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April
Millicom, the Swedish company that trades under the name Tigo in Latin America and Africa, plans to expand from mobile voice to cable, mobile banking and other services, CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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February
Research claims number of mobile money transactions now exceeding PayPal transactions, says GSMA
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End to Wataniya and Indosat as Qatar operator Qtel to unify all subsidiaries under Ooredoo brand
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Stéphane Richard and fellow CEOs believe the EU’s telecoms market is too fragmented, but the France Telecom CEO does not think the European Commission is coming up with the right answers, the tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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January
South African technology group Altech sells network to Liquid Telecom to create fibre net across nine countries
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Etisalat has expressed interest in buying Vivendi’s 53% stake in Morocco’s Maroc Telecom
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France Telecom Orange’s Mobinil is first to launch browser from China’s Baidu in exclusive deal for Africa
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Qatar Telecom spends $360m to buy further 15% stake in mobile operator Tunisiana from Tunisia government