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Details: Stephen Gibb; Category: Mobile Finance; 20 October 2008; 6366 views

In this viewpoint feature Stephen Gibb, Chief Information Officer at mobile payments specialist Upaid, looks at how businesses and consumers can benefit from cross-border payments in emerging markets such as Brazil...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 October 2008; 7111 views

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Global IP Solutions, which provides IP multimedia processing solutions, has announced its VideoEngine Mobile on the Windows Mobile platform: it enables peer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing on mobile phones...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 20 October 2008; 10883 views

The objectives of Connect Africa took a major step forward when the NetHope aid alliance joined the Global VSAT Forum, the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC) and iDirect in launching an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training programme in Nairobi this week...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 October 2008; 8492 views

Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 October 2008; 6205 views

Live Current Media, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, has announced that the outgoing President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Shri Sharad Pawar, has launched the BCCI's own website...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 13 October 2008; 8265 views

Sixteen of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, intending to deliver an alternative to WiFi whereby customers will go online while on the move...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 October 2008; 7745 views

A major acquisition, contracts worldwide and authoritative words on mobile email. A busy summer for Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. Michael Schwartz caught up with him...

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 02 October 2008; 9938 views

The GSM Association has launched its Green Power for Mobile programme. It aims by 2012 to bring renewable energy to half the developing world's new off-grid base stations. Total target is 118,000 such installations...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 25 September 2008; 11060 views

Sify, a pioneer and leader in data telecom and Internet services in India is to migrate its infrastructure to a Next Generation IP Network in a first of its kind deal with Cisco. The network aims to set new standards for the data telecom services industry in India...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 September 2008; 10089 views

SMART, a Czech metropolitan optical networks operator, plans to build a fiber-to-the-home optical network in Brno in the Czech Republic. The service will cover about 6,600 homes and residents will be able to use triple-play services (Internet access, digital TV and VoIP telephony) in a converged way, with a quality superior to that of most commonly available types of connections...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 23 September 2008; 11635 views

Mobile email is now a reality in Vietnam, as one of the country's mobile service providers, Viettel, has adopted Memova, a mobile email solution from Critical Path...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 22 September 2008; 9209 views

O3b, the brainchild of American entrepreneur Greg Wyler, who most recently rolled out fibre optic cable networks in Rwanda with his company Terracom, is a development with great potential. Standing for the "Other 3 Billion", the company aims to deliver high speed, low cost broadband internet to developing markets...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Satellite Networks; 17 September 2008; 7825 views

O3b Networks, a start up company is aiming to provide low cost, high speed broadband access to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East during 2010...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 17 September 2008; 9596 views

TT&T is deploying the first Cisco WiMAX network in Asia Pacific at Mae Fah Luang University. Expected to help bridge the digital divide, this will also be the first production WiMAX network in Thailand...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Revenue & Billing; 17 September 2008; 7426 views

Thuraya billing systems have now been integrated into one database, which Thuraya regards as essential for billing convergence and ease of operations...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Mobile Finance; 16 September 2008; 10861 views

In many developing economies, more citizens own mobile phones than own traditional bank accounts. A new research report by Mercator Advisory Group stresses the lessons to be learnt from mobile money experiences in South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya...

Details: Cisco Systems; Category: Wireless Networks; 11 September 2008; 10783 views

To take advantage of the deregulated market in Poland, rapidly increasing traffic volumes and widening demand for services, Netia, the country's largest alternate carrier, was faced with a major challenge of upgrading its optical network. The solution entailed a radical shift in the core network design using the best technology available on the market. As a result Netia is now able to deliver revenue generating services including IPTV...

Details: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Service Management; 10 September 2008; 9395 views

Product Development Support for new services is the key to dynamic and successful growth of telecoms operators. CBOSS has announced a new service - Product Development Support - which allows telecom operators to enjoy fast time-to-market and exceptional efficiency for their new innovative services and marketing campaigns...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 September 2008; 9050 views

Radiográfica Costarricense, a telecom operator in Central America, has selected ECI’s XDM MSPP solutions. ECI was selected based on its capabilities to offer several key technologies on a single platform - SDH, Ethernet and WDM - in order to assist RACSA with its aggressive expansion efforts in Costa Rica.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 04 September 2008; 7217 views

Paragon Software has released its new SlovoEd 7.0 engine which is claimed to offer fast browsing and highly compressed content for its talking e-dictionary...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 September 2008; 9567 views

Zain, a mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, has launched commercial services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has now joined Zain's One Network, claimed by Zain to be the world’s first borderless mobile service, offering over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries favourable rates, free of high roaming charges for cross-border communications...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 September 2008; 9398 views

India's Business Standard and Economic Times have both recently investigated claims by Intel that it can help provide India with WiMAX-enabled laptops for under US$400, if not for as little as US$300.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 02 September 2008; 8262 views

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Keithley Instruments, which specialises in solutions for emerging measurement needs, is introducing what it believes to be the industry’s first measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO system. The system is used for primary research of next-generation RF MIMO devices and technologies.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 September 2008; 8764 views

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

Details: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 September 2008; 7637 views

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

Details: Jon Wells, Clarity Consulting; Category: Service Management; 28 August 2008; 7992 views

Jon Wells, OSS Consultant at Clarity, a vendor of Unified OSS solutions that manages over 120 million subscribers, many of them from emerging economies, discusses how pressures in emerging markets are forcing OSS to change, for the benefit of all.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 28 August 2008; 9986 views

Rural telecoms in Bangladesh are set to enjoy a boost with the news that Ericsson is launching a pilot scheme to show how high-speed Internet - directed via 3G/HSPA - can enhance life in the country's rural communities.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 28 August 2008; 8308 views

Millions of citizens in Mumbai will now enjoy access to municipally provided services thanks to a tie-up with Sify technologies' ePort cyber café chain...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Devices & Platforms; 28 August 2008; 10210 views

Yes, it's that time of the year when Nokia's resident poets pour out their souls in paeans of praise for the company's latest state-of-the-art mobile device.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 August 2008; 10384 views

Foreign mobile users attending the Beijing Olympics have been enjoying seamless roaming provided by Tata Communications. Tata's eXchange system enables mobile network operators to establish roaming more quickly and cheaply...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Satellite Networks; 18 August 2008; 7711 views

Thuraya's strategy of product innovation has led to a portable satellite terminal with advanced video-streaming capacity. The terminal is aimed at commercial enterprises such as oil terminals, coastguards, media and transport...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 August 2008; 10620 views

Jointly developed by Andrew and Siemens, advanced wireless communications are being installed on the new CRH3 Harmony multiple unit trains running on the Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 12 August 2008; 8146 views

A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 August 2008; 9560 views

Celltick is launching a mobile media service over the China Unicom network for the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will distribute content from Xinhua News, China’s official news agency...