Intense competition has negatively affected Vietnam’s ARPU levels and the country’s mobile market is fast-approaching saturation...

Kuwait’s market-leading operator Zain has missed an opportunity to sell a 25% stake in its Saudi Arabian operations...

Uganda is one of the fastest and most consistently growing economies in Africa. Fibre, mobile broadband and mobile banking are revolutionising the country’s telecom sector...

Nokia has announced that it is downsizing its handset business, cutting 3500 jobs...

A new type of tax is emerging in Africa according to new research conducted by Deloitte and the GSMA...

A new shared LTE network will reportedly be constructed in Russia by a collaboration between two of the country’s major operators, VimpelCom and MTS...

Fixed voice household penetration has proved resilient in most parts of Western Europe, but in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the proportion of mobile-only households had increased to 41% at the end of 2010. Senior Analyst at Analysys Mason Emma Buckland explores the regional factors that have brought about fixed-line abandonment in CEE, the main reasons why CEE fixed-line operators have been largely unsuccessful in stemming it and our expectations for this trend in the next five years...

Three of the largest operators in India – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular - are reportedly planning on creating a holding company for their passive infrastructure towers...

The Pakistani mobile market has emerged from two years of low growth between 2009 and 2010, which averaged at 1.7%, to mark a quarterly increase of 3.6% y-o-y in terms of subscribers...

Although intense competition is driving down ARPUs and market saturation is reducing subscriber growth opportunities, operators in Oman continue to invest in modern fixed and mobile networks - a move that will facilitate the rollout of higher value services in the future...

An SMS-based health awareness campaign underway in India has received a new participant, the diversified health care benefits company Aetna...

The ITU Global Symposium for Regulators closed today with the adoption of Best Practice Guidelines aimed at advancing the deployment of broadband connectivity worldwide...

At the end of March 2011, Sri Lanka’s mobile sector had a total of 17.852mn subscribers, following 393,000 net additions in the quarter...

Enterprise markets in Southern Africa are on the rise and Namibia’s licence-exempt market is no exception...

Despite being Africa’s latest exporter of oil, Chad has one of the least developed telecommunications markets in the world...

India’s Department of Telecoms has reportedly claimed that Qualcomm’s original application for Indian wireless broadband service permits is void, thereby suggesting that the operator could have its licences revoked...

The African tower ownership and management company Eaton Towers has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (“CIPEF”), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets...

Uganda’s mobile sector is predicted to grow through to the end of 2015, while broadband subscriber numbers are expected to rise significantly between 2013 and 2015...

Although operators in Cambodia have a tendency to overstate subscriber figures to boost market share, growth does appear strong in the Southeast Asian country...

France Telecom is reportedly close to signing an agreement for the acquisition of DRC operator Congo Chine Telecom...

Vietnam initially fell well short of the ambitious targets it set for the wider expansion of its telecommunications infrastructure. However, after reviewing its approach and introducing some competition into the market, this ‘socialist oriented market economy’ has built a fresh growth momentum...

With declines in ARPU worse than previously forecast, Indonesia is one of the riskier markets in Asia-Pacific – but it holds significant promise...

The use of foreign currency as legal tender in Zimbabwe has been of great benefit to the country’s telecoms sector...

With a penetration rate of over 75% and the imminent widespread introduction of wireless and 3G broadband, Ghana’s telecoms sector has gone from strength to strength...

An infrastructure supplier which provided telecommunications equipment to Libyan rebels in Benghazi and Misrata has revealed its involvement in the liberation effort to the press...

France Telecom has stated that it is keen to pursue partnerships in the Middle East and Africa as a means of strengthening its market presence in these regions...

Investors as well as local operators have been invited by the government of Kenya to take part in the construction of a wholesale LTE network...

With operators recording growth once again after a period of decline, now is the time for Kuwait to improve competition with the introduction of an independent regulatory body...

Jamaica’s Prime Minister has approved the acquisition of Claro’s Jamaican operations by Digicel...

Disaster relief efforts through South and Southeast Asia will be augmented by a new partnership between Ericsson and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel)...

A new revelation has presented another setback to the group of Russian operators that have agreed to share LTE infrastructure...

Mobile broadband and 3G services continue to spread across several Central Asian countries, while the region itself has proved a notable testing ground for LTE deployments.

The number three operator in China has reported a significant boost in 3G adoption across the first half of 2011...