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Article: Spain's Telefonica, Venezuela's CANTV study bid for Colombia's biggest phone company
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- January 13, 2006
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AP Worldstream
01-13-2006
Dateline: BOGOTA, Colombia
Spain's Telefonica SA and Venezuela's CANTV were among four firms to express interest in bidding for Colombia's biggest telephone company, which the government intends to privatize.
The two telecoms paid US$17,000 (euro14,000) each to obtain information about Colombia Telecom, which the government promised to auction by the end of the first quarter, the president's office said in a statement late Thursday.
Two other state-run Colombian telephone companies, Empresas de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota SA, or ETB, ...