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Free, Bollore in talks with Google over WiMax: paper

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Tue Jul 1, 2008 4:11pm EDT

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PARIS (Reuters) - French Internet service provider Free (ILD.PA) and Bollore Telecom (BOLL.PA) are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc (GOOG.O) over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.

A spokesman for Iliad, the parent of Free, denied the report while the Bollore group could not be immediately reached for comment.

Reuters received an advanced copy of the headlines of Les Echos' Wednesday edition.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, additional reporting by Cyril Altmeyer in Paris, editing by Richard Chang)


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