Ooredoo’s chief executive has confirmed that the company has raised $12 billion to fund its potential acquisition of a majority stake in Moroccan market-leader Maroc Telecom...

Across Africa, fibre has long been seen as a panacea for providing high-reliability, high-bandwidth connectivity, especially at a time when microwave was considered to be relatively unreliable due to the power required. Africa is an extremely dynamic environment and there are massive changes taking place across many countries, in terms of construction of infrastructure in both metropolitan and rural areas, but fibre is still a long-term sustainable solution for Africa...

The UAE has become the first country in ITU Region 1 – covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa – to use spectrum in both the 700MHz and 800MHz bands for mobile broadband...

A new joint venture between Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) and Columbus Networks will provide international wholesale capacity to both companies and third party carriers across Central America...

A new partnership between power specialists Intelligent Energy and Etisalat Nigeria will develop personal energy solutions based on the former’s fuel cell technology, with an Etisalat user trial to commence in this quarter...

The Indian Comptroller and Auditor General has accused the country’s operators of behaving like a ‘cartel’ during the most recent round of spectrum auctions...

Despite runaway success in Kenya, the M-Pesa mobile money service failed to inspire widespread adoption in South Africa when Vodacom attempted to introduce it in 2010...

The GSMA has opened a new office in Nairobi, located in the city’s Innovation Hub...

A new telecom and cloud provider has launched virtual PoP services in the UAE...

Six parties have registered their interest in buying 4G spectrum in Colombia...

Vodafone India has launched a legal appeal against a decision by the country’s Department of Telecommunications after it denied the operator’s request to extend its licences in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai...

A new service offered by Pakistani operator Warid Telecom will allow prepaid subscribers to transfer balance to postpaid users...

Vodacom Mozambique has deployed an energy-efficient pre-fabricated data centre...

The first IPX+ enabled network in the Middle East has been launched by Qatari operator Ooredoo...

Two major agreements in Africa will provide network operators with far greater connectivity options in and out of the continent...

Bharti Airtel has for the first time lost its lead in rural India, with Vodafone now ahead in terms of subscriber numbers...

The leading telecom provider in the Maldives is implementing a solution to prevent revenue leakage caused by fraud and billing inaccuracies across its mobile and fixed line networks...

Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is selling a 5% stake to Middle Eastern investment group the Qatar Foundation Endowment (QFE) for INR68 billion...

Kuwaiti market leader Zain is implementing a monitoring solution from Astellia to increase network quality and traffic visibility...

Mexico’s recently-approved regulatory reform seemed to be specifically targeted at America Movil’s market dominance, and the operator has acknowledged that the new legislation would have an “uncertain but likely...material” effect on its business...

Mobile computing is a growing phenomenon in the workplace and out with leading researchers already recognising the emergence of a ‘post PC’ era. As more people access IT applications and content by preference using their tablets, ‘phablets’ and smartphones, a whole new set of challenges and opportunities are emerging. In South Africa, however, the majority lag the mobility hype by about two years....

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is opening its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey...

A major cable system connecting various points in the Caribbean is receiving a capacity upgrade...

Two Middle Eastern heavyweight operator groups are bidding for Maroc Telecom. Etisalat and Ooredoo (previously known as Qtel) have confirmed that they will attempt to purchase a majority stake in the Moroccan market leader...

The network security market for India small and medium businesses clearly shows a positive growth trend in the immediate future...

Mexico’s Senate has approved a bill which will introduce significant revisions aimed at fostering greater competition in the country’s telecoms and television sectors...

UAE-based operator du is boosting the speed and capacity of its 100G coherent optical transport network...

There are nearly 110 million mobile subscribers in Nigeria but only 56 million people have bank accounts, giving the market massive growth potential for mobile money services...

The investment strategies of Indian operators over the next two years differ significantly from their counterparts in China, Indonesia and the Philippines...

Qatar’s market leader has launched its LTE network, with 4G services now available via mifi and dongle devices...

Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex. However, larger organisations have additional considerations to factor in such as compliance issues, which require information to be stored within the country, and security concerns...

India’s unbanked population now have access to Vodafone’s M-Pesa service, which the operator group has launched in conjunction with the country’s largest private sector bank, ICICI Bank...

Telefonica’s financial troubles continue in Latin America with a double dose of misfortune...