The company says 3,000 other jobs have been created, largely by a telecommunications subsidiary called Thus P.L.C., which had its own initial public offering last month.

Wang has been trying to sell its telecommunications subsidiary and several manufacturing operations.

To help pay for the deal, Pacificorp confirmed that it would sell its telecommunications subsidiary, Pacific Telecom, for $1.5 billion.

And Cegetel, Vivendi's telecommunications subsidiary, has more than 12 million customers in France.

That network, later sold to a telecommunications subsidiary of Duke Energy, had enough spare capacity to spur community discussions about who else might use it.

Southern Telecom, a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company was founded in 1997.

Mr. Fitzgerald, also 32, is the director of network services for the telecommunications subsidiary of the Rockefeller Group in New York.

At least two bidders are expected to make offers this week for Wind, the telecommunications subsidiary of the Italian energy group Enel.

DSC will be merged into Alcatel's United States telecommunications subsidiary.

The article began: 'The French-dominated telecommunications subsidiary in Madagascar no longer has a monopoly.'