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Wavion wins wide-area Wi-Fi project in San Luis

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
09 July 2008
9947 views
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Wi-fi
  • Wavion
High-speed wireless Internet is now a reality in Argentina's San Luis Province, as the result of collaboration by Wavion, La Punta University and Xiden Networking. This is a pioneering project which brings free, wide-area Internet to a region of Argentina...

Redknee awarded new US patent for customer profiling system

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Category: Service Management
08 July 2008
7894 views
  • Global
  • Redknee
  • Customer Profiling
Redknee, which provides mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, has received approval from the US patent system for its Telecommunications Subscriber Profile Management System...

Shyam Telelink chooses trio to build Indian CDMA 800 MHz mobile network

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Category: Wireless Networks
08 July 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • CDMA
  • Sistema
  • Shyam Telelink
Sistema, the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, which manages fast-growing companies within the consumer services sector, has announced that its Indian telecoms subsidiary Shyam Telelink has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Subex, Siemens help Vietnamese telecoms provider combat fraud

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Category: Revenue & Billing
07 July 2008
9842 views
  • Revenue
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Subex
  • Vietnam
  • Fraud Management
Subex Ltd, which supplies Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), is working with one of its key partners, Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL), to implement its Nikira Fraud Management product at a leading mobile telecommunications service provider in Vietnam...

Vodafone moves to 70% control over Ghana Telecom

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Category: Investment
07 July 2008
12799 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Ghana
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mobile operators
Vodafone has acquired a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom from the Government of Ghana. Total consideration is US$900 million on a debt-free, cash-free basis, which would imply a total enterprise value for Ghana Telecom of approximately US$1.3 billion...

Celtel Targets Rural Market With New Offer

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Africa Correspondent
Category: Wireless Networks
04 July 2008
9717 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Celtel
Mobile telephone service providers look set to extend their turf battles to the rural areas, where the cost factor is the only lure for consumers...

Morocco define Broadband Strategy with Cisco assistance

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2008
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  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Morocco

Internet Business Solutions Group, the consulting arm of Cisco has entered into a partnership with the Moroccan government to boost economic development and accelerate digital transformation...

Kenya to get new VSAT network

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Category: Satellite Networks
02 July 2008
11187 views
  • Satellite
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Technology
  • SkyEdge II
Kenyan businesses are to get a new VSAT network to deliver high quality voice, broadband data and video services...

BPL takes Redknee IPRC real-time rating and charging

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Category: Revenue & Billing
01 July 2008
9397 views
  • Billing
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Redknee
  • BPL
BPL, the leading Indian wireless operator, is to install Redknee's IPRC real-time rating and charging solution...

Huawei launches new terminals to help operators boost 3G business

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Category: Devices & Platforms
01 July 2008
8910 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Huawei
  • Technology
Leading Chinese vendor Huawei launched an array of new products at the recent Communicasia exhibition in Singapore including its latest HSPA USB stick, 3G phones and an HSDPA gateway...

Leading Indian equipment vendor buys Finnish Openbit

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Category: Wireless Networks
30 June 2008
12449 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Acquisitions
  • Mobile Payments
  • Tanla
Tanla, a leading provider of Telecom infrastructure headquartered in Hyderabad, India has announced its acquisition of Openbit, of Tampere, Finland for $US18.6 million...

Baidu new Instant Messaging Service will offer Video

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
11517 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Baidu
Baidu.com, the largest Chinese language internet search engine, is launching an instant messaging application with real-time video chat as it aims to hold on to its top spot...

Redknee Launches Voucherless Top-Up Solution for Pre-Paid Wireless Subscribers

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
10489 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Redknee
  • Lebanon
Redknee has announced the launch of Mobile Money Airtime Reseller which enables completely voucherless, pre-paid wireless airtime top-up. This addresses the needs of many high-growth / emerging market operators and subscribers...

New name for industry body as DSL Forum becomes Broadband Forum

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
11266 views
  • Global
  • Broadband Forum
As industry convergence and triple play take root, the DSL Forum has decided on a new name and identity which it feels reflects its current role more accurately...

On-demand text banking steps closer in 200 countries with new partnership

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Category: Mobile Finance
26 June 2008
8576 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Banking
S1 Enterprise Corporation, a provider of software for financial and payment services and Clickatell have announced a partnership to provide an on-demand text-based banking service which will be available to companies in more than 200 countries...

ITU calls for harmonised 116 111 global child helpline number

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
26 June 2008
8006 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • Child Helpline
Children around the world will more easily call for support, counselling and intervention, thanks to the new global child helpline number being advocated by the ITU...

SwissQual technology is a turn off

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Category: Devices & Platforms
25 June 2008
8703 views
  • Global
  • Network Optimisation
  • Handsets

SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing...

ELVA-1 modifies PPC-1000 Gb radio link for Czech ISP JHComp

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 June 2008
12437 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • Ethernet
The Millimeter Wave Division of ELVA-1 has announced another installation of its specially modified PPC-1000 Gb Ethernet mm-wave link for Czech ISP JHComp. Both residential and business customers will benefit from Internet and voice service improvements...

Cutting the Cost of Transmission in Emerging Markets

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Category: Wireless Networks
24 June 2008
9561 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Malaysia
  • Altobridge
  • MNO

Despite significant advances to drive down capital costs for Mobile Network Operators, several key challenges still remain before the digital divide is able to be fully bridged. Transmission costs stand out as the No.1 barrier...

UAE, Bahrain Saudi Arabia lead Arab World dash for telecoms

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 June 2008
10576 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • Arab Advisors
The Arab Advisors Group publishes a yearly update on the rates of connectivity within the various Arab countries. this year broadband and fixed services have played their part alongside mobile in fueling substantial improvements in connectivity rates...

Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection expands

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Category: Wireless Networks
17 June 2008
9255 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • NSN
  • Vodacom
  • Tanzania
  • Village Connection
Vodacom Tanzania began trials of Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection solution to connect rural and suburban communities earlier this year, following a successful development by NSN in India...

CBOSS Supports Re-branding of Orange Moldova

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Category: Revenue & Billing
11 June 2008
8036 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Markets
  • Orange Moldova
  • Mobile Network Providers
  • Moldova
For Orange Moldova, 2007 was a year of change - not only did the company, formerly known as SA Voxtel, adopt its new name, but it saw a massive boom in traffic, market share, penetration and multimedia. The changes required by this rebranding to Orange Moldova, as well as the this tremendous shift in the magnitude of business, were supported by CBOSS Corporation...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
10527 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. Key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
7056 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Aperto Packetmax selected by Icosnet for Algerian WiMAX network

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Category: Wireless Networks
11 June 2008
11247 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • WiMAX
Aperto Networks has announced that Icosnet has deployed a WiMAX network using PacketMAX 5000 base stations and PacketMAX 100 subscriber units. There is a strong commercial aspect of the contract, whose customers will initially at least be businesses, banks and energy companies...

Networking the challenging markets of the South Pacific

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 June 2008
11748 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Digicel
  • Telikom PNG
  • Oceania
No fewer than 30 countries lie in the South Pacific region. Some are established players, such as Australia. Others are tiny specks of rock. Together they form Oceania...

Costs of China earthquake soar to US$1 billion

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
10 June 2008
10546 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Disaster Response
Telco operators in China are counting the economic as well as the human cost of the country's recent earthquakes. A financial total of over US$1 billion is almost certain...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
8444 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
6945 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

RadioFrame iDEN offers more capacity for less energy

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
10 June 2008
7878 views
  • Global
  • Base Stations
RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...

Vietnam MIC explores role of technology in national transformation with Cisco

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
06 June 2008
8515 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cisco
  • Vietnam
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has announced it will collaborate with Cisco to identify areas in which Cisco networking technologies and solutions can benefit the MIC's quest to accelerate the socio-economic development of Vietnam...

Russia to gain half Eastern Europe's pay TV by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 June 2008
10887 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Digital TV
Russia is set to dominate the pay TV sector in Eastern Europe with a 50% share of the market by 2012. This prediction is made by Screen Digest in its latest media analysis. The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia...

ITU restores telecoms links vital for Sichuan's rehabilitation effort

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
10068 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • ITU
  • Satellite terminals
Running simultaneously with ITU's relief work in Myanmar, the ITU is deploying satellite terminals in quake-hit China. Some 100 terminals are helping China get communication links back up and running in the Sichuan Province...

Alcatel-Lucent supports relief effort for Chinese earthquake victims

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
11327 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Disaster Management
Alcatel-Lucent is heavily involved in the efforts to help those suffering from the effects of the Chinese earthquake. The company has 10,000 employees in China with 500 in Chengdu, little more than 100 miles from the epicentre of the quake...

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