Industry Developments

Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) plans to invest as much as US$15bn in buying new licences and existing operators in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia in a bid to diversify... 2008-03-17

Telecom Egypt has announced its consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31 2007, noting that total revenues reached EGP9.99bn, up by 5% from EGP9.517bn in 2006.... 2008-03-14

Kenya Data Networks is to expand its national wireless broadband network using WiMAX equipment sourced from Alvarion of Israel. Already a core element of the existing KDN Butterfly... 2008-03-13

Egypt-based Orascom Telecom has published its financial and operating results for the year ended December 31 2007, revealing a 36% increase in its mobile subscriber base (44% if... 2008-03-12

Saudi Arabia's second mobile phone operator Mobily has said that it has contracted three equipment vendors to carry out the expansion and operation of its 2G/3G network across the... 2008-03-11

Zain General Manager Barrak Al Sabaih has said that his company expects to qualify to bid for one of two new long-term mobile operating licences in Lebanon in April 2008. The company... 2008-03-10

Nigerian mobile operator Starcomms claims to have signed up its one millionth customer and has announced an accelerated expansion initiative that will see the network extended to... 2008-03-07

South Africa's Altech has acquired a 51% stake in Kenya Data Networks (KDN), in addition to Kenyan internet service providers Infocom and Swift, for a total US$75mn. The... 2008-03-06

Cellcom Israel has launched a trial VoIP-based telephony service for residential customers, according to a report published by Globes Online. The trial will be used to test service... 2008-03-05

iBurst, the South African wireless broadband operator, has reduced the price of its voice call tariffs by as much as 50% in an effort to obtain greater market share from incumbent... 2008-03-05