June 1st, 2008 — Issue 1 June 2008
Six cellcos operate in Bangladesh, sharing 34.4 million subscribers.
Warid Telecom’s Bangladeshi operation has announced plans to invest around US$250 million over the next twelve months to expand its network coverage. The company, which launched its service a year ago, is already the country’s fourth largest operator by subscriber numbers.
June 1st, 2008 — Issue 1 June 2008
Bidders will have to wait a little longer to discover the victor of the second fixed-line licence.
The bid deadline for Egypt’s second fixed-line licence has been postponed again by a further month until July 29, the National Telecom Regulatory Authority(NTRA) confirmed in a statement.
June 1st, 2008 — Issue 1 June 2008
Al Dahwi says Zain will spend US$350 million on CACAPEX in 2008.
Nokia Siemens Networks has won a US$150 million contract to upgrade networks for Zain Iraq, the country’s leading mobile operator.
June 1st, 2008 — Issue 1 June 2008
Mobinil helped Orascom Telecom to report 74 million subscribers.
Orascom Telecom reported a rise in revenues by 22 per cent year on-year to US$1.295 billion in Q108. EBITDA rose 28 per cent to US$584m, as net income topped US$210m for the period, an improvement of 25 per cent year-on-year.
June 1st, 2008 — Issue 1 June 2008
According to In-Stat, 400,000 unblocked iPhones have been sold illegally in China.
There are 400,000 unlocked Apple iPhones being used on China Mobile’s network, more than all the authorised iPhones in Europe, according to research from In-Stat.
Batelco has successfully activated 5G coverage across Bahrain, which is available in all four governorates, covering 95% of the nation’s population. The telco’s launch of the network makes Batelco the first operator to provide national 5G coverage in Bahrain.
Omantel has renewed and expanded its managed services agreement with Ericsson for a further five years, with the renewed agreement being more outcome-based and customer-centric.
South Africa-headquartered MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter will step down from his role at the end of his fixed four-year contract in March 2021, having given no explanation why he would not seek to stay on beyond that date.
Nokia CEO and president, Rajeev Suri, is set to step down from his position later this year, to be replaced by Pekka Lundmark, currently CEO and president of energy company Fortum. The move comes as Nokia struggles to keep pace with the global shift to 5G.
Following Zain Group’s regional milestone announcement in November 2019 that its operations in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had successfully launched the first 5G roaming service across the MENA region, Bahrain telco Batelco has announced partnering with the UAE’s du to deliver 5G international roaming services in the UAE.
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