Once the deal is completed Telecom Americas will own and operate four Brazilian B-band cellular operations with 3.5 million subscribers.
Parallel oil and gas pipelines now run between the port of Kyaukphyu in Myanmar and Kunming; this month China Unicom, a state-owned telecoms company, completed an optical cable between Yunnan and Myanmar.
The reality is that if the government were to undertake this venture it would take years longer for it to complete than the telecom carriers, and it would doubtless be done for a much higher cost as well.
It is unclear whether the Commerce Department has completed its investigations into Chinese telecom equipment makers.
The upheaval will cost £200m ($333m); the hope is to save that much annually.With telecoms due to liberalise in Europe within the next two months, Chicago-based Ameritech strengthened its telecoms network there with its $3.2 billion purchase of a 42% stake in Tele Danmark to add to its holdings in Hungary, Belgium and Norway.Italy's privatisation of Telecom Italia was completed successfully.
The African subsidiary of British telecom giant Vodafone completed its purchase of Vodacom Tanzania, previously owned by Tanzania's richest man, Rostam Azizi.
Russian telecom Sistema recently completed the largest-ever initial public offering by a Russian company on the London Stock Exchange, raising $1.56 billion.
Xavier Niel, the French telecoms entrepreneur, has completed his multimillion-euro takeover of Eir.
If approved by U.S. regulators and completed, the merger will create a telecom giant with a market capitalization of more than $150 billion, far greater than its $92 billion rival, Verizon Communications.
BigMobile: major US wireless operator (seller); telecom affiliate (buyer) [2008; not completed] HIGH: global financial crisis; technology transition.
BigMedia: chain of movie theaters (seller); telecom affiliate (buyer) [2009; not completed] LOW: straightforward business model; historical data about customers and their characteristics.
