The Week Ahead: VEON's third quarter, Kcell's merger papers and the ITU in Doha

Eight dates for the corridor from Monday 2 November, nearest first, each with the document behind it.

• Friday 6 November. VEON reports results for the quarter to 30 September, the company said. The quarter includes Beeline Kazakhstan's launch of Starlink's satellite-to-mobile service on 29 September, according to VEON.
• Saturday 7 November. Kcell's materials for its extraordinary meeting on merging KazNet Media into the operator must be available to shareholders by this date, no later than 10 days before the meeting, according to the notice published on KASE. The notice gives no terms for the merger.
• Monday 9 to Friday 27 November. The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference meets at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. Member states elect the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General and the directors of the three bureaux, and choose the 48 members of the ITU Council and the members of the Radio Regulations Board for 2027 to 2030, according to an ITU media advisory.
• Monday 16 November. VEON holds its Capital Markets Day, according to its September announcement.
• Tuesday 17 November. Kcell's shareholders meet at 11:00 Almaty time on the single agenda item, with 18 November as the fallback date if the meeting does not take place, according to the same notice.
• Wednesday 16 December. Approval date for the EBRD's proposed loan of up to EUR 48.4 million for Tajikistan's fibre backbone and rural broadband, according to the bank's project summary.
• Friday 25 December. Turkcell's second 5G licence instalment of USD 408 million falls due, according to its annual report on Form 20-F.
• End of December. The Kazakh government expects the main data centre and energy buildings at Data Center Valley in Ekibastuz to be erected by the end of the year, with commissioning works finished in May 2027 and a first 50 MW facility in operation in June 2027, according to its review of the project on 13 August.

Still without a date in the documents reviewed: an auction under the 5G spectrum caps that Kazakhstan's competition agency proposed on 14 October, BES.media reported, and the commissioning of the West-East fibre line, which the government targets for the end of the year, according to its 6 October summary.