(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I know quite a bit about telcos. Back in 1991, strangely enough as allied forces started the air and gro...

Dead. Yeah. Dead. Funny, I started yesterday with a post about mobiles and ended it talking about disintermediation. Hence a new post...

It's a long story of no interest to anyone but myself, but hell, this is my blog and if I want to be a boring old git, nobody can sto...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The UAE's 'incumbent' telco, Etisalat, has managed to neatly underline quite how fearful it is o...

lumia (Photo credit: twicepix ) My life, certainly my sanity, has arguably been saved by Nokia Here Maps over the past few days. A mil...

Major telegraph lines in 1891 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Today there is actually less chatter in the world. The last telegraph has be...

It starts tomorrow - ArabNet's Dubai Digital Summit - three days of conference, workshop, developer competition, roundtable and other...

It's not often you find me parroting one of Spot On's announcements on the blog, but that's just what I'm about to do. T...

BlackBerry Employees Count Down to BlackBerry 10 (Photo credit: Official BlackBerry Images ) There has been quite a lot of confusio...

Nokia 638 (19,06cm de alto), Nokia 2160 EFR (16,42 cm), Nokia 5160 (14,84 cm), Nokia 6070 (10,5 cm) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It...

Téléphone ancien (Photo credit: zigazou76 ) The Twelfth ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications is currently taking pl...

Photo credit: Wikipedia They are the best of times, they are the worst of times. The Industrial Revolution changed the world and ...

Hornjoserbsce: A sim card (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News today carries a Great Pronouncement Of Doom from UAE telecom provider...

Two cellphone SIM cards (bottom and top) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Did  you catch this one? I, for one, didn't I've missed i...

English: Etisalat Tower in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We pay about double what consumers in, s...

Steve Jobs shows off the white iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Ratings agency Fitch...

Image via Wikipedia Dubai's transport regulator, the RTA (Roads and Transport Authority) has announced it is planning to open up th...

Gulf News filed a Reuters report today on moves to improve Lebanon's internet access. The headline alone made me laugh, "Leban...

You may remember this post last week , in which I noted that the UAE's TRA, or Telecommunications Regulatory Authority was making effo...

The UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, or TRA, has called for increased use of social media services. The most immediate res...