By ANTHONY HILTON PATERNOSTER, the pension buyout group, has captured a few headlines this week with its deal to buy two defined-benefit pension schemes with about Pounds 170 million of assets between them from Emap, the publishing group.

The blocking of a telecoms takeover by the new industry regulator could be the first of many such actions.

A Pounds 400M DEAL to buy Telent, the rump of fallen telecoms equipment firm Marconi, is in danger of collapsing because of a row over its 60,000-member pension fund.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tollgrade Communications, Inc.

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Antel, the leading tel