15 Jun 2009

French groups France Telecom and Vivendi rumoured to be expanding further into emerging markets

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French telecoms companies are in the news today following expansion rumours in emerging markets. France Telecom/Orange Group has been presen...
8 Jun 2009

Are cost effectiveness and customer-centric business models enough for Russian operators to get out of the economic downturn?

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The economic downturn was on everybody's minds at the Russia & CIS Com congress in Moscow last week. Russia was already a highly com...
28 May 2009

WiMAX spectrum licensing causing trouble in Nigeria

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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been debating with my colleagues about the opportunities for WiMAX in Africa. It has always been hailed as...
19 May 2009

Operators working on their network performance in South Africa

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Competition is increasing in African markets, and added to the threat of lower consumer spend due to the global economic downturn, operators...
1 May 2009

Picture of contrast in India’s telecoms market

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India is a land of contrast, and it seems that its telecommunications industry reflects this. In the past week or so, news coming from India...
29 Apr 2009

Developing Telecoms Watch: Rural VAS tipped to grow in India

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Developing Telecoms Watch: Rural VAS tipped to grow in India
24 Apr 2009

Looking at new data on how the economic downturn affects emerging market operators’ spending

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The question of how the global economy is affecting the telecoms sector has been in every discussion for a while, but there seems to be a co...
16 Apr 2009

When football and telecoms meet in South Africa

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It seems not so long ago that Zinedine Zidane headbutted his way out of the football world cup final in Germany, but the next World Cup is n...
7 Apr 2009

Bakcell: a company to watch in Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan was one of the most talked-about markets at last week’s 6th annual Eurasia Com event in Istanbul. Although Turkey is by far the r...
26 Mar 2009

Zain on its way to global domination

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When Chris Gabriel (CEO of Africa at Zain Group ) announced at AfricaCom last November that the group was ‘shopping’ and expected to confirm...