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March
Belgium is offering a fourth licence for 3G services and is expected to follow with licences for LTE and WiMax capacity
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Indian operator Bharti Airtel is negotiating a loan so that it can buy most of Zain’s African businesses
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Telefónica is talking to independent operators in Mexico about a consortium to bid for the electricity company’s optical fibre network
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Germany’s four existing mobile licence operators — and no others — have been cleared to bid for new spectrum by regulator Matthias Kurth
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Stephen Carter, former UK regulator and then UK government minister, is to be chief marketing officer of Alcatel-Lucent
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The European Commission has started a public consultation on updating the EU’s law on whether broadband should be included in universal access rules
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Phuthuma Nhleko is to step down from the top position in MTN after failing to secure a merger with Bharti Airtel
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February
The FCC is planning a second attempt to auction a block of spectrum in the 700MHz band, though it will be shared with public safety services
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Telekom Austria is to merge the businesses of its fixed and mobile operations in its home country, aiming at €100m annual savings
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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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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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Cofetel, the Mexican regulator, is reviewing initial bids for two sections of spectrum, with final bids due in May
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Lars Nilsson is to replace Harri Koponen as CEO of Tele2 after Kopenen left because of differences with the board
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Alcatel-Lucent is to take over network operations and 3,000 staff of Bulgarian operator BTC
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CDMA operators China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless plus CDMA vendor Qualcomm have finally joined the GSM Association
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The GSM Association has won support from 20 operators for an initiative to allow voice calls and roaming over LTE
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A former Kuwait politician, Nabil Bin Salama, has taken over from Saad al Barrak at the top of Zain
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A survey of 15,000 consumers across the world shows that people trust mobile phone companies, but they say that operators are not moving fast enough to provide advanced services
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Global Telecoms Business has extended the deadline for nominations to this year's Innovation Awards
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One of Canada’s leaders in the media industry is developing broadband services and offering its nationwide fibre to international operators
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The annual Connectivity Scorecard shows that Sweden has overtaken the US and other Scandinavian countries dominate
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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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The US telecommunications industry has decided not to hold the Supercomm exhibition and conference in 2010
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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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The Obama administration is setting a new funding proposal to the telecoms regulator, which says it should earn $1.6 billion over the next decade from spectrum auctions
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Stéphane Richard will take over from Didier Lombard as CEO of France Telecom on March 1, though Lombard will continue as chairman until June 2011
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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 French regulator, Arcep, is to auction two remaining 3G bands and is preparing for an auction of 4G spectrum
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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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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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Interviews with Süreyya Ciliv, Rob Pullen and Jeong Kim are now online
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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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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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As operators struggle to tune up their backhaul networks to deliver data to smartphone users, Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen believes they can save money by moving to ethernet connections
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Carphone Warehouse in the UK is considering building its own optical fibre network in competition with BT and other operators
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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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Nextel Mexico, owned by NII in the US, is to bid for 3G spectrum in the country’s forthcoming auction
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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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Global Telecoms Business has asked the industry to nominate the most promising executives under 40 years old who will lead the industry in the future
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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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The company that runs the Wind brand in Canada is looking to raise several hundred million dollars in debt to fund expansion
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Good planning and communications is the key to successful crisis management
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Climate change activists and governments fail to understand the contribution that information and comms technologies can make to achieving their goals
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Bell Labs president Jeong Kim wants to preserve the freedom that will allow his researchers to continue to deliver disruptive technology
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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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Telecom Italia is saying that the government of Argentina is being unjust in requiring it to divest its stake in Telecom Argentina. Telefónica, which owns a large stake in Telecom Italia, is also active in Argentina
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Newly independent Skype has recruited Miles Flint, a former president of Sony Ericsson, as chairman
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Norwegian operator Telenor has emerged as the single bidder for the competitive fixed-line licence in Serbia
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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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Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs believes networks should use only 1,000th the energy they do today, and has set up a consortium with 15 other organisations to carry out the necessary research
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Former EDS executive Jeff Kelly is taking over from former BT group CFO Hanif Lalani at the top of BT Global Services
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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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There will be a further delay in India’s auction of 3G bandwidth, now set for February 2010