29 April 2008
As of this year, China and India may have the world’s largest mobile markets, but the African continent is catching up fast. As of mid-2007, there were over 231 million mobile subscribers. This represents an increase of 45 per cent year-on-year, a rate that has made the continent the world’s single fastest-growing regional mobile market.
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8 April 2008
The European Commission yesterday introduced rules to harmonize the technical and licensing requirements for mobile communication services on aircraft. Passengers’ phones will communicate through an onboard cellular network connected to the ground via satellite.
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30 March 2008
Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden are world leaders in broadband deployment with penetration rates over 30 per cent by the end of 2007, according to the European Commission’s 13th Progress Report on the Single Telecoms Market, issued today.
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25 March 2008
India’s rapidly growing mobile subscriber base passed the 250 million mark, according to a press release from the Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India.
With a monthly growth of 8-9 million mobile phone users, India is expected to surpass the U.S. soon, which currently has 260.50 million subscribers. China tops the wireless network market with a subscriber base of 550.50 million.Read more…
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13 March 2008
At 8th Global Symposium for Regulators
The 8th Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) closed today, focusing on best practices in regulatory measures to foster and encourage sharing of infrastructure resources as a means of stimulating investment and growth in the ICT sector.
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17 October 2007
This week, INTUG sent a letter to the European Commission concerning “access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks” – so-called Market 15. INTUG believes that the current Review of the European Regulatory Framework provides an opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of sector specific telecommunications regulation. Therefore the Users Group felt it was necessary to write the Commission to highlight enterprise users’ needs for pan-EU mobile services, which are key to their business productivity plans.
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