A project to make ICT available at all times for pupils in schools in the emerging markets has received a major boost...

Earlier this year Developing Telecoms reported on the obstacle that was holding the country back from the wireless Internet. Now Cambodia can now look forward to 3G services.

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected an EMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut, Lebanon .

Last week Alcatel officially inaugurated its new IP Transformation Centre (IPTC) in Antwerp, the first of its type in Europe. Dr Nicolae Oaca took a break from covering the hectic 3G market in his native Romania to summarise developments.

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.

Mobile gambling revenues from the Asia-Pacific region are set to rise from US$966 million in 2006 to US$8.8 billion in 2011, according to a new report.

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

A recent report on African satellite markets from the London based newsletter Balancing Act strikes a cautious chord on the building of the East African Submarine Cable System. Michael Schwartz reviews their findings...

Mexico is proving to be one of the world's most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico 's key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief.

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo yi ng.

Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia...

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).