Denis O'Brien: Ireland's would-be Carlos Slim

In its December edition, Bloomberg Markets Magazine profiles billionaire businessman Denis O'Brien, "Ireland's would-be Carlos Slim".

Denis O'Brien in Haiti (Getty)

This article is originally from the December edition of the Bloomberg Markets Magazine:

Hiking along the Kokoda Trail in remote eastern Papua New Guinea last summer, Denis O’Brien discovered he didn’t have a mobile phone signal.

The sturdily built Irish telecommunications tycoon knew how to fix that.

He stormed into the local office of Digicel Group, the wireless operator he’d founded in 2001, and demanded that extra phone towers be erected along the ...