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December
Gulf cable network ready to go into service after completing links to India, Egypt and Europe
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NTT DoCoMo plans to raise stake in Indian operator Tata Teleservices from 26% to 35%
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Regulator told to cancel unified licences and to stop allocation of spectrum for 3G services
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Bangladeshi state-owned cable company to be listed in share market in January 2012
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November
Norwegian operator Telenor plans to increase stake in Indian JV Unitech Wireless to 74%
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Ericsson to operate and provide services across 70% of Bharti Airtel’s Indian network under five year agreement
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O3b has boosted its initial plan to launch eight satellites to 12 and may aim for 20 or more, says CEO Steve Collar. Using low-orbiting satellites, the company plans to avoid many of the problems of other satellite systems
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Blackstone and Carlyle in talks with Reliance Communications for pay $3.5bn for tower unit
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Sistema Shyam's MTS India competes in the market by offering high-speed wireless broadband, but government broadband targets cannot be achieved unless it makes more spectrum available, says the CEO
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Indian government plans to ease regulations over M&As among telecoms operators
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Billionaire siblings Mukesh and Anil Ambani are in talks over a potential deal for telecom assets
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Telstra has won permits to offer long-distance telecoms and internet services in India
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October
Sistema aims for 200-300 million worldwide subscribers for MTS subsidiary, says owner Vladimir Yevtushenkov
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SoftBank sets up mobile internet joint venture with Bharti to focus on social media, gaming and e-commerce
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Indian government is set to approve $4bn project for national optical fibre network aimed at connecting villages
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Internet service provider licence clears the way for Qualcomm to introduce broadband services in India
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Indian real estate firm Unitech proposes buying Telenor’s 67.25% of Uninor for $54m
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Indian telecoms minister Kapil Sibal to let mobile carriers consolidate and share spectrum
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Telecommunications Industry Association urges India to review capital requirements and licence fees
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Indian government doubts Tata’s plans and questions performance of its international units
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Bharti Airtel signs deal with ZTE to start Indian 4G rollout in Kolkata, as contract could reach $330m
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September
CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas says company may seek new partner if Unitech fails to meet funding obligations
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Indian operator will hit $5bn in revenues by 2013 from African operations bought from Zain, says company CEO
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Indian wireless towers company’s lenders approve debt restructuring proposal
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Vodafone’s Indian unit extends outsourcing contract with IBM in deal valued at up to $1 billion
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Bahrain Telecommunications is looking to sell most of its 42.7% stake in Indian joint venture, S Tel
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International MVNO group studies feasibility of launching cut-price mobile services in India
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India’s government telecom department looks for investment in equipment maker Indian Telephone Industries
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August
Indian state-owned telecoms company looks to repay $1.52bn loan taken for 3G spectrum
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Broadband provider to launch WiMax wireless broadband network in Rwanda and acquires Tanzanian spectrum
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Indebted Indian operation Reliance Communications hires UBS to run sale of its 95% stake in Reliance Infratel
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Operator with $7bn debt expects final deal to sell Reliance Infratel towers within the next two months
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Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE reported to be discussing $1.5bn managed services deals with Reliance Communications
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Piramal Healthcare will buy stake in Vodafone India from Essar offshoot for $640m
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Interview with Sanjiv Ahuja, the former Orange head now CEO of LightSquared, which is building a wholesale LTE project in the face of opposition from the GPS industry. At the same time he is chairman of Augere Holdings, with spectrum covering 500m people in Asia and Africa. Interview by Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Indian state operator talking to Tata Teleservices and Aircel about 3G roaming deals
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July
Vodafone India, Airtel and Idea in roaming deal to share network access for 3G services
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Indian incumbent issues tender for mobile network expansion in south, east and north India
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Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered named as banks bidding to manage share flotation of Bharti Infratel
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Operator reorganises into consumer and business units in drive for efficiency
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Indian mobile carrier must seek government permission to sell six licences after acquiring rival Spice
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Essar agrees terms to sell stake in Indian mobile business to Vodafone for $5.46bn
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June
Exclusive Global Telecoms Business interview with Drew Kelton, former Telstra executive who is now president of the enterprise services division at Bharti Airtel
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Interview: former Telstra executive Drew Kelton is now running Bharti Airtel’s enterprise services in its home market of India — and finding huge opportunity while he is getting used to the differences in Indian business
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Bharti is planning to partner with a financial institution to buy 4.4% stake in Airtel
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Indian conglomerate to sell Kenyan business and stops acquisition of Warid’s services in Congo and Uganda
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Reliance says that BSNL switched off its point of interconnection in Punjab and Haryana
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Indian company intends to invest roughly Rs3.2 billion for handset and battery facility
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Private equity companies interested in acquiring a stake in Reliance Communications’ mobile-phone towers unit
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Nepal Telecom (NT) also set to install 400,000 lines for IP CDMA bridging project
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May
Indian state-owned firm asks for new tenders, expected to be around $1.1-$1.3 billion
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Reliance Communications has received ‘several offers’ for a controlling stake in Indian tower unit
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Founder says Bharti Airtel will invest $1 billion in Africa to expand network throughout 16 countries
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Indian operator Sify teams up with DT for worldwide IP and VPN services
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ZTE receives world’s first CDMA EV-DO Rev B Phase 2 commercial contract from Sistema Shyam
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Ericsson is collaborating with chipmaker Sequans on TD-LTE trails planned for India
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State-owned BSNL is talking to rival private operators in India about sharing base station towers
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STC in Saudi Arabia plans to expand at home and to invest in its operations in Indonesia, India and elsewhere
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April
Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao says that the company may list shares in its Indian operation
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India wants to boost domestic production, with subsidies for local operators
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In a planned restructure of telecom rules, India’s telecoms minister plans to ease restrictions on M&As
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The Indian government is telling Aircel, Etisalat and Sistema Shyam to explain why their coverage does not meet licence obligations
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Vodafone has bought out Essar’s 33% stake in its Indian business, but will have to sell part because of ownership laws
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March
The Russian stake now owns 17.1% of the joint Russian-Indian company that runs MTS India
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Indian DoCoMo operator Tata Teleservices is to raise $670 million by selling shares
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Vodafone, Bharti and Idea Cellular are to share 3G bandwidth, say reports from India
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A unit of Essar is set to sell one third of the stake the group owns of Vodafone India
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Qualcomm appears set to sell its broadband wireless licences in India to Bharti Airtel
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Reliance Communications will use $600m of its loan for purchases of Chinese telecoms equipment
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February
Vodafone is to introduce 3G services in selected Indian cities during its current financial year
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Most of the new Europe-India Gateway cable has started operation, with just the Egyptian section awaiting activation
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Indian operator Aircel is planning to invest $3bn in its 3G mobile services, which have already started in Chennai
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Axiata’s Sri Lankan subsidiary Dialog is to spend $150m on upgrading its broadband network
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January
700m in India can now swap operators without changing numbers, 18 months after the planned service date
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India is planning a carrier-neutral national broadband network designed to connect 160m homes in three years
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Blyk takes youth advertising strategy to India’s Aircel
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India’s Reliance Communications is borrowing $255 to help pay its 3G spectrum fees
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The Indian government has approved Qualcomm’s investment in four fixed broadband services that will use LTE
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State Bank of India and ICICI Bank have partnered with Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar to set up mobile banking in India
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Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei are competing to supply $1bn worth of equipment to Reliance Industries
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IMEWE, a new 3.84 terabit cable from Europe to India has started operations