With the mobile market in Pakistan experiencing a period of healthy and sustained development on one hand, and the fixed-line market languishing badly on the other, the operators in the respective market segments are unsurprisingly experiencing contrasting fortunes...

On Friday, the 21st of September, COFETEL, Mexico’s telecoms regulator, confirmed that Mexico has adopted the APT band plan for 700MHz digital dividend spectrum. In the arcane world of spectrum management this is a very exciting step...

Indonesia’s spectrum auctions have been hit by a fourth delay, despite the original intention for them to be held in June 2012...

Like its inhabitants, Syria’s telecom sector has been caught up in the ongoing civil war...

Mexico’s regulator Cofetel has approved proposals to use the 700MHz band for mobile. Industry observers have expressed hope that other Latin American operators could be spurred to do the same in the wake of the development...

Increasing broadband and smartphone penetration, in particular as a result of the launch of 4G networks, is affecting data growth across the BRIC markets. With a focus on India and Russia, DT looks at the impact this is having and the trends that are expected to emerge in this arena over the next few years...

Two major Russian operators are considering forming a joint venture out of their respective tower businesses...

A new agreement will bring voice, Internet, TV and video communication services to customers in Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia...

Content delivery in remote regions of Africa will be facilitated by a new agreement...

Between December 2010 and 2011, Jordan’s mobile penetration rate rose from 112.6% to 118.2%, reaching 7.482m mobile subscribers...

Russia’s largest operator has launched ultra-fast 4G mobile broadband services offering speeds of up to 100 Mbps in most of Moscow and 40 population centres in Moscow regions...

One of Nigeria’s largest operators is implementing new measures to facilitate load balancing, using its network more efficiently...

The police force of Dhaka, Bangladesh, has upgraded its analogue communications system to a digital system...

A major Latin American submarine cable network is being upgraded with 40G technology...

Business users in East and Central Africa will now have access to cloud-based communication services, with ICT solutions provider Tips Hosting launching its CloudLIFE services in the region...

There were 12.367mn mobile subscribers in the UAE at the end of March 2012...

One of Ghana’s major operators is rolling out solar solutions to bring mobile coverage to rural communities...

While Malaysia’s mobile market grew within expectations during 2011, 3G adoption slowed markedly in Q411...

Over 40 Latin American operators are forming an alliance to address the issue of visibility of data roaming charges...

A new iPhone unveiling is a cataclysmic event in the telecoms industry, and the impact will be felt just as much in emerging markets – indeed, perhaps even more. DT editor James Barton spoke to Mervyn Kelly of network specialist Ciena to discuss the impact the iPhone 5 will have on data usage, and how operators in emerging markets can hope to optimise their networks to cope with this...

Colombia’s National Fibre Optic Project will see the largest and most modern fibre optics network deployed across the country...

There were 4.962mn mobile subscribers in Kuwait at the end of December 2011, meaning the market grew by 11.5% during 2011...

The availability of bandwidth in South Africa has improved dramatically in recent years. However, while there may be a lot of capacity coming into the country, the majority of users remain unable to access it...

Two primary rounds were held on the first day of Romania’s spectrum auctions, which will allocate frequencies in the 800, 900, 1800 and 2600 MHz bands...

India’s mobile subscriber base has shrunk for the first time ever...

As network traffic increases, operators are constantly on the lookout for technologies that can help them better manage network congestion and provide better load balancing between the various nodes...

Mobile users in seven African countries will soon have access to insurance products via Bharti Airtel’s network...

The Director General of the GSMA Anne Bouverot has called on the President of Uzbekistan to intervene personally in the ongoing conflict between the country’s government and the Uzbek branch of MTS...

A major Hungarian corporate venture capital investor is set to provide a EUR1 million mezzanine finance facility to a Budapest-based cloud delivery firm...

One of Poland's major operators is upgrading its GSM, HSPA+ and LTE networks...

South Africans have long held the perception that overseas is better, when it comes to goods, services, even qualifications. This, along with the attractive pricing structures offered by destinations such as India, led to a trend of outsourcing to global companies or offshoring services to foreign destinations. However, recently this trend has begun to reverse, and companies are once again bringing their outsourced services back to local shores...

A major operator in Senegal has resolved its legal dispute with the West African country’s new government...

The development of the telecoms sector in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is seriously impeded by the country's parlous economic state and the regime's general repression of communications...

It has long been reported in that Somalia plays host to a highly competitive mobile telecoms market...