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World2000 123Telecom 2000: industrial chronicleYves Gassot & Didier Pouillot(January 2000)USA: from merger-acquisitions to spin-offs.............................................................. 125Mergers in Europe ........................................................................................................ 127Delays on pan-European networks ............................................................................ 128The anaesthetising effect of alliances ....................................................................... 128Migrating from national scale competition to a European-scale strategy.............. 129Mobile fever................................................................................................................... 129A year that for Europe was dominated by UMTS ...................................................... 131Bank and investor anxiety ........................................................................................... 132High-speed taking baby steps..................................................................................... 132Growth in the number of DSL lines in the US, in 2000 ........................................... 133Conclusion ................................................................................................................... 134© IDATE www.idate.fr