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Telefónica buys Digital Plus stake

By Mark Mulligan in Madrid

Published: November 25 2009 23:42 | Last updated: November 25 2009 23:42

Telefónica, the Spanish telecommunications group, said on Wednesday night it had agreed to buy a 21 per cent stake in Digital Plus, the satellite television business of Prisa, the country’s largest media group.

The stake acquisition, worth €470m ($709m), comes less than a year after Prisa rejected a joint bid by Telefónica and Vivendi of France for the entire pay-TV platform.

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