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A major mobile operator in Lebanon is overhauling its approach to customer experience with a new solution...

A major submarine cable network across the Southern and Eastern African coastlines is receiving a substantial overhaul...

With a population of 67 million, Thailand has a mobile uptake rate of more than 120%, and on average its internet users are among the world’s youngest – almost half are between ages 15 and 24, and three-quarters are under 35...

The Russian operator VimpelCom has announced a strategic partnership with the credit card company Mastercard...

A major Mongolian Internet service provider has launched the country’s largest Wi-Fi access network in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar...

Mobile World Congress has traditionally been the launch pad of the handset manufacturer's hottest and most innovative handsets. These handsets feature the latest network compatibility such as dual mode LTE for a range of markets and smarter technology such as NFC. More recently emerging markets have deployed 3G technology and due to lower income levels these markets need to offer significantly lower priced handsets...

A major operator in Guinea has announced that it will introduce mobile data plans as well as mobile payments in the first quarter of 2013...

Brazil’s first 100G network has gone live. Deployed by Telefonica’s Vivo, the country’s first active 100G network uses architecture from network specialist Ciena to connect native 100GbE channels to the DWDM system, providing unprecedented speeds for outbound international traffic...

Cellular phone usage has grown exponentially, and with the increased popularity of smartphones that can access the Internet and social media, which requires connectivity, mobile operators are finding themselves increasingly unable to cope with the sheer volumes of data traffic...

Construction is complete on a major cable system linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region...

This month is likely to see China become the largest market in the world for smart devices, including iOS and Android smartphones as well as tablet computers...

Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has announced that the cost of transferring money through its M-PESA service will go up following changes in government taxes...

Thailand's third largest mobile operator by market share has announced it will bypass 3G and launch an LTE network by April 2013 in Bangkok...

Telecom Namibia Group has awarded a USD46million contract to the Chinese vendor ZTE to build a unified mobile network to provide 2G/3G/4G mobile services and converged IP fixed/mobile applications...

One of the largest telecom providers in the Philippines has modernised its wireline infrastructure in key central and southern regions of the country...

Latin America looks to be well on the way to joining the Asia-Pacific region in designating the 700MHz band as the standard for offering LTE services, with Brazil and Chile both opting to use the frequency...

Two rural Colombian networks will soon offer data, video and voice services via carrier-grade Wi-Fi...

The third largest operator in India has awarded two contracts, each worth $1 billion, to two of the world’s largest vendors...

The market-leading operator in the Czech Republic has selected the supplier for its LTE network...

By 2015 the volume of mobile money transactions will reach $1 trillion. Global companies must tackle five key challenges to make the most of this opportunity or wonder who moved their money...

Sixteen countries across West and Central Africa now have access to a range of broadband Internet service packages which are available everywhere - from the most densely-populated urban areas to the most sparsely-populated rural locations...

Mali is the latest country to benefit from international remittance services via mobile...

One of the leading operators in Malaysia is bringing 3G services to remote areas across the country...

No other practice in the mobile telecom industry is more environmentally harmful than powering several hundred thousand of off-grid base stations by burning diesel fuel. One single diesel powered base station can consume around 20,000 litres of diesel per year, and spew 50 tonnes of carbon emission into the atmosphere...

The first low-cost smartphone targeted specifically at the Africa region will launch in the first quarter of 2013...

Bangladesh’s largest mobile service provider has deployed a new solution to consolidate and transform its network inventory management systems and processes...

Internet enabled devices are becoming more and more popular in all markets, but not all operators are seeing cellular data usage or revenues rise in line with this growth. Feature phones hide rarely used web technology, and smartphones are often used over WiFi networks only. As competition forces voice and SMS revenues to decline, smart operators are aware that a huge revenue stream is about to open up for them once they convince consumers to embrace mobile data...

Demand for high-speed broadband access, IPTV services, mobile video and more is expanding dramatically in the UAE...

Nine African countries will be united by the continent’s largest single fibre network following a new acquisition...

Russia’s leading mobile operator is enabling 100G services with a new platform...

A major Mexican operator is optimising its 2G and 3G networks to improve the quality and capacity of its voice and data service...

Nigeria is unlikely to follow the Kenyan blueprint for mobile money licensing regulation...

A new exclusive strategic partnership between Orange and Chinese search engine specialist Baidu will develop a co-branded internet browser for smartphone customers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia...