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Fitch: European High-Grade Telecoms Maintain Good Liquidity

Fitch Ratings says, in report published today, that European high-grade telecom issuers have continued to maintain good liquidity and that their access to capital markets remained relatively healthy during the course of Q109.  more

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UPDATE: Profit For Spain's Telefonica Rises 8% On Strong Home Market

LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Telefonica, Europe's second-largest telecommunications company, Wednesday posted an 8% rise in quarterly profit, fueled by strong demand for broadband services in Spain and the recent acquisition of Britain's O2. more

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50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006

The Eastern Management Group has released the names of the World's 50 Largest Telecommunications Service Providers for 2006. Compilation of the list is an annual joint effort between the firm's two largest and oldest practices. The Service Provider Consulting Practice assists businesses to establish and manage distribution channels and channel partners that sell to service providers throughout the world; while the Service Provider Market Research Practice performs ongoing tracking of all of the world's telecommunications service providers, in more than 200 countries and territories. more

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Telecom Merger Talk Sweeps Europe; Eircom The Latest

LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Eircom Group PLC soared as much as 10% Thursday on a report that Swisscom AG has approached the Irish fixed-line telecom with a view to a making a 3 billion-euro bid.  more

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