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Topic: telecommunications
News about the telecoms industry, companies, licences, infrastructure and technology in Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Central Asia
Chile snubs China with Transoceanic Cable decision
Chile has chosen Australia as the final destination for the Transoceanic Cable, the first fibre-optic subsea…
Now Poland gets dragged into Huawei furore
The growing row over Huawei’s alleged role in gathering sensitive data for the Chinese state gathered…
Vodafone and Idea join forces in to take on Jio in India's 'vicious' price war
In the latest development in the struggle for domination of India’s mobile telecoms market, UK giant Vodafone’s…
Prospects of IPO for Vodafone India recede with merger talks
Vodafone this week confirmed that it is discussing the possibility of merging its struggling India arm with…
Vodafone ready to pump $3bn into India before spectrum auction
Vodafone: Faced with increasing competition from Mumbai’s Reliance Jio Infocomm and with a national spectrum auction due…
Hong Kong’s REX buys 30% stake in Russia’s Yota
The Hong Kong-based REX Global Entertainment Holdings has purchased a 30% stake in Russia’s Yota Devices,…
Smartphone sales and R&D investment see profits at Huawei leap 33%
Booming smartphone sales saw profits at leading Chinese telecommunications concern Huawei Technologies leap by 33% in 2015, the company announced…
YotaPhone producer sells 65% stake in bid to crack China
The Hong Kong- based REX Global Entertainment Holdings has bought a 65% stake in Yota Device, whose…
Tele2 takes on Moscow’s ‘big three’ mobile operators
Discount mobile operator Tele2 will next week launch in Moscow in a bid to to break the…
Telenor to sell $2.4bn stake in VimpelCom
Norway’s telecoms operator Telenor has decided to offload its 33% stake in Vimpelcom, the Netherlands-based owners of the…
EU and China team up for 5G development
In what is being hailed as a ‘milestone’, the EU and China have signed an agreement…
Turkcell contemplates further Eurasian expansion
Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell this week confirmed that it was considering buying out its partner…
Gazprom GSS subsidiary moves into satellite production
Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom Space Systems (GSS), yesterday announced that it is to invest $252m in the launch…
US asks EU to freeze telecoms assets of Gulnara Karimova
Authorities in the US have asked their European counterparts to seize about $1bn in assets related to…
Tele2 wins contract to develop Moscow telecoms network
Moscow telecoms: The authorities in Moscow have awarded mobile operator Tele2 a five-year contract to develop the Russian…
Moscow prepares to limit Russian telco equipment imports
Russian telco equipment imports: The Russian Government is in the process of drafting legislation that would limit the…
Kazakh telecoms to be opened up after WTO accession
Legislation restricting foreign ownership in the Kazakh telecoms sector to 49% will be relaxed within 2.5 years…
Turkmenistan to lay fibre optic cable on bed of Caspian Sea
Turkmenistan to lay fibre optic cable: The government in Ashgabat last week announced that it was to…
Alfa Telecom offers $2.8bn to buy back Turkcell stake
Russia’s Alfa Telecom has offered $2.8bn to buy back the 13.76 % in Turkcell that it only…
Ukrtelecom Crimean network disabled as recriminations fly
Ukrtelecom Crimean network disabled: Ukrtelecom, which until yesterday boasted 80% of Crimea’s fixed-line subscribers as its…
Donetsk to launch its own mobile network operation
Donestk: Authorities in the disputed territory of Donetsk have began work on the creation of their own state-run mobile operation, its…
Vimpelcom sells Djezzy stake to Omnium for $2.6bn
Vimpelcom sells Djezzy: Global Telecom Holding (GTH), part of the Vimpelcom telecommunications conglomerate that generates almost 40% of…