Younger Ambani brother's net worth surged, thanks in part to March listing of telecom operator Reliance Communications, of which he holds 65%.
KPN, the Dutch telecom operator, is another stock on White's short list.
As the leading telecom operator in Bangladesh today, Grameenphone provides services to over 22 million subscribers regardless of geographic location or income level.
Shares of Sky ticked up by 3% in London as investors feared the ruling could have been worse--while British telecom operator and main complainant BT traded lower.
Nievert is the only CEO of a major telecom operator with more than a quarter of a century of executive experience in the industry (she's been with Telia for 37 years).
His first investment was in Senegal's national telecom operator.
This was unusual: China Mobile is the largest mobile telecom operator in the world (more than 522 million subscribers as of March 2010), and it was not used to NOT having its way in business negotiations with any company.
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Another great example of the opportunities found in the region is the January announcement from Virtustream that it has partnered with Etihad Etisalat ( Mobily), the largest telecom operator in the Middle East and Africa to provide cloud services.
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Also, it has been stymied in its efforts to boost its stake in Airtel, a Spanish mobile operator that British Telecom is also eyeing proof, according to the Mannesmann camp, that its lack of majority stakes is holding it back.
China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
The Ruias, too, have not gone unscathed given their minority interest in Loop Telecom, a rival mobile phone operator, that is also under the CBI scanner.
The Kwok family also owns interests in telecom SmarTone-Vodafone and city bus operator KMB.
One month after merging his telecom holdings with Russian mobile phone services operator, Vimpelcom, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has announced that he is giving up his role as the executive chairman of Orascom Telecom in order to pursue his political ambitions.
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His second-largest holding, Carso Global Telecom, which controls ubiquitous fixed-line operator Telmex, has jumped 15% in that time.
Scaglia in five years transformed the Olivetti subsidiary, Omnitel Pronto Italia, into Europe's second-largest national wireless operator, stepping down when Olivetti bought Telecom Italia in 1999.
And Swiss Telecom just took a 20% share in a small private Malaysian mobile operator, Mutiara.
France Telecom has a 28.5 percent in MobilCom, a German mobile phone operator, through Orange.
The stock's liquidity should increase when parent Telecom Italia merges Tele Nordeste later this year with Tele Celular Sul, an operator it owns in southern Brazil.
While Apple already has deals with two Chinese mobile operators - China Unicom and China Telecom - it is yet to strike a partnership with China Mobile, the biggest operator in the world in terms of subscriber volume.
The operator began testing WP7 in February, soon after it was announced at a telecom industry trade show.
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Biscom, a Milan-based broadband cable operator whose stock is currently buried in a deep trench, along with a host of other, bigger telecom companies.
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