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India's state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is now offering WiMAX, making it the country's first operator to provide wireless internet...

Oracle has launched a new application which enables network operators to deploy targeted mobile advertising and marketing campaigns...

A new solution developed by IBM, Novartis & Vodafone and in collaboration with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is set to use SMS technology as a lifesaving tool by improving the availability of anti-malarial drugs in remote areas in Tanzania...

The Mobile Entertainment Forum has expanded into Latin America with a launch in Brazil, a market forecast to achieve tremendous success in the infotainment sector. So far, 26 founding members of the MEF’s Latin American branch have been declared...

The Czech Republic is to witness an LTE trial, associated with a series of trials that Telefonica is to carry out in both Europe and Latin America. The aim for customers is mobile data with faster response times and rates of up to 58 Mb/s...

Zain is streamlining its operations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. A strategic five-year plan vested in NSN is intended to modernise a network which must be ready to serve a customer base now at 9 million...

Beijing Mobile will become the first operator in the region to implement direct tunnel technology commercially. Provided by Nokia Siemens Networks, the solution improves packet core network efficiency, allowing increased data speeds and reliable wireless broadband services while providing a platform for future Long Term Evolution deployment...

Ecuador’s Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones has selected Open Systems’ Open.flexIS solution to consolidate its back office. The project will take place over the course of 180 days...

HP has announced new BSS solutions which allow service providers to generate real-time customer insights in order to better meet consumer demand...

Wavion, a company which claims it is “transforming the metro and rural wi-fi market” with a new category of wi-fi base station, along with BHU, Wavion’s distributor in China, have announced the selection of Wavion’s Wi-Fi base stations by a leading carrier for the broadband access coverage of 1,000 villages in West China...

Zain’s One Network has gained its 2nd member, Egypt. In the Arab World alone, 27 million customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan can now enjoy a single telecoms market...

After obtaining acceptance by AT&T and Vodafone for use on their wireless data networks, AnyDATA’s DTP-600W module enables high-speed Internet access to HSPA standards...

The government of Angola has commissioned a complete ID management system, the contract for which has been awarded to DGM-Sistemas...

An African customer wishing to remain private has ordered an Amos 5 satellite from Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd. This satellite is due for launch in mid-2011; for the time being an Amos 5i will fulfill the customer’s communications needs...

ABI Research’s new report looks at preparations for the introduction of 4G. While ABI anticipates that LTE is only expected to roll out in late 2010, it is encouraged by the interest shown in LTE trials: 100 mobile networks showing interest, and more than 40 from the Asia-Pacific region...

Kazakhtelecom is now able to offer internet protocol-based services to business and residential customers in Almaty, thanks to a new next-generation network which is pioneering IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing in the CIS...

Tadiran Telecom has been awarded tenders to two large-scale telecommunications projects in mainland China. The projects will be implemented by KTT, Tadiran’s subsidiary in China...

Sky Network, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom, has been granted investment approval by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka to provide island-wide WiMAX broadband coverage, according to the Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror’s website...

The first 4G wireless broadband network in Trinidad and Tobago has been deployed by the majority state-owned operator Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT). The company was issued a temporary licence for the deployment of its fourth generation network in April...

Commuters on Kazakhstan’s busiest railway line, Almaty-Astana, can now enjoy high-speed mobile broadband and phone services on their journey thanks to a contract between satellite specialist SES World Skies and local telco Astel...

More than 3,500 rural sites on Peru will enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite communications thanks to a contract signed between Gilat and Telefonica del Peru. The contract is part of Telefonica Latinoamerica's initiative to deploy broadband services across the region...

Ruckus Wireless has launched its Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) solution: it is claimed by the company to be the world's first end-to-end Wi-Fi solution that “challenges” 3G, LTE and WiMAX models...

MTN Cameroon has announced the launch of MTN Virtual, which is aimed at orienting the economics of telephony towards those consumers in Cameroon who are at the base of the consumer hierarchy...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by VMS MobiFone for its 3G network roll-out in South Vietnam. Over-competition and subsequent failing revenues are a motivating force behind VMS MobiFone’s decision...

Video and streaming over 2G and 3G will soon be a possibility in India’s South Zone thanks to a recent contract drawn up between BSNL and Dilithium. Michael Schwartz profiles Dilithium and summarises its success...

A collaboration between German satellite provider Satlynx and Middle East satellite operator Arabsat will provide the Central Bank of Iraq with a new, fully redundant satellite network that will provide the foundations of an extensive communications platform...

Confirming its plans to move into the smart phone industry, computer giant Dell has unveiled the Mini 3 and announced partnerships with two of the world’s largest mobile operators...

Telecel Globe’s subsidiaries have now been rebranded under the name leo. In Namibia, the operator, previously known as Cell One, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to enable new services in a country offering major growth potential...

Entertainment is the core of Nokia’s latest mobile, the 5330 Mobile TV Edition. Designed via 3G technology to be an entertainment hub, the 5330 unites mobile broadcast TV, networking, gaming and music...

Ericsson and Zain have joined forces to combat poverty in the Amansie-West district of Ghana’s Ashanti region. Working with the Millennium Villages project, the telecom giants have deployed mobile communications services to six villages...

Jinny Software, a supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, is trialling its VoiceSMS service with several Mobile Network Operators in countries across Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania and Burkino Faso...