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When Arun Sarin, CEO of British mobile-phone operator Vodafone, flew to New Delhi last month to announce a $1.5 billion investment in India, he signaled that the country was back on the radar of the telecom giants. In the 1990s, American and European companies--including Vodafone--rushed in. They soon rediscovered an old problem: India's government was less business friendly than advertised. Vodafone sold off a stake in an Indian regional mobile-phone operator in 2003; many other foreign companies left...
Vodaphone's re-entry into India through a purchase of a 10% stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures, a mobile-phone operator with nearly 15 million subscribers, is an indication that India is too important a market to ignore. Thanks to a booming economy, India has 65 million mobile-phone users; the number grows more than 2 million each month. The Indian mobile-phone-services market is worth about $5 billion. And this time the welcome mat won't get yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert...
When RUSSELL CROWE arrived at a Manhattan criminal court last Friday, he had the remorseful-celebrity look down pat. Funereal black suit and dark sunglasses to convey solemnity and sorrow? Check. Supportive wife (DANIELLE SPENCER) at his side, suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
...headache for regulators may be just beginning: the next big thing in the industry is gambling on mobile phones. In the past few months, PartyGaming and several other companies, including land-based British bookmakers such as Ladbrokes, have launched pilot wireless-gambling projects; in PartyGaming's offering, mobile-phone users can download the software free by sending a text message and then play roulette or slot machines for fun or money...
...career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product," he says, his fingers fidgeting with anything he can find--a pencil, his scraggly beard, his beat-up old Samsung phone, the buttons on his army-style coat. "I hadn't figured out properly how to act, and all of a sudden I was being thrown into these lead roles. I didn't have the black room and the black pajamas to prance around making mistakes in private. All my mistakes...