Etisalat exceeds the 1 million mark.(UAE)

Huawei Technologies won the first 3G contract to go to a Chinese vensor in western Europe with Dutch mobile operator Telfort at the end of last year. It could be a significant deal for incumbent vendors Huawei's win raises the question of whether other European mobile operators will now look ......

Competition has increased in the Egyptian telecoms sector following the award of Egypt's third mobile network licence. Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology accepted a bid of E?16.7bn ($2.6bn) from a consortium of Etisalat of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt Post, the National Bank ......

A consortium headed up by UAE-based operator Etisalat has been awarded Egypt's third mobile licence at a price of EGP16.7bn ([pound] 1.6bn).

The news that the MVNO model may soon be coming to the Middle East should mean further growth in the increasingly competitive wireless market The highly regulated telecoms markets in the Middle East have seen themselves propelled forward by the recent introduction of competition. September 15th 2000 saw the launch ......

Warner Music Group today unveiled a strategic partnership with international telecommunications company Orascom Telecom to deliver music-based content and services to consumers in the Middle East and North Africa.

Satellite-based telecom systems provider Globecomm Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: GCOM) said Monday that it has secured a $3.5 million contract from Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. Globecomm will produce a telemetry, tracking and control systems for the company's satellite gateway in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, serving more than 100 countries throughout Europe, ......

- After the Nigerian regulator originally said that all four winners of its GSM licences had each paid the $285 million fee and were now officially permitted to roll out their network systems, it has emerged that one of them has failed to pay by the set deadline. The Nigerian ......

No airport lounge, no free bubbly, no video-on-demand and sometimes, gulp, no meals! That´s no way to fly. Is it?With JetBlue introducing a $39 shuttle between Washington and New York in August, the war between low cost carriers (LCCs) is intensifying. In the US, Delta and US Airways whose fares ......