Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 February 2009; 12770 views

Indonesia's Telkomsel will enable a growing number of its 3G/HSDPA customers to enjoy the best quality unblocked data access as a result of its commissioning Nokia Siemens Networks' Direct Tunnel, which reduces transmission link requirements...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 23 February 2009; 8706 views

MobiCom Corporation, a leading Mongolian mobile network operator has received an award for ‘Best New Technology' in recognition of its remote GSM service, which is provided by Altobridge's Remote Community Solution and enables service delivery to isolated small user groups...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 February 2009; 10639 views

A move back to SMS will be one of the talking points of this year's Mobile World Congress, according to Anam Mobile, which is announcing three new international operator customers at Barcelona...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 11 February 2009; 9566 views

Kalimantan and Sulawesi will soon be joining the rest of Indonesia in enjoying the benefits of high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable. PT Telkom has awarded the contract for a 1,000-mile-plus link to General Cable Corporation subsidiary Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) and partner Fujitsu...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 February 2009; 9943 views

New York-based Access Markets International has been predicting where small and medium businesses will be spending the most money. The company identifies China, Korea, and India as the top three markets...

Details: Category: Service Management; 05 February 2009; 9871 views

Clarity will extending Operational Support Systems platform to handle all voice, data and IP services offered on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia's (PT Telkom) CDMA network...

Details: Dawn M. Hogh, Vice President Marketing, Veraz Networks; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2009; 12009 views

Asia-Pacific is already the world's most dynamic market for mobile telecommunications services and providers need a way to manage the rapidly increasing cross-operator traffic they handle but also to enable and support voice and data roaming services. Veraz Networks' IP Packet eXchange (IPX) offers an architecture for interconnecting GSM and CDMA mobile operators, fixed networks and application service providers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 February 2009; 10209 views

Despite the anticipated cautious spending on Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines, IDC predicts that specific pockets of opportunities will exist...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 29 January 2009; 8467 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; 28 January 2009; 7802 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; 15 January 2009; 10322 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; 14 January 2009; 10910 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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 December 2008; 8454 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; 23 December 2008; 8255 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; 19 December 2008; 8090 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; 17 December 2008; 8972 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; 16 December 2008; 9414 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; 12 December 2008; 8483 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; 12 December 2008; 9917 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; 19 November 2008; 9805 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; 04 November 2008; 8703 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...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11515 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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 13 October 2008; 10033 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; 23 September 2008; 11591 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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 11242 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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 22 September 2008; 11728 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; 17 September 2008; 9536 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...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Mobile Finance; 16 September 2008; 10832 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; 16 September 2008; 8749 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; 28 August 2008; 11704 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; 20 August 2008; 11823 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; 19 August 2008; 10351 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...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 August 2008; 8517 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; 13 August 2008; 10556 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...

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