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Mexico's telecommunications services will generate US$26.3 billion in revenues in 2018, according to new data published by Dataxis, a 4.2 per cent increase on 2014 figures.
Mexico's telecommunications services will generate US$26.3 billion in revenues in 2018, according to new data published by Dataxis, a 4.2 per cent increase on 2014 figures.
India is expected to be the largest contributor to global smartphone unit growth this year, according to a new report, which also notes that 58 per cent of smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2015 were 4G-enabled.
The GSMA has published a new report finding that terrestrial digital television broadcasting in the Arab States does not need an exclusive allocation of the UHF spectrum band (470-694MHz).
LTE connections in Latin America reached 11.76 million in 2014, according to new research from Dataxis.
According to a new forecast by the analyst firm Ovum, total handset sales are expected to grow from 1.88 billion to 2.16 billion units between 2014 and 2020, at a compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 2.4%.
The GSMA has reported that China is leading the world in terms of M2M connections, while smartphones are set to become the dominant devices in the market.
A new report from Vodafone focuses on the impact that mobile services could have on the Indian agricultural sector.

Emerging APAC markets, along with Africa and the Middle East are currently the world's fastest growing smartphone markets.
The GSMA has issued a new report highlighting how effective government policy in Thailand could increase mobile and fixed broadband penetration to 133% by 2020, up from 52% in 2013.
Two senior executives from rival African ICT service providers were playing golf. One remarked casually, while his opponent was trying to putt, that enterprise ICT sales in their countries of operation reached USD900 million last year.
Latin America is an attractive region for MNOs to explore the m-commerce space beyond m-payments, due to the increasing presence of mobile merchants and the strong base of mobile users.
Pakistan saw its 3G connections surge past 10 million in February, with an additional 1.2 million end users adopting the technology that month across the four main operators.
Limited availability of 900MHz spectrum in India could result in operators overbidding for the frequency when it is auctioned in February.

The number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will pass the half billion mark in 2020 as mobile services become increasingly affordable and accessible to millions of currently unconnected citizens across the region.
DT Editor James Barton caught up with Orange’s Senior EVP of AMEA Marc Rennard to discuss the most important trends in the region, and what we’re likely to see on the agenda at the continent’s foremost telecoms event.
Amid ongoing conflict with Russia, the government of Ukraine is reportedly seeking to reduce its larger neighbour’s influence in its mobile sector.
Half of Africa’s towers will have been transferred from MNOs to independent towercos by the end of 2015, according to research organisation TowerXchange.
Around half of the world’s mobile subscribers reside in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy Asia Pacific 2014 report.
Vodafone India’s chief executive Marten Pieters has expressed his belief that the market is heading for widespread consolidation as operators are not turning a profit.

India saw a massive leap in 3G data traffic during 2013, according to NSN’s annual report on mobile broadband in the country.
Malaysia has been working towards a clear national objective to see it ranked as a fully developed nation by the year 2020.
Total mobile service revenue in the Central & Eastern Europe region grew 0.6 % year-on-year in the first half of 2013, reaching EUR22.5 billion, according to Analysys Mason.
By end-2018, half the African population will be covered by LTE networks, as LTE base station deployment swells at a CAGR of 40% over the next five years, finds ABI Research.
Chile is now ranked as the best market in the region for its business environment, according to BMI. It has overtaken Brazil this quarter, having received a boost to its industry rewards.
Libya’s Deputy Minister for Communications and Informatics Mr Mohamad Benrasali has asked the ITU for support in preparing a master plan to modernise ICT infrastructure in Libya.
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