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TeliaSonera may buy 4.1% more of TCELL.IS

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TeliaSonera said on Thursday it was evaluating whether to try to buy a 4.1 percent stake in Turkcell TCELL.IS that media-to-energy conglomerate Cukurova is putting up for sale.

OTE still in talks with Deutsche Telekom

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Greece’s talks to sell a stake in OTE to Deutsche Telekom are still on track, Government officials said on Thursday, dismissing press reports that negotiations were stalling.

Mobiltel select Teradata for intelligent system

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Bulgarian wireless operator Mobiltel has selected the US-based Teradata Corporation to implement an intelligence system for business with a focus on marketing analytics in a bid to improve management of customer relations. The Teradata system aims to provide a faster and more accurate intelligence for decision making, the company’s media statement said.

Telekom Slovenije more than double dividends

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Slovenia’s largest telecommunications operator Telekom Slovenije said on Tuesday that it would pay a dividend of EUR 12.8 per share for 2007, more than twice the EUR 6.13 it paid last year.

MakTel to rebrand as T-home

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Macedonia’s leading fixed-line operator, a Magyar Telekom subsidiary, Makedonski Telekomunikacii (currently known as MakTel), began rebranding last Wednesday to become part of Deutsche Telecom’s brand T-home, aiming to strengthen its position on the domestic market.

KGHM not looking to drop Polkomtel stake

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KGHM’s new Chief Executive Miroslaw Krutin has announced that his company has no plan to sell its 19.6 percent stake in cellco Polkomtel. He said during a television interview: “Polkomtel looks like a good medium-term investment, and I will recommend not exiting Polkomtel”.

Czech Republic attempting log all call records

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The Czech Republic’s Chamber of Deputies has passed a controversial law which requires the local mobile operators to retain all call records for use by the security services. The bill, which the Government says simply brings the country in line with existing EU legislation was opposed by the Social Democrats and Communists. It passed after [...]

O2 launching ICQ IM service

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Comverse announced today that Telefonica O2 Czech Republic has selected Comverse Mobile Instant Messaging to enable its five million users to enjoy mobile IM with the ICQ community on their mobile handsets.

VimpelCom sets price guidance on bonds

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VimpelCom, Russia’s second largest cellco, will place the five-year tranche of its Eurobond issue with yield of 8.375 percent and its 10-year tranche at 9.125 percent, according to reports from Reuters. The source also said each tranche would amount to USD 1 billion.