global telecom news

February 21st to February 28th 2008 AFRICA: Vodacom in acquisition talks with LAP Green BAHRAIN: Government plans sale of Batelco shares Zainalabedin appointed as new Zain Bahrain CCO EGYPT: NTRA to auction second fixed-line licence on 19 June 2008 Orascom...

February 14th to February 21st 2008 AFRICA: Orascom deploys Roamware roaming solutions to offer enhanced roaming services ALGERIA: GTI collaborates with Algerie Telecom for WiMAX launch BAHRAIN: Batelco launches video conference calls Batelco to refund...

February 7th to February 14th 2008 AFGHANISTAN: Roshan pioneers mobile payment service AFRICA: Celtel to go the Zain way in Africa too ANGOLA: Alcatel-Lucent wins GSM/EDGE expansion contract from Unitel BAHRAIN: Batelco releases annual ’07 results (Updated)...

Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Danger Inc., the company responsible for the software and services powering many popular consumer handsets. The acquisition will align Danger’s nearly 10 years of expertise in...

LiMo Foundation is a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry. Commercial LiMo handsets being announced today are: MOTO U9, MOTO Z6w, MOTOROKR Z6, RAZR2 V8, RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition and MOTOROKR...

January 31st to February 7th 2008 ALGERIA: Orascom Telecom Algerie overrules sale speculations BAHRAIN: Batelco releases annual ’07 results Batelco to cut employee numbers EGYPT: Mobinil registers USD 328 million annual ’07 net income North Korea sanctions...

Bharti gets nod for additional spectrum (January 31, 2008) ‘Mobile revolution showing the way’ (January 30, 2008) TRAI may lower number of tariff plans per operator (January 30, 2008) Vodafone plea admitted (January 29, 2008) Reliance Communications:...

January 26th 2007 to February 2nd 2008 Feb 1 Taiwan Mobile plans to deal out 2007 dividend of NT$2.54 per share China mobile phone user base tops 547 million in December 2007 Mio announces partnership with Qualcomm to develop connected PNDs China market:...

January 24th to January 31st 2008 AFRICA: VSNL acquires stake in EASSy Project ALGERIA: Algerie Telecom plans nationwide FTTH roll out in 2008 BAHRAIN: Batelco plans network upgrade EGYPT: Orascom seeks USD 2.5 billion loan IRAN: MTN selects Intense Technologies...

January 19th 2007 to January 26th 2008 Jan 25 Taiwan Market: CHT-HTC jointly launch Touch Cruise Handset shipments up nearly 16% to 1.15 billion in 2007, says ABI Research Fight for second place among top-tier handset vendors to intensify HTC to ship...