Industry Developments

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

Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), an international private equity company focused on investing across Africa, has announced a US$20mn investment in Cellcom Telecommunications Ltd,... 2008-03-04

Motorola has been awarded a US$335mn turnkey contract to deploy and manage a 2G/3G mobile telecommunications network for Zain Saudi. Motorola will supply its GSM/HSxPA network solutions... 2008-03-03

Four months after launching its WiMAX service Zain@home for residential customers in Bahrain, Zain has announced a similar package under the name of Zain@work aimed at corporate... 2008-03-03

The Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE) has said that it will invest as much as US$1.5bn in expanding the capacity and extending the reach of its fixed-line network over... 2008-02-29