Uganda Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a contract to extend Uganda Telecom’s GSM/EDGE mobile network and deploy the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in Uganda, one of the first such deployments in the East Africa region.

Voice SMS specialist Bubble Motion has been selected by Indian service provider Airtel to deploy Voice SMS over fixed line. The deployment will means that Airtel customers will be able to send Voice SMS messages to any mobile or fixed line customer.

Encouraging developments within the Gulf have formed the basis of several reports on Developing Telecoms but there must come a time when these Gulf markets enjoy total or almost total teledensity. Daniel Jones, Research Analyst with Analysis, believes that acquiring operators who are active outside the Gulf may present a convincing alternative route for Gulf operators...

The past few weeks have seen the emerging market community celebrate Sangonet’s twentieth anniversary, with Sangonet itself releasing its own special publication: “The Sangonet Story, 1987-2007 - twenty years of linking civil society through ICTs” which was launched at the annual Sangonet ICTs for civil society conference...

Real mobile market penetration rates may be less than two thirds conventional figures. This claim is made by the Arab Advisors Group following a recent survey in Jordan...

"We need a Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa. We have to mobilise the world's human, financial and technical resources to support economic growth, employment and development across Africa... 

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is responding to the demand in cost-effective IP transit capacity in Africa. Its new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service is designed for the entire African continent...

The Middle Eastern mobile market presents greater revenue opportunities than markets in Europe when taking into account its size and spending power, according to a new report The Middle Eastern mobile market: trends and forecasts 2007-12, published by Analysys. Why? Read on...

FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...

Huawei has successfully deployed the largest High Speed Packet Access network in the Middle East and North Africa region for Etisalat in UAE...

Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators will provide its messaging platforms to Cable & Wireless for networks in the Americas & Caribbean...

Telecentre organisers in Congo Brazzaville recently met to discuss the approach they needed to take if their telecentres were to fulfil their targets of bringing ICT to the Congolese people. Sylvie Niombo of APCNews explains...

Reliance Communications of India is undertaking the largest wireless network expansion project by any operator across the world... 

Orphans and other vulnerable children in Nigeria are the targets of the Fantsuam Foundation which assesses the risks the children face from HIV/AIDS as well as traditional dangers such as hunger and disease...

Recently, ITU and Cameroon ran joint a workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management. The conclusions included a plea for more of the cross-border co-operation and the waiving of paper-work aspired to at the Tampere Convention...

The influential Arab Advisors Group has surveyed cellular users in Qatar . The survey, on the eve of Qatari liberalisation, shows that 34.9% of Qatar ?s GSM users have ADSL broadband Internet in their homes while 80.6% are aware of 3G cellular technology...

Iridium Satellite has become an official supplier to Connect Africa, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to introduce mobile communication and public service facilities for rural communities across Africa. Iridium will supply satellite voice and data services...

Qtel is leveraging its strong balance sheet resulting from its monopoly of telecommunications in its home market to expand regionally and globally...

United Arab Emirates is the most connected country in the Arab World according to the Arab Advisors Group's annually released Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM)...

Teles, the German fixed and mobile solutions-provider, has launched 'Do Not Call List' blocking which conforms to recent recommendations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...

Brasil Telecom GlobeNet has selected Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its 22,000 km submarine network running across the Americas...

Modern telcos are faced with operational challenges: convergence, consolidation lower voice revenues and pressure for quick launch are some that come to mind. Clarity, founded 14 years ago, is one company with solutions to offer - and recent experience in Sri Lanka ...

The world’s first wind and solar commercial network GSM cell site has been deployed combining the technology and commercial expertise of Motorola, the GSMA and MTC Namibia...

The world’s first wind and solar commercial network GSM cell site has been deployed combining the technology and commercial expertise of Motorola, the GSMA and MTC Namibia...

The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean recently published a report pointing out that foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean increased in 2006. Whether the increase matches expectations or not is another matter. According to one leading critic it does not and many companies, particualry in the ICT sector appear to be voting with their feet...

Veraz Networks has announced an IMS over WiMAX deployment that is one of the first such commercial installations in the Americas. The company's ControlSwitch has been chosen by Onemax as an IMS core to offer wireless broadband applications...

Following its successful conference this February, the Women of Uganda Network is leading a drive both for greater female involvement in ICT and also for women to set up more businesses. We look at an all-too-rare initiative...

Several recent stories reported by Developing Telecoms have revealed the rise in importance of ICT and telephony to Nigeria. One more example of this trend is UK-based Gateway Communications' purchase of GS Telecom. Gateway gains a foothold in Nigeria, not to mention greater subscriber numbers throughout Africa...

Ghana 's Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has announced that his country's government will introduce universal ICT education into Ghana 's core educational system in September.