S.Africa ends phone monopoly
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South Africa's second fixed-line phone operator launches, opening up the market to competition for the first time.
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Norwegian telecoms company Telenor have formally taken over Serbia's biggest mobile operator Mobi 63, a month after paying 1.5 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) for it.
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The Finnish telecom giant puts down roots in India.
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Mauritania became the latest African  country to benefit from third-generation (3G) mobile phone  services on Thursday as its newest provider Chinguitel went  live, officials said.
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A France Telecom-led consortium on Friday took control of 51 percent of state-owned Telkom Kenya in a drive to expand its presence in Africa's burgeoning mobile phone and internet sectors.
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According to a decision set forth in 2002, mobile telecommunications companies are allowed to shut down their 1G Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) starting today.
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ISP teams up with SK Telecom to launch mobile phone network.
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EU telecommunications ministers backed on Thursday rules slashing the cost of cross-border mobile phone calls by up to 70 percent, lifting the last political hurdle to their application.
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The decision marks the breaking down of one of the last barriers to allowing VoIP to fully compete with traditional phone carriers.
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Strong demand for low-cost phones in Africa, the Middle East and Asia lifted the companyâs share of the global market to almost 40 percent.
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Facebook has officially launched its platform for cellular operators, and the U.K.'s Vodafone is the first to adopt it.
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Norwegian telecoms company Telenor have formally taken over Serbia's biggest mobile operator Mobi 63, a month after paying 1.5 billion euros for it.
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Greece's third largest mobile phone company is being sold for 3.4bn euros.
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Telecom wins the overturn of four-year-old merger denial.
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PARIS The French government formally ceded control of France TÃ©lÃ©com on Wednesday as it began the sale of up to E5.8 billion of shares in the second-largest European phone company.
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Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile escape anti-trust fines Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile will likely breathe a sigh of relief today after European Union anti-trust authorities decided to close their long-running investigation into alleged excessive charges for international calls.â¦
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eBay's Skype lands a sweet mobile deal overseas.