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Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 December 2008; 8222 views

Synchronica is promoting SimpleMail, its mass-market Consumer Push Email (CPE) solution, as suitable for basic and feature phones, and in particular as ideal for emerging markets in Asia. The company has licensed SimpleMail to two new emerging market mobile operators...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 December 2008; 11179 views

Backhaul is crucial in that it provides the connection between the core network and the mobile base stations that connect to users' devices. Any cellular network is only as good as its backhaul since it does not matter how well the cellular base stations perform or how wide a choice of handsets the customer has: if the backhaul capacity isn't available the user suffers...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 03 December 2008; 7659 views

Claimed to be the most comprehensive set of information on fibre-optics anywhere, the Fibre-Optic Association's Online Fibre Optic Reference Guide is now available...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 02 December 2008; 8023 views

Lior Kahan of Gilat Satcom has written to Developing Telecoms, asking whether fibre-based and satellite communications are really the rivals they are made out to be, ie, do they compete with each other or do they complement each other?

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 27 November 2008; 10075 views

What is claimed to be the world's first GSM/WiMAX handset, the HTC MAX 4G, has been launched in partnership with Russian Mobile WiMAX provider Scartel (brand-name Yota). The handset is intended to support the next evolution in mobile connectivity...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 November 2008; 9464 views

Taking the opportunity of the Electronica trade show, Infineon Technologies AG launched what it claims is "the world's smallest Transient Voltage Suppression diode" for the protection of antennas in the latest electronic equipment...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 November 2008; 9710 views

Andrew and its representative in Chile, Raylex, have been chosen by Entel PCS to deploy wireless network infrastructure. The overall contract is intended to enhance the already well-subscribed Chilean mobile market...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 November 2008; 8631 views

NDS, the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has been chosen by Tata Sky to supply its industry-leading XTV DVR solution for Tata Sky+, a service that will offer full Personal Video Recorded functionality in the Indian pay-TV market...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 November 2008; 9404 views

SeaChange International, which provides IPTV and Video-on-Demand (VoD) software, systems and services, will partner Turkey-based Argela, a provider of next-generation telecom solutions, to serve the growing global market for IPTV. Turk Telekom, one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies, is the first customer for the partnership. SeaChange is also providing systems integration and professional services...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 November 2008; 9843 views

New submarine cables being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring unprecedented connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 November 2008; 6969 views

The customer base of ETK, the telco serving Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khkassia, has exceeded 2 million subscribers. ETK is fully owned by Siberia's largest telco, Sibirtelecom, and with 40% of the local market is the leading company in Krasnoyarsk Krai, far outpacing its federal competitors. Today, it runs GSM-900/1800 and IMT-MC 450 networks...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 November 2008; 10257 views

Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN)'s vision of five billion people connected by 2015 involves smart connectivity, an innovative concept that will provide powerful solutions for heterogeneous networks...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 9874 views

Freescale Semiconductor is helping accelerate the build-out of China's Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA, a third-generation wireless standard that is being widely adopted throughout China) networks, leveraging deep industry relationships and a broad technology portfolio for wireless infrastructure equipment...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 November 2008; 10760 views

Algeria's leading mobile operator Orascom Telecom Algeria has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register solution...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 10620 views

Nokia will launch Nokia Life Tools, a range of innovative agriculture information and education services targeted at non-urban consumers. Designed specifically for emerging markets, Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints and provides services to this next generation of mobile users...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 November 2008; 8090 views

Claimed to extend the addressable market for mobile email to almost 100% of mobile handsets in use today, Synchronica's SimpleMail technology has been licensed to two new emerging market mobile operators...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 November 2008; 7808 views

Tata Communications has announced the launch of its TelePresence rooms available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 November 2008; 10314 views

Seven GSM mobile networks in as many countries in Africa are to be connected via a VSAT network to be installed by Globecomm Systems. The contract follows Atlantique Telecom's programme of consolidation of its African markets...

Details: Category: Service Management; 14 November 2008; 11393 views

Intec, a provider of both business and operations support systems, has announced a contract extension with Atlantique Telecom, one of the fastest growing GSM operators in West and Central Africa...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 November 2008; 10674 views

UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...

Details: Cisco; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 November 2008; 8166 views

Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 10 November 2008; 8415 views

HP has announced a new blade platform designed to help service providers reduce costs and efficiently expand capacity...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 November 2008; 8056 views

CBOSS Corporation has announced CBOSSsms, a new hi-end short message center based on the NonStop platform. The solution's improved architecture guarantees timely short message delivery...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 November 2008; 11963 views

Integrated VAS solutions provider Bharti Telesoft and multinational MTN Group have announced an alliance aimed at delivering Multimedia Messaging Center, Short Message Service Center and Wireless Application Protocol Gateway solutions for all MTN Operations...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 November 2008; 8654 views

In line with its commitment to combat the sale and use of counterfeit and pirated products, Cisco announced this month that it will participate in the launch of a new set of guidelines to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 06 November 2008; 9206 views

Consumers in Russia's eastern region of Khabarovsk now have access to affordable high-definition digital TV, video on demand and multimedia services through a Metro Multiservice Transport Network from Cisco...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 05 November 2008; 10173 views

The Western Union Company has created an alliance with Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Orascom and Western Union plan to work together to introduce mobile remittance services in select markets. The services aim to make low-principal, high-frequency remittances more convenient to the millions of consumers who send money every day...

Details: Category: Service Management; 04 November 2008; 8737 views

Huawei has announced that it has been selected by HT Mobile Communications Centre, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company and US-based Hutchison Telecom, as a key partner in rolling out its new national GSM network. HT Mobile is currently undergoing a telecom transformation and switching from CDMA to GSM technology, and is scheduled to launch its new GSM national network next year...

Details: Category: Service Management; 04 November 2008; 10087 views

Agilent Technologies and Anite have announced the first shipments of their LTE UE protocol tester. This is the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620 wireless communications test set platform.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 04 November 2008; 8816 views

iCON Communications, the newest provider of wireless broadband IP based communications services in Armenia, believes it is on track to launch its WiMAX service in Yerevan prior by January 2009, and extending its coverage into major cities in Armenia during 2009. WiMAX has been singloed out by iCON as extending the range and speed of existing wireless internet technologies by covering an entire geographic area rather than limited "hot-spots"...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 November 2008; 14128 views

Through its Wireless Reach initiative, Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm, has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to information and multimedia services...

Details: James Barton; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 03 November 2008; 13227 views

Representing a major step forward for renewable energy use in the Pakistani telecoms industry, Pakistani operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country's first solar powered Macro Base Station (M-BTS) site. The site uses a solar powered M-BTS from leading Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 October 2008; 10183 views

Tanzanian carrier Six Telecoms has selected Telarix iXLink systems to conduct business with other carriers across the globe. The announcement comes not only within the context of growing interconnection business for Six Telecoms but also at the opening of the recent Capacity Africa conference...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 October 2008; 12560 views

Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...