The US was still playing hardball at the World Trade Organization telecommunications talks in Geneva on Friday as the European Union urged US negotiators to sign the deal on the table. I would certainly urge the Americans to live up to their rhetoric and sign up to an accord, UK Minister for Science & Technology Ian Taylor told a news briefing. He said he believed there was enough on the table for a deal and that liberalization of the telecommunications market had brought a tremendous boom to the industry in Britain and forecast that a deal in Geneva would have a similar effect around the world. The US still insisted that better offers were still needed from other countries.
