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NTT Docomo Buys Guam Cable Operator

May 22, 2013 |
TOKYO -- NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it has wholly acquired MCV Guam Holding Corp. (MCV), the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, on May 21. The purchase from MCV Acquisition, LLC, the holding company of MCV, worth approximately 129.8 million U.S. dollars or about 12.7 billion Japanese yen1, was made by a wholly owned holding company established in Guam by DOCOMO.

The acquisition will enable DOCOMO PACIFIC, INC., a wholly owned subsidiary of DOCOMO and Guam's largest mobile operator, to offer MCV's cable television, Internet and fixed-line phone services under its own brand as a one-stop quadruple play.

NTT Docomo Inc.



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