Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overviews. The overviews cover the role of various technologies such as broadband and convergence, the effects of regulation, the major players and how the African market has performed.

Intel's decision to invest US$300 million to build a semiconductor chip assembly and test manufacturing factory in Ho Chi Minh City is set to inspire a new wave of foreign investment in Vietnam' s information and communication technology sector...

Lucent and Telefonica have reached a strategic agreement under which Lucent will support Telefonica's IPTV service rollouts worldwide...

Nokia is set to strengthen its R&D in China by expanding its Chengdu R&D centre...

WiMAX is now commercially available in Algeria , while several operators in many Arab countries have started testing the service.

Norway has become concerned that draft rules to prevent foreign domination of Thai telecom operators could affect the rights and interests of foreign shareholders of Thai telecom firms...

Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the country's first High Speed Downlink Packet Access network...

Proof of Vodafone's new strategy towards emerging markets has come with the announcement that the company will be extending its Partner Network Agreement with the Baltic-based BITE Group...

The President & CEO of South Korean mobile operator KTF, Dr Young-Chu Cho, has been elected to the board of the GSM Association (GSMA).

The Arab Advisors Group is now completing its multi-client major survey of individual GSM users in Morocco .

US Government sources are confident that their approaches to the Chinese Government to allow phone companies to choose their own standard for 3G operations in China have been successful...

Russian alternative telecoms operator Synterra has announced the commercial launch of what is believed to be the first WiMAX network in Moscow .

Motorola's NC800 Cellular Gateway will be introduced into Latin America through a distribution agreement with Brightstar, a distribution and supply chain solution provider serving the wireless industry...

Nokia has won a radio network contract from Warid Telecom for the company's green-field operations in Bangladesh...

Following Developing Telecoms' recent story Globe Telecom signs agreement for launch of fastmobile, fastmobile is to develop a downloadable, mobile-to-mobile version of the popular instant messaging application Chikka Messenger...

Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited, one of Thailand's mobile phone service operators, has signed a deal with Nokia worth US$19 million to expand AIS's GSM network in the Northern, Central and Southern regions of Thailand...

Residents of Novokuznetsk in Siberia are to benefit from advanced network technology...

Alon Aginsky, President, CEO and founder of cVidya Networks, outlines his company's ambitions in emerging markets in view of the recent success of their MoneyMap solution in Panama...

Developing Telecoms recently published Francis Nyepon's account of the fate suffered by one of his country's key assets - the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation. Comments were welcomed by website and author alike. Telecoms consultant Denise Altey, who has worked in many developing countries, including Turkey and China , is a welcome contributor to the debate...

Philippines wireless service provider Smart Communications and Nokia have completed the first High Speed Data Packet Access (HSPDA) call in the country...

Fastmobile, which specialises in mobile integrated messaging and content solutions, has announced that Globe Telecom of The Philippines has selected its fmX (fastmobile Experience) technology as the platform for the new package of advanced value-added messaging services about to be launched.

Mobitel Slovenia is using Nokia's hosted Push to talk over Cellular solution for trials in its home market...

Ubiquitous availability, immediacy and ease of use feature high up in the list of reasons why Short Messaging Services are so important for businesses to get right. The findings come from a report by global mobile message carrier Clickatell, and by the Chief Marketing Officer Council...

Lucent has been selected by Telemar to supply and deploy solutions for the operator's network evolution...

The man believed to be the third richest in the world, Carlos Slim Helu, is to buy three Latin American telecoms operations from US carrier Verizon Communications...

UNI Telecom Global Union, in conjunction with UNI-Africa and the AFL-CIO Solidarity centre, has launched a UNI Mobile Telephone Networks Union Alliance with membership from communications unions in 10 African countries where the South African cellular network operates...

Dr Bashir Gwandu has asked Nigeria 's telecoms operators to take the initiative in introducing the latest technology into their operations...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is inviting tenders to supply enough mobile equipment to roll out 63.5 million lines.

Bangladesh has experience remarkable growth in telephony in the last four years. Prime mover has been the mobile sector.

Developing Telecoms receives many emails of support and obtains much of its information from experts working in telecoms world-wide. Here an official from Ethiopia updates us on the very latest situation there...

Landlines in Ethiopia are set for expansion as the result of investment by The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation which has announced the commencement of year-long contracts in the country.