• Buyout: Former monopoly British Telecomunications and its partner Telenor, the state-owned Norwegian telecoms operator, have bought out their third partner, Tele Danmark, in Telenordia, Sweden's fourth biggest telecoms operator. Telenordia plans to list on the Stockholm stock exchange next year.

• Strategy: German company Deutsche Telekom's T-Online International internet service provider, which recently pulled out of discussions to buy Freeserve, is still looking into possible acquisitions in Britain, Italy and Spain, according to acting chief executive Detlev Buchal. He was briefing analysts after the sudden resignation last week of T-Online's chairman, Wolfgang Keuntje. T-Online will "develop its international strategy quicker than in the past" and "concentrate on the content side," Mr Buchal added.

• Contract: Internet security specialist Baltimore Technologies said it has won a contract with Telstra to provide web security for Australia's new government-to-government and business-to-government e-commerce system.

• Growth: Data cabling firm Fibernet Group said it has won a contract with an unnamed pan-European data communications firm to provide services worth up to £30m over the next 20 years. The company also said it had signed a 20-year contract to lease up to 6,800km of fibre cable in mainland Europe for which it will pay a maximum of about £60m.