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The
total amount invested in the 2004 financial year, including further
funding of existing ventures, was £61 million. The total amount
invested in the 2003 financial year, including further funding of
existing ventures,
was £77 million, significantly lower than the £1,131
million invested in the 2002 financial year. In the 2002 financial
year the significant acquisition made in April 2001 was of the 49.5%
interest in Esat Digifone that we did not already own, from Telenor,
for £869 million under an agreement made in early 2000. |