At the end of March 2010 there were 53.3mn subscribers in the Saudi mobile market, according to market data published by the CITC...

Global mobile subscriptions will reach over six billion by the end of this year and the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than half of the worldwide figure in 2011...

Nigeria's mobile market saw a surprise contraction of the mobile subscriber base during the three months to June 30 2011...

The social, economic and environmental benefits of ICT are the subject of Ericsson and Arthur D. Little’s Networked Society Index, which ranks 25 of the world's largest cities according to their ability to implement ICTs to this end. Several BRIC cities are faring well, with Shanghai and Beijing ranking in the top 10...

Boosted adoption rates have seen mobile subscriber numbers on the rise in Iraq...

Mobile health services will soon be made available in large sections of rural Africa following the announcement of an agreement between healthcare firm Sanlam Health and systems integrator GlobeTOM...

Although fixed-line is declining, Bangladesh’s burgeoning mobile market has witnessed healthy growth...

Developing Telecoms' Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at the measures African operators will need to adopt in order to cope with the widespread adoption of smartphones across the continent...

Orange won the “Best New Service” award at the AfricaCom Awards 2011...

The latest vendor to be targeted by Microsoft for royalty payments is the Chinese firm Huawei, according to new reports...

The secretary of India’s Department of Telecoms has expressed his belief – and wish – that new regulations encouraging consolidation in the country’s mobile market will be introduced by the end of 2011...

An Iraqi operator has secured financing for a network upgrade, allowing it to improve the quality of services it provides to customers across Iraq as well as to accommodate ongoing growth in subscriber numbers to its network...

The leading pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has invested US$32 million into IHS, a leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider...

On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications company, to immediately end its business in Iran...

In the last two years, Huawei and ZTE secured a total of at least USD55 billion in credit facility from Chinese policy banks to support their expansion into overseas markets...

“ITU Telecom World 2011 sets new paradigm for top-level networking and knowledge-sharing”. So said the announcement at the end of ITU Telecom World 2011 – but does it really? And what exactly was new about the paradigm for top level networking and knowledge sharing in Geneva?

Reports that France Telecom-Orange could be expanding into the Democratic Republic of Congo via a takeover of Congo Chine Telecom have proven to be true...

Ericsson and Sony have announced that Sony will acquire Ericsson’s 50 percent stake in Sony Ericsson, making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony...

A new eHealth initiative has been piloted in Kenya. The Def Aid Mobile Hearing Clinic, situated in Nairobi’s Kawangware slum, has implemented Cisco’s care-at-a distance technology in conjunction with Deaf Aid and Safaricom, with support from Nairobi’s Menelik Hospital...

The Indian state-owned operator BSNL has shunned calls from the regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) to restore connections that it has deliberately disrupted...

Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011...

Although the first three quarters of 2011 have been stable for China Mobile, a statement from the world’s largest operator acknowledge that there were still many factors which “posed challenges to the group” going forward, such as market saturation in China and the advent of new technologies...

Information and communication are at the heart of any modern business, and thanks to advances in technology these two previously disparate areas have begun to blur into one, creating what has become known as Information Communication Technology...

Political upheavals notwithstanding, Côte d’Ivoire has benefited from sophisticated developments in its telecom sector - and a short-term misstep is unlikely to upset a long term trend towards growth...

India’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) has previously cautioned local operators against importing telecoms equipment, both for security reasons and as a means of securing business for Indian vendors...

Three of India’s leading operators may be fined by the country’s Department of Telecoms after an agreement between them was ruled illegal...

India’s government has detailed the much-anticipated changes to be made to the country’s telecoms regulation...

South Africa's mobile market leaders, Vodacom and MTN, are experiencing an impressive comeback following a massive loss of mobile customers in H209 and H110...

Kenya has long been one of the most prosperous telecoms markets in Africa, and while saturation looms, short-term growth will remain strong...

The findings of a new research programme intended to measure the impact of mobile communications on the lives and prosperity of farming communities in some of the world's poorest countries have been announced...

Based on operator figures from the first half of 2011, Thailand’s mobile market has performed more positively than might have been expected...

Subscriber growth in Ghana has exceeded expectations in the face of mandatory SIM registration and mobile number portability...

The world's newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union's 193rd Member State...