{"id":73176,"date":"2019-02-04T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=234254"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:16:41","slug":"sunrise-considers-cable-deal-with-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/04\/sunrise-considers-cable-deal-with-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise considers cable deal with Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSunrise and Liberty Global reached an advanced stage in negotiations over an acquisition of the former&#8217;s Swiss cable business, though talks are ongoing, Financial Times (FT) reported.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have discussed a \u20ac4 billion merger in the past, the newspaper added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 talks of a partnership, rather than acquisition had surfaced on several occasions. In March 2018, Liberty Global reportedly\u00a0entered into discussions with Sunrise [1]\u00a0about establishing a joint venture in the country: later in the year CEO Mike Fries said a deal with Sunrise was possible [2] and that Liberty Global had struggled in the market due to the level of competition for mobile, fixed-line, internet and TV services.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sunrise\u2019s revenue from its mobile services in Q3 2018 was more than double its fixed-line revenue and an acquisition could balance this out.<\/p>\n<p>FT noted that until recently, Liberty Global had been seen as a buyer rather than a seller, but its debts are now 5.8-times its annual earnings.<\/p>\n<p>It has been trimming down in Europe after offloading its Austrian cable business to Deutsche Telekom [3] and its operations in a number of markets to Vodafone Group [4]\u00a0for \u20ac18 billion (a move the EU is now investigating, citing competition concerns).<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise is valued at \u20ac4.3 billion including debt.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/liberty-global-mulling-larger-swiss-role\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/liberty-global-sunrise-partnership-on-the-table\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/dt-strikes-e1-9b-deal-for-upc-austria\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/ec-confirms-deeper-liberty-vodafone-probe\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise and Liberty Global reached an advanced stage in negotiations over an acquisition of the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/sunrise-considers-cable-deal-with-liberty\/\">Sunrise considers cable deal with Liberty<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/04\/sunrise-considers-cable-deal-with-liberty\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2559,2560,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-j2g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73208,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176\/revisions\/73208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}