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Perhaps reflecting a thaw in the frosty relations between Mainland China and Taiwan, the largest fixed-line operators from each country - Chunghwa Telecom and China Telecom - are set to spend nearly US$15 million on an undersea link...
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As a part of our coverage on mobile banking, we are publishing a summary of a review from Financial Insights called Mobile Banking and Beyond. Increased convergence in the Asia-Pacific Internet and mobile banking channels is expected in the next 12 months...
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Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the National Payment System Bill, which is intended to safeguard public savings as mobile banking gains a hold in the country. The last three years have seen a staggering 150% rise in the number of banked Kenyans. Michael Schwartz summarises...
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Following our report of the dispute over ownership of Egyptian mobile operator Mobinil, it has become all too clear that the arguments between France Telecom and Orascom Telecom will become fiercer, arbitration or not...
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As soon as he was sworn into his new post as India's Communications and IT Minister, Andimuthu Raja declared that the country's auctions for 3G licences would be allocated a date as a matter of urgency...
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The GSMA's Mobile Money Summit is timely in the light of several recent developments, all of which bring home the empowerment that mobile money can bring to those called the "unbanked"...
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Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...
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BH Telecom end-users can enjoy new triple-play services enabled by NSN. Key to the project are NSN switching and broadband access solutions to optimise BH Telecom's legacy assets, as the company advances towards an all-IP network of the future...
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High-end video streaming has arrived in China. China Telecom has selected NSN to achieve the launch, utilising the latter's 3G CDMA EVDO service...
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ZTE has announced that it sold 10 million terminal units worldwide in 1Q09, representing an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year...
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TelicPhil has selected ECI Telecom for a DWDM network expansion. Utilising ECI's MSPP, the Philippines operator can expand its existing network to offer increased bandwidth capacity to deliver data and international voice services...
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With the current economic climate taking its toll around the world, mobile network operators are considering new tactics to improve customer service and reduce churn while also lowering costs. Network Sharing is an important strategy available for network operators to pursue. In this article Simon Kong looks at some of the factors holding back network sharing in Asia...
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Neeren Ramharakh, Vice-President, Sub-Saharan Africa at Cambridge Broadband Networks, discusses how African operators are delivering mobile broadband to regions where there is no fixed line infrastructure...
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Comverse has announced that TELE2 Russia has selected its Multimedia Messaging Centre (MMSC) and Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) to optimise messaging and browsing for its more than ten million subscribers...
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China Mobile has selected ST-Ericsson's company in China, T3G, as a major technology partner for the development of its high-end and low-cost handsets, based on the 3G standard TD-SCDMA. ST-Ericsson will also support four of its customers in order to commercialise their mobile phones during 2009-2010...
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Our review of mobile money mentioned a project in Gabon where a key player was the Toronto-based Redknee. Michael Schwartz visited Redknee and met its Chief Technology Officer Bohdan Zabawskyj...
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Aircraft featuring broadband for passengers will total nearly 800 by the end of 2009, according to analyst In-Stat. Reflecting apparently insatiable demand from passengers for broadband, revenues from this stream will exceed US$1 billion in three years...
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Despite good results at the end of 2008, the Bulgarian PC market lost momentum 1Q09. According to the latest data from IDC, PC shipments grew only 3.5%, the worst result in three years, while revenues contracted 13.7% year on year...
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The IT services market in Croatia continued to grow in 2008 despite the slowing economy, according to a recent IDC study. The market totaled US$424.45 million in 2008, representing 16.3% year-on-year growth in US$. Measured in local currency, the market expanded 7.0% year-on-year...
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Iridium is reporting that its new-generation global marine satellite communication system OpenPort has successfully completed sea trials on a number of different vessels, and worldwide commercial rollout is now underway...
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Re-farming 2G spectrum will be key to enabling mobile broadband coverage outside major population centres. This is according to a new report from Analysys Mason, Prospects for UMTS900: status review and outlook...
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Customer awareness of broadband technology or rather the lack of it accounts for the Digital Divide in broadband rather than any lack of availability of the relevant technology. The Ovum consultancy makes this claim in its recent report Bridging the broadband divide: challenges and solutions...
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Industry experts connected in Abu Dhabi this week to evaluate the state of telecoms in the Middle East. An appropriate time to look at telecoms in the developing markets as a whole at a time of global economic difficulty. Michael Schwartz writes...
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Exploiting TD technology from China Mobile nationally, the Tibetan branch of China Mobile is bringing 3G to this remote land. People in the capital Lhasa will soon be able to enjoy video phone calls to 38 cities whether China Mobile, China Unicom or China Telecom. Roaming will also be available to those countries that are running 3G...
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Mobile taxation continues to be a major issue impacting mobile penetration across East Africa. Despite widespread investment from the mobile operator community, fierce price competition and market liberalisation making mobile more accessible, subscriber take-up in the region continues to lag behind the rest of the world...
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In an official signing ceremony held in Amman, Jordan, Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC (Zain) and Palestinian Telecommunications Company Plc (Paltel) have entered into an agreement for a share-for-share exchange...
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Nokia is bringing the Internet in emerging markets "closer to reality" with the announcement of three new mobile phones that open the door to information, entertainment, family and friends...
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Agilent Technologies has introduced the industry's "first comprehensive DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) protocol debug and validation test suite for digital designers developing computer and embedded memory applications...
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A potential new player in Cameroon's mobile market as well as regulatory pressure to cut prices will help to more than double the mobile penetration in Cameroon by 2014, according to a new report from Research & Markets...
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Nigerian private telecoms operator, ZOOMmobile is upgrading its interconnect billing and settlements systems. The new system means the operator can process 25 million interconnect call detail records per hour in one of the world’s most complex interconnect markets...
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Despite economic hardship, Turkey’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be increasing their IT spending in the near future. This is the prediction of IDC which conducted a survey among 750 SMEs in Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir...
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Pakistani mobile operator Telenor Pakistan has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand and upgrade its network infrastructure. The five-year contract will have to take cognisance of low ARPU and persistent power shortages.
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Radius Synergies, which provides in-building management solutions for buildings in India has commissioned Fibre-To-The-Home from Ericsson. A 3,000-unit complex in New Delhi is believed to be the first recipient of this technology which enables IPTV in high definition, VoD and 100Mb/s download...
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Web-based analyst Seeking Alpha is predicting that Vietnam will emerge as a major market for mobile broadband by the end of 2014. Vendors of 3G equipment are expected to benefit from the boom...
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