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According to sources, Telenor group is interested to sell its shares in Pakistan and is holding talks with the China Mobile.
Though both the operators have denied any such development, sources said that negotiations were being held secretly at the group level.
Though Telenor, a Norwegian company, has a subscriber-base of 20 million or so in Pakistan, [...]

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The cellular phone service providing industry is on an endless journey of innovations and has to deliver more to cellphone users. The industry has extended its vision beyond keeping people connected to others, targeting now the incorporation of major technological advancements into simply one cellular set, said Salman Wassay, Director Marketing at Zong, a brand [...]

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BEIJING, May 12 (APP): Monday’s strong earthquake in southwest China might have damaged power supplies to local telecommunications facilities, which affected cell phone services, network operators said here.
Staff at China Mobile and China Unicom told Xinhua that cell phone service in the southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Shaanxi provinces were affected by the earthquake.
They said that [...]

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So the week ending on the 12th April 2008 was a little competitive for mobile phone companies but the increased taxation on computer imports is still causing troubles to the IT market.

Mobile Phone companies have been pulling out all the stops in trying to stay on top of one another, and Ufone has just [...]

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China Mobile Communications Corp, owner of the world’s most valuable phone company, has dropped its policy of only pursuing investments that result in management control, after competition for phone assets drove up share prices.
“In the past, the only policy was: we have to get majority shares,” Chief Executive Wang Jianzhou said. “But now, we are [...]

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ISLAMABAD (April 06 2008): The Chairman and CEO of the world’s largest cellular company, China Mobile, Wang Jianzhou on Saturday separately called upon President Musharraf and Prime Minister Gilani and apprised them of the company’s ongoing and future planned investments in Pakistan.
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Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has welcomed the Chinese investment of China Mobile in Pakistan’s cellular telephone sector.
While meeting with a delegation of China Mobile Communication Corporation headed by its chairman and CEO, here at the Prime Minister’s House Tuesday, he said this entry into the Pakistani market would augur well for further enhancement [...]

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Yesterday, China Mobile set up its European, Middle East and African office in London and announced that it is considering launching a virtual network in Europe. It is the third Chinese operator to establish an office in London and follows China telecom (the biggest fixed-line telco) which set up operations in London in September 2006 [...]

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Karachi — The cellphone operators are confident that the entry of China Mobile in the local market would not harm their business as they focus more on the sales volume rather than profit margin making them highly competitive.
They felt that the new company might not be able to offer new products as far as the [...]

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Telecom companies have invested over $8 billion during the last four years in Pakistan particularly in the mobile sector whose investment share accounts for 73 percent official sources said here Saturday.
In 2006-07, cellular mobile sector has invested over $2.7 billion, which becomes about 66 percent of total investment by the sector, sources at Pakistan Telecom [...]

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