瑞银:中国电信产业研究报告:
CREDIT SUISSE - CHINA TELECOMS SECTOR - BUY FIXED LINE ON HIGHER M&A CHANCES
5 March 2007,56 pages 英文
98191.pdf
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Buy fixed line on higher M&A chances
The chances of M&A activity have increased significantly from the wide support by fixed-line operators and regulators. We believe M&A will be a more pressing issue than 3G licensing, and that it could happen soon. Further TD-SCDMA testing is likely to be led by
■ Key takeaways from meetings with industry players. 3G licensing is likely to be pushed back to 4Q07 at the earliest, due to further testing on TD-SCDMA. China Mobile is widely believed to be in the lead and may commercially roll out service by October 2007. This implies a higher chance that it would adopt TD-SCDMA. Potential M&A (i.e., break-up of China Unicom) looks more likely now, with most industry players agreeing that it is logical and could happen as soon as 2Q07.
■ Higher chance of restructuring. We believe China Netcom and China Telecom have formed a consensus now on which network they would like to acquire from Unicom, and this is backed by the SASAC - this is the biggest change from your previous view. The recent separation of Unicom’s GSM and CDMA operations should make M&A easier to execute, and an agreement between Netcom and China Telecom to limit competition could also indicate that they want to accelerate M&A. As such, we have raised the probability of the M&A scenario to 50% (from 20%). Whilst this is probably the best outcome for the fixed-line operators, we have not assigned 100% probability, as this requires government approval and involves high execution risk.
■ Investment conclusion . still prefer Netcom and
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