Industry Developments

Etihad Etisalat, Saudi Arabia's second mobile network operator, reports that it had signed up 11.1mn subscribers by the end of 2007, raising its share of the market to 39% less than... 2008-04-02

Incumbent South African fixed-line operator, Telkom SA, has rejected an approach from Oger Telecom, saying that it will not consider the sale of the group or any of its units or... 2008-03-31

Qatar Telecom (Q-Tel), the incumbent operator has reported 1.2mn mobile subscribers at the end of March 2007. Expected to lose its monopoly in the mobile market towards the end... 2008-03-28

UUNET Kenya, a regional provider of business communications services and solutions, has contracted Redline Communications to supply it with RedMAX equipment for use in expanding... 2008-03-27

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a two-year frame agreement, valued at EUR24mn, with alternative Moroccan fixed-line and mobile services provider Wana (formerly Maroc Connect) to extend... 2008-03-26

South Africa-based MTN Group has contracted Cambridge Broadband Networks to deploy VectaStar microwave equipment for MTN Nigeria's new 3G network. MTN will use VectaStar to... 2008-03-26

HITS Africa, a subsidiary of holding company HITS Telecom, has been awarded Equatorial Guinea's second national telecommunications operator licence. The company will deploy an advanced... 2008-03-25

012 Smile.Communications, a subsidiary of broadband and multimedia company Internet Gold - Golden Lines, has applied to the Israeli Ministry of Communications (MoC) to extend its... 2008-03-25

Etihad Atheeb Telecommunications Company, one of Saudi Arabia's new fixed-line licensees, has announced contracts worth US$333mn with three key infrastructure and IT suppliers covering... 2008-03-19

Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services (EMTS), a joint venture that is 40%-owned and managed by Etisalat, has launched Nigeria's fifth mobile network service. EMTS partners... 2008-03-18