Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is selling a 5% stake to Middle Eastern investment group the Qatar Foundation Endowment (QFE) for INR68 billion...

Kuwaiti market leader Zain is implementing a monitoring solution from Astellia to increase network quality and traffic visibility...

Mexico’s recently-approved regulatory reform seemed to be specifically targeted at America Movil’s market dominance, and the operator has acknowledged that the new legislation would have an “uncertain but likely...material” effect on its business...

Mobile computing is a growing phenomenon in the workplace and out with leading researchers already recognising the emergence of a ‘post PC’ era. As more people access IT applications and content by preference using their tablets, ‘phablets’ and smartphones, a whole new set of challenges and opportunities are emerging. In South Africa, however, the majority lag the mobility hype by about two years....

Scandinavian operating group Telenor has stated that it will acquire the number two Bulgarian operator, Globul, for €717 million...

Push Technology and Telefonica Digital are collaborating to offer the first global high performance cloud solution...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is opening its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey...

Compared to just ten years ago, employees have access to – and familiarity with – far more sophisticated technology, and this can be harnessed to allow them to work in a way that suits them. As companies branch out across the world, it is ever more important to use the available technology to enhance productivity. However, employers have to respond to this demand if they are to harness its potential...

A major cable system connecting various points in the Caribbean is receiving a capacity upgrade...

Two Middle Eastern heavyweight operator groups are bidding for Maroc Telecom. Etisalat and Ooredoo (previously known as Qtel) have confirmed that they will attempt to purchase a majority stake in the Moroccan market leader...

There is a huge expectation among operators in emerging markets that smartphone penetration will increase fairly rapidly over the next three to five years. Operators want to be at the forefront of this and are therefore investing heavily to ensure that they not only have the best networks possible, but also have a clear understanding of mobile data services in order to develop new business models to accommodate their anticipated growth...

The network security market for India small and medium businesses clearly shows a positive growth trend in the immediate future...

Mexico’s Senate has approved a bill which will introduce significant revisions aimed at fostering greater competition in the country’s telecoms and television sectors...

Russian operator VimpelCom has pulled out of Cambodia, selling its entire operation in the southeast Asian country to its local partner for an as-yet-unrevealed amount...

UAE-based operator du is boosting the speed and capacity of its 100G coherent optical transport network...

There are nearly 110 million mobile subscribers in Nigeria but only 56 million people have bank accounts, giving the market massive growth potential for mobile money services...

The investment strategies of Indian operators over the next two years differ significantly from their counterparts in China, Indonesia and the Philippines...

Qatar’s market leader has launched its LTE network, with 4G services now available via mifi and dongle devices...

Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex. However, larger organisations have additional considerations to factor in such as compliance issues, which require information to be stored within the country, and security concerns...

The European Union (EU) trade commissioner is calling on EU member states to provide enough support for an investigation into claims that Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE are receiving illegal state subsidies, enabling them to undercut their European rivals...

Turk Telecom is acquiring two Bulgarian companies being sold by the Greek operator OTE...

India’s unbanked population now have access to Vodafone’s M-Pesa service, which the operator group has launched in conjunction with the country’s largest private sector bank, ICICI Bank...

Cloud has been much talked about but implementations have been slow to take off...

Telefonica’s financial troubles continue in Latin America with a double dose of misfortune...

For the thousands of international and domestic businesses operating in Middle East and Africa (MEA), the region has moved from an emerging market to that of a high-growth market. Certainly from a telecoms perspective and according to new research from Analysys Mason, telecoms revenue in North Africa and the Middle East is set to grow by 27% to over 96.4 billion USD in the next five years...

One of the leading providers in the Philippines has implemented a comprehensive social hub to reduce customer service costs...

Kuwait’s market–leading operator has deployed a mediation and provisioning system, allowing it to consolidate its billing mediation transaction processing...

Vodafone Egypt has completed a successful trial of an energy-saving solution that enables the operator to boost 3G coverage...

As a means of reducing its debt, Telefonica is reportedly aiming to sell a minority stake in its Colombian unit, with the IPO possibly on course for this year...

A major participant in the bidding race for Morocco’s market leader has dropped out...

Mobile use in South Africa has boomed in recent years— research from Nielsen showed that about 29 million South Africans are using mobile phones, compared to just five million people who use landlines. That growth is only expected to continue, which means that there’s a big opportunity for communications service providers hoping to break new ground and build relationships with new customers...

Joseph George, Director, Revenue Protection and Interconnect, MACH, explains why operators in emerging markets are increasingly opting for a managed service approach to interconnect billing...

After cancelling the auctions of wireless frequencies due to concerns that competition was too fierce, the Czech regulator CTU has revised the terms of the licensing process...

Mali became the first African nation to announce it will give its domains for free...