After the High Court ruled in favor of Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean tycoon went on to build Econet Wireless, a leading Pan-African mobile telecoms company with operations across Africa, the U.K and New Zealand.

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Masiyiwa subsequently became the first person in the world to be granted a mobile telecoms license by a court of law rather than the government, and he went on to build Econet Wireless, a leading Pan-African mobile telecoms company with operations across Africa, U.K and New Zealand.

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"Nokia's Ovi experience still has improvement to be done, " says Yves Maitre, the senior vice president for devices for Orange, the pan-European wireless network owned by France Telecom.

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"Nokia's Ovi experience still has improvement to be done, " says Yves Maitre, the senior vice president for devices for Orange, the pan-European wireless network owned by France Telecom (nyse: FTE - news - people ).

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His net worth doubled in two years, thanks mostly to the stock run-up of pan-Latin American wireless telecom outfit Am??rica M??vil.

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