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Developing Telecoms Watch
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News and views about the telecoms sector in emerging markets worldwide: Latin Americas, Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Middle East/North Africa, Africa, Asia-Pacific
Recent Posts
Memories of Paraguay
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 t...
Cambodia\'s mobile price war: peace in sight?
Beeline Cambodia: late entrant doing battle in a fierce tariffs warDevelopingTelecomsWatch 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 r...
Telecoms operators in developing countries are always owned by telcos from richer nations and never the other way round... right?
Bouygues Telecom: eyed by Egypt's OrascomWhile 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 ...
WiMAX set to drive broadband growth in Sri Lanka?
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 ...
South Africa\'s Telkom: a fighting chance?
Telkom Direct stores: a vital channel to market as the company faces challenging times? DevelopingTelecomsWatch is picking up lots of chatter today about Telkom, the incumbent wireline operator of South Africa. This started when this morning's daily ...
Unsurprising news of the week
India's Communications & IT Minister: summoned to explain falling revenues at BSNLTo my mind, the least surprising news item so far this week comes from Mansi Taneja of India's Business Standard, who reports that state-owned Indian state-owned te...

