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February 9, 2010

Axiata Bangladesh finalizes IPO plans

As share market confidence continues to return, two leading mobile operators in developing Asia – Axiata Bangladesh and Vietnam’s MobiFone – prepare for local IPOs.
 
Axiata Bangladesh’s chairman, Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid, is due to arrive in Dhaka today to di

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February 8, 2010

FASTTAKES: China Mobile, KDDI, KT, SKT, GrameenPhone, Quippo

Chinese sent 784.04 billion text messages last year, up 8.4% over 2008, according to MIIT figures.

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February 3, 2010

FASTTAKES: Leap Wireless, Telecom NZ, KDDI, GrameenPhone, Koryolink, InterDigital

Small US cellco Leap Wireless has hired Goldman Sachs to help it find a buyer or arrange a merger, WSJ reports.
 
The number of young internet addicts in China has doubled in the past four years to 24

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January 15, 2010

Bangladeshi mobile market grows despite slow ‘09

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With an annual rise of 17 percent, 7.79 million subscribers were added by six mobile phone companies in Bangladesh. However, this has been the lowest growth rate since 2005. The lower growth rate has been at[Content protected for Silver members only]

October 30, 2009

Telenor’s international strategy pays off

Norway’s Telenor has beaten market expectations with a 14% rise in Q3 ebitda to 4.5 billion kronor ($646.3 million).
 
During the quarter the operator added 4 million mobile subs, reaching 172 million across the Nordic states, eastern Europe and in emerging Asia, where it is the second-largest foreign operator behind Vodafone.
 

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August 17, 2009

Grameenphone selects Huawei to deploy solar-powered BTSs in Bangladesh

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has been selected by Grameenphone (GP), a subsidiary of Telenor, to deploy Bangladesh’ s first solar-powered base transceiver stations (BTS).
Huawei will install its fourth-generation base stations, using a solar and diesel generator hybrid power solution to [...]

July 24, 2009

GrameenPhone adds 106,000 new GSM subscribers in Q2′09 (Bangladesh)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bangladeshi mobile operator GrameenPhone (GP) said it added 106,000 net new GSM subscribers during the second quarter of 2009, resulting in a slight decline in market share, but still accounting for at least 45% of all users in the country; according to a report, GP had a 45.5% share of subscribers at end-March 2009. [...]

May 15, 2009

Bangladesh ends April with 46.5Mn subscribers, Grameenphone leads the market

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bangladesh ended April’09 with a mobile subscriber base of 46.5 million, up from 45.75 million at March’09, reports BTRC. Grameenphone led the market with 21.02 million subscribers up from 21.05 million in March. Banglalink stood at the second position with 10.9 subscribers as compared to 10.83 million subscribers in March. Aktel followed with 8.83 [...]

May 5, 2009

Grameenphone ends Q1′09 with 21.057Mn subscribers (Bangladesh)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Grameenphone, the Bangladeshi mobile operator, experienced a slow growth of 63,000 subscribers in Q1′09, taking the company’s total subscriber base to 21.057 million, at March-end. Telenor, the parent company, has blamed the slower growth to rise in price of starter kits imposed last year. The number of subscribers is up by 2 million since [...]

April 16, 2009

Bangladesh mobile subscriber base grows to 45.75Mn in March

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bangladesh subscriber base has grown to  45.75 million in March from 45.21 million at the end of February, according to the statistics given by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
GrameenPhone is leading the market with 21.05 million subscribers in comparison to 20.94 million in February. Followed to this is Banglalink which ended March with 10.83 subscribers, [...]

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