[PHNOM PENH POST]
TELEKOMUNIKASI Indonesia’s majority-stake purchase of Cambodian mobile
operator CamGSM is nearing the end of negotiations that have lasted
almost a year.
“We’re in the final approval stages right now,”
Mark Hanna, chief financial officer at Royal Group, which owns CamGSM,
said yesterday.
Hanna would not give a time frame for the closing of the deal, but said negotiations were certainly moving forward.
However,
Indonesia’s Ministry of State Owned Enterprises has not granted
approval on the Telkom purchase, according to reports yesterday. Telkom,
which is majority-owned by the Indonesian government, could not be
immediately reached for comment.
CamGSM is Cambodia’s
second-largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers, according to
figures from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. CamGSM
operates it mobile services under the Cellcard brand and reportedly had
2.9 million users as of July.
Telkom’s plans to acquire a
majority stake in CamGSM have taken longer than initially expected. The
potential deal was announced in late November 2010, with a closing date
set for the first quarter of this year, the Post previously reported.
The
Indonisian mobile operator completed its due diligence process for
CamGSM in May, and officials from Royal Group and CamGSM claimed that
negotiation had been ongoing since then.
Telkom’s planned
purchase of CamGSM wais part of a 1 trill-ion rupiah (US$116 million)
acquisition strategy for 2012, the Indonesian newspaper Kontan reported
yesterday.
Telecoms targeted by Telkom other than CamGSM have not been announced.
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