The island nation of Mauritius sports some of the best telecommunication market indicators in Africa and has been the first with many innovations...

Developing Telecoms' Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how African operators can curb their soaring operating costs...

The civil unrest in early 2011 following disputed presidential elections has led to a contraction of Cote d’Ivoire’s economy, but from 2012 onwards GDP growth is expected to return to around 6% per annum...

Jordan is a standout country in Middle East region for its relatively well-developed telecoms and IT sector when one considers its lower GDP per capita...

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become the continent’s largest mobile market with now over 90 million subscribers, and yet market penetration stands at only around 60% in early 2012...

Despite developing in leaps and bounds in post-war Iraq, the telecoms industry still holds much growth potential...

India continues to be one of the fastest growing major telecom markets in the world, as well as one of the largest. Sweeping reforms introduced by successive Indian governments over the last decade have dramatically changed the nature of telecommunications in the country...

Iran's mobile market, by far the largest segment of the country's telecoms industry, exhibited considerably slower growth in 2011 compared with previous years...

Despite excellent fibre optic connections, Djibouti’s telecoms sector is not growing as fast as it should – largely due to an overly-powerful nation telco...

Saudi Arabia possesses a steadily growing telecoms market. As with many telecoms markets in the region, lack of strong competition in the fixed-line market meant much of the growth has been underpinned by mobile...

Kenya's mobile market returned to strong subscriber growth in Q311 after a slowdown in H111, which can be attributed to the discounting of inactive SIMs and increasing mobile saturation in urban areas...

Bangladesh had an estimated 86.555mn mobile subscribers at the end of September 2011, which would represent a net addition of 4.728mn from the previous quarter...

Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has published market data relating to the end of 2011 for fixed-line, mobile and internet sectors. A stronger than expected growth in the broadband sector suggests that the regulator's efforts at liberalising the internet market are driving growth in that sector...

Although the mobile penetration rate in The Philippines is expected to breach the 100% mark by end- 2012, growth momentum is expected to be relatively strong in the next few years due to the prevalence of prepaid subscribers...

Sri Lankan operators have been actively searching for additional growth drivers to offset the declining subscriber growth opportunities...

Africa’s telecommunications industry is now growing at an unprecedented pace and there are three clear areas of growth: 4G, broadband and green energy...

By some measures Vietnam is still in a comparatively early stage of its telecommunications development, but for some years now the country has been aggressively expanding its national infrastructure and growing its subscriber bases across all market segments...

The Indian mobile subscriber market has demonstrated strong growth in the past decade or so, but when it comes to the adoption of mobile data services, the results are more mixed...

Despite its growth opportunities, the Vietnamese telecoms industry remains relatively unattractive in the short term due to the dominance of state-owned entities in a highly competitive landscape...

As the telecommunications sector is growing rapidly, broadband communication is also surging across India...

Tajikistan’s telecommunications infrastructure was arguably the least developed of all the former Soviet republics...

Although growth slowed significantly in 2009, Kazakhstan has been experiencing a booming telecom market that included almost 100% mobile penetration by early 2010...

LTE has now become the de facto standard of choice for the evolution of wireless networks in Latin America. Although adoption rates have typically been faster in North America, where the regulatory environment is perhaps more amenable to rapid growth, most major operators in Latin America have at least trialled the technology...

In less than seven years Bhutan has moved from having no mobile phones to claiming 60% mobile penetration. Over this period the annual growth in mobile subscribers has reached in excess of 100%...