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Article: Congo : MTN Group May Begin Operating Mobile-Phone Network in Congo.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Byline: pinto03
MTN Group Ltd., Africa's largest mobile-phone company, may begin operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo by buying a closely held company, a regulator said. The Johannesburg-based company would follow Kuwait's Hits Telecom Holding Co., which is set to become the central African country's sixth cell-phone operator, said Christian Katende, vice president of the Post and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Congo. The authority also may stop issuing wireless licenses after MTN has started operations, he said. We are sure MTN is interested in the Congolese market,'' Katende said yesterday in an interview in the capital, Kinshasa. MTN ...