With the recent announcement that Petrobras (NYSE – PBR) would raise its five-year investment plan by 55%, knock on effects have been felt throughout the oil services industry & have spurred analysts to look at Brazil as one of the emerging markets that may lead the way in recovery from the current financial crisis. ”Petrobras’s [...]
Lack of competition for fixed line monopoly Telekom Srbija has left Serbs complaining of a poor quality service, which is partly analogue, partly digital, with many households still sharing lines, so that only one can use the phone at the same time. According to the regulator’s figures, landline penetration was around 38 percent in [...]
As the financial crisis continues to reach around the globe leaving most economies reeling in its wake, the Gulf state of Qatar is hoping that its substantial natural gas reserves will cushion it from the worst of the fallout. While other gulf economies face slowing growth rates, Qatar hopes that its vast gas reserves will allow it to [...]
Even though merger and acquisitions (M&A) in South Africa were down at least 50% in deal value last year compared with other emerging markets, the telecom sector has seen much activity in the last year, which has also spilled into 2009. A veritable wave of consolidation & a drive towards convergence seems to be the [...]
2009 can be considered as a special year for Vietnam & it’s economy as the country has now belonged to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for two years, facing both opportunities for growth along with internal challenges & heralding a sea change as Vietnams markets are now open to foreign companies as never before. Foreign investors [...]
Indian mobile giant Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced the launch of a nationwide enhanced GSM network that will cover over 1 billion people, the widest one-time launch. Reliance’s new network is expected to be activated within 5 days and offer seamless coverage on major railway routes, national and state highways through dedicated mobile towers, the network is connected [...]
In what is becoming an all too familiar show of “transparent” hubris, Russian gas giant Gazprom (one of MSV’s favourite corporate bullies) has once again wished Ukraine a Happy New Year by turning off gas supplies to the former Russian sattelite, as reported this morning by BBC News, prompting fears that European supplies will also [...]