A new range of devices launching in India is aiming to provide smartphone-like capabilities for a far lower price than traditional smartphones. The OGO devices are now being offered by Bright Telecom’s Wynncom arm...

A leading VAS provider is ready to begin hiring for its African branch – and is reportedly aiming to provide jobs for at around 200 people...

The Indian telecom industry has undergone a revolutionary change during the past few years to become one of the leading telecom markets on the global map...

The mobile financial services specialist Fundamo has been acquired by Visa for around $110 million, indicating that the global payments giant is looking to strengthen its operations in emerging markets by capitalising on Fundamo’s experience in this area...

With smartphones increasingly prevalent in developed markets, demand for the services they offer is rising in emerging markets too – but pricing can be prohibitively expensive. Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of messaging software firm Synchronica, believes it’s not specific devices that are coveted, but their functionality – and this is why feature phones are on the rise in emerging markets. Developing Telecoms editor James Barton caught up with Carsten Brinkschulte to discuss this trend...

With demand for internet access constantly rising in India, the ISP market is witnessing tremendous growth in subscriber numbers, and as a result the demand for the network equipment and consumer premise equipments bought by ISPs is growing...

New MVNO services will launch throughout Latin America via a partnership between MVNO specialist Tribe Mobile and Virgin Group, which operates a mobile virtual network in the UK...

Spanning 20 provinces, Afghanistan’s largest VSAT deployment has been implemented by the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) in partnership with broad-spectrum tech firm Insyndia...

A leading Afghan operator is improving its quality of service by implementing a new tool for multi-vendor network performance management...

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Asia will soon be able to provide their customers with self-care connectivity settings to surf the web, as well as substantially reducing the number of calls patched through to call centres...

South Africa’s Deputy Communications Minister Obed Bapela has called for the widespread adoption of mobile health services across the country...

One of St. Petersburg’s leading Internet Service Providers has upgraded its network infrastructure and dramatically increased bandwidth by deploying a new multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-enabled architecture...

The lack of consensus between telecoms and financial institutions, in terms of an equitable split of mobile payments revenues, decelerated the expansion of the mobile payments market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

A Chinese operator is launching broadband wireless access services across ten Chinese markets in nine provinces, including Beijing...

The founder and CEO of the Indian telecom giant Bharti Group, Sunil Mittal, has announced that the firm will provide a cash injection of US$1 billion this year for its upcoming mobile operations in Africa...

The prolific Latin American operator America Movil’s shares hit their lowest point for a year last week, apparently in reaction to comments from Mexico’s regulators suggesting that legislation aimed at increasing the operator’s competition could be implemented this month...

A major power crisis could be underway in Nigeria, as the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) is generating insufficient power despite the country’s increasingly dependency on diesel generated power as its primary source of energy...

Governments around the world need to rapidly formulate and implement national multi-sectoral broadband plans – or risk being seriously disadvantaged in today’s increasingly high-speed digital environment, according to a new report from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development...

A new infrastructure service provider in Russia will soon begin offering cloud computing services to public and private customers...

Jordan’s only operator licensed to provide 3G+ services will soon begin offering Colour Ring Back Tone (CRBT) services, allowing subscribers to assign different ring back tones to different callers...

One of Latin America’s largest telecommunications companies, the Chilean firm VTR, is entering the mobile telephony market...

The state-owned Indian operator BSNL will this month offer a new tender to increase the capacity for 15 million GSM lines, after revoking its previous tender for 5.5 million lines...

Rising demand for broadband services in South America has prompted the satellite service provider atrexx to add a new service platform to its product portfolio...

The demand for broadband services is growing steadily in the southern African markets. For this reason, major operators and ISPs are investing in undersea fibre as well as terrestrial fibre and other infrastructure...

Global satellite operator SES S.A. announced today that it has signed an agreement with YellowSat, a French start-up company that provides Internet connectivity to enterprises, governments and institutions in Africa...

India’s Department of Telecoms could introduce new legislation relaxing the pricing structures for the country’s operators, according to Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal...

The largest cellular provider in Malaysia is facilitating its next-generation infrastructure rollout with a new OSS platform...

The Lebanese telecommunications market has suffered for many years from a lack of political will to make the changes necessary to free up the market in order for it to reach its potential...

One of the largest bottlenecks - and therefore biggest challenges - for communication service providers in emerging markets is backhaul capacity. Due to increased use of data services as well as more rapid uptake of voice services, many operators are discovering that they are rapidly approaching capacity limits which seemed practically unreachable just a few years ago...

According to reports, Telecom Egypt is aiming to resume negotiations with Vodafone over a potential takeover of the UK-based firm’s Egyptian operations...

Chilean mobile users are now able to top up their phones electronically with the launch of a new mobile wallet service...

One of India’s state-owned operators has sought professional advice in establishing a new business strategy for its broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum...

The southeast Chinese cities of Xiamen and Nanping will soon enjoy higher quality networks and innovative new services following a managed services agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and Fujian Unicom...