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"Singaporean firm Ilkone Asia aims to sell 150,000 units of mobile phones with Islamic applications in Malaysia. The Islamic application available in the recently-released phone includes verses from the Quran in English, the azan and prayer time, among others. Uzbektelecom, the national communication operator of Uzbekistan, signs joint ventures with Malaysian firms PerNEC and UzMaPhone. The company said that both ventures would focus on development of coin-box telephone network in Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan's State IT and Communications Agency wants a third GSM operator in the country in the near future. The agency also said government has freed up frequencies for interested players." From Telecom Asia Daily, October 10, 2005