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ICT is a core enabler to education globally. Incorporating technology solutions into education in developing countries in Africa can ensure that students are internationally competitive in a digitally driven economy...

With the BRICS countries seeking cooperation on areas as diverse as a BRICS development bank, green energy, ICTs, food security and biotechnology, a free flow of information between each territory is essential for the enhancement of trade...

Three Baltic countries will soon have access to high quality mobile broadband, boasting superior data speeds and improved coverage...

Angola’s telecom sector is becoming increasingly liberalised with the advent of greater competition...

Croatia’s first commercial LTE services are now available to subscribers in the cities of Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek and Split...

With stable GDP growth of around 5% p.a., a high population density and a high growth rate in a low-penetration mobile market, Burundi is one of the most attractive African telecom markets for investors, despite the fact that it is also one of the world’s poorest countries...

In Africa, fixed-line operators are considered dead in the water. Mobile took over and flourished, meaning that fixed-line was essentially written off – operators struggle to stay relevant with 100,000 subscribers in countries with populations of 20 million people. While many have looked to privatisation, there are still opportunities for a huge number of African fixed-line operators due to one key factor – many have exclusivity on the national backbone...

A new agreement will provide buyers of Android phones in India with free airtime...

Google’s Android OS has affirmed its dominance in the Chinese smartphone market, with the number of devices running the OS more than doubling in 2011...

A new roaming service will allow Tanzanian subscribers to use their mobile phones freely across nine African countries...

Thailand’s state-owned operator TOT is upgrading its 3G networks to HSPA+, which will improve mobile broadband services for its 7.2 million subscribers...

The volume of traffic traversing networks today is rising faster than revenues, sending operators’ revenue per bit spiraling downward. The really bad news, however, is that it doesn’t look like the situation is going to improve anytime soon...

India’s first 4G network is scheduled to go live later this month, with the market-leading operator Bharti Airtel launching services in Kolkata...

Remote and rural areas of the Congo will soon have access to GSM mobile and fixed telephony services via a new partnership. The pan-African satellite operator RascomStar QAF will deliver the services via its VSAT terminals in conjunction with IPX Extenso...

The Czech Republic and Slovakia are key growth markets within Central Europe; exports are the driving force behind both countries’ economies and foreign trade turnover is steadily growing in both markets...

GDP per capita in Gabon is well above the African average, with the country’s oil revenues make it one of the wealthiest nations in the continent - although a distorted income distribution and poor social indicators are evident...

A new money transfer service launching in Uganda will allow subscribers of one of the country’s leading operators to send and receive money across borders using just their mobile phones...

Kenyan market leader Safaricom is threatening to discontinue its involvement in the construction of an LTE network if the country’s government insists that the deployment uses the 2.6GHz frequency band...

The first CDMA Windows Phone to go on sale in China is being readied for launch...

As technology has advanced, applications and technology solutions have increasingly been built using open systems. This has made it possible to connect disparate security solutions on a single security management platform easily and cost effectively...

South Africa’s first open and public peering facility with a national presence is now live, running from data centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban...

The Middle East and India will soon share a connection via a major international cable network...

Reports from news outlets in Uganda are claiming that the African mobile giant MTN has lost billions of Ugandan shillings through fraudulent use of its mobile money service...

The head of one of Somalia’s largest telecommunications firms has been accused by the United Nations Security Council of financing a terrorist cell with links to Al-Qaeda via hawalas, an informal system for transferring money...

Mobile broadband boasting speeds of up to 100Mbps will soon be available in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is upgrading its nationwide GSM and 3G networks, as well as expanding its commercial 4G network...

Budding Zimbabwean app developers will see their unique ideas for SMS-based mobile applications launched to more than three quarters of the country’s 7.7 million mobile subscribers...

This year will almost certainly see China overtake the US to become the largest smartphone market in the world...

Tangible results are steadily becoming apparent for a number of environmental initiatives spearheaded by one of Africa’s most prolific operators...

One of Saudi Arabia’s leading operators is deploying dedicated M2M services – a first for the Middle East...

Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance, easy-to-use model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks...

A major operator in the Maldives is deploying a service monitoring and network troubleshooting solution across its network...

A major Nigerian operator is deploying backhaul solutions across its network as part of a major expansion...

A new 3G mobile broadband network is launching in Ecuador to meet the rising demand for mobile broadband connectivity across the country...