AT&T Co’s offer for the remaining publicly traded shares in French telephone equipment company Barphone SA will open on August 10 and remain open until September 17; AT&T has 74.14% of Barphone and 71.31% of its voting rights and has an agreement to buy a further 9.9% of capital and 9.52% of voting rights from Barphone chairman Michel Apchin in 1996 at the latest.
