The solutions provider Turkcell Technology – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Turkish market leader Turkcell – is launching a new solution which enables mobile network operators to identify and predict real-time business opportunities and improve customer satisfaction with new and innovative location-based services...

Despite some restrictions and censorship, which culminated in the 2011 political and social unrest, Egypt is one of the most developed Internet markets in Africa in terms of users, international bandwidth and services offered...

A new acquisition could be afoot in the highly competitive Indian market, with reports indicating that conglomerate Reliance Industries is eyeing a controlling stake in the mobile operator Aircel...

Nigeria’s first open access fibre optic backbone network will consist of 14,000km of fibre optic network linked through regional network owners to enable advanced communications to all regions of the country...

Growth in Pakistan’s mobile sector was slow during 2010 compared to previous years, largely due to losses accumulated from the economic crisis as well as the country suffering from one of the worst floods in its history...

The world’s newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan, has today been assigned the international dialling code 211, following the country’s formal recognition as a UN Member State...

Next month will see the enactment of a broad restructuring of one of India’s largest operators, Bharti Airtel...

A leading Filipino operator has is set to transition its international interconnects from circuit-switched to IP connections...

A new joint venture has been announced by the Japanese operator NTT Docomo and the Chinese search engine provider Baidu...

Oman's progression up industry ratings tables was halted this quarter on the back of heightened political and industry risks from the social unrest in the Middle East and North Africa region...

Latin America’s fastest broadband network is being launched by the Chilean market leader Entel. Based on HSPA Evolution technology from Ericsson, the network will allow peak data rates of 42Mbps...

Subscribers in six Chinese provinces will soon have access to a number of multimedia services, including IP-based voice, video and web services...

As part of a look at growth opportunities in Africa, DT editor James Barton met up with Eaton Towers director and Celtel co-founder Terry Rhodes to discuss attitudes towards investment in the continent.

The Indian operator Idea Cellular has had several of its licences revoked by the country’s telecoms ministry and incurred a fine of INR10 million (US$225,000) following a legal dispute...

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network...

A Bulgarian Internet Service Provider is now offering its customers higher bandwidth along with high-quality data services such as IPTV...

Despite its constantly stymied 3G auctions, mobile penetration is high in Thailand, and broadband subscriptions are increasing faster than anticipated...

TD-LTE (4G) trial networks are currently being tested in China by Nokia Siemens Networks for the market leader China Mobile...

Significant transactions on both sides of the globe have been finalised by Vodafone, with the company confirming that it has settled its dispute with Essar in India as well as selling its stake in Polish operator Polkomtel...

A new agreement will see an expansion of research into wireless technologies in Russia...

African leaders have been advised to take social media, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, more seriously or potentially lose power...

Rumours have resurfaced that the Chinese search engine provider Baidu is preparing to launch an Android-based mobile platform...

Latin American operator Telefonica is launching its mobile financial services offering – and has declared that it will avoid the pitfalls that affected early mobile money deployments in Africa and Asia...

Mobile subscriber numbers in Zimbabwe trebled from early 2009 to mid-2010, whereas fixed line subscriptions remained stagnant. With demand for voice services increasingly met, future growth is predicted to occur around mobile Internet and broadband provision...

Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has entered into a new Cooperation Protocol with Vodafone Egypt to provide agricultural guidance services via mobile. The initiative will also launch a call centre for Egyptian farmers...

The Indian telecom market has seen an average growth rate of 30% for the past many years, and today the number of mobile phone subscribers in the country stands at almost 600 million. This means that nearly half of the country’s population subscribes to cellular services...

A mobile number portability trial in China has seen disappointing results, with just 50,000 subscribers switching successfully between operators during the six-month pilot scheme...

A new centre dedicated to renewable energy is to be built in South Africa by Vodacom, a subsidiary of Vodafone...

Since its launch in April 2008, handset provider Mi-Fone has been catering to mass market sectors in emerging markets, providing affordable handsets with in-demand functionality – and all the while making sure to invest back into the markets that have made it profitable. Developing Telecoms editor James Barton recently had the opportunity to catch up with Alpesh Patel, founder and CEO of Mi-Fone...

Indonesia’s market leading operator has begun the next phase of its transformation programme supporting its Next Generation Network (NGN) Initiative...

A new TD-LTE service provider could be entering the Indian market before the end of the year...

A new tuneable MIMO antenna designed for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments has been unveiled by the China Mobile Research Institute in partnership with SkyCross...

One of Croatia’s leading operators is upgrading its customer care processes with a new solution that provides its service agents with the information required to resolve customer issues instantly...