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September
Paul Reynolds tells Global Telecoms Business that two separate companies, one owning infrastructure and one running services, would be worth 30% more to shareholders
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Reynolds explains plan to split of Telecom NZ into separate network and services companies
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Telstra is doubling the peak speed of its 3G services to 42 megabits a second, but only for half the Australian population
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Three of Thailand’s three operators are to bid for 3G licences, while a fourth opts to create an MVNO
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August
Reports suggest Vodafone is considering selling its stake in China Mobile, a deal that could raise $4bn
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to build a fibre-to-the-home network using equipment from Huawei
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Richard Li’s PCCW is to raise $167m by selling shares to outside investors, in a sale managed by Morgan Stanley
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Wang Jianzhou will remain chairman of the world’s largest telecoms company but has been replaced as CEO
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PCCW, Hong Kong’s largest operator, is to raise $300m in its first sale of bonds for five years
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Next has signed a five-year contract with Cable & Wireless Worldwide for a network covering the UK and Hong Kong
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July
China Telecom looks for IT investment opportunities in European market, says the head of its EMEA business
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China Mobile and China Telecom have signed up Alcatel-Lucent to build FTTH networks
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AIS will invest $1.4bn over the next three years on building its 3G network across Thailand
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Chinese operators are to invest $18bn in 3G technology this year alone, according to a government statement
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Vodafone and Hutchison’s joint venture in Australia has given Ericsson the task of upgrading its network
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Ericsson is to take over field maintenance for China Mobile’s base stations in the province of Hebei
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Japanese operator NTT has made an agreed bid worth £2.1bn for South African IT group Dimension Data
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Research in Motion is planning to launch an app store in China to help it compete in the local smartphone market
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Google’s licence to operate in China has been renewed for one year by the Chinese regulatory authorities
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China Network Systems, a Taiwanese cable and broadband operator, has been put up for sale by buyout firm MBK
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DoCoMo CEO Ryuji Yamada says the company will start an app store to allow independent providers to develop and sell mobile applications
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Hong Kong Broadband speeds up FTTH services
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SK Telecom in South Korea is in talks with Apple about a deal to offer the iPhone and launch the iPad
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Users stopped from service that suggests answers
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June
South Korea’s SK Telecom is spending $100m on buying a 25% stake in WiMax operator Packet One of Malaysia
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Security concerns mean the US government has stopped Emcore selling a controlling stake in its optical fibre business to a Chinese investor
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Indonesian operator in infrastructure deal
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Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone is buying the owner of fixed operator Sparq
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Australia’s National Broadband Network Company will use Alcatel-Lucent equipment, announces senior executive Kevin Brown
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Two Indonesian CDMA mobile operators, Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Bakrie Telecom, may merge their businesses
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Indosat CEO Harry Tirtotjondro says new bond issue will be used to refinance the Indonesian company’s $499m debt
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Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo plans to fill gaps in its LTE service, due to be launched this year, by offering femtocells
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China Telecom is to connect with Nepal Telecom using an optical fibre cable, improving the landlocked country’s international connections
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Australian incumbent Telstra has agreed to work with the government’s planned National Broadband Network
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Telekom Malaysia is to build a national high speed broadband network with equipment from ZTE
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Australia’s merged Vodafone and 3 mobile operation has raised $2.58bn to repay loans from the two main shareholders
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Malaysian operator Maxis is considering raising $1.4bn, half of which will be used for capital expenditure
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Bakrie Telecom in Indonesia is to merge its CDMA operations with those of Telekomunikasi Indonesia
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Japanese comapnies Fujitsu and Toshiba are discussing merging their mobile phone manufacturing operations
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Thailand’s National Telecommunications Commission will refarm unused frequencies for new services, says commission member Natee Sukolrat
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Telkom Indonesia to issue bonds to support capital expenditure
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NTT associate Internet Initiative Japan is to buy AT&T’s outsourcing operation in Japan, which has 1,600 business customers
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China Mobile has appointed Li Yue, 51, as president and director, while veteran Wang Jianzhou becomes chairman of a new board of directors
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May
Qualcomm EVP Derek Aberle has signed a deal licensing technology for Chinese TD-SCDMA technology with CK Telecom
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Malaysia’s Maxis is to spend $427m on improving 3G coverage from 60% to 80% of the country
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Management World 2010: New Zealand operator TelstraClear is using a new product from Clarity to offer white-label ISP services
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Neil Montefiore, CEO of Starhub in Singapore, tells Global Telecoms Business that half the phones it sells every month are iPhones, and it needs to take urgent action to cater for the data explosion
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The Australian Competition Tribunal has rejected Telstra’s bid to raise the wholesale price for access to its copper network
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Starhub faces iPhone-fuelled data explosion
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Management World 2010: China Mobile has been able to cut capex by 85% in switching from TDM to IP networks, VP Liu Aili tells opening session of Management World
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China Telecom has agreed with RIM to sell the Storm smartphone in China, competing with China Unicom, which sells the iPhone
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The Chinese operation of Alcatel-Lucent is working with Aruba Networks to offer wifi-based mobility services to corporate customers in China
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Reports from Indonesia suggest that the government wants to adopt LTE in its 4G strategy in place of WiMax
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China Mobile has set up its Zong subsidiary in Taiwan in a plan to invest in local mobile operator Far EasTone
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ZTE is to build the next phase of a WiMax network in Malaysia for Packet One, at a cost of $76m
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Indonesian operator Indosat is raising $500m in a bond offering and has launched 42 megabit HSPA+ using equipment from Ericsson
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Canadian broadband operator Axia NetMedia is working with Vodafone to bid for a national fast broadband project in New Zealand
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New Zealand Telecom chief Paul Reynolds may sell its international wholesale voice unit or merge it with another operator’s
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Richard Li’s PCCW has secured a $2.05bn revolving credit deal for its subsidiary Hong Kong Telecommunications from 21 banks
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Indonesian mobile operator Bakrie has raised $250m to repay existing loans and to fund further capital expenditure
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KT is pushing vendors Samsung and Intel to create an alliance to stimulate Korea’s home-grown version of WiMax
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April
Laptop maker Acer is planning to launch a range of mobile internet terminals and to expand its marketing in China
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Drew Kelton of Telstra and Vineet Taneja of Nokia are to join expanding Indian operator Bharti Airtel in senior roles
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate applications and devices for his new WiMax network
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Huawei and ZTE are among Chinese equipment makers whose products have been banned from Indian networks, in a government ruling
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Former Sprint and Clearwire executive Wing Lee is now running YTL Communications, a project to build an $850 million nationwide — and mobile — WiMax 4G network across Malaysia. YTL is offering $1 million in prizes to stimulate new applications and devices
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China Mobile, headed by Wang Jianzhou, is expected to take a 12% stake in Taiwan’s Far EasTone for $566m
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Four phone makers — Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic and Sharp — have joined with chip company Renesas to establish a common platform for mobile applications
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The world’s largest operator, China Mobile, has awarded ZTE a contract to build an IMS core network on which it can run converged fixed and mobile services
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Telstra is planning to increase the price it charges rivals for wholesale access to its local loop
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One of Nortel’s last operations, its joint venture with South Korea’s LG to make mobile equipment, is being bought by Ericsson
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Malaysian operator Axiata is raising $300m through a debt issue to refinance existing borrowings
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Australia’s Optus, owned by Singtel, is expected to start trials of LTE services in May, with NSN as the vendor
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Thailand’s telecoms regulator NTC has appointed commissioner Natee Sukonrat to examine ways of licensing WiMax and other wireless services in 2011
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Chinese equipment vendor ZTE says it hopes to sell 2-3 million handsets into the Indian market
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Paul Reynolds, head of Telecom New Zealand, is considering proposals to split the domestic company in two, and is reviewing bids for AAPT, its Australian subsidiary
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Rinaldi Firmansyah, head of Telkom Indonesia, has hired Macquarie to advise on restructuring and expanding its tower subsidiary
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Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan is testing LTE in association with Nokia Siemens Networks
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Chinese smartphone makers are considering making offers for Palm, the producer of the Pre, which is up for sale
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There are 500 WiMax 4G broadband networks in operation and the market is finally growing after Intel’s investment stimulus of $2 billion-plus
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China’s minister of industry and information technology, Li Yizhong, wants to expand the number of 3G customers from 16m to 150m by next year
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State-owned CAT Telecom in Thailand is to buy out Hutchison’s CDMA operation in the same country for $232m
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Two Chinese companies have ordered $2 billion worth of handsets from Nokia, but one of the orders shows a substantial decline on 2009
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March
ZTE chairman Hou Weigui has replaced Yin Yimin as president, putting Shi Lirong in his place
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China Mobile and China Unicom have ordered equipment worth $1.8 billion from Ericsson for mobile network upgrades
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David Thodey, CEO of Australian operator Telstra, has reshuffled his management team again
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The owner of Indonesia’s Telkomsel is considering spinning off its CDMA operator, Telkom Flexi, into a separate company
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Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of the world’s biggest operator, says the company is ready to invest in businesses in Asia and Africa
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MobiTel in Cambodia has signed a network expansion deal worth $200m with Huawei
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CEO Srinath Narasimhan is re-investing the cash from that wholesale voice in wireless networks and value-added services in India and other emerging markets
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Motorola is close to taking a decision on splitting the company into a handset business and a separate network infrastructure operation, which may be sold off
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Telstra has raised €1 billion in bonds as the Australian senate postpones a vote on splitting the company
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The Japanese government is considering splitting off NTT’s fibre service into an open access network
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TPG Telecom has finally won control of Australian network Pipe in a deal valued at $373 million
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A group of New Zealand entrepreneurs are planning a cable to increase the country’s capacity to California and Australia
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PHS operator Fitel has won a WiMax licence from Taiwan’s regulator and plans to start services in the north of the island later in 2010
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South Korean smartphone maker LG has launched its first Android phone in its home market and is expected to have 10 on offer this year
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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is setting up a Taiwanese subsidiary, but it will not be allowed to invest in local telecoms operators
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Sony head Howard Stringer is reported to be planning to launch a smartphone to challenge Apple’s iPhone
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NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia
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Mike Quigley of Australia’s open-access company has announced the first five areas where it will build fibre-to-the-home fibre networks
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The Australian federal government has taken an equity stake of $89m in the first state rollout of its national broadband network
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China Mobile is considering taking a 20% stake in a Shanghai bank, according to reports from China
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February
Private equity owned Pacnet, created from Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, plans to raise $500m in an IPO for acquisitions and expansion
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YTL, headed by Wing Lee, is about to launch a nationawide WiMax network in Malaysia
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The Philippines telecom regulator will allow existing 3G licence holders to bid for the country’s last 3G licence
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Australia’s minister for broadband, Stephen Conroy, has launched the first construction work on the country’s planned National Broadband Network
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China Unicom has made China;s biggest ever bid for international telecoms expansion with a $2.5 billion offer for Nigeria’s Nitel
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Willcom, a Japanese operator owned by Carlyle and Kyocera is expected to file for bankruptcy protection but is seeking investment from rival operator Softbank
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Smartphone maker HTC is to buy back 15 million shares at a cost of around $1.8 billion
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SingTel’s Australian business, Optus, is refusing to sell its hybrid fibre coax network to the state-controlled National Broadband Network
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Globe Telecom in the Philippines is to spend nearly $500 million in 2010 on expanding its mobile and broadband activities
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Software-defined radio has allowed Telstra’s Hong Kong mobile operator to run 2G and 3G services on the same infrastructure
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With investment from Saudi Telecom and Malaysia’s Maxis, Axis has started to build its market in Indonesia, explains CEO Erik Aas
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January
New Zealand’s incumbent operator is suggesting an alternative solution to the government proposal for a national fibre-to-the-home project
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The Indian government is claiming that SingTel was offering international long distance services without a licence
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Personal computer maker Lenovo Group is planning to introduce an Android smartphone in China
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The Chinese government is believed to be telling mobile operators that they have to scan text messages to filter out content it dislikes
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The Opposition parties in Australia’s federal parliament have come out against the government proposals to break up Telstra
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Google has told China Unicom, Samsung and Motorola that it will delay the launch of Google-branded Android handsets in the Chinese market
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AIS, part-owned by SingTel, is to spend $335 million on expanding its network in Thailand in 2010, reaching 15-22 extra cities
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According to sources, Singapore Telecommunications is to sell 25% of its Australian operator, Optus, raising around $3.7 billion
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LG is aiming to increase its sales of mobile phones in 2010 from last year’s figure of 117 million to 140 million
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China Unicom, one of China’s three telecoms operators, is integrating its fixed and mobile operations and reorganising its business
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Huawei plans to hire 5,000 research and development staff in Bangalore in an expansion of its R&D centre costed at $500 million
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Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong industrial giant Hutchison Whampoa is offering $542 million to acquire the shares in its mobile telecoms offshoot, HTIL
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Australian operators Telstra, Optus and Vodafone Hutchison are expected to bid for 4G spectrum to be auctioned by the government
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Huawei expects global contracts to rise from $30 billion to $36 billion in 2010, a rise of 20% — though slower than the previous year’s 36% growth
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SK Telecom in South Korea is responding to iPhone competition from rival KT by planning the launch of 12 Android phones
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Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa is considering taking complete ownership of HTIL, its telecommunications subsidiary with interests in emerging markets
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Telkom Indonesia is to raise $214 million to help fund its planned $2 billion capital expenditure for 2010, according to CEO Rinaldi Firmansyah