China's phone firmshelp Africa go mobile Nov 18, 2009
"Many African countries have shifted gears to specifically accelerate mobile communications, which is more cost effective to build than traditional fixed access.". ASB has been active in Africa for about a decade and had considerable success early on in Angola, Ghana, and Nigeria. (Asia Times Online)
Online Gizmos Could Top 50 Billion in 2020 Jun 30, 2009
Connect everything," he told Ericsson's Business Innovation Forum in Stockholm last week. This mobile 'internet of things' connections in smart toothbrushes and the like will help fuel the industry's growth, according to Ericsson (). Jan H?glund, deputy head of IP and broadband networks at the infrastructure company, told delegates: "The ceiling for mobile is completely different than the ceiling for fixed access. The ceiling for fixed access is basically the number of homes and enterprises... (BusinessWeek)
Transcript of a Press Briefing by International Monetary Fund First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky on Steps to Reform IMF Financing Facilities with Reza Moghadam, Director of the Strategy Policy and Review Department, Caroline Atkinson, Director of the External Relations Department, and Lorenzo Giorgianni of the Strategy, Policy and Review Department Mar 26, 2009
The Flexible Credit Line as the name implies has no fixed access limit and can be tailored to the needs of individual countries. The third aspect of the limitation of the Short-Term Liquidity Facility was that it required a payback in three, six, or nine months at the longest, and the new Flexible Credit Line is repayable on the same terms as other Fund facilities in what we call the general resources account, in other words, the same as other standby arrangements. (IMF News)
Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV) Announces Plans to Amend and Terminate its ADR Program Feb 19, 2009
1 million switched fixed access lines in service, nearly 11. 8 million mobile subscribers and nearly 900 thousand broadband subscribers as of December 31, 2008. (PR Newswire)
