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Jul 9, 2010, 9:23 am
I am no longer working in a telecoms sector role and have therefore decided to cease updating this blog. Thanks to all who visited here and found it useful, and to the various advertisers and media partners with whom I had the pleasure of doing business. Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 9:10 am
This blog is (usually) written on a Sceptred Isle whose citizens (subjects) are currently wondering what life is going to be like under a newly cobbled-together coalition government. This is rather a novel state of affairs because the our electoral system is carefully rigged designed to crown a deci... Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 5:49 am
Solar power: mandatory for India's cellcos?
The green credentials of DevelopingTelecomsWatch are pretty weak - this blog has never dedicated an entire article specifically to an examination of the environmental impact of telecoms technology.
Moreover, the only time DTW has discussed 'green' technolo... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2010, 11:29 am
The Zain-Bharti transaction: How will West African mobile markets be affected?
Mais non! DevelopingTelecomsWatch has not become a francophone blog. The frenchified title of today's offering is in honour of the fact that a noted West African telecoms conference is, after two years in Nigeria, to be ... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 12:04 pm
Maarten Pieters: Vodafone India CEO predicts market consolidation
Last week, a broad range of news outlets were carrying the claim that just 31% of the population of India were known to have access to a toilet and 'improved sanitation' in 2008. This is clearly a regrettable state of affairs, with d... Comment - Like
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Apr 13, 2010, 7:05 am
'tis the season to go networking with telecoms bigwigs from Turkey and the CIS, it seems. Having not long returned from one industry talking shop in Istanbul, DTW is hoping very much to be able to attend another one later this month.
The conference in question is the 9th annual Caspian Telecoms even... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2010, 4:35 am
Back in January, I wrote about the Eurasia Com conference which the good folks at Informa Telecoms & Media host annually in Istanbul, taking place in either March or April. At the time, I thought it was unlikely that I would be able to attend. Happily, it did turn out to be possible after all, mea... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 12:14 pm
Former Zain CEO Al Barrak - exit from Africa caused his departure?During 2009 DevelopingTelecomsWatch became somewhat preoccupied with the fate of the African assets of MEA mobile powerhouse Zain. As speculation mounted about whether these operations were up for sale and, if so, who the prospective... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 12:20 pm
Kenyatta Int'l Conference Centre, Nairobi: venue for this year's East Africa Com
Last year I had the pleasure of visiting Nairobi, Kenya for the first time, building meetings around the excellent East Africa Com conference and exhibition.
This year, given that my day-to-day commercial activity now ... Comment - Like
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Mar 4, 2010, 10:40 am
Vodafone services: coming soon to a Socialist People's Arab Jamahiriya near you...
One African republic has been hitting the headlines recently, as the effects of a diplomatic row between that country and a European nation is now affecting citizens of many other states. This is a particularly thorn... Comment - Like
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Mar 2, 2010, 10:22 am
... is paved, as Dr. Johnson didn't ever say, with good intentions.
One such intention was set out here in the most recent DTW post, namely that this blog would review some of the predictions made in the Industry Outlook report that is made available for free downloading by Informa Telecoms & Media.... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2010, 10:57 am
Doing telco sector business in Turkey, the Caspian region or Central Asia?
......head for Eurasia Com at Istanbul's Conrad Hotel this March.
A belated Happy New Year to all loyal readers of (and occasional visitors to) DevelopingTelecomsWatch.
I daresay some of you will have found 2009 above-averag... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2009, 5:57 am
Tay Grin - star of the African hip hop scene... and Malawi's mobile sector?
It is not with any pleasure that DevelopingTelecomsWatch sometimes observes a country's mobile market and concludes that one of more of its competing cellcos surely seems doomed to fall by the wayside. All such enterprises ... Comment - Like
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Dec 15, 2009, 6:27 am
The most recent article here was both a round up of some recent news from Paraguay and a trip down memory lane. I reminisced fondly about an interesting tour of four South American countries which I enjoyed last year. In doing so, I mentioned in passing the two telecoms cooperatives I was able to vi... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 11:24 am
In April 2008, your humble scribe had the very great pleasure of visiting four South American countries on behalf of events and business information company Informa Telecoms & Media. The purpose of the trip was to drum up additional support for the Americas Com conference and exhibition, held annual... Comment - Like
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Dec 9, 2009, 10:52 am
Beeline Cambodia: late entrant doing battle in a fierce tariffs war
DevelopingTelecomsWatch depends on the indispensable Phnom Penh Post for news of all things Cambodian, quoting that organ quite liberally, for example, when donning a flak jacket to report on the mobile price war which has been gri... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:28 pm
Bouygues Telecom: eyed by Egypt's Orascom
While the focus DevelopingTelecomsWatch is generally on communications sector businesses in emerging markets and developing countries, a battle between incumbent mobile operators and a proposed new entrant in Canada has been covered here of late.
While event... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 6:48 am
Sky Network: WiMAX offering set to shake up Sri Lanka's broadband market?
News items from Sri Lanka's mobile market have caught the eye of DevelopingTelecomsWatch a few times of late. Most recently, DTW asked whether the arrival of the UAE's Etisalat as a player on the island nation's cellular scen... Comment - Like
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