Vodafone has formed two partnerships that will use mobile technology to increase childhood vaccination levels in sub-Saharan Africa. This will support the global goal to vaccinate an additional quarter of a billion children and avert four million deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases by 2015...

The Middle Eastern operator Qatar Telecom (QTel) is reportedly considering acquiring the majority stake in Maroc Telecom...

The first TD-SCDMA to use the Windows Phone operating system in China has been launched by Nokia and China Mobile...

Eight firms have been awarded 4G spectrum to offer LTE services in Malaysia by the country’s regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission...

Madagascar will soon have island-wide high-speed broadband and telephony services delivered by satellite...

Apple is more than doubling the number of countries in which it sells the iPhone 5, with the goal of adding “more than 50” markets to the current total of 47 by the end of this year...

The conversation around big data has taken many forms, but in the telecoms sector, it’s largely been seen as a challenge. For communications service providers (CSPs), more data has been equated with operational inefficiencies, such as issues with collecting and storing the information...

The largest mobile operator in Indonesia is introducing proactive monitoring to its network in order to predict, prevent, and prioritise network issues for its 121 million customers...

The African cellular market is very much pulling in the subscribers...

Nigeria's telecoms and IT sector has massive growth potential, but the country must first overcome a number of key industry challenges before the sector can fulfil this...

Bharti Airtel is reportedly considering buying one of the smaller South African operators...

Recognising the need for customer-centric success measurements is crucial for the growth of mobile networks in developing markets, argues Arieso CTO, Dr. Michael Flanagan...

Iran’s mobile penetration has exceeded 100%...

According to reports, Telefonica will next year shift the location of its Latin American headquarters from Spain to Brazil, a process which will create 100 new jobs...

Six university students have been awarded with prizes for unique app idea as part of their final year projects, in an initiative spearheaded by South African operator Vodacom...

A new joint venture between one of the world’s largest operating groups and a major payments specialist will develop mobile payment solutions for Brazil...

A new solution targeted at application and software developers in Africa is being launched by Orange...

The market-leading Filipino operator is deploying a new HD voice service...

A major submarine cable network connecting Europe and Asia is being upgraded to 100G technology...

As part of Kenya’s highly successful mobile money scheme, users of Safaricom’s M-Pesa service now have access to interest-bearing saving accounts as well as the ability to take out small loans...

Saudi Arabian operator Mobily has been legally prevented from selling prepaid SIM cards by the Kingdom’s regulator...

A leading internet service provider in Guinea-Conakry is expanding its broadband network from the capital city of Conakry to cover the entire country...

The South African ICT market is dynamic, strategic and growing fast...

The lack of bids on CDMA spectrum in India has prompted a number of major operators to ask that the government reallocate some of these frequencies for GSM-based operations...

A satellite service launching across South Sudan will provide wide reaching, high performance, satellite broadband Internet to unserved and underserved locations and communities across the country...

Two of the largest operators in Brazil have laid out their plans for LTE launches...

A new agreement will allow subscribers across Airtel’s entire African operation to send and receive money transfers over its network...

A new alliance between a major Middle Eastern operator and a data centre firm will establish the first world-class, carrier-neutral hub in the region...

Vietnamese users of Android and iOS phones now have access to a caller identification lookup application...

The Brazilian Minister of Communications, Paolo Bernado, has delivered a coruscating tirade against regulation over the deployment of mobile infrastructure, which he believes is stymieing mobile growth...

Many factors in the industry are now affecting policy and charging together. Operators are experiencing increasing pressure over their business models as they face decreasing revenues exacerbated by rising costs...

Sustaining network coverage in communities with unreliable grid power is a significant problem in emerging markets, with providers and vendors constantly looking for new ways of providing coverage without relying on diesel generators...

Bharti Airtel has announced an end-to-end network transformation program across its mobile operations in 16 African countries...

Coastguard services around St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been augmented by the introduction of a new Global Maritime Distress and Safety System...