Mobile payments leader Bango and telecoms giant Etisalat Group have entered into a partnership to deploy Direct Operator Billing (DOB) across Etisalat Group’s markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Angolan operator Unitel has selected network performance solutions provider Mycom for an end-to-end mobile network and service performance management solution.
Mexican quad-play provider Maxcom has selected NetCracker to deliver a large-scale OSS transformation that will improve its order-to-cash process and network design, build and optimisation capabilities.
The inaugural meeting of the Mobile Energy Association took place this week at TM Forum Live in Nice, France. The association aims to increase collaboration between the telecoms and energy sectors.
Alcatel-Lucent and Mobily Saudi Arabia have announced the first global deployment of virtualised radio access network (RAN) software from the vendor’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) portfolio.
Syniverse is providing an LTE roaming trial environment to BTC (Bahamas Telecommunications Company), enabling the operator to transition to 4G roaming services.
NEC Corporation is upgrading microwave links to double mobile network capacity in six rural and island locations across Tanzania.
A new agreement between Airtel, Zantel and Millicom’s Tanzanian subsidiary Tigo will allow customers in the country to send money to each other whether using Tigo Pesa, Airtel Money or EzyPesa on their mobile handsets. The service is expected to begin this month.
Pan-African operator MTN has selected CSG for a long-term managed services engagement that will enable its South African unit to simplify and streamline its operations and focus its resources on core business lines.
Microwave radio provider DragonWave has signed an agreement with Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm to supply microwave products and related services.
Samsung has unveiled the first commercial smartphone to use the Tizen platform. Sporting the moniker ‘Samsung Z’, the device is due to make its debut in Russia in the third quarter.
On average, global data growth is doubling roughly every two years. The introduction of LTE has almost doubled data usage; it provides a higher bandwidth and therefore a typically better user experience.
Gilat Satcom has established a new Point of Presence (PoP) for its East African broadband network in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
In advance of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, Claro Brazil is enabling LTE data roaming for its subscribers with Syniverse.
Malaysian provider and Axiata subsidiary Celcom has selected Nokia’s optimisation services to enhance its network, voice and data quality in Klang Valley and Kuala Lumpur.
Orange has launched the Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 2 smartphone across Africa and the Middle East.
Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips is set to re-enter the Indian device market with a range of smartphones and feature phones.
SES and CETel have signed a new capacity agreement for service on SES’s NSS-7 satellite located at 20 degrees West.
NEC Corporation subsidiary NEC Neva is supplying Rostelecom with an outdoor, integrated, ultra-compact microwave communications system which supports 70-80GHz E-band communications.
Online payment solutions provider mopay has entered the Indian market with an HTML5 in-app billing solution.
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to extend broadband services to 900 cities and towns across the country using optical fibre (FTTx).
Algeria’s state-owned operator Algérie Télécom has deployed North Africa’s first commercial LTE network in partnership with Nokia.
Indian telecom service provider MTS India (Sistema Shyam TeleServices) is providing free Wi-Fi services to Rapid Metro users in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India.
Lao Telecommunications Company (LaoTel), the incumbent telecommunications service provider in Laos, has deployed the MaxBill billing solution from LogNet Systems.
Zain Kuwait is boosting the capacity of its LTE, 3G and 2G networks via a new agreement with NEC and solutions integrator METCO (Middle East Telecommunications Company).
Comarch has finished implementing Field Intervention Management solutions for Orange Polska, allowing the telecom operator to reduce the costs of network operations and improve the quality of tasks performed by technical staff.
Ooredoo Maldives has deployed a new VAS consolidation project provided by Jinny Software.
Leading Russian operator MTS has completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology.
Increasing awareness of the advantages of electronic payments is crucial to driving their adoption in the Middle East region, according to numerous authorities in the field.
SkyVision is launching its fibre and wireless based services SkyFibre in Guinea.
Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP) has launched MovilCash, Panama’s first mobile money service.
Vodacom Tanzania has ordered an energy centre from Flexenclosure to power its main switching centre in the capital Dar es Salaam, as replacement for the energy centre that was damaged in a fire in August.
Tata Communications and Orange International Carriers have announced an agreement to interconnect their respective IPX (IP-Exchange) communities for voice over IPX and Signalling Sigtran, which allows IP networks to inter-work with the public switched telephone network.
Satellite provider Speedcast has announced that it will expand its Tier 1 IP backbone into Vanuatu.
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