major Indian operator is set to upgrade its backhaul mobile transport network...

Political upheavals notwithstanding, Côte d’Ivoire has benefited from sophisticated developments in its telecom sector - and a short-term misstep is unlikely to upset a long term trend towards growth...

Subscribers of Zain Sudan will soon have access to an expanded suite of VAS solutions...

India’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) has previously cautioned local operators against importing telecoms equipment, both for security reasons and as a means of securing business for Indian vendors...

Mobile banking services could be set to take off in Latin America following the announcement of a joint venture between the region’s most prolific operator, America Movil, and the US bank Citigroup...

Three of India’s leading operators may be fined by the country’s Department of Telecoms after an agreement between them was ruled illegal...

Cloud computing is a seemingly unstoppable force, with its popularity increasing steadily across the world as its applications become more apparent. However, while many consumers can see the advantage of cloud storage, there are still many reservations about cloud service provision, with security a particular area of concern. DT editor James Barton spoke to Blue Coat’s Nigel Hawthorn about the reliability of a cloud security solution, and whether the introduction of such services is currently an option for emerging markets...

India’s government has detailed the much-anticipated changes to be made to the country’s telecoms regulation...

South Africa's mobile market leaders, Vodacom and MTN, are experiencing an impressive comeback following a massive loss of mobile customers in H209 and H110...

Indian consumers will soon have access to 4G services via TD-LTE technology being deployed by Augere...

A subsidiary of China Mobile is deploying new planning tools throughout its network....

Kenya has long been one of the most prosperous telecoms markets in Africa, and while saturation looms, short-term growth will remain strong...

A new joint venture has been formed to offer VoIP services in the Indian market...

The findings of a new research programme intended to measure the impact of mobile communications on the lives and prosperity of farming communities in some of the world's poorest countries have been announced...

Based on operator figures from the first half of 2011, Thailand’s mobile market has performed more positively than might have been expected...

India’s leading operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly adopting the TD-LTE framework for its 4G network, which will be among the first in the country...

With LTE launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE underway by operators such as Mobily, Etisalat and STC, others – including Qatari QTel and UAE-based Du – are now joining the fray...

Customers of Vodacom Tanzania are now able to benefit from more flexible billing options...

The first 4G network to launch in the Cayman Islands has gone live...

The Egyptian market leader Mobinil is replacing a number of disparate third-party systems for tracking infrastructure changes with one unified solution...

A new high-speed wireless broadband network is being deployed in Angola by ACS (Angola Communications Systems), a Business Unit of MSTelcom...

With data use soaring across the globe, it’s no surprise that mobile users emerging markets are increasingly hungry for services which place greater pressure on bandwidth – and operators are definitely feeling the strain. Fortunately, a total infrastructure upgrade is not the only option for operators in these regions, as Adrian Liu of Blue Coat explained to DT editor James Barton...

Subscriber growth in Ghana has exceeded expectations in the face of mandatory SIM registration and mobile number portability...

Turkey’s only GSM 1800 mobile operator, Avea, is integrating a new solution to provide accurate billing and settlement and prudent accrual provisioning...

A new remittance corridor has been launched connecting Morocco to Belgium. The initiative has been implemented by Moroccan money transfer specialist Wafacash...

The world's newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union's 193rd Member State...

Subscribers across the Mariana Islands in Micronesia will soon have access to a new messaging solution provided by the archipelago’s leading telecoms firm, IT&E...

Etisalat has launched an LTE-FDD mobile network in the UAE...

Panama’s government has begun a green initiative to digitise the majority of the country’s civil administration...

Intense competition has negatively affected Vietnam’s ARPU levels and the country’s mobile market is fast-approaching saturation...

Russia’s largest telecoms firm, Rostelecom, is increasing the speed and capacity of its optical backbone network, which moves vast amounts of data from Europe through Russia to the Middle East...

Kuwait’s market-leading operator Zain has missed an opportunity to sell a 25% stake in its Saudi Arabian operations...

ITU has underlined its key role in green ICT with a raft of announcements by Study Group 5 of its Telecommunication Standardisation Sector (ITU-T)...

Uganda is one of the fastest and most consistently growing economies in Africa. Fibre, mobile broadband and mobile banking are revolutionising the country’s telecom sector...