Latvian government prepared to sell LMT to TeliaSonera, not Lattelekom

May 10, 2006
From wire reports

RIGA - Latvia’s economy minister said the government would allow TeliaSonera to acquire 100 percent of LMT, the country’s leading mobile phone operator, but that the Swedish-Finnish telecommunications company would not take over Lattelekom, the dominant fixed-line operator, according to a press report.Economy Minister Aigars Stokenbergs, in his second month on the job, told the business daily Dienas Bizness that he had telephoned TeliaSonera Vice President Kenneth Karlberg to inform him of the d ...

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