Claiming that Cambodia's morality is not yet advanced enough to withstand the lures of pornographic videos on mobile telephones, Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 26 announced a 10-year ban on 3G technology. Esther McClaren, a writer with the Phnom Penh Post, the main English language newspaper in Cambodia, brings us up to date with reactions locally...

Following identification as a potentially strong Internet market, Eastern and Central Africa have now been singled out as markets set for exceptional growth on cellular applications...

After more than two years of hesitating to make a decision, CosmoRom was taken over by Greece's Cosmote and commercially re-launched on December 6 2005 under the new brand name Cosmote Romania. Developing Telecoms welcomes its new Central and Eastern Europe analyst Dr Nicolae Oacã, who fills in the gaps in a complex market.

ADC and Andrew Corporation, two companies well established in emerging markets, have announced that they are merging, creating a global player in wireline and wireless network infrastructure solutions. Developing Telecoms assesses the implications of the merger...

On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian   State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom...

Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards their aim of integrating the economies of their region...

New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in Costa Rica , to rapidly develop and launch capabilities such as VoIP and Virtual Private Networks.

Transporting approximately 11 million passengers every day on the Moscow Metro is now claimed to be safer and more efficient with Andrew Corporation's completion of the first phase of a major communications network covering seven lines of the Russian capital's landmark 12-line system.

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country's government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.

Revenue assurance specialist cVidya's new MoneyMap Suite R3.0 now provides full revenue assurance operations support, including rating and billing verification capabilities...

Ghana 's only CDMA cellular network has been extended to Obuotabiri, adding voice mail to its range of value-added-services...

Believed to be the Caribbean 's fastest-growing GSM operator, Digicell Group has implemented a new roaming solution...

Intec, which supplies BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, has announced its new Centralized Error Management System (CEMS)...

Wireless services provider Smart Communications has selected an international gateway solution from Nortel to provide next generation, carrier-grade wireless VoIP services to Philippines-based and international long distance customers...

Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

Unisys has begun work on a contract worth approximately US$21 million with Movilnet Telecommunications, the largest mobile network operator in Venezuela...

Golden Telecom, a Russia-based service provider, is using wireless mesh network technology from Nortel to build Moscow 's first wireless mesh network...

The worldwide movement by operators to deploy high-speed mobile broadband services based on W-CDMA and High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standards is claimed by the GSM Association (GSMA) to be fuelling unprecedented economies of scale in the supply of equipment for carriers and handsets for consumers.

Reflecting The Philippines' increasing importance in Asia-Pacific communication, the country's second-largest mobile-phone service provider has now brought to the region its first built-in high-speed broadband component...

A private African network is to benefit from the supply of 55 VSATs manufactured by PolarSat...

Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let's be blunt about it. It may be a case of "Bad news alone sells newspapers" but on the whole there is little, rightly or wrongly, to be happy about. And then...

Two companies, Subex Systems Limited, a telecom software product company, and Azure Solutions Limited, a telecoms revenue-assurance company, are to merge...

Two years of acquisitions in Latin America by Telefonica, Spain' s largest telephone company, have now come to an end.

Global roaming solutions specialist Roamware is combining SMS with voice communications to launch Voice SMS capability over mobile networks...

New jumper cable caps from Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) are claimed to offer improved RF connection between main feeders and antennas or system equipment...

One of Latin America 's largest Next Generation Networks (NGN) is set for creation in Brazil...

IPTV will soon be deployed by China Netcom in North-east China using UTStarcom's RollingStream technology...

Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overviews. The overviews cover the role of various technologies such as broadband and convergence, the effects of regulation, the major players and how the African market has performed.