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India added 14.4 million new mobile subscribers in July, bringing the total number of mobile subscribers in the country to 442 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said on Thursday.

The demand for mobile phones has been growing despite an economic downturn because Indians view mobile phones as a necessity, said analyst firm IDC India. The increase in July can also be attributed to new rollouts by some service providers and a focus by large operators on rural markets.

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Current Afghanistan Telecommunication Statistics


GSM Subscribers 9.5 Million

CDMA Subscribers 60,000

Landlines 50,000

Penetration 38%

Investments in $ Millions 1,236

Telecom Base Station 2,736

Population Coverage 80%

UAE telecom operator du is predicted to see its net profit for the second quarter rise by more than 200 percent compared to the same period last year, according to analysts


The average forecast of four analysts polled by Reuters shows that profits are expected to hit nearly AED50 million, in line with its first quarter net profit of AED47m

In the second quarter of 2008, du reported a net loss of AED43.91 million while it made a AED62 million loss in the earlier quarter of last year.

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Vodacom and MTN have previously said that the long waiting period for leased lines from Telkom is a significant problem in the rollout of high speed broadband services. Faults associated with Telkom’s transmission links were fingered as one of the main reason for downtime on cellular networks.

MTN SA MD Tim Lowry previously said that the biggest point of failure in MTN’s network is links and transmission provided by Telkom, which up to recently had a monopoly on providing leased lines in South… Continue

THAT mobile phone theft is a problem in Nigeria is not a new development. But it will be noteworthy that the criminal phenomenon actually assumed a high dimension in the country’s telecommunication market which ranks among the fastest growing in the world.

Early in the year, it was conjectured that that more than 2 million phones are reported stolen or lost in Nigeria every year. However, available data as at January, 2009 showed that more than 750,000 mobile phone are reported lost or stolen e… Continue