The Internet Society has published the results of a study that demonstrates the far-reaching economic and societal benefits of establishing Internet Exchange Points (or IXPs) in emerging markets...

With stable GDP growth of around 5% p.a., a high population density and a high growth rate in a low-penetration mobile market, Burundi is one of the most attractive African telecom markets for investors, despite the fact that it is also one of the world’s poorest countries...

Despite excellent fibre optic connections, Djibouti’s telecoms sector is not growing as fast as it should – largely due to an overly-powerful nation telco...

In Africa, fixed-line operators are considered dead in the water. Mobile took over and flourished, meaning that fixed-line was essentially written off – operators struggle to stay relevant with 100,000 subscribers in countries with populations of 20 million people. While many have looked to privatisation, there are still opportunities for a huge number of African fixed-line operators due to one key factor – many have exclusivity on the national backbone...

Saudi Arabia possesses a steadily growing telecoms market. As with many telecoms markets in the region, lack of strong competition in the fixed-line market meant much of the growth has been underpinned by mobile...

Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding has confirmed that due to “unlawful actions taken since 2008 by the Algerian government against Orascom Telecom Algerie (OTA)” it will take out a Notice of Arbitration against the relevant Algerian authorities...

Kenya's mobile market returned to strong subscriber growth in Q311 after a slowdown in H111, which can be attributed to the discounting of inactive SIMs and increasing mobile saturation in urban areas...

A new agreement will provide buyers of Android phones in India with free airtime...

Bangladesh had an estimated 86.555mn mobile subscribers at the end of September 2011, which would represent a net addition of 4.728mn from the previous quarter...

Google’s Android OS has affirmed its dominance in the Chinese smartphone market, with the number of devices running the OS more than doubling in 2011...

Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has published market data relating to the end of 2011 for fixed-line, mobile and internet sectors. A stronger than expected growth in the broadband sector suggests that the regulator's efforts at liberalising the internet market are driving growth in that sector...

A new roaming service will allow Tanzanian subscribers to use their mobile phones freely across nine African countries...

India’s nationwide cancellation of 2G licences has been upheld by the country’s Supreme Court, which has rejected an appeal against the decision by a number of local operators...

The future of Russia’s second-largest operator MegaFon is currently under discussion by a number of firms, with Scandinavian group TeliaSonera the most recent party to confirm its involvement...

Thailand’s state-owned operator TOT is upgrading its 3G networks to HSPA+, which will improve mobile broadband services for its 7.2 million subscribers...

Although the mobile penetration rate in The Philippines is expected to breach the 100% mark by end- 2012, growth momentum is expected to be relatively strong in the next few years due to the prevalence of prepaid subscribers...

The volume of traffic traversing networks today is rising faster than revenues, sending operators’ revenue per bit spiraling downward. The really bad news, however, is that it doesn’t look like the situation is going to improve anytime soon...

India’s first 4G network is scheduled to go live later this month, with the market-leading operator Bharti Airtel launching services in Kolkata...

Sri Lankan operators have been actively searching for additional growth drivers to offset the declining subscriber growth opportunities...

Africa’s telecommunications industry is now growing at an unprecedented pace and there are three clear areas of growth: 4G, broadband and green energy...

Bharti Airtel has announced that it will expand its African operations into Rwanda, bringing to 17 the total number of African countries where it is present...

Remote and rural areas of the Congo will soon have access to GSM mobile and fixed telephony services via a new partnership. The pan-African satellite operator RascomStar QAF will deliver the services via its VSAT terminals in conjunction with IPX Extenso...

The Czech Republic and Slovakia are key growth markets within Central Europe; exports are the driving force behind both countries’ economies and foreign trade turnover is steadily growing in both markets...

GDP per capita in Gabon is well above the African average, with the country’s oil revenues make it one of the wealthiest nations in the continent - although a distorted income distribution and poor social indicators are evident...

A new money transfer service launching in Uganda will allow subscribers of one of the country’s leading operators to send and receive money across borders using just their mobile phones...

By some measures Vietnam is still in a comparatively early stage of its telecommunications development, but for some years now the country has been aggressively expanding its national infrastructure and growing its subscriber bases across all market segments...

Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) has responded to requests from its two potential buyers to extend the deadline for submitting a bid...

Kenyan market leader Safaricom is threatening to discontinue its involvement in the construction of an LTE network if the country’s government insists that the deployment uses the 2.6GHz frequency band...

The first CDMA Windows Phone to go on sale in China is being readied for launch...

As technology has advanced, applications and technology solutions have increasingly been built using open systems. This has made it possible to connect disparate security solutions on a single security management platform easily and cost effectively...

Two of the major industry players attempting to bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide have expressed their wish for the submission deadline to be extended...

South Africa’s first open and public peering facility with a national presence is now live, running from data centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban...

The Middle East and India will soon share a connection via a major international cable network...

The Libyan Investment Authority’s international telecommunications arm LAP GreenN has filed court papers challenging the Zambian Government’s action to seize its 75% share in Zamtel...