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The Gulf state has also attracted criticism over the amount of money it spent on its bid.

BlackBerry was believed to have held talks with a number of companies while Fairfax said it was working on its bid.

Permira which was once Schroders Ventures Europe, part of billionaire Bruno Schroder and family's eponymous financial services company, but was amicably separated from Schroders in 2001 and renamed told Forbes.com it had no comment on its bid for now.

Originally, United borrowed $1 billion to keep its operations going while it waited for an answer from a federal loan board on its bid for a guarantee package, which it hoped to use as the basis of its restructuring.

Qatar received 14 votes in the final round of voting; Australia was eliminated in the first round with just one despite spending $40m of public money on its bid.

And it works with private businesses, currently advising MGM on its bid for Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets, and Pechiney as it faces a hostile takeover bid from Alcan.

Tony Ball, the former BSkyB chief executive who helped fuel the company's growth in the mid-1990s, is a non-executive director on the BT board and is likely to have advised it on its bidding strategy.

As of Friday, according to people involved in the negotiations, the company was trying to put the finishing touches on its bidding strategy and private equity team.

Microsoft vowed to press on with its bid, calling it "full and fair".

Iliad, the French firm that made public on July 31st its bid for control of T-Mobile, is now sitting a little prettier.

But on November 29th its bid to take over LW Bogdanka, a Polish coal mining company, was rebuffed by the target's shareholders.