--- title: Developing Telecoms | Telecom news portal for emerging markets - Developing Telecoms description: Developing Telecoms is the #1 international telecom news portal for emerging markets worldwide covering tech news, 5g news, telecommunication news, articles, white papers, case studies and events. canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18700 language: en-GB date: 2025-11-25T00:11:39Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18700. markdown-tokens: 3442 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/?start=18700. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 27 February 2006 11848 views Thomson Cirpack soft switches have been purchased by Americatel, an affiliate of Chile' s national telecommunications carrier Entel, and service provider in Guatemala , Honduras , Peru and El Salvador.. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 27 February 2006 11377 views A Pan-African ICT regulatory agency, dealing specifically with ICT issues with a continent-wide bearing, could help reduce the costs of communications to African governments, businesses and individuals. This is the view of Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO). Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 27 February 2006 8699 views Andrew Corporation has won a strategic multiyear contract from a Tier 1 operator in the Middle East for a major geolocation system deployment... Details C&W Panama Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 27 February 2006 11943 views Cable & Wireless Panama first started providing GSM services in 2003. By 2005, it was catering to 64,000 mobile subscribers and seeing a 35% increase in GSM service revenue from the previous fiscal year... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 27 February 2006 11563 views Roamware has launched its advanced roaming services across 12 mobile networks owned by the Cable & Wireless International Communications Company in the Caribbean region... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 27 February 2006 10272 views DigiLinea, the specialist VoIP service provider to the US-Hispanic and Latin American markets, has announced the availability of new unlimited calling plans to the USA and Latin America for clients residing in Central America... Details Alec Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 20 February 2006 13236 views The Arab world's largest communications network is set to overhaul its customer services. Convergys has signed a contract with Saudi Telecom Company, which provides mobile, landline, data, and Internet services... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 February 2006 12502 views Users of mobile phones in Brazil will experience less interference if spectrum is allocated efficiently. The GSM Association has advised Brazilian regulator Anatel that it can build on its already successful spectrum policy if its allocation of the IMT-2000 core band in Brazil is consistent with global standards. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 10267 views CSL and Nokia have demonstrated what is claimed to be the industry's first seamless service continuity between HSDPA and EDGE networks. In practice, this means seamless hand-overs from HSDPA to EDGE and back without service interruptions... Details Alec Barton Category: [Regulation](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-regulation.html) 20 February 2006 12616 views Pakistan has won this year's GSMA Government Leadership Award, which recognises exceptional work by governments globally in the field of mobile communications policy... Details Alec Barton Category: [Mobile Finance](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/financial-services.html) 20 February 2006 11093 views The proliferation of mobile communications in developing countries has the potential to bring a wide range of financial services to an entirely new customer base, according to a new report commissioned by the Information for Development Program (infoDev) in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the GSM Association... Details Alec Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 20 February 2006 11106 views First National Bank has selected Clickatell to extend its inContact alert service to Namibia . inContact immediately alerts customers of any transactions on their bank accounts via a text message to their mobile phones... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 12837 views Two Indian mobile operators, Airtel and Idea Cellular, have agreed to use fastmobile Inc fmX software technology to support a series of message service trials. fastmobile designs and supplies integrated messaging and content services for mobile network operators: the fmX platform is to be used in trials exploring the impact of mobile communications in developing countries... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 11371 views Lucent Technologies has unveiled its Base Station Router, a Bell Labs innovation that integrates key components of 3G mobile networks into a single network element, thus "flattening" what is typically a more complex architecture... Details Alec Barton Category: [Satellite Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/satellite-communications-networks.html) 20 February 2006 8506 views Quebec-based PolarSat is supplying its FlexiDAMA hub and remote terminals to the Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company... Details Alec Barton Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 20 February 2006 8467 views Indonesian operator Hutchison Telecom Indonesia, a joint venture between Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd and the CP Group of Indonesia, has awarded Nokia with a convergent charging solution contract that will see it provide, integrate and manage an innovative network solution for Hutchison Telecom Indonesia... Details Alec Barton Category: [Devices & Platforms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-devices-platforms.html) 20 February 2006 8884 views Mobile operators in developing countries have bought or ordered more than 12 million mobile phones from Motorola under the Emerging Market Handset programme run by the GSM Association (GSMA). Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 10015 views Mobitel, the Bulgarian mobile operator, has commissioned Openmind Networks to deploy its SMS Intelligent Load Optimiser and its SMS Direct Deliver Router. These new systems enable Mobitel to deal with higher volumes of SMS traffic more efficiently and cost effectively... Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 February 2006 13177 views Reuters in India has reported a ministerial speech claiming that the country, the world's fastest growing mobile market, could be adding between 6-8 million new users each month once networks reach all potential rural customers. The comments were made by Telecommunications Minister Dayanidhi Maran at 3GSM Barcelona . Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 11312 views Nokia has won a US$170 million GSM/GPRS network expansion deal with China' s Henan Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd. The contract is intended to greatly enhance network capacity and coverage in the Henan province, putting Henan MCC in an extremely competitive position. Details Alec Barton Category: [Satellite Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/satellite-communications-networks.html) 20 February 2006 9288 views Globalcom Satellite is now unveiling the Nera WorldPro 1000 portable satellite terminal. The terminal will operate via Inmarsat's powerful new 4th generation satellite network on a service called BGAN... Details Alec Barton Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 20 February 2006 13986 views Openmind Networks is deploying its SMS personalisation system called My SMS with the Bahrain Telecommunications Company. My SMS enables Batelco to introduce innovative solutions to its customers by offering them new, value-added services based on the most successful non-voice service to date, namely, SMS... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 20 February 2006 12200 views Mobile Telecommunications Limited of Namibia has signed a five-year exclusive contract with Motorola Limited for the supply of GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Canopy access network equipment... Details GSM Association / PWC Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 February 2006 12430 views Almost 30% more people (25 million) in Sub-Saharan Africa would have mobile phones if it was not for the unpredictable and short-term approach to regulation in many countries in the region, according to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers study published by the GSM Association (GSMA). Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 20 February 2006 10177 views Alec Barton, Publisher of **Developing Telecoms**, finds great cause for encouragement from 3GSM Barcelona... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 February 2006 8994 views Andrew Corporation has introduced a compact tower-mounted amplifier designed to provide operators with options for coverage and capacity enhancement for 3G networks... Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 February 2006 14218 views Nokia has won a new MSC Server System contract with Telefónica Móviles Ecuador , which operates under the movistar brand, to enable more cost efficient voice service. Telefónica's subsidiary in Ecuador marks a new customer for Nokia and strengthens cooperation with Telefónica Móviles. Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 13 February 2006 13643 views Kuwaiti owned Mobile Telecommunications Company Group (MTC), the largest GSM operator in the region, is to bid for the third GSM licence in Egypt . Mohamed Eid, MTC Country Manager Egypt, has stressed the advantage of winning the contract: employment opportunities for many Egyptians based on a high-quality local labour force. Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 13 February 2006 13951 views In a deal valued at US$1.332 billion, MTC has acquired from Sudatel 61% of Sudanese mobile operator Mobitel. Mobitel currently has almost 2 million customers, up 70% in the last year. Funding for this new transaction was secured following the capital increase from an equity rights issue of US$2.3 billion. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 February 2006 12433 views Nokia and Greek mobile operator Cosmote have signed an agreement for the supply of WCDMA 3G radio network. With this 3G deal, Nokia, a long-term GSM infrastructure supplier to Cosmote, further cements its role in the development of Cosmote's mobile networks in Greece and elsewhere in the Balkans. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 February 2006 14362 views Wataniya Telecom today opened the first High Speed Downlink Packet Access network in the Middle East and Africa region, thereby making it the first operator in these two areas to offer mobile services beyond 3G. Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 13 February 2006 13788 views Andrew Corporation has introduced what is believed to be the industry's first all-digital remote radio head, a high-power unit that is intended to provide cost savings and coverage flexibility for global 3G networks... Details Julia Sudakova, Andrew Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 13 February 2006 13818 views Andrew Corporation has been a major player in emerging markets for many years. In Russia and the CIS they are working with all three main operators and have around 30% market share with tier 2 and 3 operators. Julia Sudakova is Head of Sales for Andrew in the CIS & Mongolia. Here she talks with **Developing Telecoms** about these markets and how Andrew Corporation see communications services developing in the region in future. Details Alec Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 05 February 2006 8634 views Nokia has reached a five-year managed services agreement to run Hutchison Essar's network operations in nine circles in India . Nokia will assume the operation of Hutchison Essar's networks in Gujarat , Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Uttar Pradesh (East and West), Rajasthan, Haryana and West Bengal , thus allowing the operator to better focus on its customers and core activities...