The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

GSM penetration in Morocco topped the 40% mark last year - and yet some 80% of GSM users are still using payphone services for national calls.

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

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

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

Jordan stands on the cusp of a milestone year for its already successful broadband sector...

The Middle East and Africa 's largest fixed line operator is set to replace 12 of its billing systems with replacements from Convergys Corporation...

Despite the liberalisation of the Internet market in Yemen , the Arab Advisors Group believes that this market has high entry barriers...

Morocco 's national ICT strategy must aim at reducing the digital divide and propelling the Kingdom into the ranks of the leading members of the digital society.

Nokia has won a managed services contract from "du" (a new participant in the growing United Arab Emirates (UAE) market) whereby it is to supply the entire core and a large proportion of the radio network for GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA 3G...

Turkish satellite operator Turksat has ordered its sixth communications satellite from France' s Alcatel...

Algeria' s rising demand for telephony has created a new opportunity for the country's major mobile operator. Orascom Telecom has teamed up with its fellow Egyptian company Telecom Egypt to set up Consortium Algerien de Telecommunication and run Algeria' s second fixed-line system.

Declaring that it is ready for competition with Etisalat, Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company (EITC, UAE's second telecommunications operator) has announced that it will launch mobile phone services in the second half of this year, and will aim for 30% market share within three years...

Propelled to new heights by competition, GSM lines in Saudi Arabia grew by 44.8% rate in the first eleven months of 2005 to reach 13.3 million. Fixed line, however, grew by a meagre 2.5% in the first nine months of 2005.

Andrew Corporation has won a strategic multiyear contract from a Tier 1 operator in the Middle East for a major geolocation system deployment...

The Arab world's largest communications network is set to overhaul its customer services. Convergys has signed a contract with Saudi Telecom Company, which provides mobile, landline, data, and Internet services...

Openmind Networks is deploying its SMS personalisation system called My SMS with the Bahrain Telecommunications Company. My SMS enables Batelco to introduce innovative solutions to its customers by offering them new, value-added services based on the most successful non-voice service to date, namely, SMS...

Kuwaiti owned Mobile Telecommunications Company Group (MTC), the largest GSM operator in the region, is to bid for the third GSM licence in Egypt . Mohamed Eid, MTC Country Manager Egypt, has stressed the advantage of winning the contract: employment opportunities for many Egyptians based on a high-quality local labour force.

Wataniya Telecom today opened the first High Speed Downlink Packet Access network in the Middle East and Africa region, thereby making it the first operator in these two areas to offer mobile services beyond 3G.

Turkey' s largest mobile communications operator, Turkcell, has selected Visto Corporation's Mobile with ConstantSync technology to deliver mass-market push mobile email services to a customer's wireless device of choice...

Motorola has settled its financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation has selected Nokia to supply the first Push to talk over Cellular network solution in the United Arab Emirates...