Comments on: Koryolink Q3 2010 results http://www.northkoreatech.org/2010/11/09/koryolink-q3-2010-results/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Dan http://www.northkoreatech.org/2010/11/09/koryolink-q3-2010-results/#comment-112 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:15:16 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=619#comment-112 Hi Martyn,
Enjoy your blog. Couldn’t find an email so I’m just responding to a related article.

Have you been following at all the struggle over control of Orascom between a Norwegian consortium Telenor and the Russian Alfa Group (the two main shareholders in Vimpelcom, a telecom group). Alfa wishes to purchase the Egyptian company, which would give Vimpelcom a major control over NK’s Koryolink).

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70G2IG20110117

I first was clued into the conflict by a pro-NK (perhaps even originating in NK, I’m not sure…that could be another interesting story…blogs by NK) blog:

http://juche-songun.livejournal.com/199099.html

Also has an interesting pic of what it purports is a cell tower on the sino-korean border.

]]> By: Koryolink subscriptions increase | theworldnet.info http://www.northkoreatech.org/2010/11/09/koryolink-q3-2010-results/#comment-39 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:07:44 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=619#comment-39 […] UPDATE: Martyn Williams gave me a link to the Orascom financial reports from where all this data originates.  You can read them here.  He adds revenue, subscription, and pretax profit charts on his blog. […]

]]> By: North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » Koryolink subscriptions increase http://www.northkoreatech.org/2010/11/09/koryolink-q3-2010-results/#comment-38 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:13:11 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=619#comment-38 […] UPDATE: Martyn Williams gave me a link to the Orascom financial reports where all this is coming from.  You can read them here.  He adds revenue, subscription, and pretax profit charts on his blog. […]

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