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AT&T Wireless in worse shape than Vodafone believed - Washington Post 13.58: Washington Post reports that British cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC's chief executive received a 2 a.m. call from AT&T Wireless Services chief executive in the midst of a late-night bidding war for AT&T Wireless (AWE), disclosing new and unfavorable details in its operations, Vodafone officials said yesterday. During the call AT&T Wireless chief executive John D. Zeglis unveiled new information indicating the company was in worse shape than Vodafone officials had previously known, according to Vodafone spokesman Bobby Leach. "From our point of view, it was new information," not already in the books Vodafone reviewed in the weeks prior to submitting its bid, Leach said, but declined to detail the new information. "Clearly, we asked for more time to consider it," Leach said, but after Cingular Wireless LLC upped its cash bid to $41 billion, Vodafone withdrew its offer. "It was very unusual," Sarin said of the call from Zeglis, in an interview published in the Sunday Times of London. "We were quite surprised. We knew the business was weak, but we didn't know how weak."
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