Rebirth of England.

Chapter 889 I'm really looking forward to it
O2 Telecom is currently considering the acquisition of E-Plus, the German subsidiary of KPN of the Netherlands.

It is estimated that the acquisition will be between 75 and 85 billion euros.

Although O2 Telecom has entered the German market and developed rapidly before, there is still a big gap between it and Germany's top operators, including Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany.

According to O2 Telecom's assessment, if it can complete the acquisition of E-Plus, the German subsidiary of Dutch KPN, O2 Telecom will have more than 4000 million users in Germany and annual revenue of more than 80 billion euros.

At the same time, O2 Germany will become one of the three major telecom operators in Germany, alongside Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Germany.

Speaking of which, the telecommunications industry is still very profitable. Even when O2 Telecom entered a new market, it adopted a "discount package" strategy, but as long as it could accumulate enough users, profits would follow.

After all, the largest expenditure in the telecommunications industry is the investment in the deployment of communication equipment. As long as you want to enter this market, this investment is inevitable.

But the more users you have, the more revenue you can earn for the same equipment expenditure - to put it bluntly, your costs will be spread out, and your profits will inevitably increase.

Just like through previous acquisitions, O2 Telecom has accumulated a lot of debt, but now they have repaid more than 40% of bank loans, reducing their debt ratio to a considerable extent.

This is also the main reason why they will launch the acquisition again this time. According to calculations, although O2 Telecom needs to obtain more than 50 billion euros of debt from banks for this acquisition of E-Plus, these debts can be repaid within three years after the completion of the acquisition, relying solely on the receivables of its German branch.

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"Hey, William, I'm sorry I didn't wait for you guys on Lanai when I was in America. How are you feeling?"

As Talulah Riley was leaving, Barron saw William and Cather walking towards him from the beach.

When Barron went to New York, William and Cather also came to Lanai from London with their little prince.

Now Barron saw that William was wearing a floral shirt and beach pants, contrary to his usual suit and tie appearance, and Cather was also dressed more casually. The two were holding hands, and they must have just returned from a walk on the beach.

"It's great here, especially coming from cold and gloomy London, I love the sunshine here."

William said to Barron very easily:

"Thank you for the invitation, Barron. George looks much happier since he came here."

"Don't be so polite, we are friends, and you are very welcome to come here."

Cather, who was beside William, also behaved very naturally. After chatting with Barron for a few words, she said she had to go back to see the children, leaving the two men space to chat.

"I have to say, your life is really comfortable, Barron. I didn't expect them to get along so harmoniously."

What William was talking about was naturally the various beauties around Barron. When he was in London, he had also heard that his friend was very popular with women, but he was still shocked by what he heard and saw after arriving on the island.

As a member of the royal family, it is impossible to say how loyal Prince William is. For example, all the princes of the British royal family have a bunch of lovers.

It's just that in front of the public, he always has to pay attention to his image and maintain the loving relationship between him and Cather.

Even before William got married, there were many rumors about him. "It's nothing. If we have the chance one day, we can go to Los Angeles for a few days. The parties there are very lively, with many Hollywood actresses..."

"Well, this is not good..."

It’s not that Prince William needs to pretend in front of Barron. Barron understands what he is worried about...

"Don't worry, it will be a private gathering and no one will tell anyone."

“I’m really looking forward to it…”

In fact, there is no need to go to Los Angeles. If Barron wants, there are plenty of Hollywood actresses and supermodels willing to fly to Lanai to meet them.

It’s just that Princess Cather and Barron’s women are all here, so at least on the island, it’s not appropriate for Barron to do anything too outrageous.

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The 55-story West African Financial Center was once the tallest building in Brittany, but now the 69-story United Building next to it will be completed at the end of this year, and at that time it will become the tallest building in Brittany.

It can be said that the CBD area of ​​Brittany is near the financial center of West Africa, where the headquarters of many large companies and banks are located.

Among them is the recently established Matrix Capital. The building where they are located has only 25 floors. The 17th and 18th floors are the headquarters of the Mt. Gox exchange acquired by Juzhen Capital.

Up to now, Mt.Gox is the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, and its trading volume accounts for more than 70% of global Bitcoin transactions.

在去年的11月28日，BitC发生了自从其诞生以来的第一次减产——在BitC网络区块高度为210000，产生的每个块奖励从50个BitC减半至25个BitC。

According to BitC's operating mechanism, production will be reduced approximately every four years. Each reduction means that the output of "mining machines" with the same performance per unit time will be halved.

For example, if global food production suddenly halved, the result would inevitably be an increase in food prices.

By the same token, after the halving of BitC, given that it already has a considerable trading market, its price will inevitably rise.

In the original time and space, BitC's first "bull market" appeared in 2013. During this "bull market", the price of BitC rose from the initial US$10 to a maximum of US$1242, an increase of more than a hundred times.

Of course, this price increase and the halving of BitC’s production are just one of the reasons, or a catalyst.

Another reason is that with the previous development of BitC, more and more people have come into contact with and become aware of this "new thing". As the scale of "users" expands, its price will naturally rise.

Generally speaking, many factors interact with each other. The price of BitC will soar and some media will report on it, which will bring it into the eyes of more people. Most of them still think it is "unreliable" or "scam", but some people will start to try to understand it...

However, although we know that the price of BitC will increase a hundredfold in this "bull market", in fact it is still considered a "niche" and has a small market cap - the total trading volume of BitC in 2013 increased by nearly 2012 times compared to 60, reaching US$1080 billion, but this trading volume is less than the daily trading volume of global gold futures!
Therefore, Barron has never thought about participating in the BitC transaction at this stage. At this stage, he only needs to do a good job of the "infrastructure" of this market, such as the standardization of exchanges, and...

(End of this chapter)