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The
French stock market authority said interim results showed Nokia
would hold around 79 percent of Alcatel shares.
The offers in France and the United States will be reopened this
month, and the final results will be published in February.
"We will move quickly to combine the two companies and execute
our integration plans," Nokia Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said
in a statement.
Nokia reiterated that the deal is expected to be closed in the
first quarter.
The Alcatel acquisition will vault Nokia into a stronger
position to compete with Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei [HWT.UL]
in a market for telecom network gear where little growth and
tough competition are pressuring prices.
(Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl; editing by Louise Heavens and
Jason Neely)
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