Kenya has long been one of the most prosperous telecoms markets in Africa, and while saturation looms, short-term growth will remain strong...

A new joint venture has been formed to offer VoIP services in the Indian market...

The findings of a new research programme intended to measure the impact of mobile communications on the lives and prosperity of farming communities in some of the world's poorest countries have been announced...

Based on operator figures from the first half of 2011, Thailand’s mobile market has performed more positively than might have been expected...

India’s leading operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly adopting the TD-LTE framework for its 4G network, which will be among the first in the country...

With LTE launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE underway by operators such as Mobily, Etisalat and STC, others – including Qatari QTel and UAE-based Du – are now joining the fray...

Customers of Vodacom Tanzania are now able to benefit from more flexible billing options...

The first 4G network to launch in the Cayman Islands has gone live...

The Egyptian market leader Mobinil is replacing a number of disparate third-party systems for tracking infrastructure changes with one unified solution...

A new high-speed wireless broadband network is being deployed in Angola by ACS (Angola Communications Systems), a Business Unit of MSTelcom...

With data use soaring across the globe, it’s no surprise that mobile users emerging markets are increasingly hungry for services which place greater pressure on bandwidth – and operators are definitely feeling the strain. Fortunately, a total infrastructure upgrade is not the only option for operators in these regions, as Adrian Liu of Blue Coat explained to DT editor James Barton...

Subscriber growth in Ghana has exceeded expectations in the face of mandatory SIM registration and mobile number portability...

Turkey’s only GSM 1800 mobile operator, Avea, is integrating a new solution to provide accurate billing and settlement and prudent accrual provisioning...

A new remittance corridor has been launched connecting Morocco to Belgium. The initiative has been implemented by Moroccan money transfer specialist Wafacash...

The world's newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union's 193rd Member State...

Subscribers across the Mariana Islands in Micronesia will soon have access to a new messaging solution provided by the archipelago’s leading telecoms firm, IT&E...

Etisalat has launched an LTE-FDD mobile network in the UAE...

Panama’s government has begun a green initiative to digitise the majority of the country’s civil administration...

Intense competition has negatively affected Vietnam’s ARPU levels and the country’s mobile market is fast-approaching saturation...

Russia’s largest telecoms firm, Rostelecom, is increasing the speed and capacity of its optical backbone network, which moves vast amounts of data from Europe through Russia to the Middle East...

Kuwait’s market-leading operator Zain has missed an opportunity to sell a 25% stake in its Saudi Arabian operations...

ITU has underlined its key role in green ICT with a raft of announcements by Study Group 5 of its Telecommunication Standardisation Sector (ITU-T)...

Uganda is one of the fastest and most consistently growing economies in Africa. Fibre, mobile broadband and mobile banking are revolutionising the country’s telecom sector...

Nokia has announced that it is downsizing its handset business, cutting 3500 jobs...

A new type of tax is emerging in Africa according to new research conducted by Deloitte and the GSMA...

Mali’s leading internet provider has installed new caching appliances to manage increasing customer demand for international Internet content...

A new shared LTE network will reportedly be constructed in Russia by a collaboration between two of the country’s major operators, VimpelCom and MTS...

Seven African countries will soon host new 3G networks deployed by Bharti Airtel, which is also planning a major expansion of its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks across Africa...

A new financial institution in Mozambique has launched a mobile financial service aimed at the country’s unbanked population...

Fixed voice household penetration has proved resilient in most parts of Western Europe, but in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the proportion of mobile-only households had increased to 41% at the end of 2010. Senior Analyst at Analysys Mason Emma Buckland explores the regional factors that have brought about fixed-line abandonment in CEE, the main reasons why CEE fixed-line operators have been largely unsuccessful in stemming it and our expectations for this trend in the next five years...

Three of the largest operators in India – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular - are reportedly planning on creating a holding company for their passive infrastructure towers...

The commercialisation process of TD-LTE in China has taken another step forward following the announcement of a joint trial based on the technology to be conducted by Sequans Communications and Huawei...

Research conducted by Deloitte has demonstrated that sales of mobile phones saw a significant boost in Kenya after the African country’s government scrapped value added tax on handsets in 2009...

The Pakistani mobile market has emerged from two years of low growth between 2009 and 2010, which averaged at 1.7%, to mark a quarterly increase of 3.6% y-o-y in terms of subscribers...