Myanmar snubs SingTel and Soros for telecoms licence award

Companies from Norway and Qatar win licences that were expected to go to SingTel and a George Soros-backed bid from Digicel.

<div style="text-align: left;"> No prize for SingTel </div>

Nick Ferguson

June 28, 2013

Government officials in Myanmar have chosen Telenor and Qatar Telecom’s Ooredoo to be the first foreign telecoms operators in the country.

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