Carlos Slim’s company looking to Polish deals?

Telekom Austria, majority-held by billionaire Carlos Slim, is sounding investment banks about possible acquisitions in Poland, according to sources quoted by Puls Biznesu. The company’s M&A director Roland Haidner recently said that Telekom Austria would focus on Central and Eastern Europe. “We have three priorities: consolidation, convergence and regional expansion,” he said. According to Maciej Witucki, supervisory board chairman at Orange Polska, the Polish telecoms market is fragmented so its natural for such a player to be interested in in. “I expect it to show interest in cable TV providers or in Netia,” Witucki told the daily. “Theoretically it could also be interested in the operator of the Play network.”