Nigerian communications minister Adebayo Shittu has cautioned that the country’s current investigation into alleged illegal activity by MTN must not “scare away” the market leader.
Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is aiming to close a deal to acquire Telenor’s Indian operations by the end of February.
In recent years, competition has gradually began influencing in the telecommunications sector in many developing and emerging markets across the world.
Malaysian mobile operator U Mobile has partnered with Docomo Digital to give customers the option of purchasing Google Play Store content using direct carrier billing.
Over the past five years, we’ve seen African telecom networks make enormous strides towards providing broadband services to more of the continent’s people.
The Altan consortium has been awarded a grant to construct and operate a wholesale 4G network in Mexico by the country’s regulator, IFT.
Millicom is believed to be interested in bidding for mobile spectrum in Costa Rica’s upcoming auctions as a means of entering the market.
Despite the fact that technology is one aspect of our life that changes fast making it difficult to predict precisely how the future will look like, we certainly need to attempt to understand the direction where the technology is moving forward.
In 2017 in many developing and emerging markets, telcos and other service providers will be completing significant upgrades to their network architectures and infrastructures.
During 2017, the public safety industry will continue to work towards making LTE the long term answer for emergency services communication.
Cablevision Argentina doubling its network capacity to meet surging demands for high-speed internet and video.
Myanmar’s new operator Mytel has announced it will invest over US$4 billion to build a new network prioritising rural areas.
O3b Networks has announced a series of new deals with telecom operators of island nations in the Asia Pacific Region.
2017 will be the year telecom regulators take aim, zero-rate proliferates, and IoT insecurity grabs hold.
The telecom industry is at the forefront of leading the transformation the world is witnessing.
Everyone is talking about the mobile revolution in emerging markets, and for a good reason.
2016 proved to be a remarkable year for the telecoms industry.
Ericsson and China Mobile have signed a strategic agreement to cooperate on development of the Internet of Things.
Indian heavyweights Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have both shot down rumours that they are seeking a merger with Reliance Jio.
In the past couple of years, three important factors have come together for FinTech: the rise of cloud computing, the ubiquity of smartphones and the ability to collect and analyse big data.
Telcos have been very cautious to date about putting the crown jewels of their business in the cloud, but in 2017, they will finally embrace cloud software to boost their operational agility.
Over the past five years, Africa has seen a sharp rise in the number of mobile phone users, accounting for 46% of the total population, making it the second largest mobile market in the world.
Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT) is launching direct carrier billing on Google Play with Fortumo.
Connecting the unconnected continues to be a fashionable industry term, with Facebook and Google in particular grabbing media headlines last year – and no doubt throughout 2017 - for their efforts.
Ericsson and Cisco will provide Telefonica Guatemala with a new Internet Protocol (IP) network backbone, based on Cisco's aggregation services routers and Ericsson's integration services.
It used to be that writing a predictions piece was something of a retread of the previous year, with a few more advances.
Microsoft is deploying Nominet’s dynamic spectrum management technology to deliver broadband in the African continent.
Vietnamobile has partnered with Fortumo to offer carrier billing on the Google Play app store in Vietnam.
Recently issued guidelines aimed at fostering competition in Argentina have prompted Telefonica to consider a legal challenge.
Pan-African operator MTN is reportedly considering pulling out of the Nigerian market if what it deems the “endless hostility” of the country’s regulators continues.
Golan Telecom will be acquired by Electra Consumer Products in a deal that resolves the Israeli firm’s storied legal dispute with rival Cellcom.
Econet Wireless has launched Kirusa’s InstaVoice Missed call, Voice SMS, Voice Mail and Sports Services in Lesotho.
Afghanistan’s market leader Roshan has tapped SpeedCast International to upgrade its cellular backhaul network to support 3G services over satellite in Zabul province in southwestern Afghanistan.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has tapped Viptela and Inbox Business Technologies to deploy software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) infrastructures in Pakistan.
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