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Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Telecom Italia and its former leading shareholder, Pirelli of have been accused of lack of oversight in connection with a huge spying scandal by the Italian prosecutors. The phone-tapping scandal broke in 2006 after investigators uncovered a vast private spy network at the heart of Telecom Italia. According to the ANSA news agency, nearly 34 suspects [...]
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Mon Jul 14, 2008 LA PAZ , July 14 (Reuters) - Bolivia has seized some $49 million that Telecom Italia transferred to a British bank before the company’s Bolivian subsidiary Entel was nationalized by the government earlier this year, officials said on Monday. Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the government takeover of Entel on May 1, claiming Telecom Italia failed to meet investment...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Telecom Italia, Europe's fifth-largest telecommunications company, will tomorrow ask a court in London to intervene in a dispute with the Bolivian government over the nationalisation of its holdings in the country, lawyers close to the case said.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Italian prosecutors have accused two of the country's top firms, Telecom Italia and Pirelli, of failing to control an extensive wire-tapping system deployed to gather data on politicians, business leaders, and sports and showbiz personalities.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Multiple benefits for Olivetti: highly reliable, excellence-grade services
in line with the company's evolving IT strategy
ATLANTA, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Olivetti, a Telecom Italia Group
company, has chosen to adopt services from Crossgate -- the world's leading
company in cross automation and Business-to-Business (B2B) integration --
for EDI integration of its partners.
With revenues...
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Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ericsson May Say Profit Fell on Job Cuts, Less Demand (Update1) Bloomberg - 2 hours ago Ericsson forecast in February that demand for wireless and fixed-line telephone networks used by Telecom Italia SpA, Telefonica SA and other customers will ...
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cellular-news (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... by Spain's Telefonica TEF and Portugal Telecom PT, and No. 2 TIM Participacoes TSU, a unit of Telecom Italia Mobile.The rise in competition is partly "a byproduct of penetration levels continuing to increase," King said. But, he said, "There are some other competitive forces coming into play. We are starting to see the emergence of more national carriers."Telemar buying Oi will create a...
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Communications Breakdown (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... a service provider). I am not sure who takes care of the active layer, but I suppose it is BBned (Telecom Italia).Now let's see how these parties are tied together:As stated, KPN will own 41% of Reggefiber FttH (+ an option to increase this to a majority stake). Other Reggefiber assets (business services) are left out of the JV.Reggefiber (named after a river called De Regge) is owned by...
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Business Report (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Italian prosecutors have accused two of the country's top firms, Telecom Italia and its leading shareholder Pirelli, of corruption in connection with a huge spy scandal.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
According to some press reports, magistrates uncovered evidence of the Telecom Italia operation in a raid on a Milan flat that was linked to a separate investigation into the abduction by the CIA of Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric, from Milan in February 2003.
