By: MarkJ - 14 May, 2008 (8:39 AM)
The Carphone Warehouse (AOL, TalkTalk) has rejected yesterdays news reports, which alleged that
Tiscali had excluded the firm from its shortlist of interested buyers (
original news). Speaking to
The Independent, a spokesman for Carphone said:
"
We have not heard anything from Tiscali, so as far as we are concerned we are still in the game. We are regarding the reports as speculative."
Meanwhile the other companies most frequently reported to be in the race are Vodafone, BT, BSkyB in the UK, Fastweb and Wind in Italy. The newspaper also sights sources close to the negotiations as saying:
"Discussions are still very much in the preliminary stages and the bankers are wanting to whip up as much creative tension as they can to force all the players to the table. It is just the usual fun and games."
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