Industry Developments

On the back of our announcement last week regarding Qtel's interest in acquiring a 51% stake in Kuwait's No2 mobile operator Wataniya, it has since been announced that the Qatari... 2007-03-05

Present in the Middle East and North African (MENA) markets since 1992, US-based IT technology provider Sun Microsystems has built up a reputable brand name for itself in the region,... 2007-03-02

An attractive opportunity has presented itself to Qatar Telecom (Qtel), which has been looking to expand its reach outside of its home market for quite some time. After a succession... 2007-03-01

Econet Wireless Holdings will be pleased to acknowledge that it has had one of its shareholder agreements honoured, following the announcement that it will take majority control... 2007-02-28

Stronger competition in the Turkish mobile market has seen market leader Turkcell report weak revenues for the last quarter of 2006, which stood at US$1.20bn, a 0.3% rise over... 2007-02-28

A substantial 51% stake in Kuwait's No2 mobile operator Wataniya could be up for sale, after a group of investors led by investment firm Kuwait Projects (KIPCO) announced that... 2007-02-27

One month behind schedule, Irancell, the South African managed Iranian mobile operator has finally announced the launch of its free mobile internet services to customers. The service,... 2007-02-27

As the application deadline for Saudi Arabia's third mobile licence expired on February 24, 2007, the nine interested consortia were named as Egypt's Orascom Telecom, South Africa's... 2007-02-26

Between June 2005 and February 2006, telecoms regulatory body, the Communications Commission of Kenya's (CCK) statistics indicated that the number of mobile subscribers had grown... 2007-02-23

MTC, the Kuwait-based mobile operating giant has reported record 2006 net profits of KWD305.3mn (US$1.051bn), up by 65% y-o-y, with revenues of KWD1.210bn (US$4.167bn), up by 109%... 2007-02-20