Industry Developments

A number of new schemes are aiming to raise mobile penetration in rural areas across Africa. Despite strong growth in mobile markets across Africa over the past five years, penetration... 2007-05-18

While the Nigerian mobile market has thrived in recent years, adding an estimated 13.6mn new subscribers during 2006 alone, mobile operator M-Tel has suffered a different fate. The... 2007-05-17

Bahrain's telecoms regulator, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has said that it will delay any decision on the granting of new mobile licences until it has completed... 2007-05-15

Broadband internet has finally been launched in Lebanon. At a special ceremony on May 14, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and Telecoms Minister Marwan Hamadeh officially announced the... 2007-05-15

Egypt is now home to three mobile networks following the May 1 launch by Etisalat Misr, part of the UAE's Etisalat group. The operator, which paid almost US$3bn for its mobile licence... 2007-05-08

Zimbabwean mobile operator Econet Wireless has awarded two contracts to Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson and Chinese counterpart ZTE for the expansion of its network. Ericsson... 2007-05-04

The latest business environment rankings for the telecoms sector in the Middle East reveal a shake-up from last quarter. The most important change concerns the countries included... 2007-05-03

Kuwait's two mobile operators, MTC and Wataniya have both reported impressive growth for the first quarter of 2007. Market leader MTC announced revenue growth of 88% y-o-y to US$1.36bn,... 2007-05-03

Saudi Arabia's national regulator, the CITC, has announced the adoption of a long-term initiative to increase the size and scope of web content in the Middle East. The new initiative,... 2007-05-02

Morocco's leading telecoms operator Maroc Telecom has announced the completion of its new submarine cable linking Asilah in northwest Morocco with the French city of Marseilles. The... 2007-04-30