Chapter 762 Casablanca
Speaking of Africa, in many people’s minds, this is the hometown of black people, mainly black people.
In fact, there are many countries in Africa that are not black countries, such as Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and other countries, which are mainly white people. To be precise, they are mainly Arabs. Most of these countries are concentrated in North Africa.
This includes Morocco, where Barron's fleet is about to arrive.
Morocco is known as the back garden of Europe. As you can see from the map, Morocco is very close to Europe and can be said to be across the sea from Spain.
It was once ruled by France and Spain, so you can also see many Europeans in Morocco.
“There are so many towns in the world, and there are so many taverns in the towns, but she walked into my tavern...”
“Wow, “Casablanca”, I’ve seen it too This movie."
Barron's two superyachts docked in Casablanca, which is the largest city and largest port in Morocco. It is also the setting for the classic movie "Casablanca". Where the story takes place.
After the fleet arrived in African waters, this was also the first African port they docked at.
It is worth mentioning that Colo’s main mineral deposit before this was phosphate, which is also Morocco’s most important mineral resource – Morocco’s phosphate reserves are estimated to be 110 billion tons, accounting for almost 75% of global reserves!
Normally, people here can live a good life just by selling phosphates...
Of course, in reality, small countries like Morocco that were once colonies He said that it is naturally difficult for this kind of mineral resources to benefit ordinary people, and the French influence here is still strong.
Countess Bute and Bonnie, for example, had visited Morocco before, and Tamaran had recovered well. She walked with Barron on the streets of Casablanca and sighed:< br>
“This place looks like a European city. Whether it’s the architectural style or the people coming and going, it doesn’t look like an African country at all...”
"Yes, Morocco is often called the least African country in Africa. After all, it is mainly Arabs and Berbers, both of whom are white, and together account for 95% of the total population..."
Barron held her hand and said to the woman:
“And this place was ruled by France for a long time. , so the architectural style and humanities are very similar to Europe..."
"You know a lot, my dear"
Facing Tamaran with admiring eyes, Ba. Lun touched his nose - well, it was also what Bonnie told herself when she was about to dock...
Regardless of whether they came to Morocco or docked at ports in Portugal and Spain, apart from Barron's two superyachts, the two warships belonging to Colo were not convenient for docking for a long time except for necessary supplies. Therefore, anchors are often temporarily anchored offshore, waiting for Barron to protect himself after his visit.
Barron and his party will stay at the most luxurious hotel in Casablanca, spend two days here, and then set off again. …
On August 1, the British Minister of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports announced Britain’s “Super Broadband Future Plan”.
According to this plan, the British government will invest a total of 5 billion pounds in phases to subsidize the construction of facilities of relevant telecommunications companies. The goal is to increase the national high-speed network coverage to 95% within five years. %, people can enjoy high-speed broadband network of at least 24Mbps.
What is different from before is that this time it is not BT that still gets the largest subsidy share of this plan. In addition to BT, O2 Telecom also received at least 35% of the subsidy share. Based on their submission to The British government’s broadband transformation plan for the next five years.
If O2 Telecom can complete this transformation plan, then they can even obtain more than half of the subsidy share...
In addition, the British government will also invest 8 billion pounds to establish The National Digital Industry Investment Fund will provide investment and low-interest financing for relevant digital industry-related companies to help related companies in the UK develop.
It can be said that after this plan was proposed, it has been widely anticipated.
This will not only promote the popularization of broadband networks in the UK, but will also greatly promote the digital industry in the UK.
Up to now, the Digital Future Investment Company under Caesar Fund has invested in more than 100 projects. Among them, there are also start-up companies that can obtain relatively good investment returns. In addition, there are also some companies with unique technologies or ideas that have been invested by Woaw, The effects of acquisitions by companies such as Argos Retail Group and DailyVedio are still very obvious.
Now that there is official British support, even from the perspective of Digital Future Investment Company, many of the start-up projects they support are likely to receive support from this digital industry investment fund, thereby easing the Financial pressures for a digital future.
In addition to this good news, Barry Trelles, CEO of O2 Telecom, who went to Germany to negotiate with Deutsche Telekom, also brought good results to Barron's.
In the end, after O2 Telecom's bid reached 4.35 billion euros, Deutsche Telekom finally relented and was willing to sell their shares in Hellenic Telecom to O2 Telecom - which meant that Deutsche Telekom finally gave up. took control of Greek Telecom.
After completing this acquisition, O2 Telecom will hold more than 60% of Hellenic Telecom's shares, thus turning it into a subsidiary of O2 Telecom.
After Hellenic Telecom becomes a subsidiary of O2 Telecom, O2 Telecom will successfully enter the Southern European market and consolidate its Eastern European market, becoming one of the telecom companies with the largest number of users in this market...
"Eastern Europe's The market is developing very fast, Compared with the markets in Western Europe and Northern Europe, which have entered a relatively stable period, the market there has more potential..."
Berry Trelles said in an email to Barron's:
"And the most important thing is that the young people there are very Our culture and trends are very enthusiastic, and as many countries try to integrate into the EU, their markets are completely open to us, and it will also become a market that many European telecommunications companies actively explore..."
Indeed, Eastern Europe is now not only one of the important markets for Western European products, but with the process of integration into the European Union, young people there have begun to fill the labor shortage here. They are willing to go to Western Europe and other countries to work, and they do not have much savings. Habits, income earned, are very happy to spend.
Therefore, not only O2 Telecom, but also other Baron industries such as Argos Retail Group have begun to expand into the Eastern European market as a new frontier after the markets in Western and Northern Europe have stabilized.
(End of this chapter)