BSNL to bid for Tigo SL

Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has submitted a bid for Luxembourg-based Millicom’s Sri Lankan operations. ‘We have officially bid for Millicom’s Sri Lankan assets’ said BSNL chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal, although he refused to give further details. Earlier in the week UAE’s Emirates Telecommunications (Etisalat) entered a bid for Tigo Sri Lanka.