Industry Developments

Egypt's market-leading mobile operator has begun threatening to buy its own international gateway licence, if its current provider Telecom Egypt (TE) does not lower prices, report... 2009-09-14

A rather whimsical stunt conducted in South Africa to demonstrate the acute problems with the broadband service available there has been receiving a good deal of attention in the... 2009-09-10

Botswana's government is planning to exclude fibre-optic backbone and their backhaul services from the upcoming privatisation of the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC).... 2009-09-09

With both the reprivatisation of Nitel and the renewed WiMAX spectrum licence tender immediately on the horizon, there is a lot of focus on Nigeria's telecoms market, and its regulator... 2009-09-08

The fortunes of Tanzania's smaller mobile operators seem to be continuing to deteriorate, as both Zantel and TTCL lost subscribers in the second quarter of 2009, having also lost... 2009-09-04

Four companies have reached the second stage of the bidding process for Israel's iDEN operator MIRS, reports Globes Online. The four companies include two that already operate wireless... 2009-09-02

Zambia's telecoms incumbent, Zamtel, is to be part privatised through a fully open tender process, reports Lusaka Times. The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has said that the process... 2009-08-28

After revealing plans to gradually exit its Asian markets, Millicom International Cellular (MIC) has revealed that Africa will become the main focus of its attention. According to... 2009-08-28

Following an increasingly heated disagreement between Bahrain's incumbent telecoms operator Batelco and the telecoms regulatory authority (TRA) over the necessary levels of opening... 2009-08-27

The privatisation of the Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI) now has an official schedule and is moving ahead, reports Press TV. The privatisation has been talked of for over... 2009-08-27