India’s market leader Bharti Airtel saw its subscriber numbers fall by 1 million in September, following an initiative by Indian operators to provide more accurate figures by disconnecting inactive subscribers...

Latin American telecom giant America Movil has reneged on a deal to acquire the entire El Salvador operation of Digicel...

Telenor will continue to have a presence in the Indian market via a newly created subsidiary which will take over the operations of Uninor, the Indian joint venture between the Norwegian firm and Unitech...

Two major Brazilian operators have selected the vendors that will provide equipment for their LTE networks...

South Africa’s first commercial 4G LTE services are now live...

Indian operators will face a choice over any spectrum they hold that exceeds their allowance: pay a one-off charge, or relinquish it...

Yemen is very much the poorest country in the Middle East with approximately 39% of the population living below the poverty line...

Uganda was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to gain full internet connectivity...

A new fibre optic backbone network will aid Ghana’s Ministry of Communications administrating rural regions of the country...

Argentinean mobile users are now able to have an additional telephone line on their mobile phone without the need to purchase another SIM card, following the deployment of a new service known as “Mi Número Extra”...

In an ambitious move, a major Brazilian operator is aiming to provide LTE coverage to seven cities by April 2013...

South Africa’s First National Bank is planning to introduce a mobile payment device that will complement its merchant services...

A number of operators in the Middle East may form a consortium to combat potential revenue losses caused by an influx of over-the-top (OTT) players...

One of Nigeria’s leading IT support firms is now offering SMEs and start-up businesses a suite of cloud communications services...

Coming into 2012, Azerbaijan’s mobile subscriber base had passed the 10 million milestone...

With the mobile market in Pakistan experiencing a period of healthy and sustained development on one hand, and the fixed-line market languishing badly on the other, the operators in the respective market segments are unsurprisingly experiencing contrasting fortunes...

On Friday, the 21st of September, COFETEL, Mexico’s telecoms regulator, confirmed that Mexico has adopted the APT band plan for 700MHz digital dividend spectrum. In the arcane world of spectrum management this is a very exciting step...

Like its inhabitants, Syria’s telecom sector has been caught up in the ongoing civil war...

Mexico’s regulator Cofetel has approved proposals to use the 700MHz band for mobile. Industry observers have expressed hope that other Latin American operators could be spurred to do the same in the wake of the development...

A new agreement will bring voice, Internet, TV and video communication services to customers in Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia...

Between December 2010 and 2011, Jordan’s mobile penetration rate rose from 112.6% to 118.2%, reaching 7.482m mobile subscribers...

One of Nigeria’s largest operators is implementing new measures to facilitate load balancing, using its network more efficiently...

The police force of Dhaka, Bangladesh, has upgraded its analogue communications system to a digital system...

A major Latin American submarine cable network is being upgraded with 40G technology...

Business users in East and Central Africa will now have access to cloud-based communication services, with ICT solutions provider Tips Hosting launching its CloudLIFE services in the region...

There were 12.367mn mobile subscribers in the UAE at the end of March 2012...

One of Ghana’s major operators is rolling out solar solutions to bring mobile coverage to rural communities...

Over 40 Latin American operators are forming an alliance to address the issue of visibility of data roaming charges...

Colombia’s National Fibre Optic Project will see the largest and most modern fibre optics network deployed across the country...

There were 4.962mn mobile subscribers in Kuwait at the end of December 2011, meaning the market grew by 11.5% during 2011...

The availability of bandwidth in South Africa has improved dramatically in recent years. However, while there may be a lot of capacity coming into the country, the majority of users remain unable to access it...

India’s mobile subscriber base has shrunk for the first time ever...

Mobile users in seven African countries will soon have access to insurance products via Bharti Airtel’s network...