The world's largest exchange operator by market value outbid rivals last year to buy the London Metal Exchange, and plans to offer Asia-focused products and explore partnerships with China's own fast-growing trading platforms as soon as next year.
Others claim it will weaken the city's status as Europe's financial centre, while German politicians are also said to be angry over the market operator's promise to move its headquarters to London if a bid is successful.
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Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad operator, saw their market value drop huge after a disappointing financial disclosure to analysts.
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After starting out ten years ago, Bharti has faced down fearsome rivals, including the Reliance and Tata groups and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, to become the largest mobile-phone operator in India's hypercompetitive wireless market.
An alternative is to merge it with another American cell-phone operator to gain a bigger share of the market.
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Market availability will vary by country and operator, with broad availability in coming weeks, the company added.
OMX, the Nordic exchange operator, says it plans a small-cap market.
Professional Diversity Network fell after the professional-networking website operator's initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The Lufthansa group includes the world's largest maintenance company, the largest airline caterer (with 29% of the market), the leading air-cargo operator and a big systems company.
According to Potter, what an operator ends up paying for a license is irrelevant to the market.
When Japan's telecoms market was liberalised in the 1990s the former monopoly operator, NTT, was forced to compete.
Until now, China Mobile has reigned comfortably as the world's largest mobile operator, in what is the world's largest mobile market in terms of subscriber numbers.
"This merger will clearly have a huge impact on the mobile market, since it will form the biggest mobile operator in the UK and bring the number of networks down to just four, " he added.
Neither model bodes well for the hotspot-operator start-ups now trying to capture the Wi-Fi market.
Comcast, despite its clout as the biggest operator in the U.S., is keeping its testing market secret to avoid offending the two powerful boxmakers.
These players rapidly realised that no single operator or manufacturer's standard could be successful in a fragmented market such as Europe or indeed the world.
Certainly, in remote rural areas not served by cable at all, which constitute about 4% of the market, consumers will now be left with a single, monopoly operator: EchoStar.
Rival UK mobile operator 3 said it was concerned about the impact on competition in the UK market, and was also worried about its impact on the ownership of parts of the radio spectrum used for web surfing on mobile phones.
So much so that now Televisa, which controls around a 70% share of the broadcast television market in Mexico and is also the principal satellite and cable TV operator in Mexico, will lean on Univision to begin conquering English speaking audiences.
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Cox Communications Inc. will have the tough job of trying to differentiate itself from competitors as the cable operator prepares to start a wireless service this year in an already crowded U.S. market.
Last week, the company opened its 300th store in Mexico, its largest market in Latin America and where it has a joint venture with Alsea, an operator of fast food establishments and casual dining in Latin America.
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As the largest global mobile phone operator by revenue, Vodafone, whose earnings are driven by its European business, is particularly vulnerable to market share loss in Europe.
WorldCom's attempt to merge with Sprint, a long-distance operator, in 2000 was rejected as anti-competitive, since it would have created a giant with huge market power.
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