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UPC ditches German cable merger.(United Pan-Europe Communications ends talks with...

Cable group United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) has ended talks to combine its EWT/tss German cable group with Primacom. UPC (Netherlands; +31/20 778 9840; www.upccorp.com) declined all comment on the announcement. But move throws into question troubled UPC's plans for German market, where it has yet to establish a significant presence. Combination of 589,000-subscriber EWT/tss with 1m-subscriber Primacom would have created a major grouping with a large number of Level Four subscribers. Level Four cable networks have a direct connection to customers' homes. This would have made

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