Word: johnsen
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...Telenor Pakistan sells cell-phone credits to women who pass them on to poor neighbors for two cents each; in urban centers, it sells youngsters sms messaging in prepay packages. Targeting a range of customers is bringing rewards. Sales in Pakistan almost tripled last year to $632 million; Tore Johnsen, the Norwegian in charge of Telenor Pakistan, expects that rapid growth to continue in coming years...
...network capacity and extending coverage into new, often rural, areas. Groundwork like that established across Pakistan and Bangladesh has already cost Telenor some $3 billion in the last three years, according to Handelsbanken. So while "we invest, and grab as much revenue as possible," says Telenor Pakistan's Johnsen, "we can't imagine that we will recover our initial investment any time soon." Powerful companies like China Mobile have recently joined Telenor in Pakistan, and Egypt's Orascom is fighting for a share both there and in Bangladesh...
...Yard double-checked their records abroad. The New Jersey Police exonerated them publicly. Nurse Gow might still be implicated, for Major Charles Schoeffel went to England a month after the abduction on a mission whose nature was not explained. And it was Nurse Gow who brought Henrik Finn ("Red") Johnsen into the case...
...afternoon of March 1, the nurse's friend, a member of the summer crew of Morgan Partner Thomas Lament's yacht, communicated with her. They later said that she told him that since the baby had a cold she would not be able to keep an engagement with Sailor Johnsen that evening. Soon after the kidnapping Sailor Johnsen was arrested at the home of a brother in a suburb of Hartford, Conn. Much attention was directed toward Johnsen because his automobile was found to harbor an empty milk bottle, the suspicion being that the sailor might have fed the baby...
BILL MAHER got sued by ex--gal pal Nancy Johnson (a.k.a. centerfold Coco Johnsen). HE SAYS the suit is frivolous and false. SHE SAYS he backed out of plans to marry her and manhandled her at a party...