Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 09 March 2009; 9233 views

Mobile operator Zain is present in 22 countries. It has just released its 2008 results, and is reporting great strides in key performance indicators. For example, its active customer total is up to 63.5 million, 50% over 2007, its consolidated revenues are up 26% to US$7.44 billion and EBITDA is up 15% to US$2.78 billion...

Details: Category: Regulation; 02 March 2009; 7975 views

A milestone in the development of WiMAX has just been acheived, with the WiMAX Forum granting the WiMAX Forum Certified seal of approval to Mobile WiMAX 3.5GHz products for the first time...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 25 February 2009; 12680 views

Fast-growing mobile markets in Eastern Europe such as Russia are rapidly shifting the make-up of Europe's mobile operator market, according to new research by Wireless Intelligence. The new data reveals that major operator groups in the region - most notably the Russian-based operators MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon - are now accumulating customer bases that rank among the largest in Europe...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 February 2009; 10087 views

New York-based Access Markets International has been predicting where small and medium businesses will be spending the most money. The company identifies China, Korea, and India as the top three markets...

Details: Dawn M. Hogh, Vice President Marketing, Veraz Networks; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2009; 12148 views

Asia-Pacific is already the world's most dynamic market for mobile telecommunications services and providers need a way to manage the rapidly increasing cross-operator traffic they handle but also to enable and support voice and data roaming services. Veraz Networks' IP Packet eXchange (IPX) offers an architecture for interconnecting GSM and CDMA mobile operators, fixed networks and application service providers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 February 2009; 10333 views

Despite the anticipated cautious spending on Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines, IDC predicts that specific pockets of opportunities will exist...

Details: Category: Regulation; 14 January 2009; 9321 views

The board of the GSMA, the global body for the mobile industry, has elected Alexander Izosimov, the Group Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom, as its new Chairman for a two-year term. As Chairman, he will help oversee the strategic direction of the GSMA, which represents more than 750 mobile operators worldwide. Bill Hague, Executive Vice President of AT&T, was elected as Deputy Chairman...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 12 January 2009; 12504 views

With the advent of new operators and increased competition in 2008, cellular subscribers in 19 Arab countries reached 194.533 million. AlJawal and MobiNil sustained their top rankings inthe region with 17.8 million and 16.3 million subscribers respectively. Vodafone ended the period with 15.2 million subscribers, settling as the third largest mobile operator in the region...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 12 January 2009; 8903 views

How do we ensure access to the internet is a human right enjoyed by everyone? This is one of the critical questions asked by an annual publication that highlights the importance of people's access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure - and where and how countries are getting it right or wrong, and what can be done about it.

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 December 2008; 8575 views

Whatever the current economic crisis, IDC is still predicting pockets of opportunity within Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) next year. Developing Telecoms summarises a thought-provoking and insightful set of forecasts.

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 December 2008; 10247 views

In the light of recession, IDC has revised its forecast for IT growth in the EMEA region from 4.5% to 3%. Even after this revision EMEA compares favourably with the 1.2% growth IDC forecasts for Western Europe. There may also be “silver linings” to help growth...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 December 2008; 9109 views

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications for the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced her country's intention to implement market liberalisation and regulatory reforms so as to enable more effective delivery of mission-critical satellite, wireless, and fibre-based telecommunication solutions to citizens throughout the nation...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 10206 views

Whether you measure in US$ or local currency, increases of 32% and 20.5% respectively ensured that Bulgaria's IT spending soared last year. IDC believes that the rise is due to a number of favourable economic criteria. And there will be more over the next five years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 9781 views

Millicom International Cellular has been successful in the tender for the third national mobile licence in Rwanda against three other bidders. Millicom will hold 87.5% of the equity in a newly created joint venture company in partnership with Marathon Corporation, an established local company with numerous business interests in Rwanda...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 December 2008; 10044 views

Liberalisation in MENA will create opportunities and will entice new entrants into this market, according to Analysys Mason in a new report looking five years into the future. The award of a third 2G licence in Morocco typifies the region's good news...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 December 2008; 12224 views

The ITU's recent high-level meeting on ICT trends aimed to strengthen cybersecurity and mitigate climate change. Present were the Presidents of Burkina Faso and Rwanda...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 November 2008; 9700 views

Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East saw an increase of no less than 47% for the last year-on-year figures available. Informa Telecoms & Media will shine a spotlight on the region at a forthcoming event in Dubai...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 25 November 2008; 11597 views

Vodafone's African shopping trip shows no sign of abating in the face of the global financial crisis, according to Jeremy Green, Mobile Practice Leader at Ovum. Last week, the company announced that it had achieved its long-held ambition to take a controlling stake in Vodacom, the South African mobile operator in which it held a 50% share...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 November 2008; 10849 views

In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 10 November 2008; 10830 views

Albania's IT market continued to grow solidly in 2007, fueled by increased spending in the government, finance, and telecom sectors, by falling equipment prices and by favourable economic development. This is according to a recent IDC study, which concludes that Albania's IT market reached US$89.34 million in 2007, representing 28.3% year-on-year growth. In local currency, the market expanded 16.3% year on year...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 November 2008; 10275 views

The Romanian PC market continued to grow at a fast pace in 2Q08 in terms of both shipments and value, albeit not as rapidly as in previous quarters. According to the latest data from IDC, shipments grew 29.3% year on year, while the value of the market expanded year on year by 23.3%...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 November 2008; 10439 views

The Serbian IT market increased 30% year on year in US Dollars in 2007, fueled by a growing economy, structural reforms, privatisation, tax cuts, and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a recent IDC study, total spending on hardware, software, and IT services in Serbia reached almost US$751 million in 2007...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11067 views

A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10169 views

Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11602 views

Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 October 2008; 10161 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 October 2008; 10559 views

The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 October 2008; 10489 views

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Humanitarian Comms; 01 October 2008; 10776 views

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 9594 views

A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 11473 views

Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 22 September 2008; 11836 views

ITU launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU Telecom Asia 2008, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 September 2008; 11146 views

From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 16 September 2008; 8867 views

According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region...

Humanitarian Comms Article Count: 247

Operators Article Count: 3078

Vendors Article Count: 522

Regulation Article Count: 1970

Investment Article Count: 687

Trends & Forecasts Article Count: 932

2014 Trends Article Count: 51

2015 Trends Article Count: 45

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