East German Phone Venture Planned: The Franco-American...
East German Phone Venture Planned: The Franco-American telecommunications concern Alcatel announced plans for a major joint venture in East Germany to overhaul the country’s dilapidated telephone network. It said its West German subsidiary had signed an agreement with VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik of East Berlin to set up a jointly owned firm that would eventually produce 900,000 high-technology digital telephone lines a year. Alcatel was formed in 1987 when France’s CGE and the American ITT Corp. merged their telecommunications activities.
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