SES has announced a multi-year multi-million dollar contract renewal with Supernet, Pakistan's leading satellite network service provider...
The Vodafone Foundation will deploy its portable mobile phone network in the largest refugee camp in South Sudan, allowing aid workers to undertake life-saving work, enabling 70,000 refugees to contact relatives for free and giving children access to life-changing education programmes...
China Telecom Global is now offering services from Teraco’s vendor-neutral South African data centre, allowing it to deliver services across the country as well as link with other service providers and carriers in Africa...
One of Kenya’s major operators has signed a network management agreement covering its passive network infrastructure...
Google is launching an innovative initiative to provide connectivity in remote, rural areas using helium-filled balloons...
The Tajik operator Tacom, branded as Beeline, has ordered a backhaul platform for 3G data and voice development across the country...
A new infrastructure venture formed by a new consortium will roll out fibre optic broadband and Internet services throughout Israel...
When we think of emerging markets, we often tend to think they are behind the times, busy playing catch-up with developed nations. While this may in fact be the case for traditional fixed telecoms infrastructure, it is certainly not true for today’s extensive mobile networks. In fact, when it comes to mobile data plans and charging, developed nations can learn a lot from emerging markets.
Google’s head of Asia Pacific, Karim Temsamani, has claimed that the increased mobile internet usage driven by emerging market consumers is resulting in a “rebuilding of the internet”...
A new partnership between Croatian operator Vipnet and cloud enabler Neostratus will provide a range of cloud solutions for messaging, communication and collaboration to businesses across the country...
Ericsson has partnered with Chilean provider Entel to launch a new education initiative for students in rural areas of the Latin American country...
According to a survey conducted by Accenture, customers in emerging markets are more open to paying a premium rate for 4G services than those in developed markets...
Filipino operator Globe Telecom has extended its fibre optic network to the island of Coron in Palawan province, strengthening network coverage in a major tourist destination...
As the fourth largest economy in the world by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) driven primarily by the services sector, the telecom industry in India offers a great deal of opportunity. The last decade in particular has seen voice communications become a central part of day-to-day life for much of India with total national teledensity reaching 73.07% in January 2013.
Rapid telecoms expansion could soon be underway in India following an agreement between infrastructure provider Microqual Techno and Intelligent Energy.
At the start of this week, Developing Telecoms looked at the importance of real-time monitoring, with a focus on customer retention and roaming. As we continue to explore the subject, we look at how targeted advertising relies on the accurate customer profile that real-time monitoring can create. In addition, a closely-monitored network can drive down the SIM-swapping endemic to emerging markets.
India’s third largest mobile operator has signed a multi-year agreement for data clearing, financial clearing and fraud-prevention...
The Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Telecommunications (MINTIC) has extended its contract with Gilat Satellite Networks to provide broadband services to over 1500 schools in the Latin American country...
A nationwide 4G network is on the cards in India following the announcement that Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a tower-sharing agreement with Reliance Communications...
Mauritania’s leading telecom provider Mauritel is now offering real-time promotions for targeted subscribers based on analysis of actual usage patterns...
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto has signed a bill aimed at breaking the dominance of telecom monopolies...
A new government joint venture is aiming to provide high-speed 4G/LTE broadband to 95% of Rwanda’s population within the next three years...
Collecting and analysing data about customer usage is becoming the standard for operators in all markets, as it allows them to follow and respond to customer habits. They now have access to a lot of customer information, although it may not be as complete as they’d like – particularly in emerging markets where there are a lot of prepaid customers so there aren’t personally identifiable usage patterns as there are in developed markets.
The mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Sisteer has signed a full MVNO agreement with Telefonica’s Brazilian operation Vivo to operate as an MVNO using Vivo’s network...
A holding group owned by Ukraine’s richest man has acquired a 92.79% stake in Ukrtelecom...
Zain Iraq has set its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) into motion, creating a new company with which to register its Iraqi stock...
The mobile app Viber has been banned in Saudi Arabia, with the Kingdom’s regulator warning that similar services could suffer the same fate...
A new Content Delivery Network (CDN) Point of Presence (PoP) has been deployed in Bangalore by Pacnet. Bangalore is the epicentre of India's IT industry and home to many of country's most tech-savvy Internet users and has the nation’s largest number of broadband Internet connections...
Iraq’s first 4G LTE network has been launched in the north of the country by service provider Regional Telecom, using equipment provided by Alcatel-Lucent...
The Hershey Company is expanding its mobile phone program CocoaLink to Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), which is the world’s largest producer of cocoa...
A major connectivity contract that constitutes part of the AfricaConnect project has been awarded to the African carrier’s carrier WIOCC by DANTE...
Malaysian operator DiGi Telecommunications is implementing Ericsson’s Device Connection Platform to provide its customers with everything they need to deploy, manage and monetize millions of machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer-electronics devices...
After forming an alliance in an attempt to win a mobile licence in Myanmar, international telecom giants Vodafone and China Mobile have announced that they are abandoning the licensing race...
Estonia has been referred to the EU Court of Justice after failing to update its national law concerning the impartiality of its telecoms regulator...
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