Six local companies are jostling to buy Telecom Italia SpA's stake in Telecom Argentina, local newspaper Clarin reported Thursday.

The suitors include partners Eduardo Eurnekian and Ernesto Gutierrez, Alfredo Roman, the Pegasus Group, Grupo Clarin, the Genevieve fund and Carlos Joost Newbery's Condor fund, Clarin said.

On Dec. 2, Telecom Italia's board