Backed by Orascom Telecom, the WCDM 3G network is live but it will only be accessible by certain people.

Today, Egyptian telecom giant Orascom Telecom launched an advanced mobile phone network in North Korea. This is an attempt to intro a worldwide symbol of personal freedom into one of the planets most heavily controlled societies. Orascom Telecom Holding SAE have been working on the network since January when they gained a $400 million deal and

Before you complain for the nth time about how your local carrier’s 3G service sucks, is often unreliable and generally useless, consider this: North Korea didn’t have a 3G network until this week. No kidding. Orascom Telecom in Cairo, Egypt, has helped greatly in accelerating the local launch of Cheo Technology’s North Korean 3G network. Cheo

North Korea can't even figure out how to sufficiently feed all of its citizens, yet Kim Jong Il and his comrades are about to read this on 3G speeds while throwing back a fifth of SoCo and catching a pirated Bollywood flick on BetaMax. Egypt's Orascom Telecom is about to flip the switch on the first 3G network in the nation, which was announced back in May. The outfit is expected to inve...

AP - Egypt's Orascom Telecom will launch 3G mobile telephone service in North Korea on Monday, the company said, taking to the next step an ambitious multimillion dollar project in the communist nation.

Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) has shuffled its management - moving the current CEO of Bangladesh's banglalink, Rashid Khan to head up Pakistan's Mobilink, while appointing Ahmed Abou Doma to take over the vacant spot at banglalink.

Standard and Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit ratings on Orascom Telecom Holdings and Orascom Telecom Finance to 'B' from 'B+' following weaker growth expectations from its Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based operations.

Orascom Telecom (OTH) has reported a 3rd quarter profit of US$90.5 million - down 28% on the same period a year ago thanks to lower revenues from its Pakistan subsidiary.

Orascom Telecom and Telecom Egypt are to liquidate their landline joint venture in Algeria, citing competitive problems with the incumbent operator, Algérie Télécom.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ solution increases operating efficiency and offers cost savings Orascom Telecom Algeria (OTA), the country’s leading mobile operator has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register (HLR) solution. Nokia Siemens Networks will modernize the installed base of 17 million subscribers as well as provide additional capacity of 3 mil...