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UPDATE: Qtel May Pay $2B for Remaining 44.9% of Indosat - Source Qatar Telecom, or Qtel, is willing to pay as much as $2 billion for the remaining 44.9% of PT Indosat shares but is still waiting for the approval of its bid from Indonesia's market regulator, a person familiar with the plans said Wednesday....FOCUS: Qatar Telecom's Bet on Indosat Bodes Well for Growing Market The fortunes of PT Indosat are looking up after Qatar Telecom quadrupled its stake and promised to bet more on the big Indonesian phone company....Lending a Mobile Phone in Qatar Can Lead to Jail Following a clamp down in Qatar on abusive phone calls, a recent survey has found that only two in ten people would lend a phone to someone in need. ...Vodafone to Pay $2.1 Billion for Mobile License in Qatar ictQATAR, Qatar's telecommunications regulator has announced that the Vodafone/Qatar Foundation Consortium will pay a fee of QAR 7.716 billion (US$2.12 billion) for the country's second mobile license....Qatar Telecom's 1Q 08 Net Profit Up 11% Qatar Telecom, or Qtel, said Wednesday its net profit increased by 11% in the first quarter against the same period of 2007 to 525 million Qatari riyals ($144 million), equating to QAR4.78 per share....New CEO for Vodafone Czech Republic Muriel Anton, Vodafone CZ Vice President for Finance, is to become the new CEO of Vodafone Czech Republic with effect from 1st June 2008 and thus replace the current CEO, Grahame Maher, who is to take up the position of the founding CEO of Vodafone Qatar....Qatar Adds WiMAX to its Fixed License Tender Qatar's telecom regulator ictQATAR has extended the closing date for applications for its second fixed-line telephone licence to April 17th following requests from several of the interested bidders....Vodafone Confirms Qatar Unit Preparing for IPO Vodafone Qatar, the Qatar unit of Vodafone Group, the world's largest mobile phone operator in terms of sales, is preparing an initial public offering of its shares, a Vodafone spokesman said Tuesday....Vodafone Qatar to IPO, May Hire HSBC - Sources Vodafone Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf state's second mobile license holder, may hire HSBC Holdings to arrange an initial public offering of its shares, persons familiar with the matter said Monday....Qatar Telecom, the country's leading telecommunications provider, Saturday said full-year revenues for 2007 were up 134.7% year-on-year at QAR10.4 billion ($2.85 million).... |
