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...

A leading 1800 GSM provider in Turkey is installing a new solution aimed at enhancing network performance to improve the end user experience...

Mobile money services have been launched in Nigeria by Lonestar Cell GSM, a member of the MTN Group...

As part of a major network expansion, UAE-based operator Etisalat is deploying a new backhauling solution for mobile data...

With the advent of LTE, the prices of spectrum licences are escalating – but the spectrum itself is finite, and increasingly hard to obtain. Meanwhile, older technologies that have largely fallen out of use are occupying other spectrum bands – but there is a common solution to these problems. DT editor James Barton spoke to Fabricio Martinez, Services Director at Aircom, about how spectrum re-farming can reduce operator expenditure while bringing new technologies to emerging markets.

The modernisation of Kazakhstan’s railway communication network has been completed...

Although intense competition is driving down ARPUs and market saturation is reducing subscriber growth opportunities, operators in Oman continue to invest in modern fixed and mobile networks - a move that will facilitate the rollout of higher value services in the future...

An SMS-based health awareness campaign underway in India has received a new participant, the diversified health care benefits company Aetna...

An expansive roaming reach is becoming increasingly important for operators in India, and with this in mind Aircel has selected a portfolio of roaming business management services from Syniverse...

The ITU Global Symposium for Regulators closed today with the adoption of Best Practice Guidelines aimed at advancing the deployment of broadband connectivity worldwide...

In just over six months since it launched, a voice SMS service has achieved an adoption rate of over 60% in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

With its potential largely untapped, the oil-rich nation of Sudan has plenty of room to grow...

Yarob Sakhnini from Brocade provides an insight into a successful virtualisation strategy and explains how virtualisation is the driving force behind cloud computing, enabling data centres to provide a wide range of storage, processing, infrastructure and software services at a low cost...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Broadband provider Clearwire and mobile operator China Mobile have entered into a partnership which will focus on developing TD-LTE devices...

At the end of March 2011, Sri Lanka’s mobile sector had a total of 17.852mn subscribers, following 393,000 net additions in the quarter...

Enterprise markets in Southern Africa are on the rise and Namibia’s licence-exempt market is no exception...

Like many emerging markets, Pakistan faces the challenge of connecting its rural population. In this interview Naeem Zamindar , the CEO of converged communications provider Wateen Telecom, warns that the rural market’s importance should not be underestimated...

Despite being Africa’s latest exporter of oil, Chad has one of the least developed telecommunications markets in the world...

India’s Department of Telecoms has reportedly claimed that Qualcomm’s original application for Indian wireless broadband service permits is void, thereby suggesting that the operator could have its licences revoked...