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      <title>Pecik close to 25 percent stake in Telekom Austria - report</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Telekom Austria shareholder Ronny Pecik is closing in on a blocking minority stake of 25 percent of Telekom Austria, reports the 'Wiener Zeitung' newspaper citing unnamed financial sources...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Uztelecom expands branded chain to Karakalpakia</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Uzbekistan national operator Uztelecom has extended its branded retail chain with the launch of ist first outlet in the Karakalpakia republic, in Beruni...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Rostelecom to attempt London listing in May</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Russian national operator Rostelecom said it could now list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in May, RBC Daily reported...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>TDC starts share buy-back programme of up to DKK 750 mln</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) TDC's board of directors has decided to initiate a share buy-back programme of up to DKK 750 million...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Deutsche Telekom ends first round of wage talks with no deal</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has ended the first round of wage negotiations without achieving any result, according to newspaper Handelsblatt...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>TSAG establishes disaster relief, network resilience group</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) The Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) has established a Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery (FG-DR and NRR)...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Netia board member re-elected ECTA chairman</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Tom Ruhan, board member of the Polish operator Netia, was re-elected chairman of the European Association for Competitive Telecommunications, Europe's largest organization of alternative operators...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>TDC revenues up 0.5% to DKK 26.3 bln in 2011</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) TDC Group's revenue increased by 0.5 percent to DKK 26.304 billion in 2011 despite a very challenging market characterised by strong competition in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Ikanos Q4 revenues decline, moves to net profit</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Chipmaker Ikanos Communications revenue for the fourth quarter 2011 ended 1 January fell to USD 35.4 million from USD 37.1 million in the year ago quarter...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>OECD defends Mexico report results amid Slim's criticism</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Wednesday has defended its recently published report on the Mexican telecommunications...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>BT addds 146,000 retail broadband customers in Q3</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) BT Group has reported total revenue of GBP 4.77 billion for the third quarter to 31 December 2011, down 5 percent year-on-year, with adjusted EBITDA...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>D-Link enhances Value in Partnership programme</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) D-Link has made enhancements to the Value in Partnership programme, aimed at its resellers across the US, available 7 February...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Telekom to pay severance of up to EUR 125,000</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom has developed a new compensation program worth in total EUR 90 million, according to Heise Online, citing the newspaper Bayrischer Kurier...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Elisa adds 64,000 mobile subscriptions in Q4</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Finnish operator Elisa saw its revenue increase to EUR 401 million in Q4 2011 compared to EUR 383 million a year ago...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Panasonic lowers guidance for fiscal 2012 as Q3 weakens</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Panasonic reported a weaker fiscal third quarter and lowered its guidance for fiscal 2012. Revenues for the quarter to end March went 14 percent lower year-on-year to JPY 1.960 trillion...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Gemalto, Ingenico buoyed by MasterCard chip and PIN </title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) French smartcard maker Gemalto and smartcard reader company Ingenico saw their shares go up by over 6 percent in two days since MasterCard's...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Blackstone studying leveraged buyout for Brocade - report</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Private equity firm The Blackstone Group is studying a leveraged buyout of networking equipment provider Brocade Communications Systems, Bloombert...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Telco studies debt refinancing options</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Telco, the investment vehicle that controls a over 22.4 percent of Telecom Italia, is looking at all options for debt refinancing, ahead of around...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>FCC consumer, governmental affairs chief to step down</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief of Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB), Joel Gurin, will step down from his position as of 17 February...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Cold snap pushes Belgacom into action for homeless</title>
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      <description>(Telecompaper) Belgacom has provided space in its Ixelles premises for about 50 homeless people in the coming nights...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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