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Beetel Teletech, part of India's Bharti Enterprises that controls top mobile carrier Bharti Airtel , launched a tablet computer priced at 9,999 rupees ($220) on Wednesday.

The BSE Sensex rose 0.73 percent on Tuesday, mirroring global market gains, after a takeover news lifted Wall Street overnight and as the Japanese economy shrank much less than expected.

Apple has come under the scanner of Competition Commission of India (CCI) following a complaint filed by an user against the company for following anti-competitive practices in selling its products and for abusing its dominant position in the market.

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile phone carrier, and its smaller rival Aircel separately said on Monday they would launch Apple's iPhone 4 in India in the coming months.

The Lusaka Stock Exchange said on Monday it had rejected a move by Indian group Bharti Airtel's to delist its Celtel Zambia unit, without giving a reason.

Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile phone operator, overcame stiff competition to post a 6 percent rise in third-quarter sales, boosted by a surge in mobile data and strong prepaid growth.

Indian telecom sector regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Tuesday said the country had 764.76 million telephone users at the end of November 2010 after telecom operators added 22.88 million mobile subscribers in the month.

Safaricom's second tranche of its five-year medium-term note worth 4.5 billion shillings was fully subscribed, the Kenyan mobile phone operator's chief executive said on Thursday.

Safaricom, Kenya's largest company by market capitalisation, dragged down the main index after losing more than 4.0 percent on Friday.

The touch screen mobile device is common enough at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but Hewlett-Packard was showing of what a touch screen can do when it gets bigger and stays in the living room.

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc <9437.T> plans to transfer television broadcast technology for cellular phones to Indian partner Tata Teleservices with an eye to launching mobile phone TV service in the South Asian country in 2014, the Nikkei reported.

Indian equity markets are trading lower by 29.17 points or 0.14 percent on Thursday with consumer durables, metal, healthcare and auto sectoral indices are in the gaining side and telecom, IT and realty sectoral indices are in the negative side.

Ericsson said on Wednesday it had won a $1.3 billion network expansion contract from top Indian operator Bharti Airtel, its third major order in three days, and its largest deal in eight months.

Top Indian telecoms firm Bharti Airtel said it had tied up the entire financing requirement of $8.3 billion for its planned buy of Kuwaiti telecom Zain's African assets, in a sign of progress as the deadline for the firms' talks expire next week.

Top Indian telecoms firm Bharti Airtel said on Sunday it had tied up the entire financing requirement of $8.3 billion for its planned acquisition of Kuwaiti firm Zain's African assets.

The board of India's Bharti Airtel on Saturday approved a $9 billion offer for Kuwaiti telecom Zain's African assets, Bloomberg reported, citing two people with knowledge of the negotiations.

Kuwaiti telecom Zain and India's Bharti Airtel have faced no obstacles in due diligence and expect the $9 billion deal to close on time, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Tuesday.

Phuthuma Nhleko, Chief Executive Officer of South African mobile phone group MTN (MTNJ.J), will step down as CEO and group president in March 2011, the group said on Monday.

Bharti Airtel (BRTI.BO) may finalise by Friday what could be the largest acquisition loan for an Indian borrower, as it readies a $9 billion purchase of the African assets of Kuwaiti telecoms firm Zain (ZAIN.KW), people familiar with the deal said.

Kuwaiti telecoms firm Zain, which is selling its African assets to India's Bharti Airtel, will concentrate on the Gulf and Middle East region and is open to new investments, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

India's Bharti Airtel has lined up $9 billion in loans from foreign and local banks for its planned acquisition of the African assets of Kuwait's Zain , the Economic Times reported on Monday.