Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 26, 2009, 11:14 pm
BSNL: global ambitions? DevelopingTelecomsWatch has followed, with some interest, suggestions that India's two major state sector telecoms operators - BSNL and MTNL - might be aiming to become in...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 26, 2009, 2:20 am
President vs. Prime Minister: 3G licence auctions to be a casualty of political strife? Political squabbling and paralysed decision-making now looks set to stymie the development of 3G mobile service...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 22, 2009, 8:48 am
Etisalat: set to make life hard for Sri Lanka's cellcos? This blog has recently taken an interest in the fate of the three Asian mobile operations put up for sale by Millicom International Cellul...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 10, 2009, 1:45 pm
That DevelopingTelecomsWatch has featured so many articles about African markets suggests that 2009 has been an eventful year for the telecoms sector in that part of the world. Certainly, in terms of...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 9, 2009, 5:15 am
Iran's Mohammad Ali Jafari: Guardian of the Revolution... and telecoms tycoon? Last week, Nugon Sovan of the Phnom Penh Post reported that the Cambodian Government is set to list three state-owne...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 8, 2009, 5:52 am
I am always pleased when a reader of this blog takes the time to indicate that some of what is shared here has been useful. From time to time, I receive such feedback by email or in the comments box f...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 6, 2009, 2:26 am
A number of articles here have wrestled with the question of optimum pricing for mobile operators in emerging markets. Some of these have focused on the case of Millicom International Cellular selling...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 3, 2009, 6:44 am
Sunil Bharti Mittal: looking to new opportunities in the wake of scuppered MTN deal? Will they? Won't they? Will they? Won't they? No. Not now - and maybe not ever. Of the two big telecoms ...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Oct 1, 2009, 12:46 pm
Central America and the Caribbean: varied telecoms markets When I wrote in late August about the quasi-nationalisation of Belize Telemedia, this was in response to being urged to do so by a Caribbean...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 29, 2009, 8:24 am
The regions most often covered by this blog are Africa, South Asia and SE Asia - quite predictable given the remit of rounding up news about the strategies of telecoms companies in developing countrie...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 26, 2009, 9:15 pm
The gimlet eye of DevelopingTelecomsWatch roves back to Cambodia today, where a mobile operator given a fair amount of coverage here for its impressive subscriber growth is also quickly carving out a ...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 26, 2009, 4:55 am
India's PM: supports Bharti Airtel-MTN tie-up More than once I have warmly recommended articles written by Matthew Reed, the editor of the Informa Telecoms & Media Mobile Middle East & Africa Int...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 19, 2009, 4:37 am
Zain Group: all operations up for grabs? Over the (northern hemisphere) summer months, this blog became very preoccupied with whispers about a 'for sale' sign supposedly being slapped onto th...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 17, 2009, 6:28 pm
Vimpelcom's Beeline brand: next stop Laos Back in late July, global emerging markets mobile group Millicom International Cellular announced that its Asian assets were up for sale. Since then, thi...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 17, 2009, 9:50 am
I'd like to think that I approach everything I do with a reasonable degree of professionalism. Whether it's accurate to describe myself as a young professional, though, is open to question. Wh...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 13, 2009, 7:26 pm
Sri Lankans queue to get their hands on Airtel 's low price offers earlier this year When Bharti Airtel's Sri Lanka operation Airtel Lanka launched its cut price services in January this year...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 9, 2009, 11:58 pm
Cambodia's mobile operators are in for some serious wrangling and the country's consumers are in for some serious savings - for now, at least. A week ago, courtesy of Cellular News, I learned...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 4, 2009, 3:34 am
... country's most admired citizens. Does this brand resonate much more strongly here in Britain than, say, India? It remains to be seen whether these franchising deals or the launch of new dev...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Sep 4, 2009, 3:12 am
It's gratifying to realise that this blog is sometimes read by people within organisations at the centre of the stories covered here. This seems to have been the case with the recent piece on the ...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 29, 2009, 3:17 pm
Does it sound fanciful to suggest that wrangles over the ownership of telecoms businesses in a small country in the western hemisphere could have some bearing on the next General Election here in the ...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 23, 2009, 5:07 pm
It has been a tendency of this blog to eulogise the ways in which telecoms companies with business units in developing countries are able to reconcile efforts to alleviate poverty and misery with thei...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 20, 2009, 3:07 am
If you were asked to reach for an example of mobile financial services gaining traction really impressively, perhaps you would think immediately of the M-Pesa service offered by the Kenyan cellco Safa...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 17, 2009, 10:34 pm
Anil Ambani, Reliance Communications: eyeing Zain's African operations? The newswires have been humming with more than enough Zain-related information over the last few days to justify this thirt...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 14, 2009, 5:20 am
'India Week' here at DevelopingTelecomsWatch concludes with a round up of views on the prospects for the country's public sector telecoms enterprises. State-owned telco MTNL is one compan...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 12, 2009, 1:22 am
This is turning into 'India Week' here at DevelopingTelecomsWatch. Today's musings begin by revisiting yesterday's discussion here about the imposition of Mobile Number Portability (MN...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 11, 2009, 9:54 am

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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 7, 2009, 1:32 am
Zain share price: massive spike since the rumour mill started turning One loyal reader has suggested it's high time that this blog revisited its most regularly explored theme - the ongoing not-so...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Aug 6, 2009, 4:31 pm
Telenor HQ: India, Pakistan and Russia issues on the agenda A recent DevelopingTelecomsWatch article went into the likelihood of mobile market consolidation in Pakistan. I was prompted to write this ...
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Joe W. posted an article on Developing Telecoms Watch - Jul 28, 2009, 5:26 am
Russia's Beeline brand comes to Cambodia - and set to drive consolidation in the wake of Millicom's withdrawl? Picture (C) Roger Barlow. Millicom International Cellular, the Luxembourg-based ...
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