Maxis's $3.3 billion IPO returned the company's domestic mobile business to the market as a high-yielding index play two years after the privatisation of Maxis Communications.
Hutchison Whampoa will pay $545 million to take HTIL private after asset sales and a spin-off have left the company with four emerging mobile businesses that are all in need of significant capital injections.
The Malaysian mobile operator returns to the market with an IPO of up to $3.6 billion two years after being taken private, but this time it will list only the domestic portion of the business.