PSE hopes to find investor for National Telecoms Group ahead of schedule

The National Grid (PSE) want to find an investor for the National Telecoms Group (KGT) by the beginning of next year. Unofficial sources also say that the management of PSE proposes to privatize the company in 2004, much sooner than the Treasury Ministry planned. KGT will soon be created out of lo ng-distance telecoms operator NOM and PSE's IT subsidiaries. The National Grid's management proposes that the company should maintain a stake in KGT even after the new investor is introduced, although the Economy Ministry opposes such a plan, claiming that the grid operator should withdraw from all non-core activities. (Puls Bizensu, p. 4) T.J.