But it's not just about patents: AlcaLu has struck gold in Africa, extending its contract with mobile operator Smile to cover 4G services in Uganda. A report issued this week by the GSM Association (GSMA) named sub-Saharan Africa as the "fastest-growing mobile market in the world," with an average annual growth rate of 44 percent since 2000. (See Smile Expands 4G With AlcaLu and Africa's Wireless Gold Rush.)
In other NSN news, René Svendsen-Tune has returned to the Finnish fold as head of customer operations in Europe after a spell as president and CEO of Teleca, a supplier of software services to the mobile sector. It seems Svendsen-Tune's experience of working with private equity made him as irresistible as a Zlatan Ibrahimovic overhead bicycle-kick goal. (Any excuse.) (See NSN Appoints Head of Euro Customer Ops.)
The Irish government has raised €855 million ($1.08 billion) from its mobile spectrum auction, reports the Irish Times. Spectrum in the 800MHz, 900MHz and 1800MHz band went under the hammer, with Telefónica SA (NYSE: TEF), Vodafone Ireland , 3 Ireland and eircom all getting a slice of the action.
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