India's telecom sector faced a particularly turbulent year, but 2013 may well turn around a lot of the negativity that affected the country's market last year.

Nigeria is unlikely to follow the Kenyan blueprint for mobile money licensing regulation...

A new exclusive strategic partnership between Orange and Chinese search engine specialist Baidu will develop a co-branded internet browser for smartphone customers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia...

Kenya’s market-leading operator is expanding coverage to ever-more-remote areas of the country with solar-powered base stations...

One of the largest operators in Niger has installed a wireless ‘fronthaul’ solution, providing a connection between the base station and the network antenna through a wireless link...

The first phase of a major submarine cable connecting Africa to Europe is now operational...

Civil unrest following disputed presidential elections led to a contraction of Cote d'Ivoire's economy in 2011, but GDP growth is expected to rebound to 8% in 2012 with a stable outlook...

One of India’s major national operators is implementing a solution to provide real time subscription services for 2G and 3G subscribers including dynamic policy-based service offerings and a state-of-the-art service monitoring solutions on cloud...

Rising smartphone ownership in Africa is driving demand for high-bandwidth mobile data services such as video calling and online gaming...

Scandinavian operator Telenor has scaled back its Indian unit, stating that it intends to spend no more than INR155 billion (US$2.85 billion), with the goal of recouping this amount by the end of Q4 2013...

A new partnership is aiming to foster women’s entrepreneurship in the African mobile financial services industry...

India continues to be one of the fastest growing major telecom markets in the world, as well as one of the largest...

One the largest operators in Nigeria has successfully completed an LTE trial in the country’s capital city, Lagos...

The final toppling of Telkom’s stranglehold as the dominant last mile provider in South Africa was the biggest change to the IT landscape in 2012...

The market-leading South African operator MTN has constructed its LTE network using equipment from Ericsson. This is the first commercial LTE network that the Swedish vendor has built in Africa. The launch comes after the pilot network has been running for more than a year...

The Costa Rican regulator Sutel is implementing new systems to analyse and benchmark the performance of the country’s mobile network infrastructure...

Vodafone has formed two partnerships that will use mobile technology to increase childhood vaccination levels in sub-Saharan Africa. This will support the global goal to vaccinate an additional quarter of a billion children and avert four million deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases by 2015...

The Middle Eastern operator Qatar Telecom (QTel) is reportedly considering acquiring the majority stake in Maroc Telecom...

Madagascar will soon have island-wide high-speed broadband and telephony services delivered by satellite...

The African cellular market is very much pulling in the subscribers...

Nigeria's telecoms and IT sector has massive growth potential, but the country must first overcome a number of key industry challenges before the sector can fulfil this...

Bharti Airtel is reportedly considering buying one of the smaller South African operators...

Iran’s mobile penetration has exceeded 100%...

According to reports, Telefonica will next year shift the location of its Latin American headquarters from Spain to Brazil, a process which will create 100 new jobs...

Six university students have been awarded with prizes for unique app idea as part of their final year projects, in an initiative spearheaded by South African operator Vodacom...

A new joint venture between one of the world’s largest operating groups and a major payments specialist will develop mobile payment solutions for Brazil...

A new solution targeted at application and software developers in Africa is being launched by Orange...

As part of Kenya’s highly successful mobile money scheme, users of Safaricom’s M-Pesa service now have access to interest-bearing saving accounts as well as the ability to take out small loans...

Saudi Arabian operator Mobily has been legally prevented from selling prepaid SIM cards by the Kingdom’s regulator...

A leading internet service provider in Guinea-Conakry is expanding its broadband network from the capital city of Conakry to cover the entire country...

The South African ICT market is dynamic, strategic and growing fast...

The lack of bids on CDMA spectrum in India has prompted a number of major operators to ask that the government reallocate some of these frequencies for GSM-based operations...

A satellite service launching across South Sudan will provide wide reaching, high performance, satellite broadband Internet to unserved and underserved locations and communities across the country...