RE: UKNM: line one

[Leslie Bunder]

and given that France Telecom now owns Freeserve and also Orange, might we

be seeing some interesting synergy between these two over the coming months?



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-----Original Message-----

From: Melanie BEECH [

m [dot] beechsyzygy [dot] net (mailto:m [dot] beechsyzygy [dot] net)

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Sent: 08 December 2000 09:00

To:

uknmchinwag [dot] com

Subject: RE: UKNM: line one




> You're right that Freeserve are going to the french, but let's not be

> deluded here, the french (wanawhat.fr?!!) are likely  to sell it to

> Mannesmann or C&W or Global Crossing -


actually, the French move, wanadoo buying freeserve, was probably a tactical

move by France Telecom who own wanadoo, and who equally own the search

engine voil�.  Clearly, by taking over freeserve, they also hope to increase

awareness of and traffic to voil�, which arrived quite late in the UK

market, and so taking over one of the largest of the UK's ISPs made sense

for  number of reasons from their perspective.


Given the above, I think it unlikely that the French are considering this as

a short term move, selling on to someone else in a couple of years, but

potentially more as a long term move into the UK telco market.


Tim Moore, you probably know most about this -what's going on? :-)


melanie


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