Markets, Technology, Blackberry, Email, China, Asia-Pacific: Research in Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of BlackBerry, has finally established itself in the Chinese market. A deal with Alcatel Lucent means the latter will be RIM's distributor in China...

Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, Zimbabwe: Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Contracts, NGN, Caribbean, CLA: Nokia Siemens Networks has been named Cable & Wireless' preferred supplier of Release 4 and Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture. The announcement follows the awarding of a US$40 million contract for the modernisation of C&W's Caribbean networks.

Contracts, Billing, Voicemail, SMS, MMS, Call Completion, Montnegro, CEE: MTEL, Montenegro's latest mobile operator, has selected Comverse's Converged Billing Suite as well as several value-added services in order to deploy a complete suite which includes Voicemail, SMS, MMS and Call Completion solutions. The suite of services is powered by Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment.

Business, Retailing, Customer Support, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, CEE: Central European Holding BV (GTSCE), the Central European fixed-line telecoms group, is officially launching its regional MPLS network for retail customers...

Contracts, Security, Revenue, Customer Service, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo: Subex Azure, a provider or Operations Support Systems (OSS) solutions for telecom operators, has won contracts to provide Fraud Management (FM) and Revenue Assurance (RA) solutions for Global Vision Telecom (GVT) in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be deployed in its Prestel and U-COM Congo CDMA networks...