ITU Telecom Europe 2007 was set to be one of ITU’s prestige events, choosing Bulgaria as its venue to demonstrate the organisation’s trust in developing markets...

Opinion, ICT, Competition, Brunei, Asia-Pacific: Brunei must not fall behind in a globalised and highly competitive world. And ICT is the lever to keep up with the pace. Brunei Communications Mininster Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abu Bakar took this as his theme when addressing CSPS-UBD Policy Forum 2007. Minister Bakar's key conclusions are ...

Viewpoint, Health, ICT, Global: Lord Crisp, the former Chief Executive of the UK’s National Health Service, has spoken out in favour of the UK placing emphasis on ICT as a means of helping health services in developing countries. Contributing to a Global Health Partnerships report, Lord Crisp highlights the lack of attention being paid to this highly valuable resource.

Opinion, Markets, GSM, Telephony, Regulation, Global: The incumbent international gateway monopoly business model is past its sell-by date; governments should liberalise this market immediately and all stakeholders will benefit. This forceful assertion is the conclusion of Tom Phillips, Chief Government & Regulatory Affairs Officer to the GSM Association.

According to the ITU 45,000 exhibition visitors attended ITU Telecom World. But how many were from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Europe? It seems many exhibitors felt not enough to justify the cost of participating. Telecom returns to Geneva in 2009. But has the day of mega-events passed, or has a rival event taken Telecom's place?

Viewpoint, VoIP, Telephony, UAE, MENA: Developing-market observers are very often impressed with the way that Middle Eastern countries have shown the greatest enthusiasm for implementing telecoms technologies. One recent disappointment, however, concerns the termination of Skype telephony in the United Arab Emirates. Developing Telecoms attempts to set out the background to this action, and to find out the reasons for it.

Feedback is increasing sharply at Developing Telecoms - thank you to all concerned! This, following on from our on-going Digital Divide Special Focus, comes from the Head of Technical Standards at the Ministry of Communications in Abuja, Nigeria.  It argues that capacity building needs to be centred on schools.  Short and to the point, we couldn't agree more.