FRANCE Telecom wants to buy US firm Motorola’s shares in Egypt’s biggest mobile phone company, Mobinil, which would make the French company the largest shareholder, a source in Egyptian business circles said this week. Motorola currently holds 18%, France Telecom 23.5%, and Orascom Telecom, belonging to Egyptian businessman Nagib Sawiris 26.1%, with the remainder shared around various private investors. MobiNil started operating in May 1998 and has around one million subscribers, compared to around 700 000 for its only competitor, Click, a consortium headed up by Vodafone and AirTouch Communications. – AFP