Orascom Plans Phone Service in NKorea

February 1, 2008 By KELLY OLSEN, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Egyptian wireless company Orascom plans to invest up to $400 million in a new mobile phone network in North Korea, one of the world's poorest and most tightly controlled societies.

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