Feeling the Pinch? The rising cost of living is difficult to avoid. April 2022 saw food prices increase by 6.7 per cent, the highest petrol prices on record and inflation rise to a staggering nine per cent. As millions of customers see their mobile tariffs soar, Ross Slogrove, UK country manager at cloud calling specialist Ringover reveals […]
Mobile Operators
The digital world has been witnessing intermittent events that change how we interact, access information, complete our daily activities, and basically live our daily life beyond our physical connections. Probably the first prominent introduction was the Internet and the world wide web in the nineties. The next awaited event is the advent of the Metaverse, […]
The telecommunication sector has been evolving at an extremely high pace. Operators have had to constantly work on upgrades and evolutions on their network infrastructure, while developing new services in parallel. As a result, they have been even forced to establish partnerships with many telecom vendors. Long gone are the days where operators had exclusive […]
The Bahrain Telecommunications Company was established in 1981 as the sole communications service provider in the country. The operator is mostly owned (directly or indirectly) by the Bahraini government with a total of 77 percent (more than 50 percent shared between Mumtalakat holding company and the social insurance organization). However, the telecommunications regulatory authority (TRA) […]
The Indian government intervened to issue guidelines addressing the problems related to installing mobile phone towers in airports and around them in order to ease up the process. The letter was written by Senior Deputy Chief Wireless Adviser at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), LD Meghwal, and marked to the Secretaries-General of the States and Union […]
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the Czech telecom regulator CTU’s proposal to regulate wholesale access to mobile networks. The Commission questioned the CTU’s claim of joint dominance by the three existing mobile network operators and compatibility of the proposed ex ante regulation. As such, access and call origination are services which […]
Monty Mobile, the breakthrough has surfaced for Comium Gambia in the form of an expert consultant deal, which will revolutionize the operator’s network infrastructure to provide 4G+ technology. This partnership brings Comium back to life after Monty Mobile has settled in a week all the financial dues of the operator. With its services, expertise, in-house […]
In a surprise move, Samsung Electronics announced a restructuring of its management with several changes to leadership, replacing heads of its three major business units and merged the company’s mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single entity, according to a statement by the company. As such, the restructuring leaves two co-CEOs over the world’s […]
Comium, who settled fully its pending license fees (2020 and 2021) before their due date, based on PURA’s request, thanked on Wednesday November 24, 2021 The Gambia’s President his excellency Mr. Adama Barrow, its attorney general and minister of justice honorable Mr. Dawda Jallow, its Minister of information and Communication Infrastructure honorable Mr. Ebrima Sillah […]
Riding on the waves of the rising adoption of mobile data services, the total mobile services revenue in the Philippines is set to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6 percent from $4.1bn in 2021 to $5.4bn in 2026, data analytics and consulting company, GlobalData said. According to Global Data’s Philippines Mobile […]