Its Bharti Airtel, in which SingTel and Vodafone hold stakes, nation's biggest mobile phone operator.
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Since neither SingTel nor HKT had figured out how to reinvent themselves, linking up was an easy option.
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Other companies bidding for licences include Singapore's SingTel, Qatar Telecom and Norway's Telenor.
Around the world, carriers such as O2 in the UK or, most recently, SingTel in Singapore have faced similar struggles.
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If he decides to sell down his stake, he will likely trigger a bidding war between two heavyweight buyers--SingTel and Vodafone.
Stealing a march over SingTel, Vodafone recently secured advance approval from the Indian government to take its holding up to nearly half.
Singapore's SingTel Mobile plans to offer mobile stock trading on WAP-enabled phones.
Europe: Orange, O2 Telefonica, MTS, Three UK, T-Mobile, and Vodafone Asia-Pacific: Chunghwa Telecom, Optus, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel), Smartone, Telstra and Vodafone Australia.
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Big cellular carriers such as Vodafone, SingTel, Australia's Telstra and several companies in Japan already embed FAST's contextual search technology in their networks.
One of its biggest investors in SingTel and its CEO is a California-born high tech CEO with five previous start-ups in his background.
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When Richard and his ten-month old company outmaneuvered SingTel to win HKT six weeks ago, all of Singapore fell into a sombre mood.
SingTel said the additional telecom bandwidth awarded to Bharti in 2002-2003 was allotted according to the Indian government's policies in place at the time.
Its Bharti Airtel, in which SingTel and Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) hold stakes, nation's biggest mobile phone operator.
Rothschild, an investment bank that advises them, favoured SingTel as well.
Lots of bidders would be interested in EDS, including a few of the top Indian IT firms, SITA, Singtel (funded by Temasek no doubt), or even Samsung.
SingTel, which had been a monopoly a few years longer than HKT, had fared slightly better, but its future looked as bleak as HKT's if not bleaker.
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Flush with cash after the windfall from the recent sale plus the chunk of shares that he sold to SingTel earlier this year, Mittal can bide his time.
"We trust that due legal process in India will prevail and are confident that Bharti and Mr. Mittal will be vindicated before the courts, " SingTel said in its statement.
SingTel is not amused, since it was evidently counting on the HKT deal to help it counter the sweeping deregulation it will face in its home market this year.
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"The Indian Government has in fact stated both on the floor of Parliament and by affidavit in the court that the spectrum allocated was as per their policies, " SingTel added.
Google and Singtel are rapidly signing up small and medium-sized companies in Asia to use the Google Apps suite of web software (email, video, chat, office software like Microsoft Office).
SingTel just announced that he had reached a "non-binding conditional agreement" to take 14.5% of Time Engineering, 20% of Time dotCom and 20% of Time's new Internet Service Provider, Time Online.
SingTel appears to be buying a minority stake in Malaysia's debt-ridden Time Engineering, and its wholly owned subsidiary Time dotCom (Time Engineering itself is part of the politically well-connected Renong Group).
In April, SingTel and Mr Halim started negotiations for a rescue plan under which SingTel would relieve Time of many of its debts and take minority stakes in it and two subsidiaries.
Now SingTel seems to be about to snatch a small prize away from Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa and Singaporeans are so jubilant that they are making a big deal out of it.
We are expanding our presence in new markets and channels, reflected in our memorandum of understanding with China Union Pay and an agreement with Singtel, one of the larger mobile operators in Asia.
Singtel's comments came a day after an Indian court summoned Bharti Chairman Sunil Mittal to face criminal charges in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of telecom bandwidth in 2002.
SingTel would rescue some of its pride, and get a share of Time dotCom, which has laid 3, 600 kms. of optical fiber through the length and breadth of peninsular Malaysia -- Singapore's hinterland.
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