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Agents acting for Vodafone Cornerstone of O2 network joint venture ask sections of rent of until 40pc mid-contract and are warning that if the owners do not agree their site could be dismantled to "rationalize" pole networks.

In the letters seen by the Sunday Telegraph, owners nearing the end of their lease are faced with even harsher terms, with more than halves and linked to inflation rental rent increases discarded.

After years of competition fierce erect tens of thousands of Poles throughout the country, network operators are now seeking to reduce costs of their infrastructure, with Vodafone and the most advanced 02 in their plans for rationalization.

Vodafone agents have written thousands of landowners, farmers to the authorities locales.Un farmer, who asked to remain anonymous, dismissed an application for its existing leases change
Mid - contract .the ' agent acting for Vodafone had asked his lease to fall by
40pc and O2 will share the mast for free.

The agent replied: "it seems that you are not prepared to consider concessions requested help Vodafone thanks to a market more and more difficult and more difficult." Therefore, our customers will be included this site in the ongoing review of the requirements of the site network.?

Another Sussex - farmer who has a pole Vodafone and orange on Earth - said that the lease on the mast of Vodafone
is renewal and Vodafone officers said the farmer, the rent will be falling nearly ￡ 4,600 per year to ￡ 1,973 per year and the farmer will lose the additional payments due to O2 sharing pole.

Applications come as Vodafone is expected to update the Tuesday in its half-year results announcement on plans to sell minority shareholdings in operators market mobile étrangers.Revenu company before-tax on the interest and depreciation (EBITDA) for the six months to the end of September are expected to come in slightly less than 7 ￡ United on the sales of 2pc 5.3 ￡ 22.

A Vodafone spokesman confirmed rent applications. ""We tell the owners we hope to reduce the sites, you will examine a site shared with O2 and Vodafone coming and we seek to reduce the costs of leasing," she says.

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Properties of Boston, the largest Office Real Estate Investment Trust to the United States plans to London on a desire to diversify its portfolio to its internal market and stimulate growth in the long term transactions.

The company, valued at $22. 5bn (￡ EIROforum), owns Citigroup and the General Motors Building headquarters in New York, but has no presence in the United States.

However, speaking on a conference call this week, Mort Zuckerman, Chief Executive said that London offers "a highly stable political and legal environment in which to invest".

"London is a big market, a large city", he said. "It is a dynamic world finance - she has had its ups and downs, as we know - but it is a legal environment and policy very stable in which to invest.It is close to many European and Russian investors.If it does surprise me that he did well.

"Frankly, we are very interested to seek outside United States diversification for a number of reasons for a .we will watch a plan long term growth of the company .we want to be able to proceed at many levels."

If Boston decides to enter the London commercial property market, it will follow a number of other American North, including the Carlyle Canada, Brookfield CPP Investment Board group investors and properties of Oxford, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, property arm earlier this week agreed to a joint venture with British land to build the Cheesegrater City Agreement.

Mr. Zuckerman, who is also the editor of the New York Daily News, said his company would travel "very carefully" to invest and still find opportunities "that we believe are relatively more attractive that remain in the United States."

According to data from Knight Frank, real estate agent, foreign investors have represented 68pc de la. 06bn ￡ 7 invested in the Centre of London property deals so far this year.

However, Mr. Zuckerman said investing in the United Kingdom wasn't his "first priority" and that he still prefers "dynamism" markets New York and Washington.

Boston has 145 properties United States covering m 51 feet square in New York, Boston, Washington, San Francisco and Princeton, New Jersey.

Earlier this month it acquired in Boston, one of the most famous buildings of the city, the John Hancock 930 m Tower $.

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Stars of Bollywood, including Shilpa Shetty, centre. Photo: PA

The Bank received a broad mandate to assess and advise on Eros any strategy for the next five years.

High on the agenda was previously the company announced plans to move the main market of the London Stock Exchange of the Alternative Investment Market junior.

Ondra was founded in 2008 by Michael Tory, former head of banking at Lehman Brothers and Benoit of Angelin, which is of European Investment Bank the Bank investment collapsed before executing the Centaurus Capital investment UK hedge funds.

Lulla - family headed by the Executive Chairman Kishore Lulla, whose father Arjan based eros in 1977 – control 70 3pc eros.Basé on its closure actions share price percent on Friday nights, Eros has a market capitalisation of ￡ 270.59 m, which would allow easily sit to FTSE250 index.However, FTSE rules stipulate that a company is only eligible for admission if no shareholder control over its fairness 50pc.

Although the exact family - who in Eros, amassed a catalogue of 2,000 classic Bollywood - amount is ready to sell does not yet been decided, M. Lulla confirmed the appointment of Ondra for the Sunday Telegraph: "we will be doing what is necessary to add value to the family and to all shareholders and stakeholders."The transition to the mainstream market is expected until next year at the earliest.

Eros is working at the same time, which could become a version of Bollywood's U.S. internet site Hulu streaming continu.Il develops episodes 5-7 minutes for global and many growing India mobile phone users.

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Regulators yesterday approved, but has insisted on strict rules, many of them related to the treatment of water is done correctly.

The company wants to build his Curtis plant on the coast and also, a joint venture called Gladstone with Petronas Santos, Malaysia the Australia and two France.Tous total are near the great barrier reef environmentally sensitive.

BG plans to produce gas and transformed into liquid, prior to shipping to customers at Singapore, China, Japan and the Chili.Elle has already signed contracts worth billions of dollars.

Businesses are defined at the end of the year final investment decisions, with production expected to begin by 2014.

Two other major projects of the joint venture, energy source, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina, have not yet applied for environmental approval.

Separately, BG Group reported that it found gas in a well off the coast of Tanzanie.Le share price rose from 0 8pc in London for ￡ 12.03.

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Agreement, which is subject to EU competition clearance, is likely to lead to hundreds of job losses and see an estimated 70 to 1,200 total branches are closed.

In the agreement, the name of Going Places is likely to disappear from the high street.

The merger will push TUI Travel, leader in the current market to United Kingdom into second place in terms of number of stores, depending on how many transfers his new rival is obliged to do.

"This is the marriage of two more trustworthy, travel retail brands", said Peter Marks, Executive Steering Group of the co-op.

Thomas Cook and the co-op fought dernièrement.Thomas Cook Cup between 300 and 400 jobs in a separate, restructuring exercise while profit co-op travel Division declined by 70pc in the first half of the year.

Manny Fontenla-Novoa, CEO of Thomas Cook, Executive said the market travel in 2010 was "worse than 9/11", due to problems such as volcanic ash.""

Under the terms of the agreement, the combined entity will be owned by Thomas Cook and 30pc by 70pc.Les co-op groups hope to achieve synergies of at least 35 m ￡, primarily from the reduction of costs.

Society will be based at the headquarters of Thomas Cook in Peterborough, which means that up to 200 positions could be assigned to the Office of the co - op de Stoke-on - Trent cooperative .the said yesterday that it will try to find other roles for affected workers.

No money will change hands in the framework of the agreement.

It is estimated that companies will send a ￡ 12 operating profit.4 m and ￡ 0.1 m for the 12 months ending September 30, 2010 and 1 January 2011, respectively.

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