The penetration of mobile phones in many African countries is higher than the world average. Data on the number of mobile subscriptions per 100 people show that penetration rates in Algeria, South Africa, Gabon, Tunisia, Mauritius, Botswana, Morocco and Mauritania are all above the world average of 60%.
23 Jun 2011 10:59
Telecoms service provider revenues grew by 4% in 2010 to reach $1.85 trillion, driven by strong growth in the mobile market in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies, according to new figures from Ovum.
17 May 2011 14:50
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: During a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty, compounded by rate rises from all of the major banks in Australia, the finance industry was suffering from negative consumer perceptions, particularly across the home loan category.
26 Apr 2011 11:39
LONDON, UK: Electric cars becoming an economically rational choice for short hop journeys and now 100% electric vehicles to be made available in pioneering pilot scheme for PwC.
26 Apr 2011 06:00
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc has released the results of a US study of Apple iPad owners, based on data from the
comScore MobiLens service. The report includes comScore's first publicly available data showing demographics and other characteristics of users of connected media devices, such as the iPad and iPod Touch.
20 Apr 2011 11:54
OSLO, NORWAY / LAGOS, NIGERIA, JOHANNESBURG, SA: Nigeria has unseated South Africa as the country in Africa with the highest number of users on the Opera Mini mobile browser, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web report issued 19 April 2011 by Opera Software.
20 Apr 2011 06:01
[Thomas Wehmeier] PARIS, FRANCE / BERLIN, GERMANY: In the first concrete announcement since their statement of intent to cooperate earlier this year, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom announced on 18 April 2011, the establishment of a procurement joint venture that will oversee almost US$13 billion* in combined annualised spend between the two groups.
19 Apr 2011 11:53
NUREMBERG, GERMANY: Having been awarded the contract for measuring TV audiences in Portugal, GfK has successfully concluded two further contracts in the area of media research. GfK Ukraine has extended its contract for measuring audience ratings and in Belgium, GfK Audimetrie has won another contract for measuring radio audiences. The GfK Group also acquired all outstanding shares of GfK Skopje at the beginning of March.
18 Apr 2011 12:06
[Published by Ovum] LONDON, UK: Companies need to protect their sensitive data, but... Despite the serious threat posed to enterprises from accidental and malicious misuse of data, uptake of data loss prevention technology will remain low for the next four years, according to Ovum, one of the Datamonitor group of companies.
18 Apr 2011 11:45
OSLO, NORWAY: Opera has spent a record budget on its new campaign and has managed to retain its sense of humour as it takes on the big guys - and gets a parking ticket for its troubles.
15 Apr 2011 11:36
LONDON, UK: Early data from leading independent search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, reveals big winners and losers, visibility-wise, from Google's Panda algorithm update - designed to improve Google's ability to detect and devalue "low-quality content", and which it has now rolled out across all English language websites.
15 Apr 2011 11:23
NUREMBERG, GERMANY: When it comes to equipping their cars with radios and satellite navigation devices, German motorists are gearing up. Demand is increasingly for devices that can play music directly from USB sticks or MP3 players.
15 Apr 2011 11:04
LONDON, UK: When a speaker at a media conference refers to the traditional desktop-based internet as "the old-fashioned internet," you know that the media world is evolving faster than ever. In language that was once reserved for newspapers, the PC-based internet took a back seat to mobile and tablets at the just-completed Digital Media Europe conference, which drew nearly 250 participants from 38 countries to London this week.
15 Apr 2011 10:49
LUXEMBOURG: Intelsat SA, one of the world's leading providers of fixed satellite services, recently announced a series of new contracts with media customers using the company's leading video neighbourhoods.
14 Apr 2011 10:56
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Malawi
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Zimbabwe
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Kenya
Uganda
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