ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

GSM penetration in Morocco topped the 40% mark last year - and yet some 80% of GSM users are still using payphone services for national calls.

It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt...

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

Following identification as a potentially strong Internet market, Eastern and Central Africa have now been singled out as markets set for exceptional growth on cellular applications...

Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards their aim of integrating the economies of their region...

New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in Costa Rica , to rapidly develop and launch capabilities such as VoIP and Virtual Private Networks.

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country's government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.

Ghana 's only CDMA cellular network has been extended to Obuotabiri, adding voice mail to its range of value-added-services...

Believed to be the Caribbean 's fastest-growing GSM operator, Digicell Group has implemented a new roaming solution...

Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

Unisys has begun work on a contract worth approximately US$21 million with Movilnet Telecommunications, the largest mobile network operator in Venezuela...

The worldwide movement by operators to deploy high-speed mobile broadband services based on W-CDMA and High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standards is claimed by the GSM Association (GSMA) to be fuelling unprecedented economies of scale in the supply of equipment for carriers and handsets for consumers.

A private African network is to benefit from the supply of 55 VSATs manufactured by PolarSat...

Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let's be blunt about it. It may be a case of "Bad news alone sells newspapers" but on the whole there is little, rightly or wrongly, to be happy about. And then...

Two years of acquisitions in Latin America by Telefonica, Spain' s largest telephone company, have now come to an end.

One of Latin America 's largest Next Generation Networks (NGN) is set for creation in Brazil...

Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overviews. The overviews cover the role of various technologies such as broadband and convergence, the effects of regulation, the major players and how the African market has performed.

Lucent and Telefonica have reached a strategic agreement under which Lucent will support Telefonica's IPTV service rollouts worldwide...

WiMAX is now commercially available in Algeria , while several operators in many Arab countries have started testing the service.

The Arab Advisors Group is now completing its multi-client major survey of individual GSM users in Morocco .