Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 August 2008; 15081 views

In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 12 August 2008; 8387 views

A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 August 2008; 9757 views

Celltick is launching a mobile media service over the China Unicom network for the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will distribute content from Xinhua News, China’s official news agency...

Details: James Barton; Category: Operators; 11 August 2008; 11069 views

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1^st August 2008...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 11 August 2008; 11646 views

Alcatel-Lucent has won a US$49 million contract right through 2011 by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to supply GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC’s GSM mobile subsidiary.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 08 August 2008; 21846 views

VNL, an Indian telecom equipment vendor, is claiming to have re-engineered GSM in order to help operators provide affordable mobile telephony to new customers in rural markets. The company is quoting energy requirements of 50W and 120W to operate, compared to 3,000W for a typical GSM base station...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 August 2008; 11100 views

Mobilink GSM of Pakistan will be deploying Tekelec TekMedia anti-spam firewall in order to establish better network control and to enhance customer experience.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 05 August 2008; 11914 views

There has recently been confusion in Qatar as to whether VoIP calls are legal or not, so much so that the country's Supreme Council for Information and Communications Technology (ictQATAR) has had to issue a statement confirming that such calls are indeed legal.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 August 2008; 8630 views

Emircom is a fast-growing systems integrator headquartered in the Middle East. It has been licenced by Synchronica, a vendor of mobile email and synchronisation software, to exploit Synchronica's email software Mobile Gateway.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 August 2008; 10469 views

Almost 600 million mobile users, a major restructuring of the country's mobile sector - and the Olympic Games. How on earth will China cope? Peter Collingwood, Vice-President, JDSU's Communications Test & Measurement business segment, EMEA, offers some answers.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 01 August 2008; 9363 views

The Grameen Foundation is well known for pioneering telephone networks in rural surroundings. Its latest scene will allow two organisations to spend US$10,000 on building up village phone systems.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 August 2008; 9844 views

Using the European Space Agency's Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, telecom operators across Africa and the Middle East can now improve VoIP over satellite services.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 01 August 2008; 10340 views

Nearly 70% of Angolans will now be able to receive satellite communications through a fibre-optic cable running the length of the Angolan coastline. WFN Strategies will supply Angola Telecom with telecoms, business and engineering support.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 01 August 2008; 9699 views

The number of ICT users has trebled since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. As a result of a call from the telecoms industry, the ITU is to set up a new group to establish standards for lower ICT emissions and how ICT itself can help reduce emissions in other sectors, eg, energy, transport and buildings.

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 28 July 2008; 11280 views

Four major telecoms providers operating in emerging markets have recently adopted HP's new charging technology to service up to 320 million subscribers. The system allows operators to offer customer-centric pricing models...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 25 July 2008; 9944 views

Synchronica, a provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, is offering Mobile Gateway, its mass-market push email infrastructure software in response to major mobile operators in Africa wishing to provide affordable 'BlackBerry like' services...

Details: James Barton; Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 July 2008; 8483 views

The Swedish mobile company Neonode, which develops touch screen technologies and designs mobile handsets, has integrated Chinese XT9 text input interface with phrase prediction in its pioneer multimedia touch screen phone, the Neonode N2...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 10355 views

Colibria, which provides new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and presence-enabled solutions, has launched its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Instant Messaging Server...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 8491 views

Sogeti, a member of Capgemini Group, has announced that it will open a global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 July 2008; 11262 views

Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little is set to integrate the staff of Affinitiv into its Middle East office. Zoran Vasiljev, founder and CEO of Affinitiv, will take on the role of company director as his leadership team and employees join Arthur D. Little's Middle East practice...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 23 July 2008; 9146 views

Cornet-AM, an Internet services provider and part of the Comstar Group, has finished building the Republic of Armenia's first mobile WiMAX network...

Details: Category: Regulation; 23 July 2008; 11098 views

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, has published its draft guidelines for issuing three nationwide Broadband Wireless Access licences. Two will be in the 2.3Ghz band and one in the 2.5Ghz band...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 July 2008; 8236 views

Upaid Systems has launched a new online service which allows Brazilian expatriates in the USA to top up the phones of their friends and family in Brazil. RechargeBrazil.com is the first website of its kind: a bilingual English/Brazilian-Portuguese service accessible via any internet connection. Long-distance phone recharge services have typically required credit to be purchased in a participating outlet...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 22 July 2008; 8156 views

JDSU has an all-in-one fibre-optic test kit, providing network technicians with a way to avoid one of the leading causes of network downtime: contaminated, or "dirty," fibre...

Details: Category: Service Management; 21 July 2008; 11035 views

Clarity, a company specialising in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), will be extending its contract with Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines' largest network operators, to provide Unified OSS for the company's wireless business and its fixed line network subsidiary Innove Communications...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 21 July 2008; 11083 views

Redknee Solutions has sold its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution to Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, which is a government-owned communications service provider in Africa...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 21 July 2008; 10202 views

China's online-video site Youku.com has received its long-awaited licence from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This may indicate that China's government will not take as tough a line on privately owned online-video companies as some had feared...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 July 2008; 9409 views

South African based mobile marketing company Multimedia Solutions has been purchased by Sovereign Wealth Corp., in a move that will allow the company to expand its operations internationally and reach high growth markets such as Brazil, India, and Asia...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 18 July 2008; 10872 views

A new partnership between Forum Systems Inc. and Techlogix will provide SOA products to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 July 2008; 9396 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 16 July 2008; 8359 views

Commtouch, which specialises combating Internet fraud, has released its 2Q08 Email Threats Trend Report...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 16 July 2008; 12386 views

Shyam Telelink, the Indian subsidiary of Sistema, has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 July 2008; 11593 views

At a meeting in New York with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, iQor President and CEO Vikas Kapoor announced the opening of iQor's third call centre in the Philippines, in this case creating 700 new jobs...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 15 July 2008; 9768 views

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

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