T-Hrvatski Telekom has released a review of its operations in Croatia,where it remains a key player in fixed-line and mobile. Fixed-line has experienced a minor decline as the company increases its role in Internet provision. Broadband technologies are proving successful with targets remaining ambitious...

The telecoms market seems rather quiet at present - with the exception of India. This review by Michael Schwartz looks at recent developments in this massive market and tries to identify some of the major current trends... 

Russian operator Synterra is to deploy ECI’s new XDM-3000 to accommodate growing customer demand for capacity-intensive carrier-class infrastructure solutions that can simultaneously handle both Ethernet and TDM-based services, fundamental to the ECI 1Net framework for optimal network transition...

Pakistan’s Universal Service Fund has chosen Balochistan and Southern Punjab as the targets for its latest initiative to bring telecoms to the country’s remote areas. Half a million Balochistanis will be helped by this new development...

Supported by Sky Perfect JSAT, KVH's newest mini-VSAT coverage area now supports broadband Internet and voice services for maritime and aeronautical applications...

Kenya has pioneered e-Learning in sub-Saharan Africa now that the Kenya Broadcast Corporation has launched digital content for use in schools. Doreen Apollos, writing on the Corporation’s website, introduces us to the development...

Issue 45 of Submarine Telecoms Forum contains an article by Dr Andrés J Fígoli Pacheco, a Senior Legal Counsel with Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been engaged in improving the legal framework protecting submarine cables in Latin America...

Analyst and forecaster Companies and Markets has recently turned its attention to the less-publicised markets in the Caribbean. Its profile of Haiti’s fixed line system can hardly be described as optimistic...

Statements by the CEOs of both Turkcell and Turk Telecom indicate that both believe that introducing 3G into Turkey will be achieved more cheaply by the two companies sharing the costs of infrastructure...

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...