--- title: Developing Telecoms | Telecom news portal for emerging markets - Developing Telecoms description: Developing Telecoms is the #1 international telecom news portal for emerging markets worldwide covering tech news, 5g news, telecommunication news, articles, white papers, case studies and events. canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18632 language: en-GB date: 2025-11-25T00:11:39Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18632. markdown-tokens: 3234 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18632. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Details Alec Barton Category: [Optical & Fixed Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/optical-fixed-networks.html) 26 July 2006 10260 views Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project... Details Alec Barton Category: [Humanitarian Comms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/humanitarian-communications.html) 21 July 2006 12415 views The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 21 July 2006 11781 views Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 20 July 2006 18720 views End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 July 2006 10326 views Golden Telecom, which provides integrated telecommunications and Internet services throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, is implementing its strategy of rolling-out global broadband access in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 15 July 2006 11277 views ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to **India'** **s Telecom Regulatory Authority** Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence... Details Editorial staff Category: [Humanitarian Comms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/humanitarian-communications.html) 07 July 2006 14481 views Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo yi ng. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 07 July 2006 10494 views Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution... Details Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, Senior Vice-President, Siemens Communications Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 07 July 2006 14562 views It seems only natural that we start our analysis of the Digital Divide with one of the giants of world telecoms. Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, a vice-president of Siemens Communications, explains the role of wireless technology - and makes some predictions. Details Gabriel Solomon, GSM Association Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 07 July 2006 13773 views In the traditionally strident and forceful tones of the GSM Association, Gabriel Solomon, the Association's Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, reviews the part played to date by mobiles in bridging the digital divide. Gabriel Solomon then demonstrates that even greater growth can be achieved by removing regulations and restrictions. This upbeat commentary on the digital divide ends with a warning to impose a realistic price structure if emerging markets are going to develop to their full potential. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/nokiasiemens.jpg) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Vendors](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news.html) 02 July 2006 13198 views Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 02 July 2006 14859 views Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India . ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/eassy.jpg) Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 02 July 2006 11245 views Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project... Details Dr Nicolae Oacã Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 02 July 2006 15148 views On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four). Details Nyasha Mutsekwa, Oracle Category: [Humanitarian Comms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/humanitarian-communications.html) 02 July 2006 11943 views Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 22 June 2006 13809 views Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands... Details Alec Barton Category: [Devices & Platforms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-devices-platforms.html) 21 June 2006 10045 views Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East - the K510i... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 June 2006 11129 views Radio Frequency Systems has recently demonstrated a remote radio head unit which the company claims to exhibit the fastest bit-rate of any 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 June 2006 10538 views GSM penetration in Morocco topped the 40% mark last year - and yet some 80% of GSM users are still using payphone services for national calls. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 15 June 2006 10161 views Palanga in Lithuania is witnessing the launch of High Speed Data Packet Access services at the hands of the Baltic's largest telecoms company, Omnitel. Details Alec Barton Category: [Operators](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/operator-news.html) 15 June 2006 11901 views It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 14 June 2006 14929 views One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz. Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 14 June 2006 9015 views Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/marketshare_romania.jpg) Details Nicolae Oaca Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 13 June 2006 14486 views On June 6 Orange Romania launched 3G services in Bucharest and Timisoara using UMTS technology... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 June 2006 13779 views Sky Link, a telco established to develop a nationwide CDMA450 network in Russia, and Lucent have instigated a project to increase the capacity and coverage of Sky Link's network in Moscow and the Moscow region, and in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 08 June 2006 7857 views Two 20-year-old British inventors aim to cure Internet boredom by creating a virtual button has attracted supporters in more than 120 countries since its launch less than two months ago... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/cambodia_ruins4.jpg) Details Esther McClaren, Phnom Penh Post Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 07 June 2006 15642 views 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... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 06 June 2006 13416 views 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... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/romania_market_share.jpg) Details Nicolae Oacã Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 04 June 2006 17351 views 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. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/saudi_phone.jpg) Details Serene Zawaydeh & Andrawes Snobar, Arab Advisors Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 04 June 2006 11008 views Arab telecom operators served 85 million cellular subscribers and 30 million fixed telephony lines in 2005. The Middle East and North Africa is a rapidly expanding market, as detailed in a new report. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 04 June 2006 12060 views 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... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 04 June 2006 12819 views 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... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 01 June 2006 13241 views 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... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 31 May 2006 11919 views 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.