Industry Developments
Nepal
Nepal's telecoms sector was poised to experience greater competition after the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) decided to issue unified telecoms licences to Smart Telecom and...
2013-04-19Pakistan
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reported that there were 1.4mn mobile banking accounts in the country at end-June 2012, up by 156% year-on-year. All five mobile operators...
2013-04-16Vietnam
Vietnam's MobiFone and VinaPhone have hiked their 3G tariffs by 25% starting April, bringing their fees to the same level as main rival Viettel. The move was driven by consumers increasingly...
2013-04-15Myanmar
After reportedly receiving 91 expressions of interest in February, Myanmar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) announced on April 5 that 22 entities have...
2013-04-09Cloud computing has been receiving an increasing amount of attention from telecoms operators in light of factors such as the growing prevalence of quality internet connectivity and...
2013-04-05India
India's Ambani brothers - Mukesh and Anil - have announced a business collaboration eight years after splitting their father's enterprise. The deal involves Mukesh's Reliance Jio Infocomm...
2013-04-04North Korea
Less than one a month after its launch, North Korea has suspended 3G mobile internet access for tourists entering the country. A message posted on the Koryo Tours website states that:...
2013-03-27China
The possibility of China issuing 4G licences by end-2013 is looking increasingly likely as China Unicom and China Telecom expressed their preference for FDD-LTE in March. This creates...
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