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New Report highlights growth of mobile subscribers in Afghanistan

  • November 14th, 2008
  • 5:56 am

Report Buyer has added a new report analysing the telecoms market in Afghanistan as well as in Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

“Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka”,  reports that as the political and social rebuilding of Afghanistan proceeds following years of war and civil unrest, the country has been busy putting new national telecommunications infrastructure in place.

The report shows that telecommunication has already started to play a big role in helping repair the Afghanistan economy and society. A properly functioning basic telephone network has been and continues to be a high priority for the Afghani Government. As part of this commitment, an important step was the creation of the Ministry of Communications in 2002, followed by the establishment of a regulator, the Afghanistan Telecom Regulatory Authority in 2005.

Authors of the report note that with ongoing unrest in the country and the recovery from war not yet complete, one of the big challenges for the country has been to attract and manage foreign investment. However, there have been some positive signs in the telecom sector in this regard and, interestingly, for a period the telecom sector was the only one in the country that was attracting any foreign capital.

Furthermore, with two mobile operators already in place, the MoC announced in late 2005 that two more mobile licences had been awarded. In July 2006, the Investcom/Alokozai consortium launched its Areeba Afghanistan service in four provinces and by mid-2007 the new operator already had 500,000 subscribers, as the overall market pushed along at an annual growth rate of around 70%.

In a similar story, UAE’s Etisalat was awarded a GSM licence in May 2006 and beginning its operations in August 2007, launched a network with coverage of the country’s main cities, picking up 200,000 subscribers in the first month

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Mobitel makes a move towards expansion (Sri Lanka)

  • September 22nd, 2008
  • 5:24 am

A local media reports that Mobitel, the cellular division of Sri Lankan fixed line incumbent Sri Lanka Telecom will increase its customer base by around 300,000 by the year-end to 2.4 million users, helped by a new package aimed at public sector workers. Mobitel’s CEO Suren Amarasekera said the firm is connecting over 10,000 new users a day following the recent launch of its ‘Upahara’ package targeting civil servants. China’s Huawei Technologies has been contracted for the expansion of the network capacity under Mobitel’s ‘phase four’ plan to increase the cellco’s number of GSM base stations to 2,000 from the current total of around 1,500 therefore lifting up capacity by 650,000 users to a maximum of 2.75 million, as well as expanding coverage to 90% of the population. The company anticipates to start ‘phase five’ of its nationwide network launch as early as January 2009 hoping to raise capacity to 4million from 2.75 million.

Dialog CDMA service launched (Srilanka)

  • July 7th, 2007
  • 9:40 am

Dialog Broadband Networks, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka’s largest GSM operator by subscribers, Dialog Telekom, has launched commercial fixed-wireless telephone and internet access services based on CDMA2000 1x technology, under the Dialog CDMA banner.

 

   

Dialog Broadband Networks launches FWA services

  • July 6th, 2007
  • 10:05 am

A subsidiary of Sri Lankan communications provider Dialog Telekom, Dialog Broadband Networks, has launched fixed wireless services based on CDMA technology, called Dialog CDMA. The service offers features such as call holding/waiting, SMS, CLI, call transfer, call forwarding, voicemail, fax, three-way calling, and call conferencing.

   

SLT extends CDMA net to conflict zone (Sri Lanka)

  • July 5th, 2007
  • 8:04 am

Sri Lanka Telecom has expanded its CDMA wireless in the local loop (WiLL) network to the war-torn Jaffna peninsula. Jaffna security forces commander Major General G A Chandrasiri inaugurated the fixed-wireless service in the northern province, which will receive 2,000 connections in an initial rollout phase.

 

   

State approves NTT’s sale of SLT stake to Maxis parent

  • May 26th, 2007
  • 8:49 am

Sri Lanka’s government yesterday gave its approval to Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) to sell part of its stake in former fixed line monopoly Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) to Malaysian company Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd, the parent of Maxis Communications. NTT, which owns a 35.2% stake in SLT, has been allowed to sell a 25.3% tranche, leaving it with a 9.9% holding. NTT paid USD225 million for its stake in 1997. The Sri Lankan government retains 49.5% of SLT’s equity, with the balance held by the public and employees. Usaha Tegas is owned by Malaysian tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan.

In related news, Sri Lankan Minister of Information and Media Anura Priyadarshana Yapa yesterday scotched recent rumours that the government is planning to sell its shares in SLT.