O “interesse nacional”

Angel Boligan, «El Universal»

José Sócrates gostou do acordo, a PT gostou, os accionistas também gostaram e a Telefónica já tem o que queria por 7.500 milhões de euros e tornou-se o líder do mercado brasileiro de telecomunicações. Ao mesmo tempo a PT anunciou a celebração de uma parceria com a Oi, através da qual irá adquirir uma participação directa e indirecta de 22,38 por cento nesta empresa, num investimento máximo de 3,7 mil milhões de euros. Zeinal Bava no final garantiu que a PT está no Brasil para ficar; o “interesse nacional” ao que parece foi garantido.

No Newsbook da The Economist escreve-se que os vencedores deste acordo foram a PT e o seu presidente executivo, Zeinal Bava:

[…] So PT looks like the obvious winner. Zeinal Bava, its markets-oriented chief executive, will be even more celebrated by shareholders for extracting every penny from the Spanish, and then some. Telefónica paid 14% more than PT’s entire pre-bid market capitalisation for the stake in Vivo, which brings in under half of the Portuguese firm’s revenues. César Alierta, Telefónica’s tough-guy chairman, has an uphill battle to prevent today’s deal going down on his record as an expensive folly. For now, to be sure, Vivo looks a far more attractive asset than Oi. With its subscale mobile-phone business, Oi will likely resort to discounting, harming its much larger fixed-line business, according to Bernstein Research. Mr Bava believes in a mobile future but has ended up with a mainly fixed-line operator. The desperation of both old-European firms to get a foothold in a fast-growing overseas market is plain.

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