--- title: Blogs & Opinion - Developing Telecoms description: Blogs and opinion articles on emerging markets telecoms canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=102 language: en-GB date: 2020-03-02T13:15:19Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=102. markdown-tokens: 1426 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=102. 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. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/africa_mobile.jpg) Details David Eurin Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 07 November 2010 10516 views David Eurin, Senior Manager at Analysys Mason, examines the steps operators need to take in order to realise the mobile growth potential of rural Africa... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 03 November 2010 12872 views By any measure, Bangladesh is a country with one of the world’s lowest levels of access to telecommunications. And yet following a recent tour of the country which included visits to a number of cities as well as some of the most remote and inaccessible areas, it is clear that Bangladesh has, in a sense, already achieved near 100% ‘virtual’ market penetration rate for mobile communications services. So how do we reconcile this contradiction? ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Charts/mason_image.jpg) Details Pankaj Agrawal Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 02 July 2010 13701 views Pankaj Agrawal, Associate Director of Analysys Mason, weighs up the options available to operators for sustaining growth in emerging markets... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 26 February 2010 11736 views The emergence of the Wholesale Applications Community was perhaps the most significant event of Mobile World Congress 2010. **Developing Telecoms'** editor-in-chief Alec Barton ponders how this will affect the industry... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 26 February 2010 12674 views **Developing Telecoms'** editor-in-chief Alec Barton gives his impressions of Mobile World Congress 2010... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 15 January 2010 9153 views **Developing Telecoms**' publisher Alec Barton questions why he goes to Mobile World Congress, the largest annual convention for the communications industry, and considers how important and relevant the event is to emerging markets... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 20 May 2008 10440 views As ITU Telecom Africa wraps up in Egypt, the ITU segues seamlessly through World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on 17 May into 10 days of WSIS events, taking place in Geneva. Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 13 November 2006 11730 views According to the ITU 45,000 exhibition visitors attended ITU Telecom World. But how many were from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Europe? It seems many exhibitors felt not enough to justify the cost of participating. Telecom returns to Geneva in 2009. But has the day of mega-events passed, or has a rival event taken Telecom's place? Details Affamefuna R Ene Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 22 September 2006 12313 views Feedback is increasing sharply at **Developing Telecoms** - thank you to all concerned! This, following on from our on-going [**Digital Divide Special Focus**](https://developingtelecoms.com/content/blogcategory/39/99/), comes from the **Head of Technical Standards** at the **Ministry of Communications** in Abuja, **Nigeria.** It argues that capacity building needs to be centred on schools. Short and to the point, we couldn't agree more. Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 15 July 2006 11172 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 Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 20 February 2006 10101 views Alec Barton, Publisher of **Developing Telecoms**, finds great cause for encouragement from 3GSM Barcelona... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/afghancalloffice_w250.jpg) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 10 January 2006 182227 views First the Soviets built a telephone system in Afghanistan. The Chinese did too. The two weren’t compatible. Afghan Telecom is the company ordered to sort it all out. It is using expertise from Globecomm Systems. Michael Schwartz learns more...