Features

Mobile Finance

Has mobile money had its day in Africa?

Mobile money is one of the great success stories in Africa – or at least, this is the popular narrative around the technology. In this two-part series of Features, we will examine mobile money’s impact in Africa, and the extent to which it really has revolutionised financial inclusion in the...

Service Management

Is artificial intelligence worth it for developing markets?

Artificial intelligence has ascended to the top of minds in the telecoms sector over the past year due to its potential to transform the industry.

TM Forum president and CEO Nik Willetts opened Digital Transformation World 2023 with a stark message for the telecoms industry, claiming it is at a “crisis point” where it faces being left behind by the “very revolution we’ve created”.

Operators

Key takeaways from Digital Transformation World 2023

TM Forum president and CEO Nik Willetts (pictured) opened Digital Transformation World 2023 with a stark message for the telecoms industry, claiming it is at a “crisis point” where it faces being left behind by the “very revolution we’ve created”.

Energy & Sustainability

E-waste: Emerging markets must lead by example

In the final instalment of our recent series focusing on e-waste in emerging markets, we reached out to a major Asian operator to learn more about how they plan to achieve a major sustainability pledge - Thailand’s True Corp, which has announced that it aims to achieve zero e-waste to landfill...

Energy & Sustainability

E-waste: Changing perceptions lead to changing policies

In the first instalment of this series, we explored the scale of the issue of e-waste and some of the steps being taken to reduce it. As attitudes towards sustainability shift, policymakers take note – whether at company or government level – and in this article we’ll explore the factors...

Energy & Sustainability

E-waste: How big is the problem?

In this new series of features, Developing Telecoms will explore the under-reported issue of electronic waste. We will explore possible solutions for addressing the issue as well as examining a case study with a leading Asian operator, but to begin, this article aims to examine the scale of the...

Operators

Why are Asia Pacific operators sunsetting 2G, 3G networks?

Shutting down 2G and 3G is ramping up across the globe as operators make way for more capacity for 4G and 5G networks. It is the inevitable cycle of progress, out with the old, and in with the new as the old saying goes.

Q&A / Interviews

Interview: Helios Towers CEO Tom Greenwood

Helios Towers is one the biggest towercos in Africa, and since its IPO four years ago the firm has dramatically expanded its footprint and portfolio. It has also strongly pushed a sustainability agenda while continuing to drive increased coverage across some of the most challenging markets in...

Vendors

How did 5G improve a mine in South Africa?

Despite the heavy emphasis on sustainability in 2023, it does not change the fact that global economies are growing beasts, with insatiable demand for energy as they grow.

Energy & Sustainability

How does connectivity enhance a dam in Ghana?

Those of us in the telecoms industry have sat through the same keynote speeches, listening to the same messages year after year on how enhanced connectivity will be the core to a brighter future for mankind.

Devices & Platforms

Is slowing growth giving smartphones a second life in India?

Smartphone sales in India are down to their lowest level since 2019, despite the pandemic underlining the importance of connectivity in society. However, while the overall volume of shipments may have dropped, the devices in demand are increasingly more expensive high-end models.

Operators

Now Telecom chairman demands even playing field

The Philippines telecoms market is one that constantly hits the headlines and this heat stems from the historic duopoly of Globe Telecom and PLDT’s Smart Communications in the archipelagic nation.

Investment

Will the nationalisation of Hungary’s telecoms sector deliver on its goals?

Through acquisitions and shareholdings, the Hungarian government – led by Prime Minister Victor Orbán’s Fidesz party – is increasingly displaying its determination to boost the state’s role in the telecoms sector, arguing that it will deliver an economic boost to Hungary, strengthen its...

Investment

How can smart cities benefit emerging countries?

The over-arching purpose of smart cities is to improve the living standards of their people through multiple pathways, be it waste management, transportation or energy efficiency, to name a few. All of this can lead to making citizens more productive and delivering what all countries desire -...

Blogs & Opinion

Mobile World Congress 2023: Our Impressions

Mobile World Congress 2023 may be done and dusted, but the agenda that emerges from the show tends to impact the industry’s focus across the following year. I’ve felt in the past that these trends have been more tangible than they were in 2023; we’re perhaps in a year of evolution rather than...

Videos & Webinars

Features Review Autumn 2022

In our latest Features Review video, DT Editor Manny Pham and Director of Content James Barton take a look back at featured articles from the past months.

Wireless Networks

Chart of darkness: mapping connectivity in North Korea

Above all else, North Korea is defined by its secrecy – this isolated nation tightly controls the flow of information into and out of its borders, and this is never more apparent than with its telecoms sector.

Operators

Key takeaways from Africa Tech Festival: Mobile money, fibre, subsea cables

African nations, operators and private companies were all in agreement that Africa continues to hold so much potential, with much progress being made, but how much longer are we going to hear this instead of seeing it being fully realised?

Videos & Webinars

Features Review: Myanmar internet control, Ericsson and Nokia's Russian exit, and India's 5G device market

Over the past few months, Developing Telecoms has been working hard to produce more analytical pieces focused on the exciting and unpredictable workings of emerging markets telecoms. We’ve now compiled these articles into our new

Investment

As Zambia zero-rates equipment imports, could other African markets follow suit?

In October 2022, Zambia announced that it would zero-rate imports of telecoms equipment in a bid to encourage investment into the country’s ICT sector, which the government views as essential to job creation and economic development in the market.

Only stability will restore Venezuela’s crumbling telecoms sector

Investment

Only stability will restore Venezuela’s struggling telecoms sector

Venezuela’s telecoms sector has not been flush with positive developments of late – the country’s economy has been in a downward spiral for well over five years now, and this has caused a staggering decline in a sector that had seen average to strong growth up until around 2015.