Mobile operators strategies - 10/02/07

In Russia, five companies, of which MTS, Vimpelcom and Megafon, have requeste documentation necessary to participate in the beauty contest for the country's 3G licences.

Vodafone and Orange are considering merging their their 3G RAN networks (radio access) in the UK in an effort to cut costs.

Weather Investments (Naguib Sawiris) is buying TIM Hellas (Greece) for $4.4bn.

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) plans to introduce ultra-low cost 3G CDMA mobile devices for less than $35.

Telefonica would take control of VIVO (Brazil).

China Mobile and China Unicom are set to launch more GPS services in a large scale this year.