Claiming that Cambodia's morality is not yet advanced enough to withstand the lures of pornographic videos on mobile telephones, Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 26 announced a 10-year ban on 3G technology. Esther McClaren, a writer with the Phnom Penh Post, the main English language newspaper in Cambodia brings us up to date with reactions locally and quotes from Developing Telecoms' publisher, Alec Barton...

Telephony, Internet, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, MENA: Arab telecom operators served 85 million cellular subscribers and 30 million fixed telephony lines in 2005. The Middle East and North Africa is a rapidly expanding market, as detailed in a new report.

Telephony, Romania, Serbia, Greece, CEE:  After more than two years of hesitating to make a decision, CosmoRom was taken over by Greece’s Cosmote and commercially re-launched on December 6 2005 under the new brand name Cosmote Romania. Developing Telecoms welcomes its new Central and Eastern Europe analyst Dr Nicolae Oacă, who fills in the gaps in a complex market.

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country‘s government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.

Internet, Africa:  Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa (Mobile technology + cellphone customer = African success), Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

Markets, Mobile, Africa: Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let us be blunt about it. It may be a case of “we knew you weren’t going to make it with independence and we’ve been proved right.” It may be a case of “Bad news alone sells newspapers” but on the whole there is little, rightly or wrongly, to be happy about. And then...

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.