Mobile operator strategies - 06/08/06

Essar (India) has cancelled its plan of selling BPL Mobile to its joint venture partner Hutchison Essar due to the delays in obtaining required approvals.

Vodafone will not sell its stake in Verizon Wireless in few next years.

Verizon Wireless will sell LG' s “Chocolate” mobile phones, including a digital music player, GPS and much more.

Telefonica Moviles wins a tender for Slovakia's third mobile operator license to offer 2G and 3G services

Telenor has bought Mobi 63 (Serbia) for €1.5bn.

Telefonica is considering th deployment of a GSM network in Venezuela.

MTC (Bahrain) has launched nation-wide HSPDA service.

The European Investment Bank, or EIB, lends a €100m loan to Telefonica Moviles Colombia to expand its GSM mobile telephone network,