This blog is (usually) written on a Sceptred Isle whose citizens (subjects) are currently wondering what life is going to be like under a newly cobbled-together coalition government . This is rather a novel state of affairs because the our electoral system is carefully rigged designed to crown a decisive winner and deliver the ‘strong government’ we Brits are supposed to favour.
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Vodafone to quit Egypt?
The Zain-Bharti transaction: How will West African mobile markets be affected? Mais non! DevelopingTelecomsWatch has not become a francophone blog
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Afrique Occidentale & Centrale Com: De retour au Sénégal par demande générale
Maarten Pieters: Vodafone India CEO predicts market consolidation Last week, a broad range of news outlets were carrying the claim that just 31% of the population of India were known to have access to a toilet and ‘improved sanitation’ in 2008. This is clearly a regrettable state of affairs, with dire consequences for public health, life expectancy and economic development
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India: operator space to consolidate while handset market gets more fragmented?
’tis the season to go networking with telecoms bigwigs from Turkey and the CIS , it seems.
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More chances to network with telecoms and government bigwigs from Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Kenyatta Int’l Conference Centre, Nairobi: venue for this year’s East Africa Com Last year I had the pleasure of visiting Nairobi, Kenya for the first time, building meetings around the excellent East Africa Com conference and exhibition. This year, given that my day-to-day commercial activity now does not give me much exposure to Africa, I will not attending.
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East African opportunities unclear as cellcos remain coy about data ARPU
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.
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Something to Grin about for Malawi’s mobile users?
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, and usually attracting a few hundred telecoms sector execs from around the Western Hemisphere. While exhibitors, sponsors, delegates and supporting industry associations seemed to be broadly happy, it was beyond dispute that assembling a crowd which really represented the majority of the countries to the south of the USA was a challenging task
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Memories of Paraguay
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 cooperatives I was able to visit in Bolivia
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More musings on a latin t(r)ip
Beeline Cambodia: late entrant doing battle in a fierce tariffs war DevelopingTelecomsWatch 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 Asian country for months. It was also via that esteemed news outlet that DTW learned this week that the Cambodian Government has tired of waiting for the country’s numerous cellcos to end to their damaging tariffs battle.
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Cambodia’s mobile price war: peace in sight?
Bouygues Telecom : eyed by Egypt’s Orascom While 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 beyond the usual remit of this blog, two factors go some way towards justifying the interest of DTW in this particular story. The first of these is possibly a bit frivolous – simply the observation that despite Canada’s G8 membership and status as one of the world’s most affluent countries, its mobile communications industry lags behind that of many far less wealthy countries in terms of market penetration.
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Telecoms operators in developing countries are always owned by telcos from richer nations and never the other way round… right?
