der Telstra-Aktien wurde in Erwartung einer Mitteilung des Unternehmens ausgesetzt.

Telstra gehört zu 51 Prozent dem Staat. Das australische Unternehmen will künftig außer in Hongkong auch in anderen asiatischen Ländern auf dem Mobiltelefonmarkt präsent sein.

Telstra hatte sich Ende Februar vergeblich am Übernahmekampf um die Kontrolle der Hongkong-Tochter des britischen Telekommunikationskonzern Cable & Wireless (C&W) beteiligt. PCCW, das dem Hongkonger Geschäftsmann Richard Li gehört, hatte sich damals durchgesetzt und 54 Prozent des Telekom-Unternehmens gekauft. Li ist einer der erfolgreichsten Geschäftsmänner Hongkongs./sa/DP




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[Astaga]

Das hört sich ja gut an!
Was meint ihr, wird das den PCCW Kurs beflügeln?
Bin bei 2,75€ eingestiegen, werde jetzt wahrscheinlich nachkaufen!

[Imax_Cool]

DU kannst heute leider nicht nachkaufen, der Handel ist ausgesetzt worden.
Viel Glück noch

[Brasil]

Hi leute !

Die Nachricht ist schon bestätigt worden !!!!

Telstra to Invest $3 Bln in H.K.`s CyberWorks (Update1)
By Mike Yee

Hong Kong, April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Telstra Corp.,
Australia`s No. 1 telephone company, said it will invest $3
billion in Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd., marking its first
major investment in Asia.

Melbourne-based Telstra will buy $1.5 billion of notes
convertible into CyberWorks shares, representing about 2 percent
of the company. It will also invest $1.5 billion in the mobile
phone business of Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd., which Hong Kong-
based CyberWorks is in the process of buying.

Under the agreement, Telstra and Cyberworks will form two
new Hong Kong-based companies, IP Backbone Company and Regional
Mobile Company. CyberWorks Chairman Richard Li said the alliance
will seek to sell shares in the new ventures ``as soon as
possible`` through separate initial public offers.

IP Backbone Company, a 50-50 venture, will operate as a
global carrier of data, voice and Internet services, focusing
initially on expanding existing businesses in the Asia Pacific
region. It won`t include the local network or domestic wholesale
businesses in Hong Kong and Australia.

Regional Mobile Company, which includes parts of Telstra`s
international business and what is now HKT`s mobile phone unit,
will seek to combine and boost existing wireless business in the
region. Telstra will own 40 percent of the venture, with
CyberWorks holding 60 percent.
``The plan to create the first pan-Asian companies with
truly regional capabilities in cable and networks, wireless
telephony and IP Data Backbone is an important opportunity to add
more shareholder value from non-traditional areas,`` said Ziggy
Switkowski, chief executive at Telstra.

Alliances

Telstra, which has made overseas Internet and data
investments a top priority, has been seeking phone and online
alliances in Asia to offset losses in market share from its
traditional telephone business in Australia. It is selling A$4
billion of bonds over the next two years to pay existing debt and
help finance new acquisitions in Asian Internet and data
communications companies.

The proposed alliance with CyberWorks is conditional on the
completion of the proposed merger between CyberWorks, Asia`s
third-largest Internet investment company, and Cable & Wireless
HKT Ltd. The accord is also subject to due diligence and
regulatory approval.

In February, CyberWorks offered to buy all of Cable &
Wireless HKT Ltd., Hong Kong`s dominant telephone company, in a
cash-and-stock offer that valued HKT at as much as US$38 billion.
``Our alliance with Telstra is another step towards
achieving our vision of creating the world`s largest broadband
Internet business,`` said CyberWorks` Li.

Telstra has also been seeking acquisitions and alliances in
the region, as it can`t expand much further in Australia because
of its dominant position in the nation`s phone and Internet
industries. It was forced to abandon its recent A$350 million bid
to buy OzEmail Ltd., an Australian Internet services company,
after the nation`s antitrust regulator opposed the takeover on
competition concerns.

Martin Ratia, a Telstra spokesman, said the company is still
in talks to buy a stake in Thailand`s Total Access. ``It`s no
secret we`re in discussions (with Total Access),`` he said. ``At
the appropriate time the parties will make an announcement. Until
then, Telstra doesn`t comment on speculation.``

Stakes

The company has already taken stakes in Australian
technology companies such as Sydney-based accountancy software
supplier Solution 6 Holdings Ltd., and No. 1 share registry
business Computershare Ltd., and Melbourne-based Sausage Software
Ltd.

Telstra`s shares rose 12 cents, or 1.6 percent, to A$7.64,
before being suspended from trading pending the announcement. The
statement was made after the Australian market closed.

CyberWorks` shares, also suspended, fell 2 percent yesterday
to HK$15.40. Its Singapore-listed parent, Pacific Century
Regional Developments Ltd., rose as much as 11 percent to S$16.50
today before they were also suspended.

mfG
so long....

Brasil