FASTTAKES: China Mobile, MIC, STT, Unicom, Alca-Lu

18 Aug 2009
00:00

China Mobile yesterday launched its app store, Mobile Market. It currently supports 10 handset models.

Following a spectrum auction, Vietnam’s MIC has issued 3G licenses to Viettel, VNPT, the Viet Nam Mobile Service Company and a JV between EVN Telecom and Hanoi Telecom.

ST Telemedia is reportedly poised to complete negotiations over the acquisition of indebted Irish operator Eircom, having bid €130 million ($183.1 million) for the company.

Both China Unicom and Apple have deniedreports that the operator had purchased 5 million iPhones in preparation for an impending handset launch.

Alcatel-Lucent head of LTE, Mary Chan, has announced she will leave the company less than eight months after assuming the position. She will be replaced by Ken Wirth.

Seven parties have submitted bids to build a fiber optic backhaul network in Sri Lanka, as part of the nation's National Broadband Network project, according to a top official.

Australia’s biggest stock market float this year will come from the digital sector, with the A$248 million ($204 million) IPO of online car classifieds site, carsales.com.au.

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