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One of the largest operators in Niger has installed a wireless ‘fronthaul’ solution, providing a connection between the base station and the network antenna through a wireless link...

The first phase of a major submarine cable connecting Africa to Europe is now operational...

Civil unrest following disputed presidential elections led to a contraction of Cote d'Ivoire's economy in 2011, but GDP growth is expected to rebound to 8% in 2012 with a stable outlook...

One of India’s major national operators is implementing a solution to provide real time subscription services for 2G and 3G subscribers including dynamic policy-based service offerings and a state-of-the-art service monitoring solutions on cloud...

Rising smartphone ownership in Africa is driving demand for high-bandwidth mobile data services such as video calling and online gaming...

A new partnership is aiming to foster women’s entrepreneurship in the African mobile financial services industry...

After just three days on sale in China, the iPhone 5 racked up sales of over 2 million, according to official sales figures published by Apple...

One the largest operators in Nigeria has successfully completed an LTE trial in the country’s capital city, Lagos...

The market-leading South African operator MTN has constructed its LTE network using equipment from Ericsson. This is the first commercial LTE network that the Swedish vendor has built in Africa. The launch comes after the pilot network has been running for more than a year...

The Costa Rican regulator Sutel is implementing new systems to analyse and benchmark the performance of the country’s mobile network infrastructure...

The first TD-SCDMA to use the Windows Phone operating system in China has been launched by Nokia and China Mobile...

Madagascar will soon have island-wide high-speed broadband and telephony services delivered by satellite...

Apple is more than doubling the number of countries in which it sells the iPhone 5, with the goal of adding “more than 50” markets to the current total of 47 by the end of this year...

The conversation around big data has taken many forms, but in the telecoms sector, it’s largely been seen as a challenge. For communications service providers (CSPs), more data has been equated with operational inefficiencies, such as issues with collecting and storing the information...

The largest mobile operator in Indonesia is introducing proactive monitoring to its network in order to predict, prevent, and prioritise network issues for its 121 million customers...

Recognising the need for customer-centric success measurements is crucial for the growth of mobile networks in developing markets, argues Arieso CTO, Dr. Michael Flanagan...

Six university students have been awarded with prizes for unique app idea as part of their final year projects, in an initiative spearheaded by South African operator Vodacom...

A new joint venture between one of the world’s largest operating groups and a major payments specialist will develop mobile payment solutions for Brazil...

A new solution targeted at application and software developers in Africa is being launched by Orange...

The market-leading Filipino operator is deploying a new HD voice service...

A major submarine cable network connecting Europe and Asia is being upgraded to 100G technology...

As part of Kenya’s highly successful mobile money scheme, users of Safaricom’s M-Pesa service now have access to interest-bearing saving accounts as well as the ability to take out small loans...

A leading internet service provider in Guinea-Conakry is expanding its broadband network from the capital city of Conakry to cover the entire country...

The South African ICT market is dynamic, strategic and growing fast...

A satellite service launching across South Sudan will provide wide reaching, high performance, satellite broadband Internet to unserved and underserved locations and communities across the country...

A new agreement will allow subscribers across Airtel’s entire African operation to send and receive money transfers over its network...

A new alliance between a major Middle Eastern operator and a data centre firm will establish the first world-class, carrier-neutral hub in the region...

Vietnamese users of Android and iOS phones now have access to a caller identification lookup application...

Many factors in the industry are now affecting policy and charging together. Operators are experiencing increasing pressure over their business models as they face decreasing revenues exacerbated by rising costs...

Sustaining network coverage in communities with unreliable grid power is a significant problem in emerging markets, with providers and vendors constantly looking for new ways of providing coverage without relying on diesel generators...

Bharti Airtel has announced an end-to-end network transformation program across its mobile operations in 16 African countries...

Coastguard services around St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been augmented by the introduction of a new Global Maritime Distress and Safety System...

Cloud services in the Philippines are to be enhanced following a new agreement for dedicated cloud infrastructure...