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Articles tagged with: Ict and Infrastructure Sharing
Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region
..y viable way to access rural areas and penetrate lower end segments", says Victor Font, Managing Partner. "We believe that over $8 billion can be saved in the next 5 years if operators collaborate and start sharing their networks asse more
Related Tags: , eu, rural, vodafone, capex, telefonica, opex, towers, network-sharing
Mobile Broadband Could the Dominant Internet Access Route for Africa
A new report from the ITU says that growth in Africa's mobile sector has defied all predictions. Africa remains the region with the highest annual growth rate in mobile subscribers and added no less than 65 million new subscribers during 2007. At the beginning of 2008, there were over a quarter of a billion mobile subscribers on the continent. Mobile penetration has risen from just one in 50 people at the beginning of this century to almost one third of the population today. Mobile subscribers are also now more evenly distributed. In 2000, South Africa accounted for over half of all Africa's mobile subscribers, but by 2007, almost 85 per cent were in other countries. Mobile success, driven largely by competition, is also spawning new services such as micro-payment prepaid recharging, single rate inter-regional roaming and the uptake of m-commerce applications. more
Related Tags: roaming, itu, vodacom, tax, oecd, license-fees, interconnection, payphone
Telecoms Regulatory Conference Debates Infrastructure Sharing
.. will see the trend toward mobility continue to evolve and mature." He said cell phones are mini-computers which send e-mail, take pictures, surf the web, and play songs and videos. "And perhaps more importantly, as shown in the recen more
Related Tags: itu, fcc, backhaul, federal-communications-commission, nigerian-communications-commission, ntc, tampere, towers, united-nations, emergency, universal-service-obligation-fund
Nigeria Celebrates Six Years of GSM Mobile Phones
..ictable regulatory environment. Revenue to Federal Government In addition to this, the Federal government has earned over US$2.5 Billion from Spectrum licensing fees alone between 2001 and now. Import duties and taxes from the telecom industry more
Related Tags: 3g-license, mtn, switches, trains, 3g-licenses, mobile-termination-rate, ncc, nitel, fixed-wireless, globacom, taxes, termination, termination-rate
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