Maybe this interests some people on the list: it looks very likely that Vodafone will sell practically all of its Japan operations to Softbank - see: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aWZqM02z5LAg I predicted this in an interview with Bloomberg about one year ago - at that time it was denied, but it seems to be happening now: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=email_us&refer=uk&sid=aO1q4H95o.KA GerhardReceived on Mon Mar 6 03:58:57 2006