News from the ITU SPU Newslog on Policy and Regulatory Issues  

• ITU Will Publish a Major Report on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the ...
  
• Natural limit to the mobile market in Kenya?
  
• Twenty thousand WiMAX subscribers in Africa at the end of 2007
  
• Celtel expands its roaming service to 12 countries
  
• The impact of submarine cable connectivity on the cost of Internet connectivity
  
• Increasing the number of Internet exchanges is not sufficient to address prob...
  
• MTN Group Africa & Middle East's largest mobile operator
  
• Nigeria celebrates six years of revolutionary sweeping reforms in its telecom...
  
• OFCOM publishes its fourth annual market review
  
• Study finds that high taxes threaten to choke telecom market growth in Uganda
  
• Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited launches IPTV in October 2007
  
• Kenya may include e-Transactions in Kenya Communication Amendment Bill 2007
  
• Court Ruling in dispute between Botswana Telecommunication Authority and Orange
  
• Nigeria's Finance and IT Summit focuses on security in e-payment
  
• Namibian Government seeks to finalise Namibia's ICT policy with two-day confe...
  
• UK regulator OFCOM publishes new research on VoIP and proposes full emergency...
  
• Digital Opportunity in Europe, 2005/2006
  
• Digital Opportunity in Asia-Pacific
  
• Digital opportunity in the Americas, 2005/2006
  
• Digital opportunity in Africa
  
• At least eleven African countries now have Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
  
• Tariff reductions for telecom services by Telkom, South Africa
  
• Antigua may move to enforce ban on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
  
• Commercial broadband service is available in 170 countries worldwide
  
• Stong subscriber growth reported by Etisalat in its operations in UAE and Egypt
  
• more...