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News and commentary: telecosm in emering markets worldwide, including a regular focus on African markets

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Telco sector bigwigs converge on Istanbul

Doing telco sector business in Turkey, the Caspian region or Central Asia?......head for Eurasia Com at Istanbul's Conrad Hotel this March.A belated Happy New Year to all loyal readers of (and occasional visitors to) DevelopingTelecomsWatch.I daresay some of you will have found 2009 above-averagely challenging and are looking forward

Something to Grin about for Malawi's mobile users?

Tay Grin - star of the African hip hop scene... and Malawi's mobile sector?It is not with any pleasure that DevelopingTelecomsWatch sometimes observes a country's mobile market and concludes that one of more of its competing cellcos surely seems doomed to fall by the wayside. All such enterprises are

More musings on a latin t(r)ip

The most recent article here was both a round up of some recent news from Paraguay and a trip down memory lane. I reminisced fondly about an interesting tour of four South American countries which I enjoyed last year. In doing so, I mentioned in passing the two telecoms

Memories of Paraguay

In April 2008, your humble scribe had the very great pleasure of visiting four South American countries on behalf of events and business information company Informa Telecoms & Media. The purpose of the trip was to drum up additional support for the Americas Com conference and exhibition, held annually,

Cambodia's mobile price war: peace in sight?

Beeline Cambodia: late entrant doing battle in a fierce tariffs warDevelopingTelecomsWatch depends on the indispensable Phnom Penh Post for news of all things Cambodian, quoting that organ quite liberally, for example, when donning a flak jacket to report on the mobile price war which has been gripping the southeast

Telecoms operators in developing countries are always owned by te

Bouygues Telecom: eyed by Egypt's OrascomWhile the focus DevelopingTelecomsWatch is generally on communications sector businesses in emerging markets and developing countries, a battle between incumbent mobile operators and a proposed new entrant in Canada has been covered here of late.While events in the vast North American country are clearly

WiMAX set to drive broadband growth in Sri Lanka?

Sky Network: WiMAX offering set to shake up Sri Lanka's broadband market?News items from Sri Lanka's mobile market have caught the eye of DevelopingTelecomsWatch a few times of late. Most recently, DTW asked whether the arrival of the UAE's Etisalat as a player on the island nation's cellular scene

South Africa's Telkom: a fighting chance?

Telkom Direct stores: a vital channel to market as the company faces challenging times? DevelopingTelecomsWatch is picking up lots of chatter today about Telkom, the incumbent wireline operator of South Africa. This started when this morning's daily roundup from TeleGeography included the news that the company is planning to

Unsurprising news of the week

India's Communications & IT Minister: summoned to explain falling revenues at BSNLTo my mind, the least surprising news item so far this week comes from Mansi Taneja of India's Business Standard, who reports that state-owned Indian telco state-owned BSNL is likely to exit a consortium that has been aiming

Orascom Telecom: continued resistance to Canadian market entry an

Shaw Communications: joining the opposition to Orascom's Canadian market entryA recent DevelopingTelecomsWatch article reported on the challenges faced by Orascom Telecom-backed nascent Canadian cellco Globalive Wireless as it seeks to intrude upon what its CEO has described as the "oligopoly" of incumbent players Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility and Telus.

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