India

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... 2013-04-04

Saudi incumbent STC has announced a deal with Ericsson to deploy energy efficient mobile infrastructure starting in Princess Noura University, Riyadh. The deal follows a global procurement... 2013-02-05

India's Bharti Infratel announced that its net profit for the quarter ended December 31 2012 increased by 31% year-on-year (y-o-y), and BMI believes that the company is poised for further... 2013-02-04

Indian mobile operators Bharti Airtel and IDEA Cellular hiked their voice tariff rates by almost 100% in late January 2013 as companies try to recover from the damages and low prices... 2013-01-25

Indian telecommunications operator Reliance Communications has agreed a new eight-year managed services contract with Alcatel-Lucent. Worth a minimum of US$1bn, the upgraded deal replaces... 2013-01-16

The past few years have been particularly turbulent for India's telecoms industry as a slew of negative developments took the shine off its growth potential. The sector will remain... 2013-01-11

Although 3G was launched in India in late 2011, the sector has yet to take off due to a number of reasons such as regulatory hurdles and poor service quality. Data from the Ministry... 2013-01-03

The Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry (AITI) of Brunei has announced a number of initiatives, including the auction of additional 1800MHz spectrum and the establishment... 2012-12-03

The 2G spectrum auction in India concluded after 14 rounds of bidding on November 14 2012. The results fell well short of the government's expectations, reaffirming the market's view... 2012-11-15

Vodafone is connecting its popular African mobile money service, M-Pesa, to the HomeSend international remittance hub. The move enables M-Pesa users to send and receive funds via their... 2012-11-06