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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7779

17 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission approves France Telecom's takeover of Orange

Brussels, 16/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has approved the takeover of the British mobile phone operator Orange by France Telecom subject to the latter's selling its share in the activity of KPN Orange in Belgium (which it holds jointly with the Dutch firm KPN and which is Belgium's third largest mobile phone operator). Indeed, France Telecom already being present on the Belgian market through its subsidiary Mobistar, the takeover of Orange, if it does not go together...