Education, Notebooks, Nigeria, Africa: A project to make ICT available at all times for pupils in schools in the emerging markets has received a major boost.

3G, Mobile, Cambodia, Asia-Pacific: Earlier this year Developing Telecoms reported on the obstacle that was holding the country back from the wireless Internet. Now Cambodia can now look forward to 3G services.

News, Disaster Management, Lebanon, MENA: Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected an EMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut, Lebanon.

Television, Applications, Mobile, Vietnam, Asia-Pacific: Mobile TV services will be rolled out in Vietnam by the end of this year.

Regulation, Content, TV, Middle East, MENA: The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Satellite, Iran, MENA: 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.

Regulation, Telephony, Cable TV, Mexico, CLA: Mexico is proving to be one of the world’s most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico’s key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

Licensing, GSM, Kenya, Sierra Leone, MENA: The Kenyan Government has announced its decision to grant international gateway licences to the country’s two leading mobile operators.

Economics, privatisation, telecoms, Botswana: Botswana’s Public Enterprises Evaluation and Privatisation Agency will sell between 40% and 49% of the state-owned Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC).

Education, ICT, Africa, MENA: Bill Gates recently took the opportunity of the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Africa 2006 to announce his company’s plan to train 45 million African citizens in ICT over the next four years.

Training, Education, Wi-Fi, Mobile, Paraguay, CLA: Progress towards making mobile Wi-Fi a widespread reality in Paraguay advanced via a training and implementation workshop held recently.