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March
Carlos Slim’s América Móvil has raised $1.17 billion in debt to finance purchase of fixed-line operator Telmex Internacional
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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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Emirati operator Du, which made a $143m profit in 2009, plans to invest $587m in enhancing its network in 2010
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Nokia is looking at plans to make mobile phones in Argentina, adding to its nine worldwide plants including two in Latin America
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The government of Peru is planning a $260 million package to stimulate rural investment in mobile telecoms
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Cofetel, the Mexican regulator, is reviewing initial bids for two sections of spectrum, with final bids due in May
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The biggest shareholder in Egypt-based Orascom is to lend the company $225 million free of interest
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The Brazilian government is planning to invest over $10 billion in state-owned telco TeleBras
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MTN of South Africa and local operator Globacom are shortlisted for a 75% stake in the Nigerian state-owned incumbent
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UAE operator Du is to spend heavily to expand its network, while agreeing a network sharing deal with rival Etisalat
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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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Saad Al Barrak has resigned from his position as deputy chairman and group CEO of Zain, though he will continue to be CEO of the Saudi Arabian operation
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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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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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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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The Mexican state electricity utility is to sell off spare fibre capacity on its grid to competitive telecoms operators in the market
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Millicom’s Tigo mobile business in Ghana is to sell 750 of its towers to a specialist infrastructure company, Helios Towers
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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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Former Microsoft executive Süreyya Ciliv has been steering Turkcell to become one of the most innovative operators in Europe
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Mobile bandwidth auctions to mark beginning of competition in Costa Rica
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The Indian government is claiming that SingTel was offering international long distance services without a licence
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Telefónica is to invest $1.5 billion in expanding its optical fibre network through the Andean districts of Peru
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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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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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Carlos Slim is planning to bring together his Mexican fixed, mobile and international phone companies with a $21 billion offer by América Móvil for Telmex and Telmex Internacional
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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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China Unicom, one of China’s three telecoms operators, is integrating its fixed and mobile operations and reorganising its business
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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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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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Zain has launched its mobile banking service, Zap, in Niger, Sierra Leone and Malawi, adding to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
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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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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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Telkom Indonesia is to raise $214 million to help fund its planned $2 billion capital expenditure for 2010, according to CEO Rinaldi Firmansyah
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There will be a further delay in India’s auction of 3G bandwidth, now set for February 2010
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Egypt’s Mobinil plans to raise $273 million with the issue of bonds to expand its network
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Russian investment group Altimo was five minutes late to bid for Zambia’s Zamtel but has been confirmed as a bidder