Vodafone interested in acquiring 10 percent stake in Metroweb (Italy)
Vodafone Italy is reportedly working to acquire a minimum 10 percent stake in Metroweb, a fibre-optic company. According to reports, Metroweb’s clientele currently includes Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Wind Telecomunicazioni and Fastweb, a unit of Swisscom.
Sources claim that the fiber-optic company had hinted at plans of extending its network in various cities of Italy with its prime focus towards the northern end. Further, F2i, the investment and infrastructure unit of Intesa Sanapaolo had reportedly agreed to pay $ 587 million to acquire Metroweb in May 2011, while Fastweb agreed to buy 11 percent of the company last month.
MetroPCS launches $40 unlimited tariff plan (USA)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MetroPCS Communications, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of unlimited, flat-rate, no contract wireless communications service, announces the addition of new features to its existing service plans that will save wireless customers even more money beginning August 1, 2009.
MetroPCS’ $40 plan will include MetroPCS Unlimited NationwideSM service for talk, text and MetroWEB® and its flagship $45 plan will now include unlimited email, navigation and social networking applications. MetroPCS’ $30 and $35 local unlimited plans will now include caller ID and call waiting. The $50 plan continues to offer smartphone customers complete HTML Web browsing and enterprise wireless email, at significantly less cost compared to other carriers’ data packages. For more information on MetroPCS’ new rate plans and features, please go to www.metropcs.com. (more…)
