Christian Maher, Investec's telecoms analyst, also stirred up interest in the stock.
"The horse has bolted out of the stable door," says Deutsche Bank's telecoms analyst Robert Grindle.
CSFB kept one telecoms analyst only by offering her a three-year package worth more than $5m a year.
He was once Citigroup's top telecoms analyst, but has since become an emblem of the stockmarket bubble.
The bank's star telecoms analyst, Jack Grubman, was at the centre of Wall Street's conflict-of-interest scandal.
Benedict Evans, technology and telecoms analyst at research group Enders Analysis, said such a move made sense.
"It shouldn't be news to anybody that the environment is neither consistent nor transparent," says Tom Adshead, a Moscow-based telecoms analyst.
As Simon Mellon, a telecoms analyst at HSBC, says, "For a man in his father's shadow, it was hard to have become Mr Cost-Cutting not Mr Growth.
Tellingly, two countries suffering the greatest political turmoil, Congo and Somalia, also boast the most competitive markets, observes Ewan Sutherland, an independent telecoms analyst.
Naveen Mishra, CyberMedia Research, Lead Telecoms Analyst: The Supreme Court decision, "could shake investor confidence in India and drive away precious capital and management expertise".
Salomon Smith Barney's former star telecoms analyst, Jack Grubman, is being investigated for the recommendations that he gave on Salomon clients.
