Vodafone sells its Italian business to Switzerland’s Swisscom for €8B in cash and plans a €4B stock buyback; Swisscom will merge Vodafone Italia with Fastweb (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)

Vodafone sells its Italian business to Switzerland’s Swisscom for €8B in cash and plans a €4B stock buyback; Swisscom will merge Vodafone Italia with Fastweb (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg:
Vodafone sells its Italian business to Switzerland’s Swisscom for €8B in cash and plans a €4B stock buyback; Swisscom will merge Vodafone Italia with Fastweb  —  – Vodafone also announced plans for a €4 billion share buyback  — Della Valle says sale is ‘final step’ in European reshaping