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...Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have 690m smartphone users by 2025, up from 250m at the end of 2017, according to GSMA, the trade body for mobile carriers....
...In February US Xpress, a carrier based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, announced that $50,000 bonuses and four weeks of holiday awaited two-driver teams....
...The $3.2m credits were provided for a Bombardier Global Xpress business jet owned by Tune Group, the investment holding company set up by Mr Fernandes, the AirAsia chief executive, and his business partner...
...Inmarsat, the UK satellite company, will next year launch its new broadband satellite network, Global Xpress....
...Inmarsat is having problems getting its latest satellites off the ground, with the failure of a Russian Proton carrier rocket and wider concerns over whether sanctions will affect its launch programme....
...This service is separate to Inmarsat’s proposal for Global Xpress, a communications system due to launch this year that will provide internet access on long-haul flights....
...The new carrier is being launched by Tony Fernandes, the founder and chief executive of AirAsia, Asia’s biggest budget carrier....
...Elsewhere, Singapore-listed A-Sonic, aircraft and avionics group, has teamed up with Guangdong's China Travel Service and China Xpress to launch a no-frills carrier in southern China....
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