{"id":39064,"date":"2017-08-05T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39064"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T10:06:01","slug":"tim-says-vivendis-direction-role-due-to-management-change-jv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/tim-says-vivendis-direction-role-due-to-management-change-jv.html","title":{"rendered":"TIM says Vivendi&#8217;s &#8216;direction&#8217; role due to management change, JV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">TIM says Vivendi&#8217;s &#8216;direction&#8217; role due to management change, JV<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Top investor Vivendi last month notified the board of Telecom Italia (TIM) that it was &#8220;directing and coordinating&#8221; the phone company because it planned to appoint one of its own managers at the Italian group, TIM said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In a statement released at the request of market regulator Consob, TIM said another reason for the July 27 declaration was a proposed joint venture between the phone group and Vivendi&#8217;s pay-TV unit Canal+ that would strengthen the links between the two companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The issue of whether Vivendi controlled TIM under Italian law was not part of the board discussions, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The statement comes just days after Italy&#8217;s industry minister had asked the government to look into whether Vivendi duly informed the prime minister&#8217;s office of it exercising de facto control over TIM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">source:-http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-telecomitalia-vivendi-idUSKBN1AK1GA<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/tim-says-vivendis-direction-role-due-to-management-change-jv.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIM says Vivendi&#8217;s &#8216;direction&#8217; role due to management change, JV Top investor Vivendi last month notified the board of Telecom Italia (TIM) that it was &#8220;directing and coordinating&#8221; the phone company because it planned to appoint one of its own managers at the Italian group, TIM said on Friday. 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