Blogs & Opinion

By any measure, Bangladesh is a country with one of the world’s lowest levels of access to telecommunications. And yet following a recent tour of the country which included visits to a number of cities as well as some of the most remote and inaccessible areas, it is clear that Bangladesh has, in a sense, already achieved near 100% ‘virtual’ market penetration rate for mobile communications services. So how do we reconcile this contradiction?

Pankaj Agrawal, Associate Director of Analysys Mason, weighs up the options available to operators for sustaining growth in emerging markets...

The emergence of the Wholesale Applications Community was perhaps the most significant event of Mobile World Congress 2010. Developing Telecoms' editor-in-chief Alec Barton ponders how this will affect the industry...

Developing Telecoms' editor-in-chief Alec Barton gives his impressions of Mobile World Congress 2010...

Developing Telecoms' publisher Alec Barton questions why he goes to Mobile World Congress, the largest annual convention for the communications industry, and considers how important and relevant the event is to emerging markets...

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.

According to the ITU 45,000 exhibition visitors attended ITU Telecom World. But how many were from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Europe? It seems many exhibitors felt not enough to justify the cost of participating. Telecom returns to Geneva in 2009. But has the day of mega-events passed, or has a rival event taken Telecom's place?

Feedback is increasing sharply at Developing Telecoms - thank you to all concerned! This, following on from our on-going Digital Divide Special Focus, comes from the Head of Technical Standards at the Ministry of Communications in Abuja, Nigeria.  It argues that capacity building needs to be centred on schools.  Short and to the point, we couldn't agree more.

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Alec Barton, Publisher of Developing Telecoms, finds great cause for encouragement from 3GSM Barcelona...  

First the Soviets built a telephone system in Afghanistan. The Chinese did too. The two weren’t compatible.  Afghan Telecom is the company ordered to sort it all out. It is using expertise from Globecomm Systems.  Michael Schwartz learns more...