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Several major music labels have pledged their support for a new mobile music download service launching in South Africa...

The solutions provider Turkcell Technology – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Turkish market leader Turkcell – is launching a new solution which enables mobile network operators to identify and predict real-time business opportunities and improve customer satisfaction with new and innovative location-based services...

Nigeria’s first open access fibre optic backbone network will consist of 14,000km of fibre optic network linked through regional network owners to enable advanced communications to all regions of the country...

A leading Filipino operator has is set to transition its international interconnects from circuit-switched to IP connections...

A new joint venture has been announced by the Japanese operator NTT Docomo and the Chinese search engine provider Baidu...

Latin America’s fastest broadband network is being launched by the Chilean market leader Entel. Based on HSPA Evolution technology from Ericsson, the network will allow peak data rates of 42Mbps...

Subscribers in six Chinese provinces will soon have access to a number of multimedia services, including IP-based voice, video and web services...

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network...

A Bulgarian Internet Service Provider is now offering its customers higher bandwidth along with high-quality data services such as IPTV...

TD-LTE (4G) trial networks are currently being tested in China by Nokia Siemens Networks for the market leader China Mobile...

Rumours have resurfaced that the Chinese search engine provider Baidu is preparing to launch an Android-based mobile platform...

Latin American operator Telefonica is launching its mobile financial services offering – and has declared that it will avoid the pitfalls that affected early mobile money deployments in Africa and Asia...

A mobile number portability trial in China has seen disappointing results, with just 50,000 subscribers switching successfully between operators during the six-month pilot scheme...

A new centre dedicated to renewable energy is to be built in South Africa by Vodacom, a subsidiary of Vodafone...

Since its launch in April 2008, handset provider Mi-Fone has been catering to mass market sectors in emerging markets, providing affordable handsets with in-demand functionality – and all the while making sure to invest back into the markets that have made it profitable. Developing Telecoms editor James Barton recently had the opportunity to catch up with Alpesh Patel, founder and CEO of Mi-Fone...

Indonesia’s market leading operator has begun the next phase of its transformation programme supporting its Next Generation Network (NGN) Initiative...

A new TD-LTE service provider could be entering the Indian market before the end of the year...

A new tuneable MIMO antenna designed for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments has been unveiled by the China Mobile Research Institute in partnership with SkyCross...

One of Croatia’s leading operators is upgrading its customer care processes with a new solution that provides its service agents with the information required to resolve customer issues instantly...

Tower-free mobile network coverage is now being provided across Male, the capital city of the Maldives...

Customers are the focus of MTS Russia’s latest deployment, with the operator introducing new solutions to improve the quality of customer- and resource-facing services across its network domains...

A new range of devices launching in India is aiming to provide smartphone-like capabilities for a far lower price than traditional smartphones. The OGO devices are now being offered by Bright Telecom’s Wynncom arm...

A leading VAS provider is ready to begin hiring for its African branch – and is reportedly aiming to provide jobs for at around 200 people...

With smartphones increasingly prevalent in developed markets, demand for the services they offer is rising in emerging markets too – but pricing can be prohibitively expensive. Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of messaging software firm Synchronica, believes it’s not specific devices that are coveted, but their functionality – and this is why feature phones are on the rise in emerging markets. Developing Telecoms editor James Barton caught up with Carsten Brinkschulte to discuss this trend...

Spanning 20 provinces, Afghanistan’s largest VSAT deployment has been implemented by the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) in partnership with broad-spectrum tech firm Insyndia...

A leading Afghan operator is improving its quality of service by implementing a new tool for multi-vendor network performance management...

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Asia will soon be able to provide their customers with self-care connectivity settings to surf the web, as well as substantially reducing the number of calls patched through to call centres...

One of St. Petersburg’s leading Internet Service Providers has upgraded its network infrastructure and dramatically increased bandwidth by deploying a new multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-enabled architecture...

The lack of consensus between telecoms and financial institutions, in terms of an equitable split of mobile payments revenues, decelerated the expansion of the mobile payments market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

A Chinese operator is launching broadband wireless access services across ten Chinese markets in nine provinces, including Beijing...

A new infrastructure service provider in Russia will soon begin offering cloud computing services to public and private customers...

Jordan’s only operator licensed to provide 3G+ services will soon begin offering Colour Ring Back Tone (CRBT) services, allowing subscribers to assign different ring back tones to different callers...