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True Corp (Buy, THB 18, +59%) Telenor sells out of TRUE – implications for TRUE (and brief thoughts for CelcomDigi)

Telenor has announced it is selling the majority of its stake in TRUE to a CP Group–affiliated company for THB 11.7, a 4% discount to the market price. In this brief note we discuss implications for TRUE, and thoughts for CelcomDigi.
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Telenor ASA

Telenor is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. operates as a telecommunication company. Co. provides mobile communication, fixed line communication, and broadcasting activities. Co.'s mobile communication business includes voice, data, Internet, content services, customer equipment and messaging. Fixed service comprise telephony, Internet and television (TV), leased lines as well as data services and managed services. Broadcast comprises Canal Digital DTH in the Nordics, satellite broadcasting, terrestrial radio and TV transmission in Norway and Belgium and encryption related services for TV distribution.

True Corp. Public Co. Ltd.

True Corporation Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based integrated communication solution provider. The Company and its subsidiaries categorize the business into three segments: online segment, which is the provision and installation of fixed line services including public telephones and related value-added services, data services, multimedia services, broadband services and Internet services; wireless segment, which is the provision of cellular telephone services, resale of 3G services using high-speed packet access (HSPA) technologies, network equipment rental, mobile services and sales of handsets and accessories, and pay television (Pay-TV) segment, which is the provision of pay television services both via cables and satellite platforms, rental and trading of related equipment and other related services to the pay television business, advertising sale and agency.

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Chris Hoare

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