21.   The consortium also plans to place a mutual application for a mobile phone license to compete with existing mobile networks.

22.   The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore has put general guidelines in place to deal with access between mobile networks, spokeswoman Dulcie Chan said.

23.   Frence Telecom, controlled by the French state, alleges that it has been excluded from procedures for awarding the mobile networks.

24.   A profit warning from software group Logica for its mobile networks division also knocked telecom and technology shares.

25.   Call termination charges are fees that mobile phone companies charge fixed-line operators for connecting to the mobile network.

26.   Figures for the number of subscribers to the NITEL mobile network are not available.

27.   Under the offer firms are invited to bid for a licence to provide a national fixed line network, a digital mobile network and an international gateway.

28.   It said its markets continued to suffer from excess capacity and price pressures, with a significant deterioration in the mobile networks market.

29.   Last year it licenced two new companies, plus NITEL, to set up GSM mobile networks.

30.   Motorola tied up with Sterling Cellular to bring a cellular phone system to New Delhi and with Hutchinson Max Telecom to set up a mobile network in Bombay.