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Carphone Warehouse - Acquisitions push shares to new high

February 2006

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he shares hit a new high of 291p following news of two value enhancing acquisitions of fixed line telecom providers. In order to bulk up its fast growing TalkTalk network, Carphone has bought Tele2’s fixed line business for £8.5m, which added 224,000 new customers but of far more significance was the £95m cash acquisition of Onetel from Centrica. OneTel adds 1.1m fixed line customers as well as 60,000 broadband and 50,000 business customers and this deal will put TalkTalk into a much stronger position to challenge BT’s dominance. The deal should be earnings enhancing, mainly because the enlarged business will make significant savings in marketing and analysts expect it to make a profit of £20m over its ...

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