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To: slacker711 who wrote (50773)	3/3/2006 5:27:13 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 197027

Vodafone in talks to sell to Softbank Maybe Vodafone can get their shareholders off their back and concentrate on being competitive in Europe. The Japan competition has been too tough, even on the more Japan-savvy operators. ---------------------- tinyurl.com NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's biggest mobile-phone operator, has the worst performing stock over the past three years among companies with market values of more than $50 billion. [Merck is second] .Shareholders are demanding more of the company's cash as compensation. Lower phone-service prices have hurt shares of DoCoMo and its largest rivals, KDDI Corp. and the U.K.'s Vodafone Group Plc. .... ....Shares of DoCoMo, which controls half of Japan's mobile phone market, have fallen 7.6 percent in the past three months and Tokyo-based KDDI has dropped 4.9 percent. Vodafone, which controls the smallest of three mobile phone operators in Japan as well as networks in countries such as Germany and Italy, has declined 9 percent in London....