In a shock development, the Indian Supreme Court has annulled all of the country’s 122 2G licences due concerns over the legitimacy of the 2008 licensing process. It is claimed that, under the leadership of disgraced former telecoms minister A Raja, the licences were sold not on a first-come-first served basis rather than as part of a competitive auction – losing the government revenue worth billions of dollars...
Latin America’s leading wireless services provider, America Movil, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide infrastructure for its LTE/4G network rollout across the continent...
One of the leading operators in Africa and the Middle East has extended its managed services partnership in one of Africa’s fastest-growing markets...
A service provider which specialises in emerging markets has extended its mobile services contract with the leading mobile operator in Kosovo...
A startup operator in India has been prohibited from using infrastructure owned by one of the country’s largest operators...
Three Chinese banks have come to the rescue of the debt-ridden Indian operator Reliance Communications (RCom)...
The Indian Supreme Court has rejected the Indian government’s claim that Vodafone Group owed $2.2 billion in taxes, stating that the British firm “had no liability to account for withholding tax on its acquisition of interests in Hutchison Essar Limited (now Vodafone India Limited) in 2007"...
The strongest growth across the telecoms sector has come from emerging markets for some time now, so it’s not surprising that companies which are originally from these areas are overtaking their counterparts from the developed world. To find out more about the importance – and the benefits – of an emerging market corporate identity, DT editor James Barton spoke to Tata Communications’ head of MPLS & Ethernet, James Walker...
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