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Altimo Index

The Altimo Mobile Development Index evaluates the mobile telecommunications investment opportunities represented by over 50 international markets, grouped in key regions. Results are updated every six months and were first published in April 2007.

It is a composite index designed to estimate the economic conditions of investment attractiveness of mobile telecommunications markets, and to compare most of the emerging economies on this basis. Previously Altimo believed that there was a lack of reliable instruments to measure the attractiveness and profitability of mobile telecommunications markets and to estimate macroeconomic conditions and to analyse the activities of current operators.

The index is prepared by Altimo in collaboration with Professor Alexey Goriaev of the Russian School of Economics in Moscow, and Professors Chris Higson of the London Business School and Sean Holly of Cambridge University.

The main objective of the project is to create a universal indicator of market attractiveness for companies and research institutions interested in investment in the emerging markets of mobile telephony.