China Mobile

 Google chief executive Eric Schmidt managed to snag a cherished slot as a keynote speaker at this year's Mobile World Congress,  the industry's biggest annual bash.   But announcements made at the show's opening February 15 illustrate how the mobile sector is struggling to grab the spotlight back from  Apple and Google.Read more

Networks that underpin Internet and mobile communications  emit 300 million tons of carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere per year, an amount equivalent to the pollution of 50 million autos. But Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs and partners such as China Mobile, Telefonica and AT&T, have formed  a new consortium called Green Touch that vows to develop networking equipment that can cut energy consumption by a factor of 1,000, reducing emissions in the process.Read more

Once again, politics torpedoed two emerging markets’ telecom behemoths from walking down the aisle. The proposed $24 billion deal between India’s largest mobile player Bharti Airtel and South Africa’s flagship MTN was called off on September 30.
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Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, and South Africa’s MTN Group have resumed talks of a possible merger. A deal would create a telecom juggernaut with annual revenues of $20 billion and over 200 million subscribers across India, the Middle East and Africa. The user numbers alone would make the merged entity the third largest telecom player in the world after China Mobile and Vodafone, ahead of AT&T and many large European telcos.Read more