Industry Developments
Israel
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...
2008-04-17South Africa
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...
2008-04-16Bahrain
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...
2008-04-15Egypt
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...
2008-04-15United Arab Emirates
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...
2008-04-14Kuwait
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...
2008-04-10Namibia
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...
2008-04-10Saudi Arabia
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...
2008-04-09Ethiopia
The Ethiopian newspaper The Daily Monitor reports that incumbent operator Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is planning to increase capacity on its nationwide mobile...
2008-04-08Saudi Arabia
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...
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