Other partners will include the telecommunications company Ericsson, a long-standing partner of the Millennium Villages Project.
British companies, including the telecommunications company Vodafone and Aveva, a software giant, have taken steps to cut business flying.
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They include the telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon, who have a combined 142 million wireless customers and provide fiber and DSL connections to homes.
Mr. Gephardt also endorsed the elimination of certain taxes, including the telecommunications excise tax and taxes on Internet access and transmission.
The highest rate, paid by the most profitable ones, including the telecommunications, energy and tobacco industries, is 15% of post-tax profits—still very low compared with payouts by state firms in other countries.
Myanmar, formerly Burma, is the last unexploited territory for businesses in Asia, with untapped markets including the telecommunications sector: Mobile penetration in the country of 60 million is estimated to be a meager 5 percent to 10 percent.
Acadian owns one stock in Pakistan, Pakistan Telecommunication; four in Colombia, including Banco de Bogotá and the brewer Bavaria; three in Venezuela, including the telecommunications company known as CANTV; and three in Argentina, including the pipe maker Siderca.
The deal ends months of speculation about the future of Telecom Italia, whose suitors had included the telecommunications giant AT&T, and it represents a setback for Telefónica's archrival, América Móvil, owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.
Other decliners included the telecommunications manufacturer Lucent Technologies, which lost 33 cents, to $4.42, after it reported profit results that beat expectations, but forecast future earnings to be flat to only slightly higher.
