-Austria: The Austrian State has sold a 17% stake in the operator TELEKOM AUSTRIA for around 1.1 billion EUR. According to experts, the 85 million shares were sold at the top of the expected bracket, at 13.05 EUR each. The Austrian State still holds 30% of the capital and under national legislation in force, the State holding OeIAG cannot sell any more shares for six months. -Czech Republic: the Czech Minister for Information, Vladimir Mlynar, has declared that FRANCE TELECOM is interesting in buying the 51.1% stake in CESKY TELEKOM sold by the State. The Danish TDC has also expressed an interest. The State's stake has been assessed between 1.75 and 2 billion dollars. The government wants to offload them by the end of March, either by selling to a strategic partner, or by floating them on the Stock Exchange.