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In what will be the biggest network outsourcing and rollout deal globally, Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, is set to ink a contract with Swedish telecom major Ericsson estimated to be worth about $1.5 billion. This will be Bharti’s second billion dollar deal with Ericsson in less than a year. When asked on the […]

In what could be its first acquisition, state-owned telecom firm MTNL is close to buying Sri Lankan fixed-line operator Suntel and has sent a high-level delegation to start technical assessment of the company. A delegation has left for Sri Lanka to hold discussions with Suntel on the technical assessment, which is a prerequisite to formalise

Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin on Saturday said his hopes that India’s regulatory bureaucracy had modernised were shaken by last-minute moves to derail his company’s $11-billion takeover of Hutchison Essar. Mr Sarin called for greater transparency in India’s merger approval process to defeat backroom efforts by vested interests to manipulate the political bureaucracy. “I really