After a slow start to 2011 with net additions of just 312,000 (229,000 in Q111 and 83,000 in Q211) in H111, Kenya's mobile market grew strongly in H211 with net additions of 2.801mn...

Mobile operators in India will soon be able to use spectrum as collateral in order to attract investment from banks...

Latin America’s adoption of mobile commerce solutions evolved throughout 2011. Many financial institutions revisited their deployment of mobile banking, and mobile network operators formed mobile payments alliances - most notably America Movil, which formed a joint venture with Citibank, and Telefónica, which partnered with MasterCard...

Although subscriber data for Cambodia and Laos are hard to come by, the telecommunications sectors of both Southeast Asian countries have seen reasonable growth despite competition stagnating...

The Indian Telecom Commission has provided suggestions for the country’s upcoming 2G spectrum auctions, calling for more spectrum to be made available, as well as a review of the auction’s controversially high base prices...

If knowledge is power, then data is currency in today’s world. Cyber crime has become more lucrative than the drug trade, and businesses understand that security is of the utmost importance in protecting their data...

Tanzania’s economy has been showing solid growth rates of between 5% and 8% every year since 2000, which remained virtually unharmed by the global economic crisis...

A major Saudi operator is launching a 4G network in the kingdom’s second largest city...

The GSMA has revealed that mobile operators are driving significant value for the healthcare industry by improving access, reach and quality to care across the entire patient pathway...

Already highly saturated – penetration rates were estimated at 175.5% in 2011 – Kuwait’s mobile market is highly competitive as operators compete for subscribers, placing downward pressure on prices...

A major African telecommunications and information services firm has upgraded its roaming services to facilitate inter-network connections...

Chinese vendor Huawei has refuted claims that it has accepted subsidies from the Chinese government which allowed it to sell equipment at substantially lower rates than foreign rivals...

The island nation of Mauritius sports some of the best telecommunication market indicators in Africa and has been the first with many innovations...

Developing Telecoms' Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how African operators can curb their soaring operating costs...

The civil unrest in early 2011 following disputed presidential elections has led to a contraction of Cote d’Ivoire’s economy, but from 2012 onwards GDP growth is expected to return to around 6% per annum...

The low-cost smartphone could finally be upon us, with Vodafone announcing that it will launch the Smart II across 25 of its markets...

Asia’s largest railway network operator is upgrading the Kolkata metro line’s communication systems...

A new cloud storage device is launching in Malaysia, allowing subscribers of the country’s major service provider to synch rich media, files and personal data wirelessly across smartphones, tablets and computers...

Remote and rural areas of the Republic of Congo will soon enjoy  mobile coverage and fixed telephony access via a new collaboration...

New statistics unveiled by a major broadband analyst have revealed that while many emerging markets are showing major growth, other have struggled to meet expectations. Comparing numbers from three years ago with current reports, Point Topic has released its results showing which emerging markets have weathered the broadband ‘crunch’...

A new initiative being launched by a major Latin American advertiser will enable app developers worldwide to distribute their apps across a portfolio of associated publishers, ad networks and exchanges in Latin America...

Following more than a decade of civil war, Sierra Leone has enjoyed peace, stability and rapid economic growth since 2002...

Data consumption has risen dramatically across the globe following the widespread availability of 3G, and with LTE deploying worldwide this trend does not look set to slow. However, operators in many emerging markets are having difficulty supplying the requisite capacity. Fortunately, innovative new backhauling techniques are emerging as a means of addressing this issue...

Vietnam’s market-leading operator has boosted the capacity in its packet core network by 50%...

Pan-African calls are now set to be standardised for subscribers of Airtel Uganda...

Two months after launching operations in Rwanda, Bharti Airtel has declared its intention of investing US$100 million in the country...

Jordan is a standout country in Middle East region for its relatively well-developed telecoms and IT sector when one considers its lower GDP per capita...

A major project which will provide carrier-grade Wi-Fi access across the Philippines is now underway...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform reportedly now has a greater market share in China than Apple’s iPhone – despite having been available there for just two months...

A major South African operator has been granted a long term insurance licence...

Chinese authorities have cleared Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility...

A HSPA network expansion in Thailand has hit difficulty after doubts arose over the legality of the deployment...

Operators across sub-Saharan Africa will soon be able to enhance their networks with local-oriented content, following the announcement of a new partnership agreement...

One of Bangladesh's leading mobile phone operators is upgrading its charging system to provide customers with new value-added services...