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Rising demand for broadband services in South America has prompted the satellite service provider atrexx to add a new service platform to its product portfolio...

The demand for broadband services is growing steadily in the southern African markets. For this reason, major operators and ISPs are investing in undersea fibre as well as terrestrial fibre and other infrastructure...

Global satellite operator SES S.A. announced today that it has signed an agreement with YellowSat, a French start-up company that provides Internet connectivity to enterprises, governments and institutions in Africa...

The largest cellular provider in Malaysia is facilitating its next-generation infrastructure rollout with a new OSS platform...

One of the largest bottlenecks - and therefore biggest challenges - for communication service providers in emerging markets is backhaul capacity. Due to increased use of data services as well as more rapid uptake of voice services, many operators are discovering that they are rapidly approaching capacity limits which seemed practically unreachable just a few years ago...

Chilean mobile users are now able to top up their phones electronically with the launch of a new mobile wallet service...

The southeast Chinese cities of Xiamen and Nanping will soon enjoy higher quality networks and innovative new services following a managed services agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and Fujian Unicom...

The first 4G deployments in Mozambique and Uganda have been successfully completed with the launch of a new network by a mobile broadband and applications service provider...

Thirteen mobile networks operated by LIME, the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, are to be upgraded to a fourth generation standard...

Cloud-based services are increasingly being adopted by multinational corporations, with firms in the Asia-Pacific region expressing the greatest interest, according to a survey conducted by Ovum...

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation’s (CTO) has presented the  results of a Rural ICT Access Gap Study to the management of the Sierra Leone ICT regulator NATCOM and a number of key stakeholders, including the country’s mobile and fixed line operators...

One of Kuwait’s leading operators is implementing live monitoring, reporting and analytics software in order to improve its customer experience...

With consumers increasingly expecting constant coverage and data-heavy services as standard, communications service providers are looking for innovative new ways of expanding the capacity of their networks. A new backhaul and access solution with its roots in military technology may provide the means of doing this. The implications for emerging markets are considerable...

The Puerto Rican subsidiary of América Móvil, Claro Puerto Rico, has launched the mobile instant messaging service Claro Messenger, a carrier-owned and branded IM community...

One of the Philippines’ largest communication service providers is overhauling its provisioning processes with new OSS...

The concept of the remote contact centre worker is nothing new in the global market, and now thanks to the greater availability of bandwidth and associated lower cost, it has also become a viable option in South Africa...

The Jamaican Government has retained LIME, the Caribbean branch of Cable & Wireless, to build out a major portion of its island-wide broadband network...

The first call over a trial TD-LTE network deployed in Shanghai has been successfully completed by Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile...

A new spectrum-sharing arrangement is underway in Malaysia, with market leading mobile operator Maxis rolling out LTE using 2.3GHz spectrum licensed to WiMAX provider Asiaspace...

The government of Turkmenistan has reportedly approached Etisalat with the suggestion that the UAE giant could assume control over the country’s suspended mobile network, currently owned by Russian operator MTS...

Latvia’s largest service provider will soon offer its business customers cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services...

The Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom is overhauling its radio access network to reduce operational costs while further expanding mobile broadband service performance and coverage...

Subscribers of the Indian operator Aircel are now able to use real time tracking, navigation information and information services while on the move...

The Malaysian operator DiGi Telecommunications has commissioned Chinese firm ZTE to construct a new unified mobile network that will provide fully transformed 2G, 3G and 4G networks from Q3 2011...

The Russian operator MegaFon has deployed High Definition voice services on its Moscow and Sochi GSM and UMTS networks...

The Chinese city of Suzhou is the site of a new state-of-the-art base station antenna testing facility being opened by CommScope...

One of Iraq’s major mobile operators, Zain Iraq, is unifying its subscriber data - currently distributed across the network - into a single database...

A high-profile provider of hub-based mobile communication solutions has deployed its second global data clearing platform in Hyderabad, India...

A new voice SMS service has been launched in Kenya by yu, the mobile phone brand of Essar Telecom Kenya Limited, in conjunction with MVAS developer Kirusa...

Many remote communities across the Solomon Islands will be connected for the first time with a new solar-powered solution...

In this bylined article, Teligent CEO Einar Lindquist analyses how revenue-generating VAS based on voice and SMS traffic are still enjoying rapid take-up – and why they will continue to grow...

Subscribers of TelCell St Maarten, the mobile services arm of TelEm Group, will soon enjoy faster mobile broadband...