BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JANUARY 8, 2001 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS CEO Bon's Shopping List ORANGE This leading cell-phone network cost France Telecom $40 billion. The acquisition turned France Telecom into Europe's second-largest mobile-phone operator. FREESERVE Britain's big Internet access provider is now a France Telecom property that cost $2.5 billion. EQUANT Cost: $4 billion. Equant provides data services to business and fits with France Telecom's Global One franchise. 3G MOBILE-PHONE NETWORK You can't buy one of these, you have to build it--a next-generation service to deliver the wireless Net. Cost, with license fees thrown in: well over $10 billion. DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, COMPANY REPORTS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS France Telecom's $53 Billion Burden (int'l edition) TABLE: CEO Bon's Shopping List INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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