Telecoms in 2026: Will opportunities outweigh the challenges?
Trends & Forecasts
Telecoms in 2026: Will opportunities outweigh the challenges?
Trends & Forecasts
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Latin America's mobile industry generates almost US$20 billion of economic activity each year: nearly 1.3% of regional GDP and 2.5% of the region's capital investment. Last year, moreover, mobile operators invested more than US$7 billion in Latin America.
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Work on the East African Submarine System (EASSy) is likely to start early next year. The World Bank is willing to offer finance. After all, the Internet and mobile-based commerce can change people's lives. Michael Schwartz says lessons can be learnt from a predecessor.
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Motorola has settled its financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).
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Michael Schwartz commented recently on an Indian Minister's opinion that priority should be given by Indian operators to local telecoms manufacturers. Now he analyses a leading Chinese telecom vendor's demand for protection in its home market...
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Cell phone ownership figures for China grow and grow. As of 30 September China boasted 377 million mobile phone subscribers, or a teledensity of 29%...
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Network equipment manufacturer Cisco is set to make its largest investment to date outside the United States.
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China's phenomenal growth in telecoms has long been praised but some of the early promise expected by investors in the 1990s does not seem to have materialised...
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Fifteen West African nations have today (7 October 2005) agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets...
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As India prepares for its largest ever expansion of telecoms the Indian Ministry of Telecommunications is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for equipment suppliers to manufacture equipment in India. Michael Schwartz assesses India's progress towards becoming a telecoms giant...
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Venezuela's tax agency Seniat declared last Wednesday that it had imposed fines and ordered the temporary closure of various foreign companies' offices in the country due to tax irregularities.
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Burma's (Myanmar's) few mobile phone users are to be permitted use of SMS services for the very first time.
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Bangladesh is opening up its telecoms market by inviting open tenders for another GSM licence, for 15 years initially.
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Jordan has overtaken Palestine as the most competitive Arab cellular market, the two followed closely by Algeria.
2014 Trends Article Count: 51
2015 Trends Article Count: 45
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