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Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 January 2008; 18417 views

Telenor d.o.o., Serbia’s first mobile operator, has commissioned Nokia as sole supplier of its 3G radio network...

Details: Terence Trench, Upaid; Category: Mobile Finance; 08 January 2008; 10541 views

Mobile payments could explode into a US$22 billion market within the next three years...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 January 2008; 132332 views

Eleven years ago Dr William Welty founded the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite System project. Swansat initially applied to the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Republic of Nauru so as to operate a group of space stations in W-Band...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 10802 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been awarded a pan-Indian contract by Bharti Airtel to deploy a single Interactive Voice Response platform across all 23 of the latter's telecoms circles...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 December 2007; 7170 views

There is widespread shortage of high capacity connectivity in all segments of the African continent. A new consulting service based in Africa aims to address these issues...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 December 2007; 7962 views

A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 12652 views

Huawei Technologies, China's largest provider of Next Generation Telecoms networks (NGN) solutions has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit 3.0 to offer PC VoIP solutions to its operator and service provider customers...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 8467 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan Passenger-dedicated Line...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 December 2007; 10509 views

China Mobile Group Beijing has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its General Packet Radio Services core network. The expansion will help the millions of visitors to the Olympic games in 2008...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 December 2007; 7355 views

SWANSAT - the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite - first proposed as a satellite based service in 2003, aims to provide low cost voice and data services using a constellation of four high powered geosynchronous orbit (GSO) telecommunications satellites...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 December 2007; 10045 views

Cisco has announced its strategy to help service providers in Asia Pacific deliver an end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solution...

Details: Category: Service Management; 30 November 2007; 8880 views

Bashcell, a telecoms company dating from 1998 in the Bashkortostan Republic, has signed a contract for supply, implementation, and technical support of the end-to-end convergent IT solution...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 November 2007; 9351 views

What is described as the world's first distributed SMS-C architecture which "brings increased resilience and throughput to the messaging infrastructure marketplace" has been launched...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 30 November 2007; 9063 views

Nokia has unveiled a premium pair of handsets aimed at the most discerning and style-conscious consumers. The company's accompanying press release, in common with one or two other Nokia announcements we have published, has attracted our attention. So here goes...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 November 2007; 7393 views

A major rise in VoIP over 3G (VoIPo3G) will take place in the next five years according to a report by London-based Disruptive Analysis. Growth will be driven not only by wireless carriers but also by a number of independent challengers...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 27 November 2007; 11452 views

Designed to "enable global mobile operators to drive down transmission costs" and to attain a "huge cost-saving impact on community-centric, low-ARPU/high-growth markets" a recent agreement has been signed by Ericsson and Altobridge...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 26 November 2007; 6061 views

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Poor accuracy in location technology is costing millions for Fixed Mobile Substitution operators. Seeker Wireless is releasing a cannibalisation calculator and a detailed study to highlight the loss in revenues operators can suffer...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 November 2007; 15326 views

Anite's WiMAX Protocol Conformance Toolset has become the industry's first protocol test solution to be successfully validated by the WiMAX Forum for certifying the latest Fixed WiMAX devices to Wave 2 specifications...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 15 November 2007; 9625 views

Mobile payments specialist Upaid has launched its Mobile Payment Service (MPS) marketing campaign across Serbia. Including all three mobile operators and ten banks in Serbia, this national launch expands the service started in October 2006...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 November 2007; 9386 views

Supporters of WiMAX have been left disappointed by the fact that Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp will not now be building a WiMAX-based wireless network...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 November 2007; 10620 views

Mobile music specialist Shazam and Egyptian telecom provider TA Telecom today announced an agreement which will see Shazam Music Discovery enable all TA Telecom customers discover and purchase new tracks as they are heard via mobile music recognition...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 November 2007; 11321 views

India’s cellular operator Bharti Airtel has chosen technology from NDS for its new digital satellite platform...

Details: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Service Management; 31 October 2007; 14308 views

GEOCELL, the leading GSM operator of Georgia, launched 3G services based on the convergent solution from CBOSS...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 October 2007; 8128 views

Reuters is currently working with the Nokia Research Centre to develop a mobile application which will enable journalists to file and publish text, photo, audio and video news stories from handheld devices rather than laptops...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 31 October 2007; 7660 views

Designed to assist users of fibre-optic communications systems, the Fibre-Optic Association's new website is designed to help these very users plan and install fibre-optic communications systems...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 31 October 2007; 7590 views

Reports of severe WiMAX interference during tests conducted simultaneously with satellite tests have led a global industry coalition to argue against re-allocating C-Band spectrum...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 31 October 2007; 12567 views

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 October 2007; 14615 views

Aimed at cable, telco and broadband service providers worldwide, Spirit's TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine PC Version 3.0 is designed to factor in a rapid time-to-market along with what it calls "unprecedented voice and video quality"...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 October 2007; 9676 views

Subex Azure Ltd is meeting the challenges arising from Analysys Research’s report "Global Operator Attitudes to Revenue Management"...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 26 October 2007; 13695 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s largest telecoms service provider, to deploy broadband access across 7,000 Indian villages...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 October 2007; 10570 views

Cisco's announcements from Eastern Europe, following the tenth anniversary of Cisco Networking Academy in Turkey, confirm the company's belief that network technology is the key to global advancement for emerging markets...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 16 October 2007; 6676 views

Thirty satellite terminals deployed by ITU have helped restore vital communication links in remote and underserved areas of Bangladesh, a country recently ravaged by floods...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 October 2007; 10244 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been named Cable & Wireless' preferred supplier of Release 4 and Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture. The announcement follows the awarding of a US$40 million contract for the modernisation of C&W's Caribbean networks.

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 09 October 2007; 7907 views

Experts from around the world have gathered at ITU headquarters in Geneva to lay the foundation for a global response to the constantly evolving nature of cyber-threats and the increasing level of sophistication of cyber-crimes. Their strategy is based on a roadmap which will promote cyber-security from the start - a case of prevention rather than cure...