Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Fitch Affirms Telenor's IDR at 'BBB+'; Negative Outlook
Cellular-News - UK
Fitch Ratings has today affirmed the Norwegian incumbent telecoms operator Telenor's Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at ...
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Telenor says faces Ukraine anti-monopoly probe
Reuters - USA
OSLO, May 18 (Reuters) - Telenor (TEL.OL) said on Monday it faced a challenge to its Ukraine operations from the same obscure shareholder which sued the ...
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Farimex attacks Telenor also in Ukraine
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
"Telenor is a strong defender of competition and believes the AMC has been sadly misled by Farimex," said Jan Edvard Thygesen, EVP and Head of Telenor's ...
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Hindustan Times, New Delhi, N Madhavan column: Wipro mixes high ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The Telenor deal involves a combination of data centre management, software, consulting, hardware and services that span everything from software ...
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Belgovision.com
Eurovision Song Contest Shop
Belgovision.com - Belgium
The brand new Telenor Arena in Fornebu near Oslo seems to be the most suitable location for next year's competition and will most probably win the race ...
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FACTBOX-Main bilateral issues between Russia and Norway
Reuters - USA
Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor (TEL.OL), 54 percent owned by the Norwegian government, is locked in a protracted dispute worth billions of dollars with ...
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Norway urges Russian caution in Telenor dispute
Forbes - NY,USA
By CATRINA STEWART , 05.19.09, 01:31 PM EDT Norway urged Russia Tuesday not to sell Telenor's stake in VimpelCom, Russia's No. 2 mobile operator, to recover ...
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Telenor wins NOK 50 mln deal from Storebrand
Telecompaper - Houten,Netherlands
Telenor has been awarded a contract worth approximately NOK 50 million by Norwegian financial services company Storebrand. The agreement is for three and a ...
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Telenor, Alfa should resolve telecoms row -Norway PM
Reuters - USA
MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) and Russia's Alfa Group should attempt to reach a balanced decision on their commercial dispute without ...
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FACTBOX-Telenor's legal battles in Russia and Ukraine
Reuters - USA
May 19 (Reuters) - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to discuss telecom Telenor's (TEL.OL) troubled Russian venture with Prime Minister ...
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Mobile phone penetration inches down by 1pps m/m to 174.7% at end ...
ISI - Emerging Markets - New York,USA
The share of the leading operator promonte (owned by Norwegian Telenor) increased again (for a third month in a row) standing at 39.5% as of Apr 30 with ...
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Storebrand returns to Telenor
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
Storebrand signs Nordic agreement with Telenor, worth approximately NOK 50 million over three years. The Storebrand group is a leader in the Nordic ...
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Telenor's Woes Deepen With Latest Accusation
Wall Street Journal - USA
By WILL BLAND and ANDREW LANGLEY MOSCOW -- Telenor ASA said Monday that a small investment company, Farimex Products Inc., has accused the Norwegian ...
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Farimex calls for antimonopoly investigation on Telenor and Kyivstar
Kyiv Post (subscription) - Kyiv,Ukraine
The company Farimex has requested an investigation by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) concerning Norway's Telenor, which owns the controlling ...
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Telenor Blames Farimex for Ukrainian Antitrust Probe
The Moscow Times - Russia
19 May 2009BloombergTelenor said Monday that Farimex Products is behind a probe started by Ukraine's Anti-Monopoly Committee into Telenor and Kyivstar, ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

FIPB may take up Unitech Wireless proposal to hike FDI
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Telenor ASA completed acquisition of 67.25 per cent stake in the JV with Indian real estate major Unitech in March. Later, the company expressed its ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Telenor disputes Vimpelcom valuation; fears enforced stake sale
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
Telenor has announced that it is disputing the valuation placed on its stake in Russia's Vimpelcom. In February the Norwegian telco was ordered to pay ...
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Wipro guns for IBM in telecom services market
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
Somebody like Telenor would not look at (price alone)." Norway-based telecom company TelenorASA has a 67.5% stake in Unitech Wireless. ...
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Telenor elects two new board members
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
May 13, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- IBM | Quote | Chart | News | powerrating -- Norwegian telecom operator Telenor has elected Sanjiv Ahuja and Barbara ...
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vimpelcom Swings To 4Q Net Loss On Ruble, Goodwill Writedown
Wall Street Journal - USA
... vimpelcom's stock price has surged around 30% since January, shrugging off a long-running feud between core owners Alfa Group and Telenor ASA (TEL.OS).
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FIPB may take up Unitech Wireless proposal to hike FDI
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
14 May 2009, 2124 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Foreign Investment Promotion Board is likely to take up tomorrow a proposal of Norwegian firm Telenor's planned ...
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Telenor Pakistan announces relief package for IDPs
Telecompaper - Houten,Netherlands
Telenor Pakistan has announced relief package for internally displaced persons, in the aftermath of displacement of hundreds of thousands of people of Lower ...
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Telenor disputes seized Vimpelcom stake valuation
Reuters - USA
N), which has been seized following a Russian court ruling, a Telenor spokeswoman said on Thursday.Telenor was in February ordered by a Siberian court to ...
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Telenor Connexion finalist for Telematics Awards 2009
Newsdesk (pressmeddelande) - Stockholm,Sweden
Every year the Telematics Awards, organised by Telematics Update, recognises and celebrates the key companies that are driving the industry forward and ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Unitech Turns to AlcaLu, Huawei
Light Reading - USA
Unitech, one of a number of mobile service provider startups in India, recently secured significant financial backing from Telenor ASA (Nasdaq: TELN) to ...
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Telenor acquires Danish mobile operator BiBoB
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
Nordic telecoms group Telenor has acquired Danish discount mobile operator BiBoB for DKK93 million (17.04 million). Telenor already has a foothold in the ...
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Qualcomm signs international telematics connectivity agreement ...
Newsdesk (pressmeddelande) - Stockholm,Sweden
Qualcomm Enterprise Services Europe BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), and Telenor Connexion, the global provider of M2M ...
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Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei bag $400 million Unitech deal
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Sources said the company would fund the deal with the money received from its stake sale to Norway-based Telenor and the debt it would raise for the ...
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Qualcomm signs telematics connectivity agreement with Telenor ...
TMCnet - USA
May 12, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Qualcomm Enterprise Services Europe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Telenor Connexion have signed an ...
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Telenor arbitration hearing adjourned to 3 June
Telecompaper - Houten,Netherlands
The Moscow City Arbitrazh Court has adjourned the hearing on Telenor East Invest's request to stay the enforcement proceedings commenced by Moscow's bailiff ...
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Huawei Gets Order from Unitech Wireless
Wall Street Journal - USA
... real estate developer, Unitech Ltd. Unitech is in the process of selling over a 67% stake in Unitech Wireless to Norway's Telenor ASA for $1.2 billion. ...
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Two New Telenor ASA Board Members
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
(Fornebu, 12 May 2009) The corporate assembly in Telenor on 11 May 2009 elected two new members to the Board of Directors of Telenor ASA. ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Moscow City Arbitrazh Court adjourns the hearing of the request by ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Enforcements were commenced under the writ of execution issued by the Omsk court to recover $1.73 billion from Telenor East Invest AS following the action ...
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Moscow Court Adjourns Telenor's Damages Motion To June 3
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- A Moscow judge Friday adjourned a motion by Norway's Telenor ASA (TELN.OS) to prevent bailiffs from selling its shares in Russian ...
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Friday, May 8, 2009


Hindu Business Line
Sentiment boost gives some stocks more gains than Sensex
Hindu Business Line - Chennai,India
Unitech has also announced a deal with its foreign partner, Telenor, for the telecom venture. Telenor will invest Rs 6120 crore in the company for a ...
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Moscow postpones Telenor motion hearing again
Reuters - USA
Telenor brought the motion to the court in an attempt to suspend enforcement of the award, which the company had been ordered to pay to Russia's No. ...
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Telenor upped at Nomura, over-spending period over
MarketWatch - USA
By Aude Lagorce , , ) to buy from reduce, saying it believes the company will end a period of "over-spending" now that it needs to fund its Indian expansion ...
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Telenor revenues rise to 27bn krone
The News International - Karachi,Pakistan
By By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: Telenor has announced that its revenues rose to 27.11 billion Norwegian krone in the first quarter of 2009 compared to ...
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DnB NOR and Telenor begin NFC field trial in Oslo
Near Field Communications World - Monmouth,UK
DnB NOR and Telenor have begun their first NFC test with a small pilot at Oslo's Telenor Expo Fornebu trade centre café, and have announced plans to extend ...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Wipro Eyes More Pacts From Telenor After Unitech Wireless Deal
Wall Street Journal - USA
BY) hopes to get more potential contracts from Telenor ASA (TEL.OS) to provide information technology services, after it received an outsourcing deal from ...
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Telenor subs down, but revenues rise
Rapid tv news - London,UK
Telenor Broadcast, which counts pay-TV, smart-card encryption and broadcasting within its portfolio of interests, reported increased revenues and EBITDA, ...
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Telenor Q1 sales up, net profit down
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
Telenor has posted a 65% drop in first-quarter net income to NOK1.6 billion (USD250 million), largely on the back of foreign exchange losses relating to its ...
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Moscow court postpones Telenor's Vimpelcom hearing
Reuters - USA
MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - A Moscow court postponed a hearing on Wednesday on a stay motion brought by Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) to prevent the sale of its ...
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Subscribers increased, revenues rose
emportal - Belgrade,Serbia
Telenor doo achieved revenues of RSD7.55 billion (EUR80.62 million) in the first quarter of 2009, or four per cent more year-on-year. ...
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Moscow court postpones Telenor motion hearing
Reuters - USA
MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuters) - A Moscow court on Wednesday postponed a hearing of a stay motion by Norwegian group Telenor (TEL.OL) to prevent the sale of its ...
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Wipro bags outsourcing contract from Unitech Wireless
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Added Suresh Vaswani, joint chief executive officer (IT business) of Wipro: “We are excited to partner with Unitech and Telenor to help build Unitech ...
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Telenor sees profits slide
Telecoms.com - London,England,UK
Nordic operator Telenor on Tuesday reported that net profit for the first quarter fell to NOK1.62bn (€185m) in 2009, compared to NOK4.57bn in the same ...
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Telenor 1Q net profit falls 65 percent
Forbes - NY,USA
AP , 05.05.09, 05:14 AM EDT Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor ASA on Tuesday reported a 65 percent decline in first quarter net profits compared ...
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Telenor Pakistan ends Q1′09 with 19.99Mn subscribers
Wireless Federation - London,UK
WirelessFederation.com/news: Telenor Pakistan, a subsidiary of Telenor Group, has earned revenues of NOK 1.12 billion in Q1′09, up from NOK 1.04 billion in ...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Telenor Pakistan Web2sms chat - Site of Valentine Aaqil Mahmood
By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood 
Telenor Pakistan Web2sms chat. Posted 2009-05-03 09:01AM. Chat away with any Telenor number from the djuice website. You can chat with 10 unique numbers at any given time! Just let the java applet load and you are all set ...
Site of Valentine Aaqil Mahmood - http://valentine.viviti.com/
Norway PM to visit Moscow amid Telenor battle
Reuters - USA
Jens Stoltenberg's visit comes as Norwegian telecoms group Telenor (TEL.OL), which is majority owned by the government, faces the prospects of losing its ...
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Telenor Foundation launched "Live Together Info Centre"
emportal - Belgrade,Serbia
The Telenor Foundation has supported the establishment and functioning of the "Live Together" Centre, and provided a toll-free phone line, Telenor Internet ...
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NY Judge Cancels Fines Imposed on Alfa
The Moscow Times - Russia
Telenor holds 56.5 percent in Kyivstar, while Alfa Group owns a 43.5 percent stake via its Storm unit. nA Moscow court on Thursday postponed until May 6 the ...
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TelecomTiger
Wipro nails 9-year IT outsourcing deal from Unitech
TelecomTiger - New Delhi,India
Telenor has licenses to provide telecom services in all of the country's 22 telecom circles, but is yet to start operations.
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Telenor revenues, EBITDA up in Norway despite customer drop
Telecompaper - Houten,Netherlands
Telenor added 27000 mobile broadband customers in its home market Norway in the first quarter. However, the number of subscriptions has been restated back ...
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Telenor buys Danish BiBoB for EUR12.5m
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Telenor will thereby strengthen its runner-up position in Denmark with a market share of some 27%. "BiBoB has achieved fair results in a record time and has ...
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Wipro wins outsourcing deal from Unitech Wireless
Reuters - USA
Under the agreement, Wipro Infotech will provide a range of information technology services to Unitech Wireless, in which Norwegian telecom group Telenor ...
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Telenor First-Quarter Profit Falls on Russia, Ukraine
Bloomberg - USA
By Diana ben-Aaron May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Telenor ASA, the biggest Nordic phone company, reported a 65 percent slump in first-quarter profit on losses linked ...
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Telenor Q1 core profit up, keeps 2009 targets
Reuters - USA
OSLO, May 5 (Reuters) - Norwegian telecoms group Telenor ASA (TEL.OL) reported a bigger-than-expected rise in first-quarter core earnings on Tuesday, ...
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European Factors-Shares seen tracking Wall St rally
Reuters - USA
OL) Telecom group Telenor repeated flat 2009 organic revenue target, as well as 2009 EBITDA margin target and 2009 capex. For details, see: [TEL. ...
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Telenor 1Q Net -65%, Keeps Outlook Despite Slow Econ
Wall Street Journal - USA
By Adam Ewing Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Telenor ASA (TEL.OS) Tuesday reported a sharp fall in first-quarter net profit on weak earnings ...
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European Factors-Shares seen tracking Wall St rally
Reuters - USA
OL: Quote, Profile, Research) Telecom group Telenor repeated flat 2009 organic revenue target, as well as 2009 EBITDA margin target and 2009 capex. ...
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TABLE-Telenor Q1 results by division
Reuters - USA
OSLO, May 5 (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) reported the following revenues and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) ...
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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Telenor Sweden launches 2 prepaid tariff options
Telecompaper - Houten,Netherlands
Telenor Sweden has launched two new prepaid offers for customers, who either talk a lot or send a lot SMSs. The Talk More service offers free on-net calls ...
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Court rejects Telenor's plea
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
A court in Tyumen, Siberia has dismissed a stay motion by Telenor to prevent the sale of its stake in Russia's second largest mobile operator, Vimpelcom. ...
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Telenor Pakistan announces new CTO, deputy CTO
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Telenor Pakistan has announced its new Chief Technology Officer Khalid Shehzad with immediate effect. Formerly, Khalid was heading the IT ...
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Research and Markets: Norway - Key Statistics Telecom Market ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
Telenor and Tele2 are the dominant operators in all sectors, though there is increasing competition from new entrants. This report introduces the key ...
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Telenor appoints Khalid Shehzad as new CTO
Regional Times - karachi,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: After failing in getting a Pakistani visa for Telenor's nominated Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Sanjay Vaghasia, the Telenor Pakistan has ...
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Telenor Loses Attempt To Stay $1.7B In Damages
Competition Law 360 (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Law360, New York (April 28, 2009) -- Telenor ASA said Tuesday it had lost an appeal in a Siberian court to stay the collection of more than $1.7 billion in ...
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Wipro bags Rs 2500-cr Unitech Wireless deal
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Unitech Wireless, controlled by Norway's biggest telecom company Telenor, has licences to provide telecom services in all of the country's 22 telecom ...
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Telenor Advances in Russia Fight
Wall Street Journal - USA
By GREGORY L. WHITE MOSCOW—Norway's Telenor ASA won a victory in a long-running conflict with its Russian partners, but still faced the threat of losing its ...
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Norway Concerned By Russia Move To Enforce Telenor Claim
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Norway's trade and industry ministry Thursday saidany enforcement of a claim against Telenor ASA (TEL.OS) while the company's appeal ...
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Moscow City Arbitrazh Court adjourns the hearing of the request by ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
The judge of the Moscow City Arbitrazh Court adjourned the hearing of the request by Telenor East Invest AS to stay enforcement proceedings commenced by ...
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Moscow court postpones Telenor hearing until May 6
Reuters - USA
MOSCOW, April 30 (Reuters) - A Moscow court on Thursday postponed until May 6 the hearing of a Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor's (TEL. ...
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VimpelCom Fails To Attend Telenor Damages Hearing In Moscow
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
Telenor is asking for a delay in enforcement of $1.7 billion damages claim against it. Earlier in April, the Moscow judge adjourned the hearing saying that ...
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Sales, profits down at DTAC
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
... whilst operating profit dropped from THB3.59 billion to THB2.41 billion over the same period. DTAC is a subsidiary of Norway's Telenor.
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Alfa complies with Kyivstar ruling
Total Telecom - UK
Norweigan telecommunications company Telenor ASA Thursday said that its Russian co-investor Alfa Group has complied with a New York court ruling on their ...
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