FRANKFURT, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Primacom, Germany'sfourth-largest cable operator, wants to play an active role inconsolidating the market, its managing director said, asappetite for broadband assets in Europe's largest economyremains high.
"We are hunters not hunted. We are ready to be aconsolidator", Wolf Waschkuhn, managing director and supervisoryboard member of Primacom told Reuters.
"We have put in bids for the Berlin assets of Tele Columbus and for Deutsche Telekabel", he added.
Tele Columbus is up for sale and recently attracted interestfrom private equity groups CVC and Cinven,which are offering to buy it in a potential deal valuing thecompany's equity and debt at roughly 600 million euros, twopeople familiar with the negotiations said.