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India's Aircel Reported to be in Talks to Buy Loop Mobile

India's Aircel Cellular is reported to be in talks to buy Mumbai based Loop Mobile (formerly BPL Mobile), which is owned by the Ruias of the Essar group. Both companies have been holding discussions for around seven months now, two people familiar with the discussions told the Economic Times.  more

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Fitch Affirms Sri Lanka Telecom Debt Ratings; Outlook Stable

Fitch Ratings has today affirmed Sri Lanka Telecom's (SLT) Long-term foreign currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'B+', which is constrained by the debt ratings of the Sri Lankan government.  more

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India - GSM daily adds almost 180k in February as CDMA falters

CDMA net additions in India dropped to their lowest level for nine months in February 2007, as Reliance Infocomm took its foot off the gas after four successive months of net additions over 1m. In total a net 1.14m new CDMA customers were added to the national customer base in India in February, which equates to just 23% of the GSM total of 4.88m for the month. Given that February has only 28 days, however, the totals are not strictly comparable with other months of the year. more

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India's Reliance Has 4 Private Equity Partners - Source

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- India's Reliance Communications, which confirmed recently it is eyeing an acquisition of Hutchison Essar, has received support from four private-equity firms in a bid for the Indian mobile phone operator, a person familiar with the situation said Friday.  more

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