Taiwan’s government announced yesterday that it has scrapped plans to sell a stake of more than 5% in Chunghwa Telecom worth around TWD52 billion (USD1.7 billion) in favour of issuing bonds instead. The state had proposed to reduce its stake in the incumbent telco from 35.65% to as low as [...]

Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson Seems the concept of keeping things under your hat before your big dog and pony show has been completely lost on the brass at Sony Ericsson. Today's "leaked" bit of goodness shows us Sony Ericsson's Shiho C905 in all its multi-megapixel -- 8 of them [...]

Nigerian privately owned telecoms operator Globacom says it has been awarded a licence to become Ghana’s sixth mobile operator. In what it claims is a major boost to its African expansion plans, Globacom says the Ghanaian telecommunication regulatory authority, the National Communications Authority (NCA), told its board via letter that [...]

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On Thursday 12th June the Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel approved changes to the country’s telecoms laws to allow a single telecoms group to hold two separate operating licences, effectively paving the way for Oi Participacoes (formerly Telemar) to complete its planned BRL5.86 billion (USD3.58 billion) takeover of rival telco Brasil [...]

Telfort, a unit of Dutch telco KPN, could be fined for failing to use its UMTS frequencies, Thomson Financial reports citing an article in the Het Financieele Dagblad newspaper. It is understood the fines would amount to EUR5 million (USD7.69 million) for every quarter that elapses in which the operator [...]