In recent years, competition has gradually began influencing in the telecommunications sector in many developing and emerging markets across the world.

Over the past five years, we’ve seen African telecom networks make enormous strides towards providing broadband services to more of the continent’s people.

Millicom is believed to be interested in bidding for mobile spectrum in Costa Rica’s upcoming auctions as a means of entering the market.

Despite the fact that technology is one aspect of our life that changes fast making it difficult to predict precisely how the future will look like, we certainly need to attempt to understand the direction where the technology is moving forward.

In 2017 in many developing and emerging markets, telcos and other service providers will be completing significant upgrades to their network architectures and infrastructures.

During 2017, the public safety industry will continue to work towards making LTE the long term answer for emergency services communication.

Myanmar’s new operator Mytel has announced it will invest over US$4 billion to build a new network prioritising rural areas.

The telecom industry is at the forefront of leading the transformation the world is witnessing.

Everyone is talking about the mobile revolution in emerging markets, and for a good reason.

2016 proved to be a remarkable year for the telecoms industry.

In the past couple of years, three important factors have come together for FinTech: the rise of cloud computing, the ubiquity of smartphones and the ability to collect and analyse big data.

Telcos have been very cautious to date about putting the crown jewels of their business in the cloud, but in 2017, they will finally embrace cloud software to boost their operational agility.

Over the past five years, Africa has seen a sharp rise in the number of mobile phone users, accounting for 46% of the total population, making it the second largest mobile market in the world.

Connecting the unconnected continues to be a fashionable industry term, with Facebook and Google in particular grabbing media headlines last year – and no doubt throughout 2017 - for their efforts.

It used to be that writing a predictions piece was something of a retread of the previous year, with a few more advances.

Pan-African operator MTN is reportedly considering pulling out of the Nigerian market if what it deems the “endless hostility” of the country’s regulators continues.

Indian regulator TRAI has come under criticism from mobile operators and net neutrality supporters after recommending a controversial method of providing free data.

Africa's largest fibre network will be formed as Liquid Telecom buys South African converged network operator Neotel.

Slowing sales of mobile devices in the wake of a government initiative have led to Indian manufacturers cutting both working hours and output.

Mexican rivals Telcel and Movistar – respectively owned by America Movil and Telefonica – have signed a national roaming agreement.