Satellite, Disaster Management, Exploration, Saudi Arabia: Advantech has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Advantech Satellite Networks Inc has been awarded a contract to provide a new VSAT satellite communications network for Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

IPTV, Entertainment, China: China Telecom has signed a contract where UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end system will be installed in a new commercial IPTV network in China's Shanxi Province.

Broadband WiMax, Wireless, Kuwait, MENA: Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in Kuwait using Aperto state-of-the-art broadband wireless PacketWave gear.

VoIP, Internet, Hungary, CEE: GTS Datanet has chosen Thomson Cirpack VoIP switching platforms for the launch of its new double play and IP Centrex services.

Satellite, Ecuador, CLA: ViaSat Inc will be supplying its LinkStar DVB-S2 satellite networking system to Unete Telecomunicaciones SA (Bolivia) to expand enterprise broadband services in Ecuador and the surrounding region.

GSM, Mobile, Russia. CEE: Nokia has won a major GSM/GPRS/EDGE network expansion contract from leading Russian operator MegaFon that will see it deliver both radio and core equipment, thereby helping MegaFon deliver advanced mobile solutions to its subscriber base.

Wireless, Bulgaria, CEE: Mtel (formally known as Mobiltel EAD), the Bulgarian wireless operator, has selected and implemented Andrew Corporation’s Odyssey cellular radio planning software system in order to replace a previous radio planning tool.

GSM, Mobiles, Nigeria, MENA: Motorola has signed a US$75 million GSM network expansion contract with Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-tel), one of Nigeria’s mobile communications operators.

Contracts, Customer Management, El Salvador, CLA: Redknee Inc, which provides infrastructure software to monetise and personalise services and content for mobile users, has announced that Digicel Group has selected its CRM Solution to improve customer care and billing management in its newly acquired El Salvador operation.