Movements mergers and acquisitions continue to dominate the sector ... - Público.pt

AT & T will move next year with a tender offer for Vodafone and create the world’s leading telecommunications, with over 500 million customers.

If 2013 has been a year in lavish drives in the telecommunications sector, 2014 will see the creation of the largest operator in the world, resulting from the union between the U.S. AT & T and Vodafone UK. The news of a possible takeover bid for AT & T was released on Friday by Bloomberg, citing sources close to the companies.
Negotiations have not yet even begun, but according to Bloomberg, the operation may receive the endorsement of Vodafone, you want, however, to keep in motion their own plans for expansion in the European market.
Rumors approaches between AT & T and Vodafone are today because even spoke up for months that the U.S. company would have approached the U.S. Verizon also, when it was still a partner of Vodafone, with a proposal to the acquisition of the British operator.
conviction that the future of the industry will be determined by movements merger and acquisition has gained national and transnational consistency with the movements of recent months. Since the disposal by the Vodafone Verizon own the 45% held in Verizon Wireless, the strengthening of the Spanish Telefónica in Telecom Italia and the purchase also by the Spanish company (who was once a partner of PT in Brazil Vivo), the German E- Plus, the Dutch KPN. The KPN itself was recently the target of a takeover attempt by America Movil’s (owner of course, competes with Hi and Vivo in Brazil) and who came to die on the beach by opposition from minority shareholders of the company.
For now, we have the example of Zon and Optimus, who created the Zon Optimus, and the announced merger between PT and Hi, which will create a telecommunications operator based in Rio de Janeiro.
materialize approach between AT & T and Vodafone, the deal will create the largest network operator in the world with over 500 million customers and a market value of around 250 billion dollars (something like 183 000 million), refers to Bloomberg. Appear simultaneously also a large group with a negotiating capacity able to cope with manufacturers like Samsung, Apple, Google and even Microsoft, increasingly powerful in the discussion of agreements and prices with telecom operators.