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To: Shadow who wrote (2031)	1/6/1999 4:46:00 AM
From: Alf	Respond to of 6180

Microsoft may place bid for BT franchises By Bloomberg News Special to CNET News.com January 4, 1999, 6:30 a.m. PT Microsoft plans to bid for two British Telecommunications cable television franchises, which BT has to sell to meet European Union conditions for its planned interactive services joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting Group, according to reports. Other bidders for the franchise in Westminster, central London, which is valued at about $331 million, and in Milton Keynes, north of London, are Cable & Wireless Communications, the United Kingdom's largest cable company; Telewest Communications, the United Kingdom's No.2 cable company by sales; and NTL, the United Kingdom's third-largest cable company by sales. Microsoft plans to use television as a route onto the Internet for million of homes Microsoft and BT declined to comment on the sale. The Sunday Telegraph reported the news without citing sources. Last month, Microsoft said it will buy $200 million of stock in Qwest Communications, the No. 4 U.S. long distance phone company, to speed up Qwest's plans for Internet services on its high-speed fiber optic network. Tim