As a result of heavy investments in the telecom sector since the mid-1990s, Tunisia has one of the most developed telecommunications infrastructures in Northern Africa and sports some of the continent’s highest market penetration rates...

With the demand for data exploding across developed and emerging markets, operators need to find ways of facilitating delivery while keeping costs down. Content Delivery Networks are emerging as a viable means of doing this; with a correctly installed CDN, operators are able to increase access bandwidth in order to provide faster access to cached data...

 Residential and business customers in Saudi Arabia will soon have access to fixed broadband services using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology via a nationwide fibre network...

Low penetration in Tanzania leaves plenty of room for growth over the next five years, but operators need to capitalise on the rural market potential...

Adding its voice to the debate over Indian 3G roaming agreements, the state-owned operator BSNL has claimed that the spectrum-sharing alliances between private operators across the country are “illegal”...

Throughout 2011 the societal and political unrest in many Arab countries, termed the Arab Spring, fundamentally changed the progress and pace at which telecommunications infrastructure has, and will continue to be, developed in these countries...

Subscribers of Egypt’s largest telecom operator will soon enjoy a host of customised services...

2012 may be the year of the low-cost smartphone following the introduction of a 1GHz Android smartphone platform for TD-SCDMA and EDGE/WiFi...

A 354 kilometre under-sea link in Indonesia, critical to the country’s international connectivity, has been upgraded by Nokia Siemens Networks...

Kenya's mobile market during H111 has seen a significant slowdown in overall subscriber growth...

A leading operator in Tanzania is modernising its GSM and 3G networks nationwide to improve performance and capacity, with the aim of providing more reliable, faster mobile broadband services...

Deployment has begun on a fibre optic submarine cable network system in the Maldives...

Yota has launched the first commercial LTE network in Russia..

In this bylined article, Brian Carroll, CEO of Arantech, discusses how Customer Experience Management systems can help operators take advantage of subscriber growth in the emerging market of Africa...

Poland’s leading mobile operator has improved its mobile broadband services with better indoor coverage and wider reach beyond the nation’s larger cities...

 An intensifying battle between mobile and fixed-line services is increasing price-based competition in Indonesia, with the result that although subscriber numbers continue to rise, customers are spending less...

Although the Philippines has seen strong mobile subscriber growth this year, saturation looms and competition could soon be damaged by a major acquisition...

The Samoan Islands have passed a milestone with the launch of their first commercial 4G services...

A new series of cloud-based solutions for contact centres will allow operators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reduce their operational expenditure, as well as granting them a higher degree of control, greater design flexibility and simplified migration from on-premise environments...

The Indian government is reviewing its stance on mergers and acquisitions as a means of fostering consolidation in the highly competitive market – and this may lead to the market leader Bharti Airtel acquiring domestic operators...

 A number of international organizations have united in expressing their concerns over the Space Assets Protocol, a new international legislation sponsored by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)...

 A new residential broadband service capable of delivering speeds of up to 100 megabits per second has launched in Jamaica...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has granted China Unicom permission to begin offering Apple’s latest iteration of the iPhone, the 4S model...

Connecting rural communities is a particular challenge in emerging markets, as infrastructure frequently does not extend into the more remote corners of the landscape. However, advances in backhauling mean that operators are now able to extend coverage to remote regions more efficiently and cost-effectively. DT editor James Barton spoke to Richard Beckley of hosted networks specialist Globecomm to find out how this change is coming about...

The Indonesian media has reported that certain services provided by RIM’s BlackBerry devices will be blocked by the country’s government...

Wireless broadband services using 4G technology are now available in Brazil...

The market leading telecommunications provider in Israel has launched a new hybrid cloud-based solution for managed storage and data protection...

In light of new data published by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, the island nation’s mobile subscriber growth over the next five years will likely be lower than expected...

One of the last countries in the Middle East to liberalise, the telecom market of the United Arab Emirates has benefited from competition, evident from falling tariff prices...

 Latin America’s first commercial 4G/LTE wireless network will be deployed in Uruguay...

One of the leading operators in Saudi Arabia is extending its LTE coverage to a further 5 cities across the Kingdom...

A leading global equipment provider has agreed to acquire Nokia Siemens Networks’ fixed-line Broadband Access business...

A new proposal may spell the end of 3G roaming alliances between Indian operators – as they are reportedly losing revenue for the country’s government...

Cloud computing is on the rise in Latin America following the launch of cloud services in Argentina by Telefónica...