The secretary of India’s Department of Telecoms has expressed his belief – and wish – that new regulations encouraging consolidation in the country’s mobile market will be introduced by the end of 2011...

An Iraqi operator has secured financing for a network upgrade, allowing it to improve the quality of services it provides to customers across Iraq as well as to accommodate ongoing growth in subscriber numbers to its network...

The proliferation of mobile devices and applications has changed the way we buy and use business today. And interestingly, it is employees that are driving this trend, not IT...

A new mobile payments service is launching in Nigeria by a consortium focused on increasing mobile payment usage in the country...

A new affordable netbook aimed at boosting connectivity in South Africa has been released...

The leading pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has invested US$32 million into IHS, a leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider...

Customers of Qtel Group companies in six different markets can now use the pioneering Gmail SMS Chat service...

On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications company, to immediately end its business in Iran...

One of India’s major wireless operators is switching from standard copper cable to smoothwall RF feeder coaxial cable for its new site roll-outs...

The manufacturer of an Android smartphone billed as a home-grown competitor to the iPhone in China is reportedly interested in creating software for its device...

obile payment services based on NFC (Near Field Communication) technology will soon be offered by UAE-based operator Etisalat, in partnership with Mastercard Worldwide and Network International...

In the last two years, Huawei and ZTE secured a total of at least USD55 billion in credit facility from Chinese policy banks to support their expansion into overseas markets...

One of China Mobile’s general managers has stated his belief that the next iPhone will not only support LTE tech, but could potentially provide services over both the unpaired TDD and the paired FDD versions of LTE spectrum...

A leading Mozambican operator is upgrading its 3G radio network in the country’s capital city of Maputo...

“ITU Telecom World 2011 sets new paradigm for top-level networking and knowledge-sharing”. So said the announcement at the end of ITU Telecom World 2011 – but does it really? And what exactly was new about the paradigm for top level networking and knowledge sharing in Geneva?

A TD-LTE network will soon be launching in China following the announcement of a new joint venture...

Reports that France Telecom-Orange could be expanding into the Democratic Republic of Congo via a takeover of Congo Chine Telecom have proven to be true...

Ericsson and Sony have announced that Sony will acquire Ericsson’s 50 percent stake in Sony Ericsson, making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony...

Mobile users in Puerto Rico will soon be able to enjoy a superior experience in data applications - including internet surfing, online gaming, social media and video conferencing – following the announcement of a new deal between the island’s leading operator and Ericsson...

A new eHealth initiative has been piloted in Kenya. The Def Aid Mobile Hearing Clinic, situated in Nairobi’s Kawangware slum, has implemented Cisco’s care-at-a distance technology in conjunction with Deaf Aid and Safaricom, with support from Nairobi’s Menelik Hospital...

A Costa Rican MVNO has implemented a device management system to lower its customer care costs...

Saudi Arabian subscribers will soon be able to benefit from cloud security services as a result of a new partnership...

The Indian state-owned operator BSNL has shunned calls from the regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) to restore connections that it has deliberately disrupted...

The development of India’s telecom sector has witnessed a major process of transformation in terms of growth, technological content, and market structure in the last decade through policy reforms introduced by the Indian Government...

One of Malaysia’s major service providers has deployed a roaming solution to reduce bill shock...

Indonesia’s first successful LTE field trial in the 1800 MHz band has been completed by the country’s market leader...

A new top up service has been launched in Zambia which allows Zambian nationals living abroad to recharge prepaid mobiles of family and friends in their homeland...

Windows Phone devices will soon be launching across the Middle East and Africa following the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft Middle East & Africa and wireless distributor Brightpoint...

Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011...

Although the first three quarters of 2011 have been stable for China Mobile, a statement from the world’s largest operator acknowledge that there were still many factors which “posed challenges to the group” going forward, such as market saturation in China and the advent of new technologies...

As global demand for Internet on-the-move services grows dramatically, together with the adoption of the latest smartphones and tablet devices, the need for operators to extend their wireless network coverage and capacity is also growing exponentially to cope with this demand...

Information and communication are at the heart of any modern business, and thanks to advances in technology these two previously disparate areas have begun to blur into one, creating what has become known as Information Communication Technology...

Customers in 16 African countries will soon have access to seamless internet connectivity and simpler mobile data services...

Kuwaiti internet service provider Zajil will soon offer its customers cloud-delivered web security as value-added service...