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Reuters
Italy’s CDP board to meet over bid for Telecom Italia grid -sources
The board of Italian state investor CDP is due to meet later on Sunday to approve a multi-billion euro non-binding offer for the fixed network of former phone monopoly Telecom Italia, three people with knowledge of the matter said. CDP has teamed up with Australian infrastructure fund Macquarie to bid for Italy’s most important telecommunications infrastructure, for which U.S. investment firm KKR has already presented an offer. One of the people familiar with the matter said that CDP board members were set to meet at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) to approve the offer.
