"A strong luxury group will increase profits because it will allow Ford to sell to all consumer variants while retaining current Ford customers, " he said in a recent report.

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And, according to the plan, it would do so while pretty much retaining the progressivity of the current code.

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The other telecom operators that currently own Infonet, including Swisscom (nyse: SCM - news - people ), the Netherlands' KPN (nyse: KPN - news - people ) and Australia's Telstra (nyse: TLS - news - people ), apparently "see little strategic benefit in retaining their stakes in this business at the current market price, " the analysts note.

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