The global financial crisis has brought about one unexpected benefit for China Mobile, the chance to buy stakes on the cheap in foreign mobile network operators.

“Telecom assets in emerging markets have become very inexpensive,” said Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s chairman and CEO, at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, China.

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