Pakistan’s leading WiMAX operator has signed a contract for the provision of high-gain modems in order to capture the country’s underserved personal broadband market...

Kenya is reportedly considering employing a wholesale model for LTE rather than inviting operators to bid for their own spectrum licences...

With a large population and a low penetration rate, Bangladesh’s mobile market offers significant growth potential...

Iraq’s largest private telecoms firm is rolling out mobile voice, broadband and SMS services across remote communities in the Middle Eastern country...

One of Saudi Arabia’s largest operators is implementing a new mobile backhaul solution in response to a sharp increase in bandwidth requirements...

With security concerns and bandwidth limitations now being overcome, Paul McKibbin,  Divisional CEO at Jasco Carrier Networks, looks at how South Africa is warming up to cloud computing...

Up to 30% of Indian mobile subscriptions are technically inactive according to new analysis from Wireless Intelligence, making the country’s mobile market substantially smaller than previously believed...

In this bylined article, Bob Drummond, Vice-President of Asia-Pacific at OpenCloud, discusses an open and flexible framework for service development and delivery, to improve the customer experience and bolster new revenues. Observations are based on the innovative approaches employed in the Asia-Pacific region...

With a high penetration rate, mobile subscriber numbers in Ghana are set to remain fairly constant but 3G is on the rise...

The growing uptake of smartphones and new social networking approaches to handling voicemail and SMS could help MNOs complete more calls and boost ARPUs, says Einar Lindquist, CEO of Teligent Telecom, in this bylined article...

The Malaysian operator Maxis Berhad is overhauling its core transmission network with the deployment of a 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution, provided by Alcatel-Lucent...

The success of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile money service has been underlined by the revelation that the service is now the country’s single largest source of revenue for its owner, Vodafone...

A Lebanese Internet service provider is deploying a new solution in an attempt to circumvent the region’s high bandwidth costs...

A new payment solution which allows customers to purchase SIM cards, top up pre-paid phones and pay bills is launching across the Middle East and Africa...

The acquisition of Motorola by Google took the tech industry by surprise, and the deal’s ramifications will doubtless be felt going forward. Already, theories are flying round regarding the motivation behind the deal, and the steps that competitors may take to accommodate the acquisition...

A new player could be entering the Hungarian mobile market, as the country’s Office of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority is auctioning 10.8MHz of spectrum in the 900MHz band...

China could see more than $8 billion in mobile payments by 2014...

The first cable network to provide service to North Africa using 40G technology has gone live...

Allegations that smaller market players are being overlooked by Russia’s LTE network-sharing consortium are being investigated by the country’s antitrust regulator, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS)...

A new device launching across South Africa will provide users with high speed mobile internet without the need for an inflexible contract...

The Philippines’ mobile market is approaching saturation, which is leading to a slowdown in subscriber growth...

One of Vietnam’s leading mobile operators is optimising its mobile broadband traffic via a new solution provided by Ericsson...

Tunisia’s largest operator is implementing a new solution to reduce costs, boost revenues and optimise cash flow...

DT editor James Barton recently spoke to Charles Green, CEO of Helios Towers Africa, about starting out providing infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially a hostile environment, the infrastructure market is undergoing massive growth, with more investment likely in the near future...

India’s spectrum licensing process is set for a significant overhaul, with the country’s Telecom Commission approving a number of policy changes...

Significant job cuts could result from the Indian operator Tata Teleservices’ (TTSL) plan to merge its CDMA and GSM businesses. The unification could affect up to 15 per cent of the firm’s employees...

With tumultuous political upheaval in the wider Middle East and North African region, telecom forecasts have of course been affected...

The Indian regulator TRAI has unveiled a consultation document focused on the country’s VAS market, acknowledging that mobile phone services “have moved beyond their fundamental role of voice communications to a range of value added services"...

Payment services based on near field communication (NFC) technology will be made available in Hungary via an agreement between the country’s three mobile operators, who will work together to develop NFC infrastructure...

Commercial 3G services are gaining traction in many Central Asian countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, according to new mobile subscriber data for Q410...

The frenetically competitive telecom sector in India may have finally been assuaged, with the announcement that market leader Bharti Airtel has increased several of its prepaid tariffs...

A leading Vietnamese operator has deployed a distributed antenna system to provide mobile services in Ho Chi Minh City...

A new joint venture has been created by two Polish operators as a means of sharing their radio access networks. PTK Centertel (owned by Orange) and PTC (T-Mobile) will each hold 50% of the new operation, NetWorkS!

The first deployment of 3G services in Niger could soon be underway, with reports indicating that the West African country’s regulator is preparing to hold auctions for two new licences...