T-Mobile Poland is increasing network visibility and performance with Accedian’s V-NID Performance Platform.
Thailand could see its 4G auctions delayed into 2016 unless new digital economy legislation is passed by April.
Facebook and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are teaming up to launch the social network’s internet.org app in India for the first time.
Vodafone Egypt has lined up EGP9.5 billion ($1.25 billion) to invest in its network across the next 3 years, despite its shareholder Telecom Egypt’s planned sale of its 45% stake.
BelCash Technology Solution PLC has partnered with two banks to launch HelloCash mobile money services in Ethiopia.
Astellia is implementing its managed services platform for the Filipino operator Smart.
China Telecom’s cloud branch CTCC will implement Nuage Networks’ SDN technology into its public cloud services for the Chinese market.
A new service will enable customers of Orange and the pan-African banking group Ecobank to transfer money between their respective accounts.
We live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi.
Vietnamese market leader Vinaphone is launching a new cloud-based voice messaging solution with CT-IN and Nuance Communications.
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.
South African operator Vodacom is upgrading its billing system to Redknee’s Unified platform.
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.
India’s spectrum auctions have been postponed for a week while the country’s Department of Telecom addresses issues raised at a pre-auction meeting.
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.
Bharti Airtel has commissioned Nokia Networks to expand its 4G presence to a further 6 of India’s 22 telecom circles.
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.
Spectra Wireless and Microsoft 4Afrika have launched Africa’s first commercial service network utilising TV white spaces in Ghana.
In 2014, the roll-out of LTE has been a major focus for communications service providers (CSPs), with over 300 LTE networks now in operation globally.
Ethiopia’s sole service provider Ethio Telecom is introducing an electronic recharge solution.
Slovenia’s regulator AKOS has deemed the country’s two biggest operators - Telekom Slovenije and Si.mobil – guilty of contravening net neutrality legislation set out by the Electronic Communications Act.
2015 is going to be the year of heightened engagement and activity around mobile financial services.
Market-leading South African operator Vodacom has commissioned Alcatel-Lucent to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution to expand into the enterprise and residential markets.
In 2015, we expect to see five major mobile backhaul trends in emerging markets.
Facebook has launched a simplified version of its Android app for lower-end devices in emerging markets.
During 2015 we expect to see further evolution in the LTE radio access network, with a number of LTE-Advanced technologies moving from the lab into commercial deployment.
As mobile telecoms become more and more intertwined with the internet, we will continue to see new services and opportunities emerge, both in the B2B and B2C area, as a result of this growing interconnectivity.
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