Operators

Developing Telecoms’ Founder Alec Barton recently caught up with Kaan Terzioğlu, CEO of Turkcell at Huawei’s Operations Transformation Forum 2018 (#OTF2018) in Munich.

The hotly anticipated merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular has been completed, creating a new Indian market leader with over 408 million subscribers.

MTN Nigeria has “strongly refuted” claims that it repatriated dividends worth $8.1 billion from the country between 2007 and 2015, after the Central Bank of Nigeria demanded that the operator return this sum.

9mobile’s much-delayed sale to Teleology Holdings has received definitive clearance from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria.

Reliance Jio’s latest subscriber gains place it ever closer behind India’s second and third largest operators, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.

Troubled Indian operator Reliance Communications looks likely to leave the market entirely after receiving two bids of $1.1 billion for its available telecoms assets.

The CEO of Kenyan market leader Safaricom has stated that the operator has no plans to react to Airtel Kenya’s imminent halving of its cross-network calling fees.

NII Holdings’ impending sale of its Nextel Brazil unit has reportedly attracted the attention of some major Latin American players, including America Movil, Telecom Italia and Telefonica.

The Kenyan regulator’s report into improving competition in Kenya has had its findings savaged by Bob Collymore, CEO of the market’s most dominant operator Safaricom.

India’s Supreme Court has cleared Reliance Communications to sell off assets worth INR250 billion ($3.63 billion) after it resolved a legal spat with Ericsson with a settlement of INR5.5 billion ($80.06 million).

Bharti Airtel saw its Q1 profits fall steeply following “sustained pricing pressure” in the Indian mobile market.

Millicom has headed off a legal challenge claiming that the operator was not the full owner of its subsidiary Tigo Tanzania.

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have completed a payment of INR73 billion ($1 billion) to the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which will enable the companies to complete their merger.

Thailand’s third largest operator dtac has seen its Q2 profits plummet, with service revenue down and prepaid subscribers churning.

MTN has not submitted an application for an IPO in Nigeria, according to officials from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

China Tower has been cleared for a $10 billion IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange, hot on the heels of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi.

The unexpected holdup of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular’s merger could see the operators face churning customers and tumbling revenues, reports India’s Economic Times.

Telecom Argentina SA and Cablevision SA have been cleared to complete their proposed merger by competition regulators.