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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8696

30 April 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 43 / 50
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) telecommunications

French company ALCATEL and the Chinese firm TCL will be merging their mobile terminals into a joint venture in which ALCATEL will have a minority stake of 45%. The possibility will exist of exchanging this stake for TCL shares in four years time. TCL will bring EUR 55 million in cash to the joint-venture as opposed to 45 millions from ALCATEL, which will also integrate its activities in mobile phones. ALCATEL obtained a turn-over of EUR 600 million in 2003 in its mobile terminals division in...

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