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September 2, 2010

Tajik government to tax phone use

Tajikistan's already impoverished citizens look likely to face higher charges for their much-used mobile phones as the government moves to impose a tax on operators. The duty would place phone use alongside alcohol and tobacco as having a harmful effect on society.

- Jahongir Boboev (Aug 25, '10)

OPhone fails to connect

China Mobile's initiatives to wrest a 50% grasp of the smart-phone market in its home country using a tweaked version of Google's Android operating system look doomed to failure. One factor is that its tinkering has made its OPhone less attractive to programmers. Another is a change in senior management.

- Sherman So (Aug 23, '10)

Easou search skills trump Baidu

Baidu's dominance of Internet search in China, where the company has comfortably seen off global leader Google, is not translating to the world of mobile phones. Upstart Easou.com has secured double the traffic to lead a market where the number of mobile Internet users jumped more than 100% last year.

- Sherman So (Jun 11, '10)

India Inc woos Africa

Bharti Airtel's US$10.7 billion move to buy the African telecom operations of the Zain Group add impetus to Indian efforts to increase the country's presence in the continent. A priority, according to some of those leading the charge, is to focus on people, not just profits.

- Indrajit Basu (Apr 26, '10)

Huawei points way into India

Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei's pledge to invest US$500 million to expand in India and add thousands of employees there may encourage other Chinese companies struggling to soothe the Indian government's security concerns over their potential role in key areas of infrastructure.

- Vijay Sakhuja (Jan 26, '10)

China's phone firms help Africa go mobile

Overshadowed by China's big-number infrastructure and commodity projects in Africa, the country's phone companies, such as Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, are helping to bring affordable mobile-phone communications to the continent.

- Peter J Brown (Nov 17, '09)

Rural India set to ring in 3G

The expansion of faster mobile-phone services in India is expected to help transform business practices, boost growth and add another dimension to education in rural areas.

- Ranjit Devraj (Oct 08, '09)

Google, Baidu do battle on China's 3G frontier

Google's world dominance of Internet search stops at China, where it has more than met its match in local rival Baidu. Now it hopes to turn the tables as the world's biggest mobile-phone market switches over to third-generation technology. Yet as the two giants battle it out, they may find deep pockets and fancy applications are not enough.

- Sherman So (Sep 02, '09)

BSNL - the undoing of a giant

India's largest telecommunications company, BSNL, is being kept alive by interest payments on unused cash reserves even as private rivals expand and prosper. Government interference does not help, but bloated payrolls and gross inefficiency tell their own story of corporate ineptitude.

- Kunal Kumar Kundu (Aug 11, '09)

Nokia faces wrath of Iran's protesters

Extensive use of mobile phones helped to bring Iranians onto the streets to protest against the result of the recent presidential election. Now citizens in Tehran and elsewhere are shunning Nokia-made phones, claiming the company's software helped in the subsequent crackdown.

- Golnaz Esfandiari (Jul 16, '09)

Shocked, shocked!!

Minority shareholders would concur with Hong Kong appeal court judge Justice Anthony Rogers' "outrage" at Richard Li Tzar-kai's share purchase proposals. Yet the PCCW case is only one of several recent examples exposing corporate contempt for the city's regulators.

- Olivia Chung (Apr 28, '09)

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Tajik government to tax phone use

OPhone fails to connect

Easou search skills trump Baidu

India Inc woos Africa

Huawei points way into India

China's phone firms help Africa go mobile

Rural India set to ring in 3G

Google, Baidu do battle on China's 3G frontier

BSNL - the undoing of a giant

Nokia faces wrath of Iran's protesters

Shocked, shocked!!

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