Green telecom will be the trend for 2013, along with a quest to serve the “Next Billion” mobile customers. In addition, the global data boom will force mobile operators to evalute their business models...

Fixed-mobile divergence is the top trend in 2013...

• Fixed-mobile divergence will be here to stay
• Sharing of networks
• Focus on advanced Operations Support Systems (OSS)

The key trend in 2013 will be the development of smarter mobile infrastructure. There will be...

• A new focus on antennas for base stations
• A quest to reduce signal wastage

The trend for 2013 will be True mobility in the workplace:

• A renewed focus on ‘total cost of ownership’ of mobile computers
• The emergence of Android as a valid operating system choice for mobile devices for enterprises

Mobile devices overtake desktops with...

• A shift to a device-driven and faster Internet
• Internet backup
• The ‘social' DDoS attack

Civil unrest following disputed presidential elections led to a contraction of Cote d'Ivoire's economy in 2011, but GDP growth is expected to rebound to 8% in 2012 with a stable outlook...

One of India’s major national operators is implementing a solution to provide real time subscription services for 2G and 3G subscribers including dynamic policy-based service offerings and a state-of-the-art service monitoring solutions on cloud...

Rising smartphone ownership in Africa is driving demand for high-bandwidth mobile data services such as video calling and online gaming...

Scandinavian operator Telenor has scaled back its Indian unit, stating that it intends to spend no more than INR155 billion (US$2.85 billion), with the goal of recouping this amount by the end of Q4 2013...

A new partnership is aiming to foster women’s entrepreneurship in the African mobile financial services industry...

India continues to be one of the fastest growing major telecom markets in the world, as well as one of the largest...

After just three days on sale in China, the iPhone 5 racked up sales of over 2 million, according to official sales figures published by Apple...

One the largest operators in Nigeria has successfully completed an LTE trial in the country’s capital city, Lagos...

The final toppling of Telkom’s stranglehold as the dominant last mile provider in South Africa was the biggest change to the IT landscape in 2012...

Thousands of people in the Philippines hit by Typhoon Pablo will be able to contact relatives and aid agencies will be able to carry out life-saving emergency work with the deployment of the Vodafone Foundation’s Instant Network today. Communications lines were cut when Typhoon Pablo hit the province on December 4, flattening buildings and damaging cell sites and telecoms transmission facilities...

The market-leading South African operator MTN has constructed its LTE network using equipment from Ericsson. This is the first commercial LTE network that the Swedish vendor has built in Africa. The launch comes after the pilot network has been running for more than a year...

In many emerging markets there is a need for more spectrum, both for backhaul and access. This is because there is a lot of growth and no alternative – GPON and DSL connections typically aren’t present, and they are often difficult to deploy in more remote regions. High-capacity last-mile solutions are far preferable to emerging market providers - spectrum is a scarce resource, so it’s important to find more intelligent ways to make use of it...

The Costa Rican regulator Sutel is implementing new systems to analyse and benchmark the performance of the country’s mobile network infrastructure...

Vodafone has formed two partnerships that will use mobile technology to increase childhood vaccination levels in sub-Saharan Africa. This will support the global goal to vaccinate an additional quarter of a billion children and avert four million deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases by 2015...

The Middle Eastern operator Qatar Telecom (QTel) is reportedly considering acquiring the majority stake in Maroc Telecom...

The first TD-SCDMA to use the Windows Phone operating system in China has been launched by Nokia and China Mobile...

Eight firms have been awarded 4G spectrum to offer LTE services in Malaysia by the country’s regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission...

Madagascar will soon have island-wide high-speed broadband and telephony services delivered by satellite...

Apple is more than doubling the number of countries in which it sells the iPhone 5, with the goal of adding “more than 50” markets to the current total of 47 by the end of this year...

The conversation around big data has taken many forms, but in the telecoms sector, it’s largely been seen as a challenge. For communications service providers (CSPs), more data has been equated with operational inefficiencies, such as issues with collecting and storing the information...

The largest mobile operator in Indonesia is introducing proactive monitoring to its network in order to predict, prevent, and prioritise network issues for its 121 million customers...

The African cellular market is very much pulling in the subscribers...

Nigeria's telecoms and IT sector has massive growth potential, but the country must first overcome a number of key industry challenges before the sector can fulfil this...

Bharti Airtel is reportedly considering buying one of the smaller South African operators...

Recognising the need for customer-centric success measurements is crucial for the growth of mobile networks in developing markets, argues Arieso CTO, Dr. Michael Flanagan...

Iran’s mobile penetration has exceeded 100%...

According to reports, Telefonica will next year shift the location of its Latin American headquarters from Spain to Brazil, a process which will create 100 new jobs...

Six university students have been awarded with prizes for unique app idea as part of their final year projects, in an initiative spearheaded by South African operator Vodacom...

A new joint venture between one of the world’s largest operating groups and a major payments specialist will develop mobile payment solutions for Brazil...