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India’s 3G auction begins - three top bidders get spectrum in 17 circles
The Hindu, one of India’s leading newspapers, has published a report on recent progress towards the auctioning of 3G spectrum. We summarise the key intentions in what has been almost a comedy of errors as cancellations and other factors have resulted in distrust and lack of confidence.
Companies and markets: Philippine operators to intensify competition - and new 3G player?
Companies and markets has released a new report analysing in great detail the telecoms market in The Philippines. Any loss in growth in 2009 is likely to be compensated for this year. There is also likely to be another entrant in the 3G sector...
Orange joins the mHealth alliance to develop West Africa
In a partnership aimed at advancing mobile technology to improve public health, healthcare systems and patient care in the developing world, Orange has joined the mHealth Alliance to develop mobile health solutions in West Africa...
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Genaker delivers Push-to-Talk for iPhone and BlackBerry Genaker, a supplier of mobile business productivity solutions, has unveiled a Push-to-Talk over Cell [ ... ]
Bulgaria’s Vivacom chooses Alcatel-Lucent for its strategic transformation Alcatel-Lucent and Bulgarian telco Vivacom have signed a five-year partnership focusing on the end-t [ ... ]
Digicel Pacific chooses Eltek Valere hybrid solar power for wireless network Digicel Pacific is optimising its remote network site power by combining diesel and solar power equi [ ... ]
Mobile Broadband Investment Set to Soar as HSPA Connections pass 200 million The GSMA has announced that mobile operators around the world will invest up to $72 billion in Mobil [ ... ]
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Mobile World Congress 2010
The world’s first HSPA+ smartphone, powered by the Android operating system, was announced by Huawei at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The U8800 smartphone will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2010, and is able to support high-speed Internet access, which is faster than existing 3G smartphones...
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A new report from Arab Advisors Group analyses and ranks 20 fixed-service operators in 15 Arab countries. Key performers are to be found in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Twenty fixed-line operators in 15 Arab countries served 27.8 million fixed-line subscriptions by end-September 2009, down 4.6% from 29.2 million at year end 2008...
Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries with less developed banking systems, labour markets and IT and communications infrastructures can leapfrog over the established banking and payment infrastructures present in other parts of Europe to become more entrenched in smart card based payment methods, according to new analyses from Frost & Sullivan...
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Developing Telecoms' editor-in-chief Alec Barton gives his impressions of Mobile World Congress 2010...
Development Agenda
The Russian WiMAX operator Yota has been granted bandwidth spectrum use in Peru by the Latin American country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, following the operator’s winning bid for the $3.9 million contract...
Networks
Guam’s communications network will see improvements costing US$10 million this year. The aim is to set the stage for more competition in wireless, digital TV and broadband...
Recent findings by ABI Research analyse the impending battle for market share, not to say domination, between WiMAX and LTE. Both systems are progressing steadily and, according to ABI, will co-exist for some time to come...
Services
Geos Communications, which provides solutions for those in the mobile sector, has acquired the Chinese mobile content retailer Duo Guo, which has been described as the only legitimate retail channel for downloading mobile media content in China.
A new collaboration between Selevision and Irdeto will grow customer bases and increase RoI for television content providers and advertisers in the Middle East.
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