Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan, has partnered with Intelsat S.A to design and launch the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite at the 45 degrees East orbital position.

Next month’s Indian spectrum auctions have attracted 8 bidders.

Angolan operator Unitel has successfully demonstrated an end-to-end LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation solution in conjunction with Ericsson.

Facebook and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are teaming up to launch the social network’s internet.org app in India for the first time.

We live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi.

2015 will be the year service providers truly identify - and begin filling - the engagement void that exists between them and their customers.

VimpelCom has sold its majority stake in Omnium Telecom Algeria – previously known as Djezzy – to the Algerian National Investment Fund (FNI) for US$2.6 billion.

A year ago, when I was asked which trends would have a significant impact on the ICT industry in 2014, I predicted that there would be an increasing interest in prefabricated modular data centres to cope with the expected data boom in developing countries.

Building on a sudden surge of activity last year, we expect a great deal of growth in fibre to the business premises (FTTP) and fibre to the home (FTTH) in 2015. 

There is a lot going on in the telecommunications industry right now, whether because of the threat from more agile and fas­ter OTT players, the fast changing dynamics in the industry or telco’s own mindset of not being a dumb pipe anymore.

Notwithstanding the success that mobile money (MM) services have had in Kenya and a handful of other countries, most MM providers in Africa are still trying to figure out how to monetise their businesses.

We see 2015 as being the year when CEM (Customer Experience Management) becomes a top priority for operators in developing markets, as they continue their quest for the retention of customers and improvements in ARPU.

The main battle between incumbent mobile operators in Africa over the next five years will be in mobile broadband.

A year ago we predicted that during 2014 there would be a significant increase in the number of operators in Africa rolling out VoIP services.

Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) require substantial data capacities for core and trunking services, much of which uses fibre/cable.

At the AfricaCom show last November, Ahmad Farroukh, CEO of MTN South Africa, said that his company is focused on NGN for both mobile and fixed access, with LTE already available in parts of the country.