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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8076

22 October 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 36 / 46
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) telecommunications

Dutch operator KPN has announced the sale of 4.4% of its KPNQWEST subsidiary for the sum of EUR 101 million. Buyers are the joint-shareholder, American operator QWEST, that will increase its current stake of 44% to 47.5% on this occasion, thus taking over control of the group, and ANSCHUTZ CO, the main QWEST shareholder. The agreement provides for IPN to sell the remaining 40% that it still owns. QWEST holds share options for holding all or part of this stake in March 2002. Then KPN will be...

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