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.

Markets, GSM, Mobile, Rural, China: Inner Mongolia Mobile has deployed a cost-saving solution to allow significantly increased GSM connectivity in remote villages without increasing costs...

Conferences and exhibitions, Satellite, ICT, Africa: As Africa seeks to ramp up ICT services the GVF (Global VSAT Forum) has announced a new event in Nigeria. Co-inciding with this ICT Africa is moving from Kenya to Ethiopia and undergoing a name change too...

Contracts, Mobile, 3G, Slovakia: The new Slovakian mobile network operator Telefonica O2 has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as the sole supplier of the mobile network it launched earlier this year...

Contracts, Billing and CRM, Africa: FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...