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KPN takes notice of partial tender offer for KPN shares by América Móvil
The Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of Royal KPN N.V. (“KPN”) confirm that they have received a copy of a press release in which América Móvil S.A.B. de C.V. (“América Móvil”) announces its intention to make (directly or through a wholly owned subsidiary) a partial tender offer in cash for a number of ordinary shares that, together with all ordinary shares currently held or otherwise purchased by América Móvil or its affiliates outside the partial tender offer, will represent no more than approximately 28% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of KPN, at a price of EUR 8 per KPN share (the "Intended Partial Offer")
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FTTH Council Europe will further focus on FTTH-enabled applications and financing of fibre networks in 2012
Karin Ahl, the newly elected President of the FTTH Council Europe, will lead the organisation's initiatives to inform consumers, financial organisations and policy makers on why Europe needs FTTH
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Canada joins ranking of G20 fibre countries
The FTTH Councils’ latest Global ranking shows continuous momentum on fibre deployments more
MEF and Bob Metcalfe announce Carrier Ethernet 2.0
CE 2.0 advances industry through standardized Multi-CoS, Interconnect and Manageability over 8 Ethernet services more
Reshuffling Europe's Fibre to the Home leadership
Leader Scandinavia may be overtaken by South and East Europe - West Europe lags more
Is Germany ready to embrace FTTH competitiveness?
Exclusive data revealed recently shows that Germany is still lagging in FTTH adoption and remains at the bottom of Europe's league of real high-speed broadband countries
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Fujitsu unveils plans to bring fibre to 5 million homes and businesses in rural Britain
Fujitsu, one of the world’s largest technology and communications companies, announced plans to work in collaboration with Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco to deliver next generation internet services to 5 million homes in rural Britain
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MEF announces details of 2011 Service Provider Awards
Judging panels keen to reward recent service innovations more
Hungary and Ukraine join the World's leading FTTH economies
Europe enjoyed a 24% rise in the number of Fibre-to-the-Home subscribers in the first half of 2011, according to the latest figures from the FTTH Council Europe, announced at the Broadband World Forum in Paris
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ACS commences high capacity Australia to Singapore cable project
Australia-Singapore Cable (International) Limited ASC, a specialist submarine cable subsidiary of Leighton Contractors, has signed a contract with Alcatel-Lucent as part of ASC’s plan to build, own and operate a 4,800km multi-terabit submarine cable system with an option for 100 Gigabit per second (100Gbit/s) transmission
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