Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 December 2008; 8826 views

Vodafone Essar has launched Voice SMS service in 16 circles across India. With the launch of this service, any Vodafone customer can send a Voice SMS message to a mobile subscriber, anywhere in India, for a fixed price of approximately US$0.01 per minute. The Voice SMS service is available to both prepaid and postpaid subscribers...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 December 2008; 9241 views

Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced that it is working with Mozambique operator mcel to support the update of mcel's planning tools for 2G and 3G networks...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 December 2008; 8111 views

Comarch has concluded the last phase of a WiMAX project for Promonte, a GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro. The project introduces global telecoms activity within the context of Promonte-owner Telenor's "Internet to the people" and takes advantage of the combination of up-to-date technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 December 2008; 8615 views

Most areas of Libya have now witnessed the installation of portable satellite broadband terminals supplied by Thuraya. The deployment follows a deal earlier this year between Thuraya and Libya's General Post & Telecommunications Company...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 05 December 2008; 7654 views

Intelsat and Sonema, which provides telecommunication services in Europe and Africa, have expanded their current agreement for contracted satellite capacity, whereby Sonema will be able to increase its enterprise services offerings...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 December 2008; 9056 views

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The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications for the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced her country's intention to implement market liberalisation and regulatory reforms so as to enable more effective delivery of mission-critical satellite, wireless, and fibre-based telecommunication solutions to citizens throughout the nation...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 10162 views

Whether you measure in US$ or local currency, increases of 32% and 20.5% respectively ensured that Bulgaria's IT spending soared last year. IDC believes that the rise is due to a number of favourable economic criteria. And there will be more over the next five years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 December 2008; 9726 views

Millicom International Cellular has been successful in the tender for the third national mobile licence in Rwanda against three other bidders. Millicom will hold 87.5% of the equity in a newly created joint venture company in partnership with Marathon Corporation, an established local company with numerous business interests in Rwanda...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 December 2008; 8212 views

Synchronica is promoting SimpleMail, its mass-market Consumer Push Email (CPE) solution, as suitable for basic and feature phones, and in particular as ideal for emerging markets in Asia. The company has licensed SimpleMail to two new emerging market mobile operators...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 December 2008; 11161 views

Backhaul is crucial in that it provides the connection between the core network and the mobile base stations that connect to users' devices. Any cellular network is only as good as its backhaul since it does not matter how well the cellular base stations perform or how wide a choice of handsets the customer has: if the backhaul capacity isn't available the user suffers...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 03 December 2008; 7637 views

Claimed to be the most comprehensive set of information on fibre-optics anywhere, the Fibre-Optic Association's Online Fibre Optic Reference Guide is now available...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 December 2008; 9987 views

Liberalisation in MENA will create opportunities and will entice new entrants into this market, according to Analysys Mason in a new report looking five years into the future. The award of a third 2G licence in Morocco typifies the region's good news...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 02 December 2008; 7996 views

Lior Kahan of Gilat Satcom has written to Developing Telecoms, asking whether fibre-based and satellite communications are really the rivals they are made out to be, ie, do they compete with each other or do they complement each other?

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 December 2008; 12133 views

The ITU's recent high-level meeting on ICT trends aimed to strengthen cybersecurity and mitigate climate change. Present were the Presidents of Burkina Faso and Rwanda...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 27 November 2008; 10058 views

What is claimed to be the world's first GSM/WiMAX handset, the HTC MAX 4G, has been launched in partnership with Russian Mobile WiMAX provider Scartel (brand-name Yota). The handset is intended to support the next evolution in mobile connectivity...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 November 2008; 9445 views

Taking the opportunity of the Electronica trade show, Infineon Technologies AG launched what it claims is "the world's smallest Transient Voltage Suppression diode" for the protection of antennas in the latest electronic equipment...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 November 2008; 9682 views

Andrew and its representative in Chile, Raylex, have been chosen by Entel PCS to deploy wireless network infrastructure. The overall contract is intended to enhance the already well-subscribed Chilean mobile market...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 November 2008; 9628 views

Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East saw an increase of no less than 47% for the last year-on-year figures available. Informa Telecoms & Media will shine a spotlight on the region at a forthcoming event in Dubai...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 November 2008; 8620 views

NDS, the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has been chosen by Tata Sky to supply its industry-leading XTV DVR solution for Tata Sky+, a service that will offer full Personal Video Recorded functionality in the Indian pay-TV market...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 25 November 2008; 11453 views

Vodafone's African shopping trip shows no sign of abating in the face of the global financial crisis, according to Jeremy Green, Mobile Practice Leader at Ovum. Last week, the company announced that it had achieved its long-held ambition to take a controlling stake in Vodacom, the South African mobile operator in which it held a 50% share...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 November 2008; 9392 views

SeaChange International, which provides IPTV and Video-on-Demand (VoD) software, systems and services, will partner Turkey-based Argela, a provider of next-generation telecom solutions, to serve the growing global market for IPTV. Turk Telekom, one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies, is the first customer for the partnership. SeaChange is also providing systems integration and professional services...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 November 2008; 9824 views

New submarine cables being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring unprecedented connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 November 2008; 6957 views

The customer base of ETK, the telco serving Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khkassia, has exceeded 2 million subscribers. ETK is fully owned by Siberia's largest telco, Sibirtelecom, and with 40% of the local market is the leading company in Krasnoyarsk Krai, far outpacing its federal competitors. Today, it runs GSM-900/1800 and IMT-MC 450 networks...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 November 2008; 10228 views

Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN)'s vision of five billion people connected by 2015 involves smart connectivity, an innovative concept that will provide powerful solutions for heterogeneous networks...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 9852 views

Freescale Semiconductor is helping accelerate the build-out of China's Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA, a third-generation wireless standard that is being widely adopted throughout China) networks, leveraging deep industry relationships and a broad technology portfolio for wireless infrastructure equipment...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 November 2008; 10748 views

Algeria's leading mobile operator Orascom Telecom Algeria has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register solution...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 10587 views

Nokia will launch Nokia Life Tools, a range of innovative agriculture information and education services targeted at non-urban consumers. Designed specifically for emerging markets, Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints and provides services to this next generation of mobile users...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 November 2008; 8071 views

Claimed to extend the addressable market for mobile email to almost 100% of mobile handsets in use today, Synchronica's SimpleMail technology has been licensed to two new emerging market mobile operators...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 November 2008; 7796 views

Tata Communications has announced the launch of its TelePresence rooms available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 November 2008; 10290 views

Seven GSM mobile networks in as many countries in Africa are to be connected via a VSAT network to be installed by Globecomm Systems. The contract follows Atlantique Telecom's programme of consolidation of its African markets...

Details: Category: Service Management; 14 November 2008; 11364 views

Intec, a provider of both business and operations support systems, has announced a contract extension with Atlantique Telecom, one of the fastest growing GSM operators in West and Central Africa...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 November 2008; 10654 views

UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...

Details: Cisco; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 November 2008; 8147 views

Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 November 2008; 10775 views

In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...

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