Daily News January 17, 2013

Alibaba Group Said to Hire Credit Suisse, Goldman for IPO
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/alibaba-said-to-hire-credit-suisse-goldman-for-4-billion-ipo.html

Reliance Communications and Alcatel-Lucent enter long term billion dollar contract to further improve network performance and customer experience to offer Next Generation telecom solutions across multiple devices and platforms
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4x3tXDUL8h2VAQAURh_Yw!!?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2013/News_Article_002774.xml

Alcatel-Lucent Wins $1 Billion Eight-Year Order in India

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/alcatel-lucent-wins-1-billion-eight-year-order-in-india.html

BT launches VoIP smartphone app
http://www.telecoms.com/70012/bt-launches-voip-smartphone-app/

Sprint Adding 4G LTE to 28 Additional Cities in Coming Months

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2495

Myanmar to award two licences by end of 1H13
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/01/15/myanmar-to-award-two-licences-by-end-of-1h13/

Cambodian Network Files for Bankruptcy - Migrates Customers to Rival
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/58132.php

Rogers agrees to buy Shaw’s 2100MHz spectrum in 2014; rivals also agree cable, TV content swap
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/01/15/rogers-agrees-to-buy-shaws-2100mhz-spectrum-in-2014-rivals-also-agree-cable-tv-content-swap/

Robi and Teletalk agree to share infrastructure
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/01/15/robi-and-teletalk-agree-to-share-infrastructure/

Oi secures USD2.6bn BNDES loan for LTE
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/01/11/oi-secures-usd2-6bn-bndes-loan-for-lte/

Gartner Executive Program Survey of More Than 2,000 CIOs Shows Digital Technologies Are Top Priorities in 2013

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2304615