Speculation that Turkcell was seeking to acquire a stake in Bulgarian operator Vivacom have been confirmed by the Turkish operator...

Despite its growth opportunities, the Vietnamese telecoms industry remains relatively unattractive in the short term due to the dominance of state-owned entities in a highly competitive landscape...

Unwanted advertising, or spam, has long been an aspect of email that is begrudgingly accepted – but with the global proliferation of mobile internet, it is fast becoming an unwelcome reality on mobile devices as well. DT editor James Barton spoke to Cloudmark’s Alan Ranger about how spam is affecting the way that mobile users worldwide perceive their devices, how users in emerging markets are particularly vulnerable, and what can be done to curb the growth of spam and malware in the mobile sector...

Aspiring African app developers will see their ideas launched to millions of mobile phone users in Kenya through a competition launched by ForgetMeNot Africa, Safaricom and iHub, a developer community in Nairobi...

As communications service providers face the increasing challenge of a network capacity crunch due to the demands of smartphone ownership and growing video traffic, boosting a network’s speed and capacity is becoming a priority for operators globally...

A leading operator in Kenya is launching the country’s fastest mobile Internet network...

One of Kyrgyzstan’s leading operators is augmenting its 4G/LTE offering, allowing subscribers to broaden the use of their connections...

As the telecommunications sector is growing rapidly, broadband communication is also surging across India...

Subscribers of Orange in Africa will soon be able to access Facebook via any handset...

Three Asian units of the Norwegian operator group Telenor are to share a “unique cross-border billing platform initiative”...

Tajikistan’s telecommunications infrastructure was arguably the least developed of all the former Soviet republics...

The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed. This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on...

With mobility on the rise among India’s small and medium businesses, the market has witnessed a significant shift towards adoption of mobile devices and services such as smart phones, tablets, wireless cards, data plans and hosted applications. More than two thirds of India SMBs (companies having <1000 employees) own at least one smart phone or tablet, and almost half plan to purchase more devices in the next year...

As mobile payments in emerging markets become ever more advanced, a new development will offer subscribers in Africa and the Middle East a full suite of high quality financial services...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the industry’s main opportunity every year to trumpet the achievements of mobile communications, great as these undoubtedly are. Indeed it has long been our belief that mobile phones are right up there with the Honda 125cc moped and Penicillin as technologies having the greatest transformative effect on the lives of people in the developing world...

Movicel, Angola’s second largest mobile network operator with an estimated 2.5 million subscribers has announced it is launching Africa’s first commercial LTE network...

High levels of taxation being placed on the mobile sector by governments are leading to an infrastructure investment deficit, according to ITU Secretary General Dr Hamadoun Touré...

In a statement which stunned listening analysts and journalists alike, ITU Secretary General Dr Hamadoun Touré announced the end of the Arab Spring during a round table at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to Touré the end will officially come at the ITU Connect Arab States Summit, due to take place in Doha on March 5-7 2012...

One of the largest mobile operators in Russia is set to implement high-capacity microwave systems and services to its network...

A new organisation to encourage recycling and reuse of mobile devices was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. The Device Renewal Forum (DRF) aims to establish a common certification for refurbished wireless devices which it believes is necessary in order for the market to grow...

Africa's journey into the age of the Knowledge Economy and telephonic communication has, until recently, been a laborious and slow process, all the while the rest of the world’s usage has only but boomed...

One of the leading telecom groups in the Latin America region has acquired an analytics tool in order to analyse the composition of its installed base of devices...

Indian market leader Bharti Airtel has reported a fall in profit over Q411 despite healthy growth across its African operations...

The net income of Latin American telecom giant America Movil dropped in Q411 despite a rise in revenues...

Although growth slowed significantly in 2009, Kazakhstan has been experiencing a booming telecom market that included almost 100% mobile penetration by early 2010...

India’s cancellation of 2G licences continues to shake up its telecom sector, with Middle Eastern firm Batelco announcing that it will sell its stake in the Indian operator STel...

With a growing number of mobile phones coming to market with invalid identification IMEI numbers, device configuration and intelligence provider Mobilethink is launching a generic settings tool as part of its remit to support all devices used in GEM markets...

LTE has now become the de facto standard of choice for the evolution of wireless networks in Latin America. Although adoption rates have typically been faster in North America, where the regulatory environment is perhaps more amenable to rapid growth, most major operators in Latin America have at least trialled the technology...

UAE telecoms giant Etisalat has reported a drop in profit after downgrading the value of its Indian operations following the country’s blanket cancellation of GSM licences...

A leading Sudanese operator has implemented a routing optimisation solution to manage quality of service and provide real-time dashboard reporting on its network...

In less than seven years Bhutan has moved from having no mobile phones to claiming 60% mobile penetration. Over this period the annual growth in mobile subscribers has reached in excess of 100%...

One of Latin America’s largest broadband access networks is launching in Mexico...

According to reports, North Korea’s mobile subscriber figures have doubled in the past year, surpassing 1 million users...

Rural regions in emerging markets have been predicted as the source of the next billion mobile connections...