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World Mobile Market Data

MVNO News Weekly research service covering what is happening within the MVNO market. Typical issues contain details of launches, new campaigns, contract awards and movements within the market.			Contact About Trial Subscribe
The MVNO Directory 2009 This 3rd Edition builds upon the success of the 2nd Edition. Featuring profiles of MVNOs and lists of those that failed, merged or never happened, ones to watch and brands acting as MVNOs.			Contact About Sample Buy Now
The MNO Directory 2009 Global directory profiling over 700 active GSM, CDMA and iDEN operations and featuring over 2,800 named management contacts ranging from CEOs to Business Development Managers.			Contact About Sample

Africa and the Middle East Mobile Market Data

Africa & Middle East Telecom Week This weekly subscription news service focuses on the Africa and Middle-East regions.  Every issue brings mobile operator subscriber stats featuring tele-density and regional analysis.  The issue also features regional and country-based telecoms news.			Contact About Trial Subscribe
The Africa & Middle East Mobile Networks Directory 2009 This directory provides you with an insight into operations and is a tool to assist direct marketing and regional analysis. As well as contact information the directory provides subscriber data across almost all operations.			Contact About Sample Buy Now
The Africa and the Middle East Mobile Telecoms Market in Figures: 4Q 2008 This statistical compendium tells you everything you want to know about the state of the mobile market in Africa and the Middle East for 4Q 2008.  Included are subscriber numbers, mobile penetration and market share country-by-country.			Contact About Sample Buy Now
The Africa and the Middle East Mobile Telecoms Market in Figures: 3Q 2008 This statistical compendium tells you everything you want to know about the state of the mobile market in Africa and the Middle East for 3Q 2008.  Included are subscriber numbers, mobile penetration and market share country-by-country.			Contact About Sample Buy Now
The Tanzania Mobile Factbook 2009 A comprehensive report on the telecoms market in Tanzania covering mobile, fixed-line and broadband sectors.  Includes subscriber statistics and market share.			Contact About Sample Buy Now
The Africa & Middle East Telecoms Market Opportunities 2009 Wallchart A visually impressive wall-chart with an easy-to-read layout showing a regional analysis of the Africa and Middle East mobile market.  Provides data on mobile penetration, net additions and subscriber numbers.			Contact About Buy Now
FREE Africa Mobile Factbook 2008 (Downloadable PDF) A free overview of the African Telecoms market for 2008.  This report provides subscriber statistics, market analyses and key figures.			About Download

Europe Mobile Market Data

The European Mobile Telecoms Market in Figures: 4Q 2008 (Due July 2009) This statistical compendium tells you everything you want to know about the state of the mobile market in Europe for 4Q 2008.  Included are subscriber numbers, mobile penetration and market share country-by-country.			Contact About Trial Subscribe
The Eastern Europe and Central Asian Mobile Telecoms Market in Figures: 3Q 2008 This statistical compendium tells you everything you want to know about the state of the mobile market in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for 3Q 2008.  Included are subscriber numbers, mobile penetration and market share country-by-country.			Contact About Sample Buy Now

The Americas Mobile Market Data

The North & South America Mobile Network Operators Directory 2009 This directory provides you with an insight into operations and is a tool to assist direct marketing and regional analysis. As well as contact information the directory provides subscriber data across almost all operations			Contact About Sample Buy Now

Recent MVNO and African Telecoms News Headlines

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AFGHANISTAN: IFC grants loan to MTN Afghanistan

AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: Etisalat, Ericsson sign MoU for collaboration

AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: Globitel to provide roaming solutions to all Zain subsidiaries

AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: Two Indian telecom majors to bid for Zain’s Africa operations

AFRICA: Study says incumbants have the advantage

ALGERIA: Minister declares goal to establish information society

BAHRAIN: Batelco to revamp BisB communication network

BENIN: Benin Telecoms sign contract with Intec for new billing and operating systems

BURKINA FASO: PTT Minister visits Morocco to discuss telecoms developments

CAMEROON: InfoVista to provide performance management solution to MTN Cameroon

CHAD: Sotel Tchad pay USD 4.9 million to Orascom Telecom

COTE D'IVOIRE: Cote d'Ivoire reaches 2008 turnover of XOF 682 billion (USD 1.47 billion)

EGYPT: FD resigns from Telecom Egypt as carrier aims to increase stake in ISP market

KENYA: Dominic Saint-Jean to leave his position as Orange CEO position

KENYA: Jamii Telecommunications to provide broadband infrastructure for Safaricom

KENYA: KDN signs 3-year, KES 1.6 billion network upgrade deal with Alcatel-Lucent

KUWAIT: Wataniya Telecom signs on Openet for convergent charging, policy management solutions

KUWAIT: Zain to refinance USD 2.5 billion loan

MALAWI: Malawi commences work on telecentre projects

NAMIBIA: Cell One to expand and improve network coverage

NIGERIA: EWG voices objection against Zain Nigeria sale

NIGERIA: MTN Nigeria awarded new numbering range

NIGERIA: Technical committee for NITEL/Mtel calls to begin operations soon

NIGERIA: Telecom policy to be reviewed

QATAR: Qtel, Vodafone Qatar collaborate to introduce M-Commerce platform

RWANDA: Rwanda in negotiations with Kenya to link to TEAMS

SAUDI ARABIA: Cisco signs STC as its first WebEx authorised partner in Middle East

SOUTH AFRICA: Telkom announces annual 2008 results

TANZANIA: Dovetel enters mobile telephony domain

TANZANIA: SIM card registration to begin from 1 July 2009

TUNISIA: FT wins Tunisian mobile, fixed-line licence

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Etisalat’s upgraded 3G network provides download speeds of 14.4 mbps

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Aspider wins case against Tommy Telecom – The Netherlands

Three new players plan telecom entry – Vietnam

FRiENDi mobile now on sale in 800 locations – Oman

Yodobashi plans new offering together with TripletGate – Japan

La Poste considers MVNO launch – France

Lycamobile delays new product offering – UK

‘3’ UK signs x-Mobility to increase MVNO base – UK

Lycamobile launches MVNO service – Italy

Ventelo wins title of providing the best customer service – Norway

Virgin Mobile selects Miyowa’s platform – France

MasMovil to sponsor Marc Roig’s event – Spain

Cardiac Network partners with Med Mobile – USA

SafeLink Wireless launches in West Virginia via TracFone – USA

Timico to double core mobile dealers – UK

Management change at Telenet – Belgium

SageQuest selects KORE Telematics for fleet tracking and workforce solution – USA

SmartyCard and Kajeet contra on mobile phone privileges – USA

Hits to use DIGITALK Multiservice platform – Spain

klarmobil.de launches online handset portal – Germany