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March
Indian operator Bharti Airtel is negotiating a loan so that it can buy most of Zain’s African businesses
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Tata Communications, headed by Srinath Narasimhan, and Qatar Telecom are to extend the Tata Global Network into the Gulf
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February
Aircel, which operates in 18 regions of India, will use proceeds from sale of its towers to expand into five more zones to give nationwide coverage
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Standard Chartered, Barclays and a number of other banks are discussing loans to Bharti to buy Zain’s African business
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Nokia Siemens Networks is to supply and manage mobile operations for Aircel in India in three areas
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Two Indian mobile giants, Bharti Airtel and Reliance, are launching their own mobile applications stores
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Operators in India can save $1.5 billion in 2010 alone from tower sharing, with many companies saving around $300 million each
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A US-based private equity company is to invest $300 million in an Indian operator of mobile phone towers
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Essar, the company that owns 33% of Vodafone’s Indian operation, is planning to invest $2 billion in up to seven African mobile businesses
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The Indian government is reported to be considering a single telecoms licence, uniting 17 service-specific licences, though spectrum would be allocated separately
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January
The Indian government has turned down a plan that would give Telstra a majority stake in its local offshoot and is reviewing plans by other investors
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Etisalat has settled a dispute with the government of Pakistan over the amount owed for a stake in incumbent operator PTCL
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A lobby organisation of European telecoms operators has been urged to support Telecom Italia, which has been ordered to sell its stake in Telecom Argentina
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Manoj Kohli, CEO of Indian operator Bharti Airtel, is seeking bids to take part in a joint venture that will manage its intercity optical fibre network
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The Indian government says that winners of next month’s 3G auction will be able to refinance their licence fees with a long-term overseas loan within a year
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The Indian government is claiming that SingTel was offering international long distance services without a licence
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Reliance Communications in India is in talks with potential investors in its infrastructure company, Reliance Infratel, which is planning an IPO
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BSNL, the Indian government-owned operator, is asking for state aid, a freeze on interest payments, and preferential purchasing by regional and national government bodies
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As the world enters a period of economic instability there is a pressing need for mobile network operators to identify new horizons of growth
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GTL, an Indian telecoms infrastructure company, is to buy Aircel’s mobile phone towers for $1.8 billion, beating four others to the deal
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The Russian government is postponing plans to invest $677 million in Indian operator Sistema Shyam, which is controlled by Russian group Sistema
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The Indian government has cut from four to three the number of 3G licences that will be auctioned next month
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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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The government of India is claiming that AT&T, BT, France Telecom and Verizon provided long-distance services before they were permitted and wants to fine them a total of $24 million
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Indian telecoms operator Aircel is launching its own app store and is selling its 17,000 telecoms towers
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There will be a further delay in India’s auction of 3G bandwidth, now set for February 2010