New Street: Reliance Industries looking at TMNL Read across for The Netherlands and Europe as a whole
Bloomberg has reported that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is weighing a bid for TMNL. On the face of it this would appear a slightly odd choice to start a European expansion (small operator in a small country), but one has to be careful to dismiss Reliance quickly – Jio has been enormously successful in India, and The Netherlands could be a bulkhead for other more ambitious plans. In this short blog we look at what those plans might be, and the specific implications for KPN, DT, Tele2 and Vodafone-Ziggo.Reliance Industries is primarily engaged in the production and market of petrochemical products, and refinery and retail of petroleum and LPG. Co.'s petrochemical products include polymer - polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), poly vinyl chloride (PVC); polyester - polyester filament yarn (PFY), polyester staple fiber (PSF), polyethylene terephthalate (PET); polyester intermediates - paraxylene (PX), purified terephthalic acid (PTA), mono-ethylene glycol (MEG); and cracker products - ethylene, propylene and aromatics. Co. is also engaged in the manufacture of RELAB and textiles. Co.'s textile products are sold under the brand names: Only Vimal, Harmony, Reance, RueRel and V2.
Koninklijke KPN is an integrated information and communications technology service provider. Co. provides its consumer customers data broadband services, IPTV services, mobile (voice, data and SMS) and fixed line telephony. Co. provides its business customers broadband services, mobile, fixed line and data services. Co. operates in the following segments: Consumer Mobile, which provides mobile services and products; Consumer Residential, which provides services in and around the house; Business, which provides fixed and mobile telephony services; NetCo, which includes fixed wholesale services; Belgium, which provides mobile telephony; and iBasis, which provides wholesale network services.
Tele2 is engaged as a telecom operator. Co. provides mobile communication services, fixed broadband and telephony, data network services and content services. The mobile service comprises various types of subscriptions for residential and business customers as well as prepaid cards. Fixed broadband includes direct access, which is its own services based on access via copper cable and other forms of access, such as fibre networks, wireless broadband and metropolitan area networks. Fixed telephony includes resold products within fixed telephony. The product portfolio within resold fixed telephony consists of prefix telephony, pre-selection (dial the number without a prefix) and subscriptions.
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