This is Afican Telecoms News, home of Blycroft Publishing's Africa & Middle East Telecom Week (AMETW)
a paid-for subscription service, which delivers 48 issues per annum. The title covers all aspects of regional wireless
and wireline news, and is sent via e-mail each Thursday as a PDF attachment. .
Editorial Contributions and press releases dealing with the African and Middle East telecommunications and related markets are always welcome.
All published issues and articles are additionally archived in the subscriber-only
Internet archive. Full-year AMETW subscribers are issued, upon request,
with an archive password for the duration of their subscription, once
receipt of payment is received. The AMETW archive is searchable by keyword
searches or by complete back issues.
The archive additionally contains a range of Paul Budde Communication
(PBC) country reports on AME countries. Through an arrangement with PBC,
as part of your annual AMETW subscription you are provided with access
to 12 new country reports per calendar year, as they are published monthly
within our archive.
On a quarterly cycle Blycroft publishes its Mobile Operator Statistics. These allow readers to monitor the relative growth of both operators and markets.
This weekly analysis is also available to readers in the Archive.
You are also given access to all pre-existing archive reports.
Blycroft's definition of the Africa and Middle East region includes,
but is not limited to:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkino Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central
African Republic, Chad. Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,
Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius,
Mozambique. Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Qatar, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somali Republic, South Africa, Sudan,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara,
Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait,
Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
In addition to 'Africa & Middle East Telecom Week', Blycroft also publishes popular directories and reports covering the mobile market.'The MVNO Directory' (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) is published annually in June, whilst the very comprehensive 'The Worldwide Directory of Mobile Operators 2007', published in May 2007, breaks new ground for mobile industry directories by listing named company executives.
Last year Blycroft undertook a major study of the African market: 'Major African Mobile Markets: Future Growth Prospects 2006-2011'.
Blycroft Publishing was established in 1998.
