Equant plans global network for voice, data

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Equant N.V. is scheduled to launch a voice and data network service for corporate customers that will reach 50 countries. The new network will provide a more reliable alternative to the internet while allowing companies to lower phone rates 30%-50%.

Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing, Services introduction, Data Communications Equip, Computer networks, Computer network equipment industry, Network hardware industry, Services, Data communications equipment

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France Telecom, Equant end talks in impasse over terms. (Equant N.V.)

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France Telecom and Dutch airline reservation services provider Equant N.V., have called off their merger negotiations, due to disagreement over the amount. France Telecom offered to buy Equant for $10 billion. Equant N.V. owns an airline reservation system that also provide data and telephone services

Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, General services, Telecommunications, France, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Business services, not elsewhere classified, All Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services, Airline Reservation Services, Data Transmission Services, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Computer services industry, Information technology services industry, France Telecom S.A., FTE, Telecommunications transmission technologies, Airline reservations

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Equant's shares retreat on plans for stock offer

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Equant NV saw its shares lose 2.3% in value in Paris and 7.9% in New York during the late afternoon following the company's announcement that it was planning a secondary offering. Equant, a telecommunications firm based in the Netherlands, is planning an offering of approximately 35 million shares. The offering could raise as much as 2.4 billion euros ($2.78 billion). Equant said that it has filed a preliminary prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering.

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Shares lose value as co announces plans for secondary offering

Telephone Communications, Securities issued, listed, Telephone services, Abstract, Securities

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