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Croatia: elections stunt your growth

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2008
10485 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IT Services
  • Croatia
  • Serbia
The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...

Two-mobile habit catching on in Bahrain

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 October 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Handsets
  • Bahrain

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

Emergency Co-ordination Workshop Launched

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
01 October 2008
10681 views
  • Global
  • Disaster Management
  • Common Alerting Protocol
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...

Lower-Income Groups Key to Broadband Growth in Chile

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
23 September 2008
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  • Latin America
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Chile
A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

New Asian markets will produce half a billion more mobile subscribers by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
23 September 2008
11274 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • India
  • Cambodia
  • Pakistan
  • Indonesia
  • Vietnam
  • Bangladesh
  • ARPU
  • Frost and Sullivan
  • Laos
  • Sri Lanka
Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan...

ITU asks: broadband connectivity for Asia-Pacific. Too much or too little?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 September 2008
11742 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Broadband
  • Digital Divide
ITU launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU Telecom Asia 2008, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society...

Mobile workforce among Indian SMEs rising fast

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 September 2008
10993 views
  • Central South Asia
  • SMEs
  • India
From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...

CDMA plunges, GSM continues to thrive

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
16 September 2008
8766 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • CDMA

According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region...

Andicom creates a digital experience in Colombia

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
08 September 2008
10138 views
  • Latin America
  • Colombia
  • Digital Services
Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.

Great firewall of China still blocking online trade - Backbone IT Group

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 August 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Censorship
  • firewall
Internet censorship is effectively preventing thousands of American and European e-commerce websites from reaching Chinese consumers, claim Internet marketing consultants Backbone IT Group in a recent study.

ITU Report highlights broadband leadership in Asia-Pacific region

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
11855 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Broadband
It's now official - Asia-Pacific is the world leader in ICT. A new report from the ITU, published to co-incide with ITU Telecom Asia 2008 next month confirms what analysts and observers, including Developing Telecoms, have believed to be the case for years, that Asia-Pacific dominates in fixed and wireless telecommunications. But there is still a big divide in the region between ICT rich and poor economies...

Research and Markets releases "Armenia - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics"

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
8967 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Armenia
  • Research and Markets
  • Deregulation

Dublin-based Research and Markets has emerged as one of the most prolific publishers of telecoms analysis and forecasting. Reports on developing markets are no exception. We submit below just one of the many releases we have received from Research and Markets...

Rising demand for enterprise IP telephony fuels Asia-Pacific

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 August 2008
8537 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Frost and Sullivan
  • IP Telephony

Internet Protocol is rapidly penetrating a range of key vertical and horizontal enterprise telephony markets in the Asia Pacific region. Although time division multiplexing still holds sway overall in Asia, high demand for IP from countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore has triggered a growth spurt in the region...

As mobile markets mature in Latin America, operators look to address rural areas cost effectively

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 August 2008
14441 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Entel
  • Venezuela
  • Paraguay
  • Gilat
  • Bolivia
In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Zain rebrands Celtel Africa as it unveils global aspirations

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 August 2008
10631 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Celtel

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1st August 2008...

Managing mobile communications at the Beijing Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
01 August 2008
10103 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • JDSU
  • Mobile Networks
  • Olympics
Almost 600 million mobile users, a major restructuring of the country's mobile sector - and the Olympic Games. How on earth will China cope? Peter Collingwood, Vice-President, JDSU's Communications Test & Measurement business segment, EMEA, offers some answers.

Arthur D. Little integrates Affinitiv into Middle East consultancy

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 July 2008
10933 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mergers
  • Arthur D. Little
  • Consultancy
Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little is set to integrate the staff of Affinitiv into its Middle East office. Zoran Vasiljev, founder and CEO of Affinitiv, will take on the role of company director as his leadership team and employees join Arthur D. Little's Middle East practice...

Bangladesh set to offer three WiMAX licences - to new bidders

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Category: Regulation
23 July 2008
10744 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • Bangladesh
  • WiMAX
  • BWA
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, has published its draft guidelines for issuing three nationwide Broadband Wireless Access licences. Two will be in the 2.3Ghz band and one in the 2.5Ghz band...

China's telecoms industry - a case for more reorganisation?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 July 2008
9882 views
  • Regulation
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
China's online-video site Youku.com has received its long-awaited licence from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This may indicate that China's government will not take as tough a line on privately owned online-video companies as some had feared...

Research and Markets publishes report on telecoms, mobile and broadband in the Mediterranean, Levant

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 July 2008
9077 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Broadband
  • Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Middle East leads fight against threats to mobile

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
15 July 2008
8954 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mobile Security
With increasingly open mobile operator networks, the rise in mobile content and applications, and the influx of smartphones, the world is seeing a revolution in mobile adoption. Perhaps nowhere else are the potentials and pitfalls of this technology being seen more clearly than in the emerging markets of the Middle East...

Vodafone moves to 70% control over Ghana Telecom

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Category: Investment
07 July 2008
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  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Ghana
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mobile operators
Vodafone has acquired a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom from the Government of Ghana. Total consideration is US$900 million on a debt-free, cash-free basis, which would imply a total enterprise value for Ghana Telecom of approximately US$1.3 billion...

Morocco define Broadband Strategy with Cisco assistance

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2008
12969 views
  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Morocco

Internet Business Solutions Group, the consulting arm of Cisco has entered into a partnership with the Moroccan government to boost economic development and accelerate digital transformation...

UAE, Bahrain Saudi Arabia lead Arab World dash for telecoms

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 June 2008
10450 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • Arab Advisors
The Arab Advisors Group publishes a yearly update on the rates of connectivity within the various Arab countries. this year broadband and fixed services have played their part alongside mobile in fueling substantial improvements in connectivity rates...

Networking the challenging markets of the South Pacific

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 June 2008
11586 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Digicel
  • Telikom PNG
  • Oceania
No fewer than 30 countries lie in the South Pacific region. Some are established players, such as Australia. Others are tiny specks of rock. Together they form Oceania...

Costs of China earthquake soar to US$1 billion

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
10 June 2008
10391 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Disaster Response
Telco operators in China are counting the economic as well as the human cost of the country's recent earthquakes. A financial total of over US$1 billion is almost certain...

Russia to gain half Eastern Europe's pay TV by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 June 2008
10786 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Digital TV
Russia is set to dominate the pay TV sector in Eastern Europe with a 50% share of the market by 2012. This prediction is made by Screen Digest in its latest media analysis. The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia...

ITU restores telecoms links vital for Sichuan's rehabilitation effort

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
9945 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • ITU
  • Satellite terminals
Running simultaneously with ITU's relief work in Myanmar, the ITU is deploying satellite terminals in quake-hit China. Some 100 terminals are helping China get communication links back up and running in the Sichuan Province...

Alcatel-Lucent supports relief effort for Chinese earthquake victims

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
11200 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Disaster Management
Alcatel-Lucent is heavily involved in the efforts to help those suffering from the effects of the Chinese earthquake. The company has 10,000 employees in China with 500 in Chengdu, little more than 100 miles from the epicentre of the quake...

China quake hits telecom networks hard

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
20 May 2008
10197 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
Telecoms facilities in China have not been exempt from the damage inflicted by the recent earthquake. Among the victims is Western China's economic powerhouse, Chengdu.

ITU satellites reconnect victims of Myanmar cyclone Nargis

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
20 May 2008
13215 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Myanmar
Controversy has marked the relief efforts in Myanmar's recent cyclone tragedy. One encouraging sign is that ITU satellite terminals are restoring vital communications links. The International Telecommunication Union has deployed 100 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar on May 2 with devastating effect in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region...

WSIS take three: making what you are doing look important?

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Alec Barton
Category: Blogs & Opinion
20 May 2008
9995 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • ITU
  • Egypt
  • WSIS
  • WTISD

As ITU Telecom Africa wraps up in Egypt, the ITU segues seamlessly through World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on 17 May into 10 days of WSIS events, taking place in Geneva.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales announces his take-over of Bolivia's main telco, Entel

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 May 2008
12140 views
  • Latin America
  • Entel
  • Telecom Italia
  • Nationalisation
  • Bolivia
Living up to this reputation as a radical leader, Bolivian president Evo Morales has used the opportunity of May Day to announce that he will be nationalising Entel, his country's main telco. He also declared that he would take over four foreign-owned gas companies. Key to the decision is the fact that 50% of Entel's ownership is in the hands of Telecom Italia SpA. Negotiations whereby Entel would purchase Telecom Italia's share go back several months and have been complicated...

Russia and Ukraine - the battleground for GSM and CDMA

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 May 2008
12907 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Fixed-line
  • Ukraine
  • CDMA
  • GSM
  • CIS
Delegates at the Russia & CIS Com congress in Moscow on 3-4 June 2008 will enjoy an opportunity to learn more about a sector undergoing major changes. For the Ukraine and Russia are currently a battleground for growing GSM and CDMA mobile operators...

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