The government of Nigeria has updated its broadband ambitions, aiming to increase penetration from 30% by 2020 to 70% by 2021, though most connections will be via mobile networks.
Today, 80% of women across low- and middle-income countries own a mobile phone, according to the latest findings the GSMA.
South Africa has a highly competitive mobile market with four operators looking to grow their market shares through extensive investment in advanced networks.
According to a new reports from the Canalys market research firm, Indonesia was the brightest spot in Asia Pacific’s 2018 smartphone market. Shipments there reached a record high of 38 million in the year, up 17.1% on 2017.
Nokia's annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index study of mobile broadband performance in India reveals that the increase in the consumption of data across the country led to overall growth of data traffic by 109%, with 4G technology constituting 92% of this growth.
Guatemala is outperforming its regional peers in terms of mobile penetration, according to data and analytics firm GlobalData.
Before the end of this month, the US is expected to request the formal extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou from Canada.
In terms of Internet access, Papua New Guinea has traditionally lagged other nations in terms of access and penetration, according to Research and Markets.
Senegal's economic growth has improved steadily in recent years, with GDP having grown at about 7% in 2017 and 2018.
After many years of war and civil strife, an encouraging aspect of Afghanistan’s efforts to rebuild has been the considerable success evident in the creating of a functional telecommunications sector virtually from nothing.
The GSMA has released a new report, authored by EY, detailing how tax reforms in Ecuador’s mobile sector would significantly benefit the country’s wider economy and promote social inclusion.
Emerging markets now make up the majority of the world's top ten smartphone markets.
Research and Markets’ latest reports examine the Indian subcontinent, with India and Pakistan’s telecom industries in the spotlight.
Mobile penetration in Malawi remains low in comparison to the regional average and so there are considerable opportunities for further growth - particularly in the mobile broadband sector, reports Research & Markets.
The director general of the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has claimed that competitive pricing in the market is unsustainable to the point that the country’s operators will make losses for at least the next three quarters.
Sudan has a relatively well-equipped telecommunications infrastructure by regional standards, including a national fibre optic backbone and international fibre connections, notes Research & Markets in its latest report.
The Zambian government’s focus on developing ICTs to spur growth in the digital economy is delivering on its promise, according to a new report from Research & Markets.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) is one of Africa’s least developed markets but progress is underway, according to a new report from Research & Markets.
Sri Lanka's telecoms sector is making significant progress in its IoT ventures, according to Research & Markets.
The role that 5G technology will play in the Indian market is the subject of a new report from Research and Markets.
Better spectrum pricing policies are needed in developing countries to improve the economic and social welfare of the billions of people that remain unconnected to mobile broadband services, according to a new GSMA report.
A new report commissioned by the UN has found that broadband uptake in some of the least economically developed countries in the world has been slowed by a number of societal factors, despite good progress in the deployment of infrastructure.
Uruguay has taken the top spot on BuddeComm’s Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index (TMI).
Mauritius is leading Africa in terms of telecoms maturity, according to a new index launched by research firm BuddeComm.
Throughout 2017, Latin America saw a 6.1% year-on-year increase in fixed broadband deployments, reaching a regional total of 72.4 million connections.
Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has said in an interview that he expects India to be one of the first countries to see 5G rollouts as the “explosion of data is massive” in the market.
The GSMA has published a global report that examines whether mobile phones make people happy: it finds, with caveats, that they do.
Digitally ambitious enterprises across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are betting big on IoT solutions.
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, the Nigerian handset market grew by a modest 6% in Calendar Year 2017.
The Indian market witnessed a paradigm shift in data consumption, with 4G traffic capturing 82% share of total data traffic in December 2017.
India’s overall online smartphone shipments grew 23% annually, faster than the overall smartphone market in Calendar Year 2017.
Research House eMarketer’s latest analysis presents a deep dive into mobile consumer behaviour and global marketing trends.
China’s Big Three operators have collectively surpassed 1 billion 4G subscribers following a combined 25 million additions in December 2017.
LTE roaming in Africa took off in 2017, according to an authoritative new report from BICS.
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