ETISALAT: Is name change possible in three weeks?

JUST when the heat was beginning to die down on Emerging Markets Telecommunications Service, EMTS, (known as Etisalat Nigeria) over the lingering $1.2bn loan repayment saga, a fresh chapter which may add to the headache the telecom company has had to live with in the last four months, has just opened. Etisalat International wants the Nigerian arm to discontinue the use of Etisalat as the brand name.