Comptel, an Operational Support System software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, is supplying Macau’s CTM with provisioning and mediation solutions to support 3G services...

Yunnan Mobile Communication Co, a subsidiary of China Mobile with over ten million subscribers, is currently deploying Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment, to help subscribers complete and manage calls...

Alcatel-Lucent and Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau SARL are collaborating on a new IP service...

Currently boasting the largest subscriber base of satellite handheld users, UAE-based Thuraya will be launching a new satellite, Thuraya-3, by the end of March 2007...

Shanghai Unicom, a branch of China Unicom, recently took the opportunity of a press conference to announce several new mobile services...

Malaysia's government is encouraging the roll-out of 4G/WiMAX in its country next year by announcing that it will issue two appropriate licences in the next few months.

According to the ITU 45,000 exhibition visitors attended ITU Telecom World. But how many were from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Europe? It seems many exhibitors felt not enough to justify the cost of participating. Telecom returns to Geneva in 2009. But has the day of mega-events passed, or has a rival event taken Telecom's place?

Earlier this year Developing Telecoms reported on the obstacle that was holding the country back from the wireless Internet. Now Cambodia can now look forward to 3G services.

Mobile TV services will be rolled out in Vietnam by the end of this year...

Redback Networks Inc, a provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, has announced that its SmartEdge multi-service edge routers have been selected by True Corporation...

Mobile gambling revenues from the Asia-Pacific region are set to rise from US$966 million in 2006 to US$8.8 billion in 2011, according to a new report.

Telecommunications in the rural areas of China 's Yunnan  Province are set for modernisation and improvement...

Global wireless solutions group Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) is promoting what is believed to be the world's first corrugated aluminium transmission line and the lightest RF transmission cable currently on the market.

Just a few days ago four Norwegians, one Swede and one Peruvian reached their destination of Tahiti on Tangaroa, a replica of explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft...

Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong...

Claiming that Cambodia's morality is not yet advanced enough to withstand the lures of pornographic videos on mobile telephones, Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 26 announced a 10-year ban on 3G technology. Esther McClaren, a writer with the Phnom Penh Post, the main English language newspaper in Cambodia, brings us up to date with reactions locally...

Wireless services provider Smart Communications has selected an international gateway solution from Nortel to provide next generation, carrier-grade wireless VoIP services to Philippines-based and international long distance customers...

Reflecting The Philippines' increasing importance in Asia-Pacific communication, the country's second-largest mobile-phone service provider has now brought to the region its first built-in high-speed broadband component...

IPTV will soon be deployed by China Netcom in North-east China using UTStarcom's RollingStream technology...

Intel's decision to invest US$300 million to build a semiconductor chip assembly and test manufacturing factory in Ho Chi Minh City is set to inspire a new wave of foreign investment in Vietnam' s information and communication technology sector...

Nokia is set to strengthen its R&D in China by expanding its Chengdu R&D centre...

Norway has become concerned that draft rules to prevent foreign domination of Thai telecom operators could affect the rights and interests of foreign shareholders of Thai telecom firms...

The President & CEO of South Korean mobile operator KTF, Dr Young-Chu Cho, has been elected to the board of the GSM Association (GSMA).