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...says Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Telenor's CEO, that "mobile communications are as important in this kind of society as in Scandinavia." Once Grameenphone, its business in Bangladesh, was up and running, Telenor sought fresh openings in markets offering rapid growth, and gradually accrued controlling stakes in local Thai and Malaysian operators. When Pakistan invited bids for a license to operate from 2005, Telenor jumped at the chance...
...those four countries that we have today," says Baksaas. But there's no denying it's been fruitful. "Telenor has developed one of the best portfolios of international assets" of all Europe's major telecom firms, analysts at Citigroup wrote in a recent note. Since Telenor took control of Malaysian operator DiGi in 2001, for example, that business has expanded "from a small, niche player to one of the driving forces in the market," says Espen Torgersen, telecoms analyst at Carnegie, a Nordic investment bank. Now the third largest cell-phone operator in Malaysia, DiGi's operating profits grew...
...This is a major political earthquake.' IBRAHIM SUFFIAN, Malaysian pollster, on March 8 electoral gains by opposition parties against the National Front coalition, a political alliance that has ruled Malaysia since...
IBRAHIM SUFFIAN, Malaysian pollster, on the March 8 electoral gains by the opposition parties against the National Front coalition, various forms of which have ruled the country since its independence...
...king to ask for permission to form a new federal government. But whether he will survive as party leader at UMNO?s convention later this year is still up in the air. He could even be ousted as Prime Minister by the National Front. Unlike many aspects of Malaysian democracy, that script is still unwritten...