Tronchetti’s two fingers

Marco Tronchetti Provera is sticking two fingers up to Rome. One is for AT&T; the other for Mexico’s Carlos Slim. Selling control of Telecom Italia, the country’s telecoms champion, to not just one but two foreign groups will drive the Italian government wild. There is no love lost between Tronchetti and Romano Prodi, Italy’s prime minister. The two men have distrusted each other for years. Open warfare erupted shortly after Prodi took office last year. Rome has not only tightened the regulatio...