News that Telecom Egypt is to offer triple play services over a new fibre-optic cable network is one of several indicators that Egypt is a market undergoing a major transition - in the right direction. Analysis by Michael Schwartz.
Aastra Telecom South Africa, a leading company in the enterprise communication market, has finalised its Sub Sahara African partner programme for launch as part of an expansion plan into the sub-Saharan region...
The World Bank Group has endorsed a $215 million, ten-year Central African Backbone Program which aims to bring rapid affordable internet to the region...
Report Buyer has added a market report Indian Mobile Market Dynamics and Forecast: 2008-2013, which estimates growth in mobile subscriptions for Indian mobile to rise by 20% per year compound. Low-income users are likely to be major beneficiaries...
Cisco's Broadband Barometer (22nd edition) shows that fixed broadband connections grew 10.4 % in the first semester of 2009, in comparison with the same period last year...
After years of under-performance, Laos is on the way to economic growth. The mobile sector is attracting investment for many reasons including supplying telecoms to successful hydro-electric and mining projects...
The deadline for bids for Nigerian telecoms incumbent, NITEL, has been pushed back from today to the end of October. Onda Analytics believes the complexity of the opportunity, resulting from the difficult situation NITEL has found itself in, is to blame for this delay...
Trading conditions relating to fixed-line services provided by Bahamas Telecommunications Company make for very depressing reading: a drop of 80% over the four years to the end of 2008. Only increased rental charges have have reduced the losses sustained...
Iran has witnessed the privatisation of its state-monopoly Iranian Telecommunications Company. US$8 billion passed hands as a consortium dominated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard makes its presence felt in the country’s telecoms sector...
Following the recent highly negative report from Companies and Markets, iKS-Consulting, a specialist Central and Eastern European ICT research organisation has provided a much more up-beat assessment of the market in Ukraine. Revenue in telecoms grew over three and a half times from 2003 to 2008 and Internet access and satellite TV will deliver future growth...
Michael Schwartz looks at the graph of Internet usage in Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009, recently issued by the Asian Development Bank. Only 16 out of 47 countries surveyed have an Internet rate of 20% or more. The Digital Divide is still a major issue in this region...
Ukraine Telecommunications Report Q3 2009 - a new market research report from Companies and Markets - is one of the most critical this site has ever summarised. A political background of unrest, possibly the worst recession anywhere in the world and the worst risk rating of any country in the region are key explanations...
In this sponsored review of Tadiran Telecom’s recent expansion in Africa, the company reflects on its role - existing and potential - in boosting telecoms availability in several countries including Kenya and Rwanda...
Orascom, the company which bought into North Korea's new 3G market, has reported that customers for Orascom 3G more than doubled in 2Q09. The company has a 75% share in Koryolink, the sole cellular network open to individual customers...
Bids for Nigeria's state-run telecoms company Nitel are being received from both local and international firms. There appears to be a sticking-point in that the Nigerian Government will give priority to those bidding for the entire Nitel enterprise although the key asset and therefore target is the MTEL mobile division...
Ovum’s new report, "3G spectrum licensing in India", outlines a number of issues which have caused auction delay, unresolved issues clouding future outlook and several contentious issues still to be resolved. For the author 3G spectrum auction is unlikely to attract additional new players or entice most of the new 2G licensees to participate...
With a fixed-line penetration rate of 21%, Chile can now boast the highest such rate in Latin America. The newest report from Companies and Markets covers a variable market where fixed-line is successful but broadband has to date been disappointing in terms of growth...
Followers of the problems challenging the Egyptian mobile operator Mobinil and its would-be purchaser France Telecom will be aware of the coverage Developing Telecoms has given to this long-running saga...
According to the Times of India, rumours are circulating that the group of Indian Ministers with responsibility for allocating 3G spectrum will be confining the bids to just four new players...
Reports from China Knowledge and SinoCast Daily Business both indicate that 3G deployment in China is continuing faster than predicted by the three licencee companies. China Telecom appears to be enjoying a clear advantage over China Mobile and China Unicom...
Indonesia is set for huge growth in 3G service uptake over the next five years, and operators are taking creative steps to build out that subscriber base, according to the latest forecast data and analysis from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network...
Iraq is now the most competitive Arab cellular market. This year’s Cellular Competition Intensity Index, instituted by Arab Advisors Group, reveals that Jordan (most competitive market in 2007 and 2008) has come in second...
London-based firm Companies and Markets have released a new report entitled 'Cuba - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband' which profiles the fixed-line, mobile and broadband markets in Cuba. The report notes that Cuba has the lowest mobile penetration rate in Latin America and that government-controlled Etecsa and its subsidiary Cubacel monopolise fixed-line and mobile respectively...
The Asia-Pacific region will see huge numbers of cellular towers built over the next five years, with demand driven by the massive, rapid increase in mobile subscribers in China and India. By 2014, according to Cellular Base Station and Site Leasing Markets, a new study from ABI Research, the area will contain 39% of the world’s cell towers, in a Total Addressable Market worth nearly US$125 billion...
T-Hrvatski Telekom has released a review of its operations in Croatia,where it remains a key player in fixed-line and mobile. Fixed-line has experienced a minor decline as the company increases its role in Internet provision. Broadband technologies are proving successful with targets remaining ambitious...
The telecoms market seems rather quiet at present - with the exception of India. This review by Michael Schwartz looks at recent developments in this massive market and tries to identify some of the major current trends...
Analyst and forecaster Companies and Markets has recently turned its attention to the less-publicised markets in the Caribbean. Its profile of Haiti’s fixed line system can hardly be described as optimistic...
Azerfon, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in Azerbaijan, and Vodafone have announced a non-equity partnership to provide customers with “high quality communications services and to collaborate jointly on future technological developments”...
Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Gurudas Kamat updated his country’s Upper House of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha) regarding progress towards rural tele-density projects and penetration...
Operating 3G services in India’s capital Delhi and major city Mumbai may soon be possible now that Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, is inviting tenders to run these operations on a ten-year franchise...
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