About Developing Telecoms

Friday, 01 January 2010 00:00  |  Alec Barton

Developing Telecoms is the industry leading on-line information portal covering communications technology, business, markets, new products and services in emerging and developing markets world-wide.

We started Developing Telecoms back in 2005 because we believe passionately that improved access to communications is the most effective way to improve living standards in developing markets.

We also observe that the greatest and most sustainable advances in this field have been made not by government intervention but through private enterprise.

The areas we cover

Africa, Asia (excluding Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Singapore), the Carribean, Central & Eastern Europe, Central & Latin America and the Middle East.

Over 95% of new network connections are in these places. By 2015 over 5 billion people will be connected to voice or internet services - two and half times more than in 2008. The vast majority of these new connections will be wireless.

Our four key principles

Free at the point of use: Developing Telecoms does not charge for access to any of the information held on the site. We do this because we recognise that access charges are unaffordable for the people we serve in developing and emerging markets

Focused: Developing Telecoms reports exclusively on new products and services and market developments which directly relate to emerging and developing markets.

Objective and impartial: Developing Telecoms operates independently from any company, trade association, government agency, event organiser or other body. When we sponsor or endorse any product or service we do so because we believe it holds genuine interest or value to site users. When we publish articles which have been supplied by sponsors or advertisers we make this clear.

On-line: Developing Telecoms is an exclusively on-line service. As the world goes mobile, developing and emerging markets should share in the benefits rapid communications brings.

Support us

Developing Telecoms receives no support from development agencies and is entirely funded by sponsorship and advertising. If you learn about new products, services, techniques and developments through the site please be sure to tell the supplier so they will be encouraged to support us.

If you are interested in talking directly to our audience click here to visit our advertising and sponsorship section.