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Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 29 January 2009 9128 views IP networking solutions from Tadiran Telecom have been chosen by the Bank of Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) to provide an IP telephony network of 60 systems and sites throughout Vietnam... Details Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 28 January 2009 8332 views Boingo Wireless has added 10,904 China Telecom hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai; the locations are the first three of 18 provinces and three municipalities that will be added to the Boingo network. With the addition of these locations, Boingo members will enjoy broadband connections throughout the Yangtze Delta, including airports, hotels and cafés... Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 15 January 2009 10975 views Under an agreement just signed with China Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile will provide their TD-SCDMA solution for 11 of the 28 cities covered by China Mobile's phase 2 network, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Changchun, Hefei, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Urumqi... Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 14 January 2009 11533 views Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc (DMPI) is one of the three major wireless carriers in the Philippines. Operating under the brand-name Sun Cellular, DMPI offers GSM technology, including voice services, messaging services, outbound and inbound international roaming, and value-added services. In early 2008, Digitel began deploying a new network designed to carry 3G (HSPA) services. The operator chose Ceragon's FibeAir IP-MAX2 wireless Ethernet solution to construct an all-IP backhaul network... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 29 December 2008 9089 views Whatever the current economic crisis, IDC is still predicting pockets of opportunity within Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) next year. **Developing Telecoms** summarises a thought-provoking and insightful set of forecasts. Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 23 December 2008 9014 views Motorola has announced the deployment of its first WiMAX trial network for Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), a member company of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), which is the largest ISP in Vietnam. The network allows VDC to test next-generation wireless broadband services in major cities of Vietnam... Details Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 19 December 2008 8675 views Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile Group Fujian have teamed up to provide an eCommerce platform that is intended to "promise an important link between rural consumers and urban businesses"... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 17 December 2008 9474 views Stratus Technologies has been commissioned by Danawa Resources, a broadband service provider operating in Malaysia, Cambodia and Indonesia, to deploy its Stratus Entice E-REV telecoms platform to expand into residential, enterprise and wholesale VoIP-based phone service throughout its coverage area... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 16 December 2008 9928 views Aircom International, an independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been selected by Indonesia's Axis to support that operator's drive for increased penetration across the country... Details Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 12 December 2008 9041 views Incomnet has added Gilat Satellite Network's SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution to its satellite communications network to serve Mongolia's mobile operators. Incomnet is one of Mongolia's largest telecommunications service providers... Details Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 12 December 2008 10525 views Redknee, a provider of mission-critical convergent billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is now congratulating Digicel on launching mobile services across three new markets - Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga... Details Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 19 November 2008 10425 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](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 04 November 2008 9156 views Huawei has announced that it has been selected by HT Mobile Communications Centre, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company and US-based Hutchison Telecom, as a key partner in rolling out its new national GSM network. HT Mobile is currently undergoing a telecom transformation and switching from CDMA to GSM technology, and is scheduled to launch its new GSM national network next year... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Alec Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 03 November 2008 12086 views Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 13 October 2008 10644 views Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia... Details Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 23 September 2008 12067 views Mobile email is now a reality in Vietnam, as one of the country's mobile service providers, Viettel, has adopted Memova, a mobile email solution from Critical Path... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/motos_l.jpg) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 23 September 2008 12471 views Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 22 September 2008 12313 views ITU launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU Telecom Asia 2008, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society... Details James Barton Category: [Wireless Networks](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/wireless-networks.html) 17 September 2008 10115 views TT&T is deploying the first Cisco WiMAX network in Asia Pacific at Mae Fah Luang University. Expected to help bridge the digital divide, this will also be the first production WiMAX network in Thailand... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/mobilemoneyl.jpg) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Mobile Finance](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/financial-services.html) 16 September 2008 11263 views In many developing economies, more citizens own mobile phones than own traditional bank accounts. A new research report by Mercator Advisory Group stresses the lessons to be learnt from mobile money experiences in South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 16 September 2008 9323 views According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 28 August 2008 12293 views Internet censorship is effectively preventing thousands of American and European e-commerce websites from reaching Chinese consumers, claim Internet marketing consultants Backbone IT Group in a recent study. Details James Barton Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 20 August 2008 12768 views It's now official - Asia-Pacific is the world leader in ICT. A new report from the ITU, published to co-incide with ITU Telecom Asia 2008 next month confirms what analysts and observers, including **Developing Telecoms**, have believed to be the case for years, that Asia-Pacific dominates in fixed and wireless telecommunications. But there is still a big divide in the region between ICT rich and poor economies... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 19 August 2008 10872 views Foreign mobile users attending the Beijing Olympics have been enjoying seamless roaming provided by Tata Communications. Tata's eXchange system enables mobile network operators to establish roaming more quickly and cheaply... ![](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) 18 August 2008 9064 views Internet Protocol is rapidly penetrating a range of key vertical and horizontal enterprise telephony markets in the Asia Pacific region. Although time division multiplexing still holds sway overall in Asia, high demand for IP from countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore has triggered a growth spurt in the region... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 13 August 2008 11089 views Jointly developed by Andrew and Siemens, advanced wireless communications are being installed on the new CRH3 Harmony multiple unit trains running on the Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway... Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 12 August 2008 8596 views A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements. Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Consumer Ecosystems](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/60-consumer-ecosystems.html) 12 August 2008 9917 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... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/olympics_s.jpg) Details Michael Schwartz Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 01 August 2008 10688 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. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/bill_l.jpg) Details James Barton Category: [Revenue & Billing](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-revenue-billing.html) 28 July 2008 11473 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: [Devices & Platforms](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/telecom-devices-platforms.html) 25 July 2008 8632 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... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/NewsPix/youku_logo_l.jpg) Details Category: [Trends & Forecasts](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts.html) 21 July 2008 10412 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 Category: [Service Management](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/oss-service-management.html) 21 July 2008 11246 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...