Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, uses his experience of the emerging markets to explain how marketing techniques are geared towards both avoiding offence and building up customer relations...
Research released by Frost & Sullivan and Colibria shows that mobile social networking is set to increase ten-fold in South America and Africa to a combined total of 527 million users in a market worth almost US$2.4 billion...
A recent feature from Reuters compared the markets for 3G in China and looked forward towards 4G. In particular, it reviewed the successes of China’s three major players. Michael Schwartz reviews the article and adds his own thoughts...
Wire-line infrastructure will be a better-understood product in Colombia as a result of the recently announced partnership between China’s ZTE and Colombia’s Javeriana University. Technologies such as NGN, transmission and net access are leading candidates for study...
Research and Markets estimate that smartphone sales in China are set for real growth: over 73 million by 2013, which equates to 31% of all handset sales...
Stephane Boyera, Programme Manager to the World Wide Web Foundation, accompanied Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Web Foundation Director Rosemary Leith on their visit to Kenya and Uganda. The journey followed on from their presentation to the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Stephane Boyera’s account is summarised here...
Major operators in 15 Middle East markets come under the scrutiny of a new analysis from Reportlinker. The countries’ telecoms infrastructure and fixed-voice sector are described and ranked in order of tele-density...
Some telecoms commentators have commented that the skill-shortage in India will mean higher wages and consequent deployment to Eastern Europe. Tony Kalcina, Chief Product Officer, Clarity, explains how India is already overcoming these potential dangerous obstacles...
As part of Developing Telecoms’ coverage of 3G in India we publish a press release from Wireless Intelligence covering problems confronting Indian 3G. Such challenges are the RoI timetable, restrictions on the 3G consumer marketplace, late roll-out and network sharing to cut costs and thereby survive...
According to a new report from Onda Analytics, Zamtel’s privatisation could result in its market share increasing by 15% under its new owner within six years...
Two Ghanaian journalists, Emily Nyarko and Lawrence Quartey, have been looking at the strengths and challenges that the ICT sector faces in their country. What follows is a shortened version of their recent report on the impact of liberalisation...
A new report from Ovum concludes that while rural India presents significant growth opportunities for mobile, the market that is currently being addressed is less than 25% of the country’s 800 million potential customers. Tackling low ARPU and high service costs is the challenge...
Gold certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) scheme makes Nokia’s Jucu factory the first building in Romania to be awarded global leader status because of its green design and construction...
Five West African markets were chosen for Research and Markets to base its analysis of regional broadband. The familiar problems of poor infrastructure and over-regulation make their presence felt but the analysts are optimistic...
Five West African markets were chosen for Research and Markets to base its analysis of regional broadband. The familiar problems of poor infrastructure and over-regulation make their presence felt but the analysts are optimistic...
The Indian Government’s dream of an auction of 3G airspace by the start of December is now receding. Reports from New Delhi indicate that the Department of Telecom has had difficulties in getting the initial processes underway...
Malawi’s economic future lies in exporting technology; this was a message stressed by Dr Mathews Mtumbuka, Deputy General Manager, Malswitch, when speaking to a conference of accountants in Malawi. His speech is summarised here...
Growth in fixed-line in Myanmar is to ease upwards with annual growth appearing to be around 10% for 2008-9. This accords with a plan drawn up by the Myanmar administration back in 1990. Companies and Markets’ new report details Myanmar’s telecoms market...
News that Telecom Egypt is to offer triple play services over a new fibre-optic cable network is one of several indicators that Egypt is a market undergoing a major transition - in the right direction. Analysis by Michael Schwartz.
Aastra Telecom South Africa, a leading company in the enterprise communication market, has finalised its Sub Sahara African partner programme for launch as part of an expansion plan into the sub-Saharan region...
The World Bank Group has endorsed a $215 million, ten-year Central African Backbone Program which aims to bring rapid affordable internet to the region...
Report Buyer has added a market report Indian Mobile Market Dynamics and Forecast: 2008-2013, which estimates growth in mobile subscriptions for Indian mobile to rise by 20% per year compound. Low-income users are likely to be major beneficiaries...
Cisco's Broadband Barometer (22nd edition) shows that fixed broadband connections grew 10.4 % in the first semester of 2009, in comparison with the same period last year...
After years of under-performance, Laos is on the way to economic growth. The mobile sector is attracting investment for many reasons including supplying telecoms to successful hydro-electric and mining projects...
The deadline for bids for Nigerian telecoms incumbent, NITEL, has been pushed back from today to the end of October. Onda Analytics believes the complexity of the opportunity, resulting from the difficult situation NITEL has found itself in, is to blame for this delay...
Trading conditions relating to fixed-line services provided by Bahamas Telecommunications Company make for very depressing reading: a drop of 80% over the four years to the end of 2008. Only increased rental charges have have reduced the losses sustained...
Iran has witnessed the privatisation of its state-monopoly Iranian Telecommunications Company. US$8 billion passed hands as a consortium dominated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard makes its presence felt in the country’s telecoms sector...
Following the recent highly negative report from Companies and Markets, iKS-Consulting, a specialist Central and Eastern European ICT research organisation has provided a much more up-beat assessment of the market in Ukraine. Revenue in telecoms grew over three and a half times from 2003 to 2008 and Internet access and satellite TV will deliver future growth...
Michael Schwartz looks at the graph of Internet usage in Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009, recently issued by the Asian Development Bank. Only 16 out of 47 countries surveyed have an Internet rate of 20% or more. The Digital Divide is still a major issue in this region...
Ukraine Telecommunications Report Q3 2009 - a new market research report from Companies and Markets - is one of the most critical this site has ever summarised. A political background of unrest, possibly the worst recession anywhere in the world and the worst risk rating of any country in the region are key explanations...
In this sponsored review of Tadiran Telecom’s recent expansion in Africa, the company reflects on its role - existing and potential - in boosting telecoms availability in several countries including Kenya and Rwanda...
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