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The increase in mobile broadband users in Poland over the last few years has challenged network operators to continuously launch new offerings and services to meet demands of subscribers...

The first 100G link between Russia and Western Europe is being deployed by Russian carrier Rascom...

Across Africa, fibre has long been seen as a panacea for providing high-reliability, high-bandwidth connectivity, especially at a time when microwave was considered to be relatively unreliable due to the power required. Africa is an extremely dynamic environment and there are massive changes taking place across many countries, in terms of construction of infrastructure in both metropolitan and rural areas, but fibre is still a long-term sustainable solution for Africa...

The Philippines’ market leader Globe Telecom is implementing a new solution from Nastech to transform its field operations...

PT Data Centre Infrastructure Indonesia (PT DCI) has opened a new data centre in Indonesia in partnership with Equinix...

A new joint venture between Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) and Columbus Networks will provide international wholesale capacity to both companies and third party carriers across Central America...

A new partnership between power specialists Intelligent Energy and Etisalat Nigeria will develop personal energy solutions based on the former’s fuel cell technology, with an Etisalat user trial to commence in this quarter...

A low-cost cellular service is enabling communities in rural Papua, Indonesia, to make local calls and send SMS messages for the first time...

As part of its preparation to upgrade its network capacity for LTE, Russian operator MegaFon has acquired new optical networking equipment from NEC and Transmode...

Despite runaway success in Kenya, the M-Pesa mobile money service failed to inspire widespread adoption in South Africa when Vodacom attempted to introduce it in 2010...

A new telecom and cloud provider has launched virtual PoP services in the UAE...

A major pan-Asian operator is integrating a Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution from specialists Clarity...

For most of the telecom industry’s history, hardware has been the focus, while software has not been widely recognised as a centre of value. However, this perception is now beginning to shift among customers in the market at large...

A new service offered by Pakistani operator Warid Telecom will allow prepaid subscribers to transfer balance to postpaid users...

Vodacom Mozambique has deployed an energy-efficient pre-fabricated data centre...

The first IPX+ enabled network in the Middle East has been launched by Qatari operator Ooredoo...

We have had antennas since the days of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian scientist who invented the radio a little over 100 years ago. So by now we should all know how to use antennas. But do we?

Nokia has announced a new touchscreen device in its Asha range which will retail for under $100...

Two major agreements in Africa will provide network operators with far greater connectivity options in and out of the continent...

Cloud computing has been a major buzzword for many years, and a number of vendors are now beginning to roll out cloud-based offerings to the market...

The leading telecom provider in the Maldives is implementing a solution to prevent revenue leakage caused by fraud and billing inaccuracies across its mobile and fixed line networks...

Kuwaiti market leader Zain is implementing a monitoring solution from Astellia to increase network quality and traffic visibility...

Push Technology and Telefonica Digital are collaborating to offer the first global high performance cloud solution...

Compared to just ten years ago, employees have access to – and familiarity with – far more sophisticated technology, and this can be harnessed to allow them to work in a way that suits them. As companies branch out across the world, it is ever more important to use the available technology to enhance productivity. However, employers have to respond to this demand if they are to harness its potential...

A major cable system connecting various points in the Caribbean is receiving a capacity upgrade...

There is a huge expectation among operators in emerging markets that smartphone penetration will increase fairly rapidly over the next three to five years. Operators want to be at the forefront of this and are therefore investing heavily to ensure that they not only have the best networks possible, but also have a clear understanding of mobile data services in order to develop new business models to accommodate their anticipated growth...

The network security market for India small and medium businesses clearly shows a positive growth trend in the immediate future...

UAE-based operator du is boosting the speed and capacity of its 100G coherent optical transport network...

There are nearly 110 million mobile subscribers in Nigeria but only 56 million people have bank accounts, giving the market massive growth potential for mobile money services...

Qatar’s market leader has launched its LTE network, with 4G services now available via mifi and dongle devices...

Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex. However, larger organisations have additional considerations to factor in such as compliance issues, which require information to be stored within the country, and security concerns...

India’s unbanked population now have access to Vodafone’s M-Pesa service, which the operator group has launched in conjunction with the country’s largest private sector bank, ICICI Bank...

Cloud has been much talked about but implementations have been slow to take off...