Financial analyst Deloitte has revealed the countries whose rates of taxation, direct or indirect, on mobile communications are the highest in the world. Heaviest tax is in Turkey, where the taxation rate as a cost of mobile ownership is over 2.5 times the global average. Deloitte's report, commissioned by the GSMA, is summarised in this critical review...

Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in Kuwait using Aperto state-of-the-art broadband wireless PacketWave gear...

Egypt's telecom market is fairly liberalised, declares the Arab Advisors Group. By December 2006, the regulator (NTRA) had issued more than 200 telecom licences, three cellular licences, two payphone licences, two prepaid calling card licences, four VSAT licences and four international GMPCS operators...

Mobile Telecommunications Company, is set to deliver high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in Kuwait via Nortel optical solutions...

Arab Advisors Group has launched a new report which analyses the cellular tariffs for 42 cellular operators in 19 Arab countries.

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected an EMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut, Lebanon .

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

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

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.

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.

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 .

Jordan stands on the cusp of a milestone year for its already successful broadband sector...

The Middle East and Africa 's largest fixed line operator is set to replace 12 of its billing systems with replacements from Convergys Corporation...

Despite the liberalisation of the Internet market in Yemen , the Arab Advisors Group believes that this market has high entry barriers...

Morocco 's national ICT strategy must aim at reducing the digital divide and propelling the Kingdom into the ranks of the leading members of the digital society.

Nokia has won a managed services contract from "du" (a new participant in the growing United Arab Emirates (UAE) market) whereby it is to supply the entire core and a large proportion of the radio network for GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA 3G...

Turkish satellite operator Turksat has ordered its sixth communications satellite from France' s Alcatel...

Algeria' s rising demand for telephony has created a new opportunity for the country's major mobile operator. Orascom Telecom has teamed up with its fellow Egyptian company Telecom Egypt to set up Consortium Algerien de Telecommunication and run Algeria' s second fixed-line system.

Declaring that it is ready for competition with Etisalat, Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company (EITC, UAE's second telecommunications operator) has announced that it will launch mobile phone services in the second half of this year, and will aim for 30% market share within three years...