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The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) recently released its "Regional Spotlight Africa – October 2024" report. It tracks ...

With the mobile technology gaining even more subscribers and smartphones becoming common, the telecom services pricing that includes voice...

I wrote this blog post '2G / 3G Switch Off: A Tale of Two Worlds' back in Oct 2017. Since then I have continued to see the same ...

The  GSMA Mobile Economy 2018  report forecasts that 2G will still be around in 2025 and the dominant technology will be 3G in Africa....

Got an opportunity recently to hear about the connectivity progress, challenges and issues in Africa. Agree that Africa is a very large ...

I came across this interesting article in WSJ , courtesy of the Benedict Evans  newsletter,  which discusses how Indians are using their sm...

I am sure that by now everyone is aware of Facebook's attempt to connect the people in rural and remote areas. Back in March they publi...

Public Safety is still a hot topic in the standards discussion and on this blog as well. Two recent posts containing presentations have ...

Another one from FWIC Opportunities for reshaping the future of your industry? from Zahid Ghadialy You can also view the webcas...

Visitors of this blog seemed to like the last set of deployment pictures I put up. As a result here is another set of pictures from the s...

Post PC Era: Mobile Banking and Payments in Emerging Markets View more presentations from On Device Research

Insights into Mobile Telecoms in Africa View more presentations from Jon Hoehler

With some much talk (and hype) surrounding NFC and Mobile payments, it looks quite possible that m-payments will enter mainstream in the We...

It has been predicted that the growth of HSPA+ broadband across Europe is set to soar with the total number of subscribers set to nearly dou...

Interesting article from The Guardian : The mobile phone is turning into Africa's silver bullet . Bone-rattling roads, inaccessible inte...