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India’s leading operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly adopting the TD-LTE framework for its 4G network, which will be among the first in the country...

With LTE launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE underway by operators such as Mobily, Etisalat and STC, others – including Qatari QTel and UAE-based Du – are now joining the fray...

Customers of Vodacom Tanzania are now able to benefit from more flexible billing options...

The first 4G network to launch in the Cayman Islands has gone live...

The Egyptian market leader Mobinil is replacing a number of disparate third-party systems for tracking infrastructure changes with one unified solution...

A new high-speed wireless broadband network is being deployed in Angola by ACS (Angola Communications Systems), a Business Unit of MSTelcom...

With data use soaring across the globe, it’s no surprise that mobile users emerging markets are increasingly hungry for services which place greater pressure on bandwidth – and operators are definitely feeling the strain. Fortunately, a total infrastructure upgrade is not the only option for operators in these regions, as Adrian Liu of Blue Coat explained to DT editor James Barton...

Turkey’s only GSM 1800 mobile operator, Avea, is integrating a new solution to provide accurate billing and settlement and prudent accrual provisioning...

A new remittance corridor has been launched connecting Morocco to Belgium. The initiative has been implemented by Moroccan money transfer specialist Wafacash...

Subscribers across the Mariana Islands in Micronesia will soon have access to a new messaging solution provided by the archipelago’s leading telecoms firm, IT&E...

Etisalat has launched an LTE-FDD mobile network in the UAE...

Russia’s largest telecoms firm, Rostelecom, is increasing the speed and capacity of its optical backbone network, which moves vast amounts of data from Europe through Russia to the Middle East...

ITU has underlined its key role in green ICT with a raft of announcements by Study Group 5 of its Telecommunication Standardisation Sector (ITU-T)...

Mali’s leading internet provider has installed new caching appliances to manage increasing customer demand for international Internet content...

Seven African countries will soon host new 3G networks deployed by Bharti Airtel, which is also planning a major expansion of its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks across Africa...

A new financial institution in Mozambique has launched a mobile financial service aimed at the country’s unbanked population...

The commercialisation process of TD-LTE in China has taken another step forward following the announcement of a joint trial based on the technology to be conducted by Sequans Communications and Huawei...

Research conducted by Deloitte has demonstrated that sales of mobile phones saw a significant boost in Kenya after the African country’s government scrapped value added tax on handsets in 2009...

A leading 1800 GSM provider in Turkey is installing a new solution aimed at enhancing network performance to improve the end user experience...

Mobile money services have been launched in Nigeria by Lonestar Cell GSM, a member of the MTN Group...

As part of a major network expansion, UAE-based operator Etisalat is deploying a new backhauling solution for mobile data...

With the advent of LTE, the prices of spectrum licences are escalating – but the spectrum itself is finite, and increasingly hard to obtain. Meanwhile, older technologies that have largely fallen out of use are occupying other spectrum bands – but there is a common solution to these problems. DT editor James Barton spoke to Fabricio Martinez, Services Director at Aircom, about how spectrum re-farming can reduce operator expenditure while bringing new technologies to emerging markets.

The modernisation of Kazakhstan’s railway communication network has been completed...

An expansive roaming reach is becoming increasingly important for operators in India, and with this in mind Aircel has selected a portfolio of roaming business management services from Syniverse...

In just over six months since it launched, a voice SMS service has achieved an adoption rate of over 60% in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

With its potential largely untapped, the oil-rich nation of Sudan has plenty of room to grow...

Yarob Sakhnini from Brocade provides an insight into a successful virtualisation strategy and explains how virtualisation is the driving force behind cloud computing, enabling data centres to provide a wide range of storage, processing, infrastructure and software services at a low cost...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Broadband provider Clearwire and mobile operator China Mobile have entered into a partnership which will focus on developing TD-LTE devices...

Like many emerging markets, Pakistan faces the challenge of connecting its rural population. In this interview Naeem Zamindar , the CEO of converged communications provider Wateen Telecom, warns that the rural market’s importance should not be underestimated...

The ITU has called for a global methodology to assess the environmental impact of ICTs...

Three Saudi operators have launched 4G/LTE services in the Middle Eastern kingdom – with each claiming that they are the first to do so in the MENA region...

Far from being written off because of the growth in mobile, Africa’s fixed line operators have a golden opportunity to capitalise on the fibre revolution taking place on the continent...