India’s market leader Bharti Airtel saw its subscriber numbers fall by 1 million in September, following an initiative by Indian operators to provide more accurate figures by disconnecting inactive subscribers...

Latin American telecom giant America Movil has reneged on a deal to acquire the entire El Salvador operation of Digicel...

Telenor will continue to have a presence in the Indian market via a newly created subsidiary which will take over the operations of Uninor, the Indian joint venture between the Norwegian firm and Unitech...

No new entrants from abroad will participate in Thailand’s long-delayed 3G auctions, with the bidding to be dominated by the country’s top three domestic operators in a process which begins next week...

Indian operators will face a choice over any spectrum they hold that exceeds their allowance: pay a one-off charge, or relinquish it...

Yemen is very much the poorest country in the Middle East with approximately 39% of the population living below the poverty line...

Coming into 2012 major changes were on the horizon for Myanmar’s telecom sector, with the government planning to liberalise the market to some extent...

In an ambitious move, a major Brazilian operator is aiming to provide LTE coverage to seven cities by April 2013...

The changing landscape of the Malaysian telecom market has over time witnessed the restructuring of all the main players...

A number of operators in the Middle East may form a consortium to combat potential revenue losses caused by an influx of over-the-top (OTT) players...

Coming into 2012, Azerbaijan’s mobile subscriber base had passed the 10 million milestone...

With the mobile market in Pakistan experiencing a period of healthy and sustained development on one hand, and the fixed-line market languishing badly on the other, the operators in the respective market segments are unsurprisingly experiencing contrasting fortunes...

On Friday, the 21st of September, COFETEL, Mexico’s telecoms regulator, confirmed that Mexico has adopted the APT band plan for 700MHz digital dividend spectrum. In the arcane world of spectrum management this is a very exciting step...

Indonesia’s spectrum auctions have been hit by a fourth delay, despite the original intention for them to be held in June 2012...

Like its inhabitants, Syria’s telecom sector has been caught up in the ongoing civil war...

Mexico’s regulator Cofetel has approved proposals to use the 700MHz band for mobile. Industry observers have expressed hope that other Latin American operators could be spurred to do the same in the wake of the development...

Two major Russian operators are considering forming a joint venture out of their respective tower businesses...

There were 12.367mn mobile subscribers in the UAE at the end of March 2012...

Over 40 Latin American operators are forming an alliance to address the issue of visibility of data roaming charges...

There were 4.962mn mobile subscribers in Kuwait at the end of December 2011, meaning the market grew by 11.5% during 2011...

Two primary rounds were held on the first day of Romania’s spectrum auctions, which will allocate frequencies in the 800, 900, 1800 and 2600 MHz bands...

India’s mobile subscriber base has shrunk for the first time ever...

The Director General of the GSMA Anne Bouverot has called on the President of Uzbekistan to intervene personally in the ongoing conflict between the country’s government and the Uzbek branch of MTS...

A major Hungarian corporate venture capital investor is set to provide a EUR1 million mezzanine finance facility to a Budapest-based cloud delivery firm...

South Africans have long held the perception that overseas is better, when it comes to goods, services, even qualifications. This, along with the attractive pricing structures offered by destinations such as India, led to a trend of outsourcing to global companies or offshoring services to foreign destinations. However, recently this trend has begun to reverse, and companies are once again bringing their outsourced services back to local shores...

A major operator in Senegal has resolved its legal dispute with the West African country’s new government...

The development of the telecoms sector in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is seriously impeded by the country's parlous economic state and the regime's general repression of communications...

It has long been reported in that Somalia plays host to a highly competitive mobile telecoms market...

Since the Mongolian Government's telecommunications reform program in the mid-1990s, there has been effective liberalisation of all market segments, partial privatisation of the fixed-line incumbent operator, Mongolia Telecom, and establishment of an independent regulator...

Russian owned operator, MTS has released its Q2 report with heavy losses in Uzbekistan.

Research and Markets have found that mobile services have become the driver for growth in the wider Pakistan telecom market.

Research and Markets has released a report into China’s three major telecoms operators.

India's Supreme Court has granted the Government more time to carry out the auction for 2G spectrum but threatened contempt proceedings if there are any more delays.