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Articles tagged with: Bharti and Hutchison
Fitch Affirms Singtel's & Optus' Debt Ratings
Debt ratings agency, Fitch has affirmed Singapore's SingTel and its Australian subsidiary, Optus' Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'A'. The Outlook remains Stable. At the same time, Fitch has affirmed SingTel's and Optus' outstanding senior unsecured bonds at 'A'. more
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Softbank to Sell Apple's iPhone in Japan This Year
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Softbank said Wednesday it has won the right to sell Apple's iPhone in Japan and will market the popular next-generation phone in 2008, in a coup for the nation's third-largest mobile communications carrier. more
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Vodafone May Buy More Operators in India
BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- Mobile phone operator Vodafone Group said on Tuesday that it needs more radio spectrum to continue expanding into India and may have to buy it through acquisitions if the government doesn't make it available. more
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FOCUS: India Bet Becomes a Sure Thing for Global Mobile Operators
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- When Vodafone Group forked out $13 billion for a majority stake in India's No. 4 mobile operator, Hutchison Essar, a year ago, many feared the British giant had overpaid for an investment that would take years to yield a return. more
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UPDATE: Vodafone India Unveils Cost Cuts, IBM Deal
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Who are the Fastest Growing Operators in Asia-Pacific?
No fewer than 16 companies added more than 5 million customers over the course of the twelve months ended June 07. China Mobile heads the list with a massive 58.6 million customers - as many as the next three operators put together, and then some. As we have suggested before, it would take a genuinely radical restructuring of China's communications industry to threaten the company's world leading position and that seems unlikely. more
Related Tags: telenor, china-mobile, ipo, reliance, pakistan-mobile, warid-telecom, bsnl, telkomsel, vivo, telsim, India
Low-Cost 3G Handset Sales Commence
The GSM Association says that the winning handset in the GSMA's "3G for All programme", the LG-KU250, is now on sale across the globe. The 3G handset from LG Electronics was selected by 12 leading operators to spearhead the GSMA's campaign to make multimedia mobile services accessible to a much wider user base. more
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UPDATE: Vodafone Cuts Fiscal Year Net Loss, Emerging Mkts Strong"
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Vodafone Group, the world's largest mobile phone operator by sales, Tuesday narrowed its net loss for the fiscal year, and said that it is on track to achieve strong growth in emerging markets following recent acquisitions. more
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Vodafone Directors Resign from Bharti Airtel
The two Vodafone directors on the Board of bharti Airtel have left the company following its takeover of Hutch-Essar. bharti Airtel chairman and managing director Sunil Mittal said that both the directors - Gavin Darby and Paul Donovan - have resigned. more
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Vodafone Debt Ratings Downgraded
The debt ratings service, Moody's has downgraded the ratings of Vodafone Group to Baa1, from A3 following the announcement that Vodafone had completed the acquisition of a controlling 67% interest in Hutchison Essar for a cash consideration of $10.9 billion, and the assumption of net debt of approximately $2 billion. The Prime-2 short-term rating, which was not under review, was affirmed. The outlook is stable. more
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