{"id":226292,"date":"2010-01-25T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-01-25:article\/419-liberty-media-sells-stake-in-japans-jupiter-telecom-for-4-billion"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:41:52","slug":"liberty-group-sells-stake-in-japans-jupiter-telecom-for-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226292","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Group Sells Stake In Japan&#8217;s Jupiter Telecom For $4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-liberty-media-sells-stake-in-japans-jupiter-telecom-for-4-billion\/\" title=\"Mike Fries, Liberty Global\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"79800_4804\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/mike-fries-liberty-global-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Fries, Liberty Global\" width=\"136\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cable operator Liberty Global is selling off its 37.8 stake in Japanese broadband provider Jupiter Telecommunications to wireless operator KDDI Corporation for $4 billion. The deal is part of a plan by Liberty Global, which is controlled by John Malone, to refocus its concentration on Europe. Exiting the Japanese market will also allow Liberty Global to continue its ongoing stock buyback initiatives, said Mike Fries, president and CEO, in a statement. Two months ago, the company <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-liberty-global-buys-german-cable-operator-unitymedia-for-2-billion\/\" title=\"acquired\">acquired<\/a> German cable and broadband business Unitymedia for \u20ac2 billion ($2.96 billion; \u00a31.79 billion). Liberty had a partnership agreement with Sumitomo Corp., which held about a quarter of Jupiter, to manage J:Com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgi.com\/PDF\/01-24%20JCOM%20Transaction.pdf\" title=\"Release\">Release<\/a> (PDF)\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-liberty-global-buys-german-cable-operator-unitymedia-for-2-billion\/\" title=\"Liberty Global Buys German Cable Operator Unitymedia For \u20ac2 Billion\">Liberty Global Buys German Cable Operator Unitymedia For \u20ac2 Billion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-iac-sells-off-its-japanese-tv-channel-stake-to-sumitomo-for-493-million\/\" title=\"AC Sells Off Its Japanese TV Channel Stake To Sumitomo For $493 Million\">AC Sells Off Its Japanese TV Channel Stake To Sumitomo For $493 Million<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/oDVixaV2YnhCl_wik8OEJ8QnqzM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/oDVixaV2YnhCl_wik8OEJ8QnqzM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/oDVixaV2YnhCl_wik8OEJ8QnqzM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/oDVixaV2YnhCl_wik8OEJ8QnqzM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=TsbQvfMJcAU:pOhlnFEmqMg:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/TsbQvfMJcAU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Liberty Global is selling off its 37.8 stake in Japanese broadband provider Jupiter Telecommunications to wireless operator KDDI Corporation for $4 billion. The deal is part of a plan by Liberty Global, which is controlled by John Malone, to refocus its concentration on Europe. Exiting the Japanese market will also allow Liberty Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}