Azerfon, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in Azerbaijan, and Vodafone have announced a non-equity partnership to provide customers with “high quality communications services and to collaborate jointly on future technological developments”...

WiMAX provider Alvarion and Angolan operator Mundo Startel will be expanding the WiMAX facilities available in Angola as a result of the contract they have just signed...

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide Argentina’s Servicio Satelital with a SkyEdge II satellite communications network to enable broadband Internet connectivity at hundreds of sites nationwide. The sites will include schools, oil and gas firms and retail lottery locations...

Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Gurudas Kamat updated his country’s Upper House of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha) regarding progress towards rural tele-density projects and penetration...

ZTE Corporation is rolling out a state-of-the-art all-IP mobile phone and data network for a newcomer to Madagascar, mobile operator Madamobil...

MTI Wireless Edge’s new production facility in India is mass producing IP67 Outdoor Omni Directional antennas priced from under US$10...

Operating 3G services in India’s capital Delhi and major city Mumbai may soon be possible now that Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, is inviting tenders to run these operations on a ten-year franchise...

Vivendi's confirmation that it has broken off talks with Zain about the sale of the latter's African operations lays bare the likelihood that Zain is seriously considering selling up, according to a statement from analyst group Ovum...

One of Russia's largest private equity funds, Icon Private Equity, will be investing US$200 million to establish a national WiMAX operator. The new operator will deploy in the remoter regions of Russia and the CIS, aiming for a market of 20 million customers...