As a means of combating churn, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications is reportedly planning on limiting the number of SIM cards that any one customer is able to register, with the maximum set at three per network...

Following the news that Etisalat will cease operations in India, reports are claiming that the UAE-based firm is looking to withdraw from Indonesia by selling its stake in local operator PTXL Axiata...

Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility is still awaiting clearance following the extension of the investigation into the deal by the relevant Chinese authorities...

The Indian mobile subscriber market has demonstrated strong growth in the past decade or so, but when it comes to the adoption of mobile data services, the results are more mixed...

Reports from news outlets in Uganda are claiming that the African mobile giant MTN has lost billions of Ugandan shillings through fraudulent use of its mobile money service...

The UAE-based telecom giant Etisalat has confirmed that it will bring a close to its involvement in India, shutting down its operations in the country on March 31^st...

The head of one of Somalia’s largest telecommunications firms has been accused by the United Nations Security Council of financing a terrorist cell with links to Al-Qaeda via hawalas, an informal system for transferring money...

Mobile broadband boasting speeds of up to 100Mbps will soon be available in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is upgrading its nationwide GSM and 3G networks, as well as expanding its commercial 4G network...

Budding Zimbabwean app developers will see their unique ideas for SMS-based mobile applications launched to more than three quarters of the country’s 7.7 million mobile subscribers...

This year will almost certainly see China overtake the US to become the largest smartphone market in the world...

A major Malaysian WiMAX operator has outlined its plans for expanding into fibre broadband and LTE...

Tangible results are steadily becoming apparent for a number of environmental initiatives spearheaded by one of Africa’s most prolific operators...

One of Saudi Arabia’s leading operators is deploying dedicated M2M services – a first for the Middle East...

Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks...

A major operator in the Maldives is deploying a service monitoring and network troubleshooting solution across its network...

The future of Indian joint venture Uninor hangs in balance as one of the partners has been ordered to make a decision regarding its involvement by March 19^th...

A major Nigerian operator is deploying backhaul solutions across its network as part of a major expansion...

A new 3G mobile broadband network is launching in Ecuador to meet the rising demand for mobile broadband connectivity across the country...

Businesses across Africa will have access to a new data governance solution following the announcement of a new partnership...

Speculation that Turkcell was seeking to acquire a stake in Bulgarian operator Vivacom have been confirmed by the Turkish operator...

Despite its growth opportunities, the Vietnamese telecoms industry remains relatively unattractive in the short term due to the dominance of state-owned entities in a highly competitive landscape...

Unwanted advertising, or spam, has long been an aspect of email that is begrudgingly accepted – but with the global proliferation of mobile internet, it is fast becoming an unwelcome reality on mobile devices as well. DT editor James Barton spoke to Cloudmark’s Alan Ranger about how spam is affecting the way that mobile users worldwide perceive their devices, how users in emerging markets are particularly vulnerable, and what can be done to curb the growth of spam and malware in the mobile sector...

Aspiring African app developers will see their ideas launched to millions of mobile phone users in Kenya through a competition launched by ForgetMeNot Africa, Safaricom and iHub, a developer community in Nairobi...

As communications service providers face the increasing challenge of a network capacity crunch due to the demands of smartphone ownership and growing video traffic, boosting a network’s speed and capacity is becoming a priority for operators globally...

A leading operator in Kenya is launching the country’s fastest mobile Internet network...

One of Kyrgyzstan’s leading operators is augmenting its 4G/LTE offering, allowing subscribers to broaden the use of their connections...

As the telecommunications sector is growing rapidly, broadband communication is also surging across India...

Subscribers of Orange in Africa will soon be able to access Facebook via any handset...

Three Asian units of the Norwegian operator group Telenor are to share a “unique cross-border billing platform initiative”...

Tajikistan’s telecommunications infrastructure was arguably the least developed of all the former Soviet republics...

The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed. This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on...

With mobility on the rise among India’s small and medium businesses, the market has witnessed a significant shift towards adoption of mobile devices and services such as smart phones, tablets, wireless cards, data plans and hosted applications. More than two thirds of India SMBs (companies having <1000 employees) own at least one smart phone or tablet, and almost half plan to purchase more devices in the next year...

As mobile payments in emerging markets become ever more advanced, a new development will offer subscribers in Africa and the Middle East a full suite of high quality financial services...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the industry’s main opportunity every year to trumpet the achievements of mobile communications, great as these undoubtedly are. Indeed it has long been our belief that mobile phones are right up there with the Honda 125cc moped and Penicillin as technologies having the greatest transformative effect on the lives of people in the developing world...