Features

Investment

Will the nationalisation of Hungary’s telecoms sector deliver on its goals?

Through acquisitions and shareholdings, the Hungarian government – led by Prime Minister Victor Orbán’s Fidesz party – is increasingly displaying its determination to boost the state’s role in the telecoms sector, arguing that it will deliver an economic boost to Hungary, strengthen its...

Investment

How can smart cities benefit emerging countries?

The over-arching purpose of smart cities is to improve the living standards of their people through multiple pathways, be it waste management, transportation or energy efficiency, to name a few. All of this can lead to making citizens more productive and delivering what all countries desire -...

Blogs & Opinion

Mobile World Congress 2023: Our Impressions

Mobile World Congress 2023 may be done and dusted, but the agenda that emerges from the show tends to impact the industry’s focus across the following year. I’ve felt in the past that these trends have been more tangible than they were in 2023; we’re perhaps in a year of evolution rather than...

Videos & Webinars

Features Review Autumn 2022

In our latest Features Review video, DT Editor Manny Pham and Director of Content James Barton take a look back at featured articles from the past months.

Wireless Networks

Chart of darkness: mapping connectivity in North Korea

Above all else, North Korea is defined by its secrecy – this isolated nation tightly controls the flow of information into and out of its borders, and this is never more apparent than with its telecoms sector.

Operators

Key takeaways from Africa Tech Festival: Mobile money, fibre, subsea cables

African nations, operators and private companies were all in agreement that Africa continues to hold so much potential, with much progress being made, but how much longer are we going to hear this instead of seeing it being fully realised?

Videos & Webinars

Features Review: Myanmar internet control, Ericsson and Nokia's Russian exit, and India's 5G device market

Over the past few months, Developing Telecoms has been working hard to produce more analytical pieces focused on the exciting and unpredictable workings of emerging markets telecoms. We’ve now compiled these articles into our new

Investment

As Zambia zero-rates equipment imports, could other African markets follow suit?

In October 2022, Zambia announced that it would zero-rate imports of telecoms equipment in a bid to encourage investment into the country’s ICT sector, which the government views as essential to job creation and economic development in the market.

Only stability will restore Venezuela’s crumbling telecoms sector

Investment

Only stability will restore Venezuela’s struggling telecoms sector

Venezuela’s telecoms sector has not been flush with positive developments of late – the country’s economy has been in a downward spiral for well over five years now, and this has caused a staggering decline in a sector that had seen average to strong growth up until around 2015.

Operators

Are tower sales the way to go in the Philippines?

Amidst rising costs of coverage expansion to fulfil the rapidly increasing appetite for connectivity, operators globally are under more pressure to balance the books - a trend that is not limited to developed markets.

Investment

Myanmar’s investment exodus is the price of control for its junta

It’s never a good sign when a government steps in to block internet access, or bans a communication platform such as Twitter, and unfortunately such practices are not unheard of in the markets we cover at Developing Telecoms.

Cloud & Virtualisation

Collaboration is key to the future of telecoms

The traditional approach for operators to run their business forever changing, now the telecoms industry needs to be more open to collaboration to truly thrive.

Devices & Platforms

Is India’s device market ready for 5G?

The long-running saga of India’s 5G spectrum auctions has finally seen some closure in 2022. The multi-band auction...

What will happen when Ericsson and Nokia depart Russaia?

Operators

What will happen when Ericsson and Nokia depart Russia?

The invasion of Ukraine will forever go down as one of the most infamous moments of this era. It is a conflict that caught the world off guard as all nations began recovering from the pandemic.

Trends & Forecasts

Interview: Balancing Act’s Russell Southwood, author of Africa 2.0

Africa 2.0 – Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution presents a 35-year history of the impact of mobile and internet on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Data Centres & Networks

Interview: Epsilon’s Warren Aw, Managing Director APAC

The pandemic accelerated digital transformation faster than anyone could have anticipated, and service providers have needed to adapt just as quickly. In regions such as Southeast Asia, the scale of the challenge is clear – a colossal population which previously had more limited internet access...

Trends & Forecasts

Interview: MEF COO Kevin Vachon

Originally focused primarily on the carrier Ethernet space, MEF has worked for years on developing standards and certifications. Across the past few years, its remit has expanded greatly across other technologies, making its certification work of ever-greater importance to operators in emerging...

Operators

Interview: Ooredoo Group CTO Nigel Byrne

The pandemic has prompted a global surge in demand for data, with video-grade networks required now for entertainment as well as basic communication with those we’ve been unable to see in person. Operator groups were already on this journey, but have been forced to accelerate their strategies...

Operators

Interview: Elisabeth Medou Badang, Senior VP of Orange Middle East and Africa

It’s no secret that many emerging markets suffer from a digital inclusion gap, but building a business case around correcting this can be challenging. We caught up with Elisabeth Medou Badang, Senior VP of Orange Middle East and Africa, to discuss the operator group’s Digital Centres and how a...

Operators

Interview: Indosat Ooredoo COO Vikram Sinha

Vikram Sinha is a veteran of the telecoms industry, having spent 10 years with Bharti Airtel across India and Africa before moving to the Ooredoo Group.

Operators

Interview: Airtel Africa’s Razvan Ungureanu

Delivering reliable coverage in Africa presents many logistical challenges, but since joining Airtel Africa in 2016 the group’s Chief Technology Officer Razvan Ungureanu has overseen the expansion and development of the operator’s networks into some of the continent’s most isolated and...