Potential buyers emerge for Deutsche Telekom unit
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Deutsche Telekom AG Chairman Ron Sommer has reported that several US and European companies have shown interest in acquiring Deutsche Telekom's cable-TV business. Sommer, however, declined to disclosed the identities of the prospective buyers. The company, which is planning to separate the cable-TV operations from its core phone business, intends to form six regional cable-TV units that could be sold together or as individual units. Deutsche Telekom's cable network is one of the largest in the world serving 17 million homes.
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Chairman Ron Sommer says several US & European companies have shown interest in acquiring Deutsche Telekom's cable-TV business
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 1998
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U.N. health arm misses first goal in AIDS program: WHO calls initial results 'disappointing,' but says pace is expected to pick up
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The World Health Organization has fallen short of its proposal to supply half a million AIDS patients with anti-AIDS drugs in the first half of 2004. Drugs failed to reach 60,000 patients. The shortfall complicates the future of the program, which was to act as a blueprint for treating the world's 38 million HIV patients.
Publication Name: Wall Street Journal. Europe
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0921-9986
Year: 2004
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