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Any BT-Spain deal heralds telecoms alliance sea-change
LONDON,
Any strategic deal between Spain's Telefonica and
British Telecommunications Plc's Concert
partnership would instigate a sea-change in the European
telecoms alliance landscape, analysts said on Thursday.
Such an alliance would throw down the gauntlet to
BT's arch-rival, America's AT & T Corp , and provide the
U.S. telecoms giant with the latest in a series of setbacks.
`I think it will lead AT&T to seriously question its
European position,'' says Paul Staples, head of telecoms
research at merchant bank Schroders.
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Spain's Telefonica flirts with U.S. suitors
MADRID,
Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica de Espana played coy
on Thursday with a bevy of U.S. suitors, but said it should find a partner within six weeks.
Chairman Juan Villalonga confirmed that his recently
privatised company was in talks with major U.S.
telecommunications groups. But he said Telefonica could
afford to be choosy and set the pace of the talks.
`Telefonica is the pretty little girl who all the top U.S.
telecoms groups want to join up with,'' he said.
`We are keeping all our options open. It's true that I
see the chairman of AT&T Corp , but I've also met with the
chairmen of GTE Corp , MCI , British Telecommunications
and Southwestern Bell Corp ,'' he told reporters.
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EU vets BT, Tele Danmark, UBS Swiss telecoms deal
BRUSSELS,
The European Commission said on Thursday it was starting a
routine probe into a Swiss telecommunications alliance
between British Telecommunications <BT.L>, Tele
Danmark <TLDb.CO>, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB),
Union Bank of Switzerland <SBGZ.S>and Swiss retailer Migros.
The joint company called Newtelco AG was created to
take advantage of the liberalisation of the Swiss telecoms
market in 1998, which is also the deadline for opening up
the sector in the European Union.
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MANHASSET, N.Y., March 20
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