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May
Uncertainty in India’s telecoms sector leads Augere Wireless to sell spectrum and move out
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TM Forum’s Management World expected to leave Dublin and return to refurbished Acropolis Centre in Nice
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Vodacom hopes to overturn DR Congo court decision to auction its shares in local operation
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Vodafone restructuring likely to begin with search for successor to departing CEO Michel Combes
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Deutsche Telekom’s US operator plans 900 more job cuts after 1,900 earlier in 2012 in plan to save cash
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Vivendi plans 500 job cuts at French operator as it looks for savings of €450m
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Turkmenistan government to allow Russian mobile operator MTS to resume services to compete with state company
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Australian unit of Singapore Telecom to make 750 redundant as part of restructuring
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April
Qualcomm set to receive Indian spectrum for TD-LTE services after delays due to dispute with government
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Verizon Wireless to sell licences if regulators clear its $3.6bn spectrum acquisition from cable TV consortium
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Globe Telecom to bid for Philippines licence to be surrendered by PLDT after Digitel acquisition
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Thai telecommunications regulator says Chinese operators are interested in bidding for 3G licences
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Libya’s LAP GreenN loses bid for interim relief of its 75% stake in Zambian operator Zamtel
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UAE-based operator Etisalat must pay $800 million as part of PTCL deal or face hostile takeover, says Pakistan
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Bahrain operator targets at least one acquisition in 2012 to compensate for falling domestic revenues
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T-Mobile-Orange joint venture in UK appoints Morgan Stanley to sell surplus 1,800MHz spectrum
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Vivo brand to be extended to Telefónica Brazil’s fixed-line, internet and pay TV services from April 15
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March
Who are the industry’s young leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow? For the fourth year in a row, Global Telecoms Business readers help us make the selection
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Today’s LTE technology has the potential to become 1,000 times more powerful by 2020 than it is today, believes NSN’s CTO Hossein Moiin. After that, we’ll need 5G, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Jamaican government to merge spectrum, utilities and broadcasting regulators into one, says minister
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Australian government says security concerns means Huawei cannot take supply equipment for NBN
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Algerian government and VimpelCom come closer to peace deal over mobile operator Djezzy
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Speculation rises about reorganisation but Optus says it has made no final decision about jobs
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India’s Unitech seeks valuation for sale of 33% stake in Indian operator Uninor to Telenor
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Canadian government to reserve spectrum for small operators and allow foreign ownership
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Operator challenges decision naming post office consortium winner of 900MHz spectrum auction in Hungary
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France Telecom Orange and advertising agency to invest €150 million in venture capital in digital economy
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From now until 2018 Barcelona will not just be the place the industry goes every February for Mobile World Congress: the city is now the Mobile World Capital. Agustín Cordón, CEO of the project, explains how the city will become a testing ground for new mobile services
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Telefónica Brasil to sack 1,500 employees following merger with operator Vivo Participações
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Czech Republic’s minister of industry and trade criticises regulator and calls for ‘agressive competition’ for 4G
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Taiwanese premier agrees to release 4G licences for July 2013, so operations can start from 2015
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Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Enterprises suggests guided liquidation to privatise telecommunications firm
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A total of 67,000 people from 205 countries took part in the last Mobile World Congress at the Montjuic site in Barcelona
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February
Ahuja quits but becomes chairman as LTE wholesale project appoints backer Philip Falcone to board
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Barcelona’s bus and metro drivers settle pay deal as world’s mobile industry gathers for Mobile World Congress
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Etisalat joins Batelco in withdrawing from Indian mobile after court’s decision to cancel 122 2G licences
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GSM Association looks for transport alternatives as Barcelona metro and bus workers plan strike for Mobile World Congress
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Interviews with Dan Mead of Verizon Wireless, Jo Lunder of VimpelCom and Anne Bouverot of the GSMA in free iPad/iPhone app of the latest issue of Global Telecoms Business
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Former Orange executive Anne Bouverot is the new head of the mobile industry’s GSM Association. In her first interview since taking office, she tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that the industry has to adapt to being a mature business after a long period of growth
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Workers’ council believes Alcatel-Lucent likely to cut workforce as part of efforts to reduce costs
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Global Telecoms Business is now available in full as an app for the iPad and the iPhone
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January
South African operator will not exit from Irancell holding despite US pressure to pull out over Iran’s nuclear actions
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SK Telecom’s broadband unit signs agreement with Taiwan’s Chunghwa to strengthen international business
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BlackBerry smartphone maker could be forced to name new chairman following investor pressure
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Before any enterprise moves its data to a public cloud, enterprise IT executives want assurances about security, availability, reliability and performance of enterprise applications. Jeff Morgan offers some solutions
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Patents were bought and sold for unprecedented sums in 2011. Why is this the case, asks Sam Baird, and will 2012 see other companies seeking to sell their patent portfolios?