A subsidiary of Viettel, the Vietnamese state telecoms operator, started operations in Cambodia in 2009 yet already has 42% of the mobile market.
Virgin Mobile proved a telecoms operator could be a "virtual" operation renting capacity from other networks.
Privatisation is another avenue being explored: the second national telecoms operator must have a black-owned partner that controls 19% of the new operation.
The telecoms operator has already committed more than £2bn to sports coverage.
2. Only 20 years ago, Nigeria had one telecoms operator and around 300,000 telephone lines.
If successful, the SKr280 billion ($46.4 billion) deal will create the world's fourth-biggest telecoms operator.
The dominant Belgian telecoms operator raised around euro3.3 billion ($4.0 billion) as investors clamoured for shares.
THIS is a commercial from 2008 for Alice, a German telecoms operator.
The state telecoms operator will probably be sold, too, albeit for rather little.
The state telecoms operator, OTE, used to be plagued by strikes and provided notoriously poor services.
TDC, a Danish telecoms operator, has bundled such a service with its broadband connections.
