Nokia registered a 30% drop in sales of mobile devices in the first quarter of 2014, with the group’s revenue down €0.5 billion compared to last year’s €3.1 billion.
The three market leading operators in China have separately confirmed that they are discussing the formation of a joint “base station company” that would allow them all to share tower infrastructure.
Chilean operator Entel has pledged $2.8 billion worth of investment into 3G and 4G networks across the next three years.
The growth of LTE in Africa has coincided with a boom in Mobile communications.
Pakistan’s 3G and 4G spectrum auctions have concluded successfully, raising over $1.1 billion.
Etisalat has reached a financing agreement with several banks which will allow it to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Telecom.
Three of India’s largest operators have forged a 3G roaming agreement to expand their coverage across more of the country’s telecom circles.
Tigo Tanzania has announced a partnership with Facebook which includes free trial access to Facebook services in English plus a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets.
NAPAfrica, Africa’s fastest growing neutral internet exchange point (IXP), is the first African exchange to offer remote peering. The service has already been snapped up by SEACOM and Liquid Telecoms among others.
DTAC, Thailand’s second largest mobile operator is to upgrade its 3G network and lay the foundation for a 4G LTE network in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent.
Former Apple CEO John Sculley is backing the launch a new range of smartphones in India. Obi Mobiles plans to invest US$20 million to enter the market during 2014.
Bahrain Telecom (Batelco) has announced it will offer cloud based DDoS protection services to business customers to protect customers' websites from DDoS attacks.
VimpelCom has announced the sale of a 51% interest in Djezzy (Orascom Telecom Algeria) to Algerian National Investment Fund (FNI) for US$2.6 billion.
In a Landmark partnership expected to benefit over 500 million mobile customers across three fast developing regions, SingTel Group and Samsung have unveiled a suite of joint initiatives to bring improved mobile data experiences to customers.
Tigo is extending financial inclusion in Tanzania by partnering with 17 major banks. The new service will enable Tigo Pesa customers to send and receive funds to and from any bank account to and from any Tigo Pesa wallet almost anywhere in the country.
Orixcom, the Dublin based operator of next generation connectivity and cloud services for the Middle East and Africa, has cut its prices for global connectivity to the UAE by 50%.
Telecom Namibia has launched international MPLS interconnect services for the first time.
Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao moved a step closer to achieving his plan to have 100% control over the group's worldwide networks with the announcement it is acquiring the remaining 11% of Vodafone India it did not own.
Caribbean operator LIME has announced plans to launch 4G LTE mobile data services in the island territory of Antigua & Barbuda.
Telecom service-layer innovator OpenCloud has been chosen by Vodafone Egypt to provide its Rhino service-layer to enable delivery of new services.
Novartis is delivering two million treatments of its pediatric antimalarial to Zambia as part of its collaboration with Malaria No More’s Power of One campaign.
YooMee Africa Group is launching Côte d’Ivoire’s first LTE services. The group has expanded its operations into the West African country after establishing itself as a broadband provider in Cameroon.
Cameroon’s national telecom provider Camtel has renewed its convergent billing agreement with FTS.
Telecom Egypt has been granted permission by the Egyptian government to obtain a unified licence for branded mobile services, which will cast doubt over the future of its partnership with Vodafone Egypt.
Vodafone India’s chief executive Marten Pieters has expressed his belief that the market is heading for widespread consolidation as operators are not turning a profit.
Aircel India has deployed the NetVertex PCRF from Elitecore Technologies its flexible & carrier grade architecture to enable greater revenue creation and enhance scalability.
Mexican regulator IFT has unveiled the new rules that it will impose on America Movil in an attempt to undermine the operator’s dominance, thereby improving competition in the market.
Intelligent transport networks provider Infinera has partnered with pan-African provider Internet Solutions to deploy the former’s DTN-X platform across the company’s South African long distance network.
Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore has confirmed that the operator is no longer interested in the proposed deal with Airtel to acquire the assets of Kenyan rival Yu.
The changing dynamic between operator services and OTT providers is a fascinating one. It is constantly evolving as the industry presses forward, and while the popularity of OTT – and the threat that this poses to operators – is undeniable, the answers are not quite so obvious.
Indian mobile operator Videocon Telecom is aiming to launch 4G/LTE services in three major cities before the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
TeliaSonera has acknowledged that some of its activities in various countries may have been illegal.
Intelsat and Vodacom are partnering to bring a managed broadband service to sub-Saharan Africa aimed at the small office/home office (SOHO) and small/medium enterprise (SME) users.
Filipino operators Digitel and Smart – both part of market leader PLDT – have signed a direct agreement with electronic payment service iSend to allow their customers to receive top-ups from iSend subscribers worldwide.
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