Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 10303 views

Whether you measure in US$ or local currency, increases of 32% and 20.5% respectively ensured that Bulgaria's IT spending soared last year. IDC believes that the rise is due to a number of favourable economic criteria. And there will be more over the next five years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 9885 views

Millicom International Cellular has been successful in the tender for the third national mobile licence in Rwanda against three other bidders. Millicom will hold 87.5% of the equity in a newly created joint venture company in partnership with Marathon Corporation, an established local company with numerous business interests in Rwanda...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 December 2008; 10136 views

Liberalisation in MENA will create opportunities and will entice new entrants into this market, according to Analysys Mason in a new report looking five years into the future. The award of a third 2G licence in Morocco typifies the region's good news...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 December 2008; 12349 views

The ITU's recent high-level meeting on ICT trends aimed to strengthen cybersecurity and mitigate climate change. Present were the Presidents of Burkina Faso and Rwanda...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 November 2008; 9879 views

Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East saw an increase of no less than 47% for the last year-on-year figures available. Informa Telecoms & Media will shine a spotlight on the region at a forthcoming event in Dubai...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 25 November 2008; 11777 views

Vodafone's African shopping trip shows no sign of abating in the face of the global financial crisis, according to Jeremy Green, Mobile Practice Leader at Ovum. Last week, the company announced that it had achieved its long-held ambition to take a controlling stake in Vodacom, the South African mobile operator in which it held a 50% share...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 November 2008; 10965 views

In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 10 November 2008; 10939 views

Albania's IT market continued to grow solidly in 2007, fueled by increased spending in the government, finance, and telecom sectors, by falling equipment prices and by favourable economic development. This is according to a recent IDC study, which concludes that Albania's IT market reached US$89.34 million in 2007, representing 28.3% year-on-year growth. In local currency, the market expanded 16.3% year on year...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 November 2008; 10381 views

The Romanian PC market continued to grow at a fast pace in 2Q08 in terms of both shipments and value, albeit not as rapidly as in previous quarters. According to the latest data from IDC, shipments grew 29.3% year on year, while the value of the market expanded year on year by 23.3%...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 November 2008; 10546 views

The Serbian IT market increased 30% year on year in US Dollars in 2007, fueled by a growing economy, structural reforms, privatisation, tax cuts, and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a recent IDC study, total spending on hardware, software, and IT services in Serbia reached almost US$751 million in 2007...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11178 views

A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10439 views

Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11715 views

Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 October 2008; 10263 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 October 2008; 10678 views

The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 October 2008; 10597 views

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Humanitarian Comms; 01 October 2008; 10950 views

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 9700 views

A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 11887 views

Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 22 September 2008; 11943 views

ITU launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU Telecom Asia 2008, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 September 2008; 11342 views

From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 16 September 2008; 8967 views

According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 September 2008; 10343 views

Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 28 August 2008; 11943 views

Internet censorship is effectively preventing thousands of American and European e-commerce websites from reaching Chinese consumers, claim Internet marketing consultants Backbone IT Group in a recent study.

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 20 August 2008; 12303 views

It's now official - Asia-Pacific is the world leader in ICT. A new report from the ITU, published to co-incide with ITU Telecom Asia 2008 next month confirms what analysts and observers, including Developing Telecoms, have believed to be the case for years, that Asia-Pacific dominates in fixed and wireless telecommunications. But there is still a big divide in the region between ICT rich and poor economies...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 20 August 2008; 9148 views

Dublin-based Research and Markets has emerged as one of the most prolific publishers of telecoms analysis and forecasting. Reports on developing markets are no exception. We submit below just one of the many releases we have received from Research and Markets...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 August 2008; 8705 views

Internet Protocol is rapidly penetrating a range of key vertical and horizontal enterprise telephony markets in the Asia Pacific region. Although time division multiplexing still holds sway overall in Asia, high demand for IP from countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore has triggered a growth spurt in the region...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 August 2008; 14841 views

In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Details: James Barton; Category: Operators; 11 August 2008; 10885 views

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1^st August 2008...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 August 2008; 10319 views

Almost 600 million mobile users, a major restructuring of the country's mobile sector - and the Olympic Games. How on earth will China cope? Peter Collingwood, Vice-President, JDSU's Communications Test & Measurement business segment, EMEA, offers some answers.

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 July 2008; 11113 views

Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little is set to integrate the staff of Affinitiv into its Middle East office. Zoran Vasiljev, founder and CEO of Affinitiv, will take on the role of company director as his leadership team and employees join Arthur D. Little's Middle East practice...

Details: Category: Regulation; 23 July 2008; 10928 views

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, has published its draft guidelines for issuing three nationwide Broadband Wireless Access licences. Two will be in the 2.3Ghz band and one in the 2.5Ghz band...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 21 July 2008; 10077 views

China's online-video site Youku.com has received its long-awaited licence from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This may indicate that China's government will not take as tough a line on privately owned online-video companies as some had feared...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 July 2008; 9257 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Humanitarian Comms Article Count: 249

Operators Article Count: 3103

Vendors Article Count: 526

Regulation Article Count: 1984

Investment Article Count: 698

Trends & Forecasts Article Count: 932

2014 Trends Article Count: 51

2015 Trends Article Count: 45

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