A leading 1800 GSM provider in Turkey is installing a new solution aimed at enhancing network performance to improve the end user experience...

Mobile money services have been launched in Nigeria by Lonestar Cell GSM, a member of the MTN Group...

As part of a major network expansion, UAE-based operator Etisalat is deploying a new backhauling solution for mobile data...

With the advent of LTE, the prices of spectrum licences are escalating – but the spectrum itself is finite, and increasingly hard to obtain. Meanwhile, older technologies that have largely fallen out of use are occupying other spectrum bands – but there is a common solution to these problems. DT editor James Barton spoke to Fabricio Martinez, Services Director at Aircom, about how spectrum re-farming can reduce operator expenditure while bringing new technologies to emerging markets.

The modernisation of Kazakhstan’s railway communication network has been completed...

Although intense competition is driving down ARPUs and market saturation is reducing subscriber growth opportunities, operators in Oman continue to invest in modern fixed and mobile networks - a move that will facilitate the rollout of higher value services in the future...

An SMS-based health awareness campaign underway in India has received a new participant, the diversified health care benefits company Aetna...

An expansive roaming reach is becoming increasingly important for operators in India, and with this in mind Aircel has selected a portfolio of roaming business management services from Syniverse...

The ITU Global Symposium for Regulators closed today with the adoption of Best Practice Guidelines aimed at advancing the deployment of broadband connectivity worldwide...

In just over six months since it launched, a voice SMS service has achieved an adoption rate of over 60% in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

With its potential largely untapped, the oil-rich nation of Sudan has plenty of room to grow...

Yarob Sakhnini from Brocade provides an insight into a successful virtualisation strategy and explains how virtualisation is the driving force behind cloud computing, enabling data centres to provide a wide range of storage, processing, infrastructure and software services at a low cost...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Broadband provider Clearwire and mobile operator China Mobile have entered into a partnership which will focus on developing TD-LTE devices...

At the end of March 2011, Sri Lanka’s mobile sector had a total of 17.852mn subscribers, following 393,000 net additions in the quarter...

Enterprise markets in Southern Africa are on the rise and Namibia’s licence-exempt market is no exception...

Like many emerging markets, Pakistan faces the challenge of connecting its rural population. In this interview Naeem Zamindar , the CEO of converged communications provider Wateen Telecom, warns that the rural market’s importance should not be underestimated...

Despite being Africa’s latest exporter of oil, Chad has one of the least developed telecommunications markets in the world...

India’s Department of Telecoms has reportedly claimed that Qualcomm’s original application for Indian wireless broadband service permits is void, thereby suggesting that the operator could have its licences revoked...

The African tower ownership and management company Eaton Towers has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (“CIPEF”), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets...

Uganda’s mobile sector is predicted to grow through to the end of 2015, while broadband subscriber numbers are expected to rise significantly between 2013 and 2015...

The ITU has called for a global methodology to assess the environmental impact of ICTs...

Three Saudi operators have launched 4G/LTE services in the Middle Eastern kingdom – with each claiming that they are the first to do so in the MENA region...

Although operators in Cambodia have a tendency to overstate subscriber figures to boost market share, growth does appear strong in the Southeast Asian country...

Far from being written off because of the growth in mobile, Africa’s fixed line operators have a golden opportunity to capitalise on the fibre revolution taking place on the continent...

As a result of recent developments in North Africa’s Maghreb countries, particularly in Libya, there is a need for local satellite services to provide broadband and VoIP connectivity for government, commerce and individuals in both the urban areas where the infrastructure has been damaged, and also in rural areas which have not been properly served in the past...

France Telecom is reportedly close to signing an agreement for the acquisition of DRC operator Congo Chine Telecom...

Vietnam initially fell well short of the ambitious targets it set for the wider expansion of its telecommunications infrastructure. However, after reviewing its approach and introducing some competition into the market, this ‘socialist oriented market economy’ has built a fresh growth momentum...

With the stated goal of reaching the ‘next billion’ consumers, Nokia is pitching its most affordable phones ever squarely at emerging markets...

With declines in ARPU worse than previously forecast, Indonesia is one of the riskier markets in Asia-Pacific – but it holds significant promise...

The mobile networks of 12 Caribbean territories are to be modernised via a new core network and multi-standard radio base stations...

The use of foreign currency as legal tender in Zimbabwe has been of great benefit to the country’s telecoms sector...

The new platform from Chinese search engine operator Baidu has reportedly been previewed, although the firm has not yet revealed a launch date. The operating system, known as Baidu Yi, is based on Google’s Android platform...

With a penetration rate of over 75% and the imminent widespread introduction of wireless and 3G broadband, Ghana’s telecoms sector has gone from strength to strength...