Events, Satellite, Broadband, Global: Against a backdrop of its increased involvement in West Africa, the Global VSAT Forum’s (GVF) ICT and Vertical Markets Programme is all set to showcase its present and future in next month’s 3rd West Africa Satellite Communications Summit (WASCS3)...

Disaster management, Satellite, Bangladesh: Thirty satellite terminals deployed by ITU have helped restore vital communication links in remote and underserved areas of Bangladesh, a country recently ravaged by floods.

Contracts, WiMax, Uganda: Warid Telecom Uganda, part of Abu Dhabi based Warid Telecom International, has selected Motorola to design and deploy an 802.16e WiMAX network in Uganda...

Contracts, Subscriber Management, Billing, Nepal, Asia-Pacific: Spice Nepal Private Ltd (SNPL), the country’s first privately-owned mobile operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to upgrade its end-to-end convergent IT CBOSS solution after just 18 months of successful operation...

Disaster Management, Satellite, Earthquake, Peru, CLA: Following the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale that struck Southern Peru on 15 August 2007, ITU deployed 50 satellite terminals to help restore communication links in remote and underserved areas...

Wireless, 3G, HSDPA, Rural, Sri Lanka: Qualcomm is launching its Wireless Reach initiative in Sri Lanka by opening a Last Mile Initiative (LMI) centre in Wennappuwa. The centre, known as Easy Seva, is one of 15 that will be launched in the country with support from Qualcomm, Dialog Telekom, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Development Bank (NDB) and Synergy Strategies Group (SSG).

WiMAX, Saudi Arabia, MENA: Saudi Telecom (STC) has selected Huawei to deploy the first WiMAX 802.16e-based network in the Middle East, covering major cities including Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam...

Contracts, Mobile, UMTS, Uganda, Africa: Uganda Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a contract to extend Uganda Telecom’s GSM/EDGE mobile network and deploy the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in Uganda, one of the first such deployments in the East Africa region.

Contracts, SMS, Fixed Line, India, Asia-Pacific: Voice SMS specialist Bubble Motion has been selected by Indian service provider Airtel to deploy Voice SMS over fixed line. The deployment will means that Airtel customers will be able to send Voice SMS messages to any mobile or fixed line customer.