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...

A new solution targeted at application and software developers in Africa is being launched by Orange...

The market-leading Filipino operator is deploying a new HD voice service...

A major submarine cable network connecting Europe and Asia is being upgraded to 100G technology...

As part of Kenya’s highly successful mobile money scheme, users of Safaricom’s M-Pesa service now have access to interest-bearing saving accounts as well as the ability to take out small loans...

Saudi Arabian operator Mobily has been legally prevented from selling prepaid SIM cards by the Kingdom’s regulator...

A leading internet service provider in Guinea-Conakry is expanding its broadband network from the capital city of Conakry to cover the entire country...

The South African ICT market is dynamic, strategic and growing fast...

The lack of bids on CDMA spectrum in India has prompted a number of major operators to ask that the government reallocate some of these frequencies for GSM-based operations...

A satellite service launching across South Sudan will provide wide reaching, high performance, satellite broadband Internet to unserved and underserved locations and communities across the country...

Two of the largest operators in Brazil have laid out their plans for LTE launches...

A new agreement will allow subscribers across Airtel’s entire African operation to send and receive money transfers over its network...

A new alliance between a major Middle Eastern operator and a data centre firm will establish the first world-class, carrier-neutral hub in the region...