There were 12.367mn mobile subscribers in the UAE at the end of March 2012...

There were 4.962mn mobile subscribers in Kuwait at the end of December 2011, meaning the market grew by 11.5% during 2011...

India’s mobile subscriber base has shrunk for the first time ever...

South Africans have long held the perception that overseas is better, when it comes to goods, services, even qualifications. This, along with the attractive pricing structures offered by destinations such as India, led to a trend of outsourcing to global companies or offshoring services to foreign destinations. However, recently this trend has begun to reverse, and companies are once again bringing their outsourced services back to local shores...

The development of the telecoms sector in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is seriously impeded by the country's parlous economic state and the regime's general repression of communications...

It has long been reported in that Somalia plays host to a highly competitive mobile telecoms market...

Since the Mongolian Government's telecommunications reform program in the mid-1990s, there has been effective liberalisation of all market segments, partial privatisation of the fixed-line incumbent operator, Mongolia Telecom, and establishment of an independent regulator...

Research and Markets have found that mobile services have become the driver for growth in the wider Pakistan telecom market.

Research and Markets has released a report into China’s three major telecoms operators.

Mobile data traffic increased by 54% in India between December 2011 and June 2012...

Georgia is continuing to build itself into a modern economy despite the troubled times it has had with its neighbour Russia...

Malaysia has been working towards a clear national objective to see it ranked as a fully developed nation by the year 2020. This Vision 2020 was a concept introduced by the former Prime Minister Mr Mahathir in 1991 when he launched the Sixth Malaysia Plan...

Research and Markets have reported that Ghana remains a vibrant mobile phone market, and an exciting emerging market place for mobile services. Ghana is attractive to operators because of strong demand and fast paced infrastructural improvements.

Canalys, the firm of analysts has reported a 199 percent growth, year-on-year, at the second quarter of this year and a 32 percent increase on last quarter’s numbers.

The Chinese market was responsible for over a quarter of global shipments of smartphones in 2012.

Possessing one of the smallest markets in the Middle East, Bahrain's telecoms market is arguably one the most developed...

Lebanon's telecoms market holds a unique position in the Middle East given the level of government involvement...

Kuwait's telecoms industry is something of an anachronism in the region due to the lack of liberalisation of the market...

Myanmar has begun the process of reforming liberalising its communications networks, which would culminate in the country’s population finally gaining access to mobile and internet...

Growth for the Philippine mobile industry in 2011 was weaker than previously expected...

The Solvency and Asset Management (SAM) regime, the South African equivalent to the European Solvency II, is due to come into effect in January 2015. While the implications of non-compliance to SAM are unknown as yet, compliance is mandatory and experts have predicted that weaker insurance companies may not survive the transition...

With its relatively small population of less than 350,000 living on many islands across the archipelago, providing good communications for the Maldives has been paramount...

Stephen Carter, Executive Vice President and President of the EMEA region of Alcatel-Lucent has called for the South African government to implement a new and robust ICT policy in the country. During a recent visit, Carter said he sees big potential in the future of fast and reliable connectivity for all in South Africa...

Although subscriber data for Cambodia and Laos are hard to come by, the telecommunications sectors of both Southeast Asian countries have seen reasonable growth despite competition stagnating...

Tanzania’s economy has been showing solid growth rates of between 5% and 8% every year since 2000, which remained virtually unharmed by the global economic crisis...