Industry Developments

Bank Leumi Le-Israel has said that it is negotiating to sell its 15% stake in Hot Telecommunications Systems (Hot Telecom) to Israel's largest ISP, Netvision. The bank, which is... 2008-04-17

South Africa's third largest cellular operator, Cell C, has reported a 44% increase in subscribers for the year ended December 31 2007, on the back of a 17% rise in revenue and... 2008-04-16

Kuwait-based multinational mobile operator Zain has launched its borderless One Network mobile service in four Middle East markets, expanding on the existing service covering most... 2008-04-15

Egyptian mobile operator MobiNil aims to have almost 20mn subscribers by the end of this year; this would represent a 33% increase year-on-year from the 15.118mn subscribers the... 2008-04-15

Huawei Technologies of China has been selected by Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) to build a large-scale commercial Fibre To The Home (FTTH) network in the United... 2008-04-14

Umniah Mobile Communications, the 96%-owned subsidiary of Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), has expanded the reach of its Umax-branded WiMAX network to include the cities... 2008-04-10

Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) of Namibia has reported a small increase in net profit for 2007, despite strong subscriber and revenue growth, as competition increased unexpectedly... 2008-04-10

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) of the United Arab Emirates has reduced its 35% stake in Saudi Arabia's second mobile phone operator to 26.25%, according to an... 2008-04-09

The Ethiopian newspaper The Daily Monitor reports that incumbent operator Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is planning to increase capacity on its nationwide mobile... 2008-04-08

Etihad Etisalat, Saudi Arabia's second mobile network operator, reports that it had signed up 11.1mn subscribers by the end of 2007, raising its share of the market to 39% less than... 2008-04-02