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Airtel hikes data rates in India following 4G auction

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James Barton
Category: Operators
12 June 2015
8506 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • Mobile Data
  • Bharti Airtel
  • 2G
  • Data Tariffs

Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is pushing up prices for its prepaid 2G and 3G data subscribers to offset its recent investment in 4G spectrum.

Cinven bid for Telekom Slovenije derailed by rejected amendment

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James Barton
Category: Operators
12 June 2015
10419 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Acquisitions
  • Slovenia
  • Telekom Slovenije
  • Cinven

Cinven’s bid to acquire Telekom Slovenije may fall through after state investment firm SDH ruled out a proposed amendment to the offer.

Airtel Africa CEO demands regulatory restrictions for OTT providers

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
11 June 2015
8305 views
  • Regulation
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • OTT
  • Gabon
  • Airtel Africa

The CEO of Airtel Africa has called for greater regulation of OTT providers that provide for-profit services over mobile operators’ infrastructure.

Orange selling stake in Egypt’s Mobinil amid regional expansion plans

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James Barton
Category: Operators
09 June 2015
9916 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Orange
  • Egypt
  • Tunisia
  • Mobinil

Orange has stated that its Egyptian unit Mobinil will either sell a holding to a local partner or list up to 15% of its stock on the Cairo bourse.

Millicom takes majority holding of Zantel

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James Barton
Category: Operators
08 June 2015
9396 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Etisalat
  • Tanzania
  • Millicom
  • Zantel
  • Zanzibar

Millicom is acquiring an 85% stake in Zanzibar Telecom (Zantel) from Etisalat.

Cinven sets deadline for accepting Telekom Slovenije bid

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James Barton
Category: Operators
05 June 2015
11299 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Acquisitions
  • Slovenia
  • Telekom Slovenije
  • Cinven

The investment group Cinven has specified to Telekom Slovenije that its takeover bid for the state-owned operator is only valid until June 10th.

Myanmar rivals start data tariff price war

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James Barton
Category: Operators
05 June 2015
8722 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Ooredoo
  • Myanmar
  • Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications
  • Telenor Myanmar
  • Data Tariffs

Ooredoo and Telenor have kicked off a race to the bottom for data pricing in Myanmar.

Data traffic surge pushes up RCOM’s profits

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James Barton
Category: Operators
01 June 2015
7533 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • RCom
  • Data Usage
  • Data Traffic

Indian number four RCOM has seen its profits leap by 46% following a significant upswing in data consumption.

Argentina gives green light for Telecom Italia investor breakup

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James Barton
Category: Investment
29 May 2015
8002 views
  • Latin America
  • Telefonica
  • Argentina
  • Vivendi
  • Telecom Italia

The 22% holding in Telecom Italia currently held by the Telco investment group will be broken up following approval from the Argentinean antitrust watchdog CNDC.

Mobile to enhance the lives and livelihoods of world’s poorest farmers

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 May 2015
7626 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone
  • Accenture
  • Agriculture
  • Mobile Services

A new report from Vodafone focuses on the impact that mobile services could have on the Indian agricultural sector.

Mexico writes down cost of wholesale network tender

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
28 May 2015
8728 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Wholesale

Following the success of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s regulatory reforms, Mexico has lowered the cost of its proposed tender for a wholesale national mobile broadband network by $3 billion.

Tanzanian government buys back stake in TTCL from Airtel

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James Barton
Category: Operators
27 May 2015
9477 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Tanzania
  • Bharti Airtel
  • TTCL
  • Airtel Tanzania

The government of Tanzania is reacquiring a 35% stake in Tanzania Telecommunications Corp (TTCL) from Indian firm Bharti Airtel.

Indian government throws weight behind state operators

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James Barton
Category: Operators
27 May 2015
7214 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • BSNL
  • MTNL

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted his government’s ambition to revitalise the ailing state-owned operators BSNL and MTNL.

Liquid Telecom Expands in Zambia with Realtime ISP Buy

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James Barton
Category: Operators
22 May 2015
9916 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zambia
  • FttH
  • CEC Liquid Telecom

Liquid Telecom is expanding in Zambia with the acquisition of Realtime, Zambia's second largest Internet Service Provider.

Emerging Markets Lead Smartphone Growth Q1 2015

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
19 May 2015
8526 views
  • Smartphones
  • Data
  • 4G LTE
  • Industry Trends

Emerging APAC markets, along with Africa and the Middle East are currently the world's fastest growing smartphone markets.

Chinese operators pledge to lower data tariffs following criticism

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James Barton
Category: Operators
18 May 2015
7207 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • China Telecom
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Data Tariffs

The big three Chinese operators have all confirmed that they will slash their data tariffs as well as increasing network speeds.

Turkey delays 4G auctions after President suggests skipping to 5G

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
18 May 2015
8716 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Spectrum Auctions
  • 5G
  • 4G Spectrum

Turkey has pushed back its 4G auctions following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting that the country should leapfrog straight from 3G to 5G.

MTN Foundation and Oracle collaborate to boost ICT skills in Nigeria

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
15 May 2015
9114 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Oracle
  • Nigeria
  • Education
  • ICT

MTN Foundation and Oracle are collaborating on an ICT training project for MTNF scholars.

RCom planning to divest Indian towers business

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James Barton
Category: Operators
12 May 2015
9559 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Towers
  • India
  • RCom
  • Reliance Communications
  • Reliance Infratel

Indian number four Reliance Communication (RCom) is planning to divest at least a majority holding in its tower business, Reliance Infratel.

Telefonica Brazil offering raises $5.3B

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 May 2015
8334 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Acquisitions
  • Vivendi
  • GVT
  • Telefonica Brasil

Telefonica Brasil’s public offering has brought in BRL16 billion ($5.3 billion) to finance its acquisition of broadband provider GVT.

Slovak Telekom IPO scrapped following mystery bid

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James Barton
Category: Operators
07 May 2015
7756 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Acquisitions
  • Slovakia
  • Slovak Telekom
  • Deutsche Telekom

The Slovakian government has shelved the scheduled IPO for Slovak Telekom after receiving an offer from an unnamed bidder.

Thai government policy must encourage broadband growth, says GSMA

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 May 2015
7103 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Thailand
  • Mobile Broadband
  • GSMA
  • Government

The GSMA has issued a new report highlighting how effective government policy in Thailand could increase mobile and fixed broadband penetration to 133% by 2020, up from 52% in 2013.

emergency.lu Deploying in Response to the Earthquake in Nepal

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
01 May 2015
8874 views
  • Disaster relief
  • Central South Asia
  • Nepal
  • SES SA
  • emergency.lu

SES S.A, as one of the private partners in emergency.lu, is providing vital connectivity services following the recent earthquake in Nepal.

Enterprise ICT markets in Africa: the USD900 million question

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Robert Schumann
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 April 2015
12924 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • SMEs
  • Botswana
  • Kenya
  • Enterprise
  • Nigeria
  • Analysys Mason
  • Ghana
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • ICT

Two senior executives from rival African ICT service providers were playing golf. One remarked casually, while his opponent was trying to putt, that enterprise ICT sales in their countries of operation reached USD900 million last year.

Oracle Academy and Raspberry Pi offer new initiative for African schools

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
27 April 2015
9565 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Education
  • Applications

Oracle Academy and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have partnered on a project to join thousands of schools in Africa and around the world in a global science experiment.

Increase available 4G spectrum by refarming, says Thai ICT Minister

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
22 April 2015
7123 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Thailand
  • 4G LTE
  • Spectrum Refarming

Thailand’s ICT minister has called for spectrum held by state-owned operators to be returned to the government and refarmed so that it can be resold for 4G use.

Mobile merchants enable m-commerce exploration for LatAm MNOs

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 April 2015
8794 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mobile Payments
  • M-Commerce
  • Pyramid Research

Latin America is an attractive region for MNOs to explore the m-commerce space beyond m-payments, due to the increasing presence of mobile merchants and the strong base of mobile users.

Vodafone asked to re-submit tax return by Indian taxman

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
21 April 2015
7195 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone India
  • Taxation
  • Hutchison

India’s income tax department has asked Vodafone to re-submit its tax return for the year 2009-10 for further review.

Airtel Zero & Internet.org contravene net neutrality, says TRAI

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
17 April 2015
11143 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Reliance Communications
  • TRAI
  • Facebook
  • Zero-rating
  • Net Neutrality
  • Airtel Zero

Indian regulator TRAI has claimed that Bharti Airtel’s new service Airtel Zero contravenes the country’s net neutrality principles.

Cinven lodges binding bid for Telekom Slovenije

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James Barton
Category: Operators
16 April 2015
9085 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Slovenia
  • Telekom Slovenije
  • SDH
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Cinven

The Slovenian state investment fund SDH has received a binding bid for its 73% stake in Telekom Slovenije from UK private equity firm Cinven.

Donations from Intelsat, BT Group & ITC Global restoring communications in Vanuatu

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
15 April 2015
8935 views
  • Disaster relief
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Intelsat
  • Vanuatu
  • Satellite Capacity
  • Cyclone Pam
  • BT Group
  • ITC Global

Intelsat, BT Group, and ITC Global have donated satellite capacity, equipment and manpower to help restore critical communication networks across Vanuatu.

SIM replacement tax dispute may delay Bangladeshi spectrum auctions

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
14 April 2015
9954 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Airtel
  • Grameenphone
  • Bangladesh
  • SIM Cards
  • Spectrum Auctions
  • Banglalink
  • Taxation
  • Robi

Bangladesh’s spectrum auctions look likely to be delayed again due to a regulatory dispute concerning SIM replacement taxes.

MTN could boost Nigerian presence with Visafone acquisition

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James Barton
Category: Operators
14 April 2015
8379 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Nigeria
  • CDMA
  • MTN
  • MTN Nigeria
  • Visafone

Pan-African MTN Group may consolidate its position in the Nigerian mobile market with the acquisition of CDMA operator Visafone.

Deutsche Telekom and Cinven bidding for Telekom Slovenije

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James Barton
Category: Operators
13 April 2015
9289 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Privatisation
  • Slovenia
  • Telekom Slovenije
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Cinven

Two bidders have emerged for the Slovenian incumbent Telekom Slovenije.

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