Markets, Telephony, Rural, Bangladesh, Asia-Pacific: IFC, World Bank’s private sector arm, has cast its critical eye over the well-known Grameen Telecom Village phone scheme (you know, the phone ladies in Bangladesh). It has identified what it calculates as a US$5 trillion business plan when translated globally. We explain why...

Internet, Broadband, Qatar, MENA: Qatar's broadband boom is continuing apace. Broadband accounts grew by 90% in 2006 and now make up two thirds of all Qatari accounts. In recent months authorisation has been given for the liberalisation of Qatar’s markets. Advisors Group is weighing up the opportunities...

Analysis, Markets, Mobile, Africa: Investing in African mobile, despite its success in the last few years, still poses challenges to the unprepared. Called simply Mobile Africa, the latest report from Research and Markets looks at a highly exciting trend over the next five years. Economic, social and financial consequences are analysed for 51 African countries.

Analysis, Mobile, Markets, Revenue, Asia-Pacific: Asia-Pacific remains a high-growth mobile market (61.3% of last year’s revenue) at a time when cellular is fast approaching worldwide saturation. India and China are key to this. Analysis to support this view comes from consultants Frost & Sullivan in its report Benchmarking of Service Providers in Asia-Pacific.