"We need a Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa. We have to mobilise the world's human, financial and technical resources to support economic growth, employment and development across Africa... 

The first half of 2007 saw the launch of Nokia-Siemens Networks. Industry mergers such as this have become a feature of the telecoms scene in recent years. But although the merging companies are based in developed markets, the mergers are being driven by the need to drive down costs in order to compete in emerging markets...

The new Slovakian mobile network operator Telefonica O2 has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as the sole supplier of the mobile network it launched earlier this year...

Less than three months remain before the governments of the world meet at this year's World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) to decide whether to re-assign C-band for the terrestrial-wireless sector...

Satellite communications, when properly deployed, will always mean an improved global response to disasters. Now the ITU has forged a partnership with satellite-based ICO Global Communications and the Commonwealth Business Council to exploit satellite communications for exactly this purpose...

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is responding to the demand in cost-effective IP transit capacity in Africa. Its new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service is designed for the entire African continent...

The Middle Eastern mobile market presents greater revenue opportunities than markets in Europe when taking into account its size and spending power, according to a new report The Middle Eastern mobile market: trends and forecasts 2007-12, published by Analysys. Why? Read on...

Basing its claim on the fact that it now serves 50 million DSL customers worldwide, Huawei is promoting itself as the leader in IP DSLAM technology. This report explains how Huawei justifies its claim...

FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...

Huawei has successfully deployed the largest High Speed Packet Access network in the Middle East and North Africa region for Etisalat in UAE...

Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators will provide its messaging platforms to Cable & Wireless for networks in the Americas & Caribbean...

Telecentre organisers in Congo Brazzaville recently met to discuss the approach they needed to take if their telecentres were to fulfil their targets of bringing ICT to the Congolese people. Sylvie Niombo of APCNews explains...

Reliance Communications of India is undertaking the largest wireless network expansion project by any operator across the world... 

Aimed at meeting all the major reporting, monitoring and control protocols, Intamac's latest device is aimed at putting customer needs at the top of the agenda in home and office automation...

Orphans and other vulnerable children in Nigeria are the targets of the Fantsuam Foundation which assesses the risks the children face from HIV/AIDS as well as traditional dangers such as hunger and disease...

Recently, ITU and Cameroon ran joint a workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management. The conclusions included a plea for more of the cross-border co-operation and the waiving of paper-work aspired to at the Tampere Convention...

The influential Arab Advisors Group has surveyed cellular users in Qatar . The survey, on the eve of Qatari liberalisation, shows that 34.9% of Qatar ?s GSM users have ADSL broadband Internet in their homes while 80.6% are aware of 3G cellular technology...

Teledata Networks has now launched its BroadAccess-100 New Outdoor Mini IP DSLAM, aimed at easing upgrades to triple play...

Some months ago we carried a press release from Nokia which extolled the virtues of a Nokia handset whose design was said to be inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The press release was so brilliant we carried it unedited. Now, Nokia has released its Nokia 8600 Luna, 'a definitive design statement with a touch of glass.' We thought those of you dealing with telecoms in rural wastelands, or building up tele-density in urban squalor, or installing disaster management systems might just be interested in what Nokia has to say. Take it away, Nokia Luna...

Iridium Satellite has become an official supplier to Connect Africa, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to introduce mobile communication and public service facilities for rural communities across Africa. Iridium will supply satellite voice and data services...

Last year Telrad Networks completed a rapid deployment of voice, data and IPTV services for NewNet, the second largest telecommunications provider in Georgia , launching 28 IP-based sites within less than a year. Rebecca Rachmany, Director of Marketing, Telrad Networks reviews her company's progress...

One of the most important subjects Developing Telecoms reports on regularly is Disaster Management. We were therefore pleasantly surprised to find that the Economist had recently published an article with the above title. Subtitled "You don't have to be big to make a difference" it is reproduced here, to reach a wider audience...

Image Share is a service allowing a mobile customer to share images with the person he or she is speaking to. Several companies have just carried out trials of Image Share with the help of China Mobile's laboratory in Beijing ...

Qtel is leveraging its strong balance sheet resulting from its monopoly of telecommunications in its home market to expand regionally and globally...

United Arab Emirates is the most connected country in the Arab World according to the Arab Advisors Group's annually released Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM)...

Anam Mobile, a leading provider of revenue generating SMS applications, has announced a new service that will allow global money transfers via SMS...

China Telecom has selected a Voice and Data Portal Solution based on the from IP Unity Glenayre for a unified communications pilot scheme...

Telrad Networks has announced that its Commatch 6004 platform, which allows voice over WiMAX through existing TDM switches, has been deployed on two live networks in Poland. The deployments are in turn part of a deployment of Alvarion’s WiMAX solution. Commatch 6004 is intended to allow WiMAX VoIP over existing TDM switches with seamless interoperability...

Teles, the German fixed and mobile solutions-provider, has launched 'Do Not Call List' blocking which conforms to recent recommendations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...