NTT DoCoMo, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Sons Limited, the prime promoter for Tata companies including TTSL, have announced their agreement on a strategic alliance in India, under which DoCoMo will acquire 26% of TTSL for US$2.7 billion
Reiko Uchida, 13 November 2008
AT&T is acquiring Centennial, a US regional provider of wireless and wired communications services, for $944 million in cash. The deal should improve AT&T’s wireless coverage for customers in largely rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin...
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Reiko Uchida, 10 November 2008
Telenor is paying over $1bn dollars to buy a majority stake in Indian mobile operator Unitech Wireless in spite of reservations from some of its shareholders. This puts Nordic region's largest telecom operator in competition with Vodafone in the growing Indian marketplace.
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Reiko Uchida, 01 November 2008
T-Mobile has announced the launch of the first smartphone to be powered by the Google Android operating system but the phone will not be available to customers until early November 2008. Android is promoted as open source with plenty of room for customization, but the new T-Mobile G1 phone is...
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Reiko Uchida, 24 September 2008
Aegis Group plc, the marketing communications group, has acquired US search engine marketing agency, Range Online Media. The acquisition price was not revealed but Range Online Media has gross assets of $12.0m.
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Reiko Uchida, 12 September 2008