Qatar Telecom has much to do if it is to turn Indosat, which it gained control of this year, into a credible challenger to Telkomsel, Indonesia's market leader

MTN, the Johannesburg-listed telecoms company, talked up the prospect of making more acquisitions in the next two to three years to achieve its target of becoming the leading mobile phone operator in emerging markets

The telecoms regulator called for 'careful consideration' of the case for charging UK mobile phone users for receiving calls as well as for making them ? as is the case in the US

The country's biggest fixed-line operator, China Telecom, which has acquired a mobile business as part of an industry-wide restructuring, expects Beijing to introduce further measures to promote competition in the world's biggest telecommunications market

Ofcom threw the spotlight at the UK mobile phone industry, telling the country's operators they had too many unsatisfied customers and too little coverage

China, India, Pakistan, Japan and South Korea are amongst the largest markets in Asia and The Mobile World holds monthly data for all five. At the end of July, the five markets had a combined total of 1.122bn mobile customers, approximately 30% of the global total.

At the same time, the long-term rating on Sistema's 52.8% subsidiary Mobile Telesystems (MTS) was raised to 'BB' from 'BB-'. The outlook is positive.

[CN+] Construction-to-broadcasting conglomerate Bouygues said Thursday that its first-half net profit increased 6% and it raised its sales guidance for the full year by EUR100 million despite emerging "tensions."

Russian telecoms operator VimpelCom Thursday reported a sharp rise in second-quarter profits and said it would become the country's first operator to offer Apple Inc's (AAPL) popular iPhone.

Networking king Cisco Systems this month reported results that buoyed Wall Street but raised questions about one of its key products.