Bharti Airtel has announced that it will expand its African operations into Rwanda, bringing to 17 the total number of African countries where it is present...

By some measures Vietnam is still in a comparatively early stage of its telecommunications development, but for some years now the country has been aggressively expanding its national infrastructure and growing its subscriber bases across all market segments...

Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) has responded to requests from its two potential buyers to extend the deadline for submitting a bid...

Two of the major industry players attempting to bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide have expressed their wish for the submission deadline to be extended...

The Libyan Investment Authority’s international telecommunications arm LAP GreenN has filed court papers challenging the Zambian Government’s action to seize its 75% share in Zamtel...

As a means of combating churn, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications is reportedly planning on limiting the number of SIM cards that any one customer is able to register, with the maximum set at three per network...

Following the news that Etisalat will cease operations in India, reports are claiming that the UAE-based firm is looking to withdraw from Indonesia by selling its stake in local operator PTXL Axiata...

Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility is still awaiting clearance following the extension of the investigation into the deal by the relevant Chinese authorities...

The Indian mobile subscriber market has demonstrated strong growth in the past decade or so, but when it comes to the adoption of mobile data services, the results are more mixed...

The UAE-based telecom giant Etisalat has confirmed that it will bring a close to its involvement in India, shutting down its operations in the country on March 31^st...

A major Malaysian WiMAX operator has outlined its plans for expanding into fibre broadband and LTE...

The future of Indian joint venture Uninor hangs in balance as one of the partners has been ordered to make a decision regarding its involvement by March 19^th...

Speculation that Turkcell was seeking to acquire a stake in Bulgarian operator Vivacom have been confirmed by the Turkish operator...

Despite its growth opportunities, the Vietnamese telecoms industry remains relatively unattractive in the short term due to the dominance of state-owned entities in a highly competitive landscape...

As the telecommunications sector is growing rapidly, broadband communication is also surging across India...

Tajikistan’s telecommunications infrastructure was arguably the least developed of all the former Soviet republics...

The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed. This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the industry’s main opportunity every year to trumpet the achievements of mobile communications, great as these undoubtedly are. Indeed it has long been our belief that mobile phones are right up there with the Honda 125cc moped and Penicillin as technologies having the greatest transformative effect on the lives of people in the developing world...

High levels of taxation being placed on the mobile sector by governments are leading to an infrastructure investment deficit, according to ITU Secretary General Dr Hamadoun Touré...

In a statement which stunned listening analysts and journalists alike, ITU Secretary General Dr Hamadoun Touré announced the end of the Arab Spring during a round table at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to Touré the end will officially come at the ITU Connect Arab States Summit, due to take place in Doha on March 5-7 2012...

Africa's journey into the age of the Knowledge Economy and telephonic communication has, until recently, been a laborious and slow process, all the while the rest of the world’s usage has only but boomed...

Indian market leader Bharti Airtel has reported a fall in profit over Q411 despite healthy growth across its African operations...

The net income of Latin American telecom giant America Movil dropped in Q411 despite a rise in revenues...

Although growth slowed significantly in 2009, Kazakhstan has been experiencing a booming telecom market that included almost 100% mobile penetration by early 2010...

India’s cancellation of 2G licences continues to shake up its telecom sector, with Middle Eastern firm Batelco announcing that it will sell its stake in the Indian operator STel...

LTE has now become the de facto standard of choice for the evolution of wireless networks in Latin America. Although adoption rates have typically been faster in North America, where the regulatory environment is perhaps more amenable to rapid growth, most major operators in Latin America have at least trialled the technology...

UAE telecoms giant Etisalat has reported a drop in profit after downgrading the value of its Indian operations following the country’s blanket cancellation of GSM licences...

In less than seven years Bhutan has moved from having no mobile phones to claiming 60% mobile penetration. Over this period the annual growth in mobile subscribers has reached in excess of 100%...

According to reports, North Korea’s mobile subscriber figures have doubled in the past year, surpassing 1 million users...

In a shock development, the Indian Supreme Court has annulled all of the country’s 122 2G licences due concerns over the legitimacy of the 2008 licensing process. It is claimed that, under the leadership of disgraced former telecoms minister A Raja, the licences were sold not on a first-come-first served basis rather than as part of a competitive auction – losing the government revenue worth billions of dollars...

Latin America’s leading wireless services provider, America Movil, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide infrastructure for its LTE/4G network rollout across the continent...

The Indian mobile handset market closed 2011 with an annual growth rate of 14.1%, achieving a total volume of 182 million handsets...

A service provider which specialises in emerging markets has extended its mobile services contract with the leading mobile operator in Kosovo...