Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced a new Flexi BSC (base station controller) that offers up to 80% reduction in energy consumption along with a 40% increase in capacity over existing base station controllers...
The GSMA has announced that it is launching the Mobile Energy Efficiency Network Benchmarking Service, an initiative that will provide a benchmark measurement of network energy efficiency, and will help mobile network operators lower their energy costs and carbon footprint. With this information, it is now possible to identify the scale of potential efficiency gains and develop programmes to achieve these savings...
ITU has dispatched thirty broadband satellite terminals to Haiti as the country prepares for hurricane Tomas...
ITU has deployed 100 broadband satellite terminals in the flood-affected districts of Pakistan. In the aftermath of the disaster, ITU’s emergency telecommunications team has been working closely with the Pakistan administration to restore vital communication links. The satellite terminals are being deployed to restore communications and provide a platform from which telemedicine applications/services will be provided in remote areas that remain difficult to access and where medical attention is a priority in the aftermath of the disaster...
ITU has deployed a hybrid of 40 broadband satellite terminals in an effort to restore vital communication links in the aftermath of a tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake and a volcanic eruption that hit the Indonesian archipelago in two separate incidents...
A new agreement between Voice Commerce and Alcatel-Lucent is set to provide new mobile money and payment options for mobile operators, with the two companies aiming to satisfy the burgeoning demand for these services in emerging markets...
Access to telecommunications services is increasingly viewed as a basic right, and consumers – particularly in the developed world - often take for granted the availability of these services without considering the ramifications...
The ITU is leading an internation effort to speed up reconstruction of Haiti’s crucial telecommunications and ICT infrastructure destroyed in the earthquake of 12 January this year...
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