Vodafone set for European buys - report

Vodafone Group is on track to buy Czech mobile operator Oskar Mobil and a 79 per cent stake in Romanian wireless operator Mobifon…

Vodafone Group is on track to buy Czech mobile operator Oskar Mobil and a 79 per cent stake in Romanian wireless operator Mobifon, the Financial Timesreported today.

Vodafone is close to clinching a deal with the eastern European companies' current owner, Montreal-based Telesystems International Wireless, the FTreported.

Any deal would be worth about $4.5 billion.

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