France Telecom cash call agreed
Shareholders in France Telecom have approved plans to raise up to 30bn euros to help the company deal with its crippling debt.
But chief executive Thierry Breton told the shareholders he would need only 15bn euros (£10.3bn; $16.2bn) to shore up the balance sheet.
At a meeting in Paris he said the company’s debt stood at nearly 70bn euros at the end of last year.
And he promised that profits would rise above 20bn euros by 2005 as the company tackled the debt mountain.
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