On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian   State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom...

Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards their aim of integrating the economies of their region...

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country's government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.

Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

The worldwide movement by operators to deploy high-speed mobile broadband services based on W-CDMA and High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standards is claimed by the GSM Association (GSMA) to be fuelling unprecedented economies of scale in the supply of equipment for carriers and handsets for consumers.

Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let's be blunt about it. It may be a case of "Bad news alone sells newspapers" but on the whole there is little, rightly or wrongly, to be happy about. And then...

Two years of acquisitions in Latin America by Telefonica, Spain' s largest telephone company, have now come to an end.

Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overviews. The overviews cover the role of various technologies such as broadband and convergence, the effects of regulation, the major players and how the African market has performed.

Intel's decision to invest US$300 million to build a semiconductor chip assembly and test manufacturing factory in Ho Chi Minh City is set to inspire a new wave of foreign investment in Vietnam' s information and communication technology sector...

Norway has become concerned that draft rules to prevent foreign domination of Thai telecom operators could affect the rights and interests of foreign shareholders of Thai telecom firms...

WiMAX is now commercially available in Algeria , while several operators in many Arab countries have started testing the service.

The President & CEO of South Korean mobile operator KTF, Dr Young-Chu Cho, has been elected to the board of the GSM Association (GSMA).

The Arab Advisors Group is now completing its multi-client major survey of individual GSM users in Morocco .

US Government sources are confident that their approaches to the Chinese Government to allow phone companies to choose their own standard for 3G operations in China have been successful...

Developing Telecoms recently published Francis Nyepon's account of the fate suffered by one of his country's key assets - the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation. Comments were welcomed by website and author alike. Telecoms consultant Denise Altey, who has worked in many developing countries, including Turkey and China , is a welcome contributor to the debate...

The man believed to be the third richest in the world, Carlos Slim Helu, is to buy three Latin American telecoms operations from US carrier Verizon Communications...

UNI Telecom Global Union, in conjunction with UNI-Africa and the AFL-CIO Solidarity centre, has launched a UNI Mobile Telephone Networks Union Alliance with membership from communications unions in 10 African countries where the South African cellular network operates...

Dr Bashir Gwandu has asked Nigeria 's telecoms operators to take the initiative in introducing the latest technology into their operations...

Bangladesh has experience remarkable growth in telephony in the last four years. Prime mover has been the mobile sector.

Developing Telecoms receives many emails of support and obtains much of its information from experts working in telecoms world-wide. Here an official from Ethiopia updates us on the very latest situation there...

Landlines in Ethiopia are set for expansion as the result of investment by The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation which has announced the commencement of year-long contracts in the country.

Jordan stands on the cusp of a milestone year for its already successful broadband sector...

Despite the liberalisation of the Internet market in Yemen , the Arab Advisors Group believes that this market has high entry barriers...

Vicente Fox, Mexico 's head of state, is under pressure from the country's competition chief to create a challenge to the private monopoly of Telmex. Eduardo Pérez Motta, head of the Federal Competition Commission (CFC) has identified a slowing-down on the path to full competition, which could have implications affecting the ultimate implementation of a level playing-field.

 Liberian policy analyst Francis Nyepon describes the recent fate of The Liberia Telecommunications Corporation in a blistering article first published in The Liberian Times - and deserving a far wider readership. In the article, which is published in full and with Francis Nyepon's permission, the author expresses his trenchant views which may resonate with industry experts elsewhere. Both he and Developing Telecoms welcome any comment or discussion - for publication or privately. Anonymity will be guaranteed if requested.

"SMS still top service for Asia-Pacific mobile phone users," declares International Data Corporation (IDC) after its recent survey of 4,056 urban Internet users. So far, so good...