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Details: Alec Barton; Category: Satellite Networks; 09 February 2007; 13607 views

Advantech has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Advantech Satellite Networks Inc has been awarded a contract to provide a new VSAT satellite communications network for Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 01 February 2007; 11834 views

Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in Kuwait using Aperto state-of-the-art broadband wireless PacketWave gear...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 January 2007; 10574 views

The Cellular Operators’ Association of India has selected fastmobile and Jataayu to implement the GSM Association’s first personal IM rollout...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 30 January 2007; 12926 views

Comptel, an Operational Support System software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, is supplying Macau’s CTM with provisioning and mediation solutions to support 3G services...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 January 2007; 10266 views

SDC, a technology provider for Digital Rights Management in music, is to power a landmark full-track mobile music download service in China...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 January 2007; 13359 views

GTS Datanet has chosen Thomson Cirpack VoIP switching platforms for the launch of its new double play and IP Centrex services...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 23 January 2007; 11887 views

The Hajj is the world's largest annual religious pilgrimage: three million participants worldwide arrive in Mecca, a 10 km² area. Over five days this same area witnesses one of the highest mobile traffic densities in the world. Even Saudi Telecom Company, the biggest mobile operator in the Middle East, experiences unique and massive challenges...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 17 January 2007; 10915 views

Colombia's communications ministry Mincomunicaciones (MinCom) has assigned 55 departmental WiMAX licences for 3.5GHz spectrum...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Satellite Networks; 15 January 2007; 11544 views

ViaSat Inc will be supplying its LinkStar DVB-S2 satellite networking system to Unete Telecomunicaciones SA (Bolivia) to expand enterprise broadband services in Ecuador and the surrounding region...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 12 January 2007; 12941 views

Nokia has won a major GSM/GPRS/EDGE network expansion contract from leading Russian operator MegaFon that will see it deliver both radio and core equipment, thereby helping MegaFon deliver advanced mobile solutions to its subscriber base...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 11 January 2007; 11548 views

Mtel (formally known as Mobiltel EAD), the Bulgarian wireless operator, has selected and implemented Andrew Corporation's Odyssey cellular radio planning software system in order to replace a previous radio planning tool.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 10 January 2007; 8618 views

Is there a role for alternative energy sources in the mobile industry? Yes is the answer, according to Motorola, which recently announced that it had successfully completed a trial to demonstrate the feasibility of alternative power systems that can support remote GSM base stations.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 08 January 2007; 11063 views

Motorola has signed a US$75 million GSM network expansion contract with Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-tel), one of Nigeria's mobile communications operators...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 05 January 2007; 11660 views

Redknee Inc, which provides infrastructure software to monetise and personalise services and content for mobile users, has announced that Digicel Group has selected its CRM Solution to improve customer care and billing management in its newly acquired El Salvador operation...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 05 January 2007; 12696 views

Huawei has announced the commercial introduction of its IP Multimedia Subsystem 3.0 solution aimed at providing an open architecture for the development of multimedia services...

Details: Haim Kantor, Comverse; Category: Revenue & Billing; 05 January 2007; 11379 views

Spearheaded by the arrival of real-time billing systems, billing is now a dynamic force with strategic implications and major repercussions for operators worldwide. Operators and subscribers in emerging markets, including those in the Asia-Pacific region, are among those enjoying the powerful benefits of real-time billing. Haim Kantor, Associate Vice President of the Real-time billing division of Comverse, sets the scene...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 03 January 2007; 13869 views

BSNL, India's largest telecom service provider will in the next few weeks deploy what it claims to be India's first certified WiMAX network...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 02 January 2007; 10889 views

Yunnan Mobile Communication Co, a subsidiary of China Mobile with over ten million subscribers, is currently deploying Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment, to help subscribers complete and manage calls...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 29 December 2006; 9899 views

Guaranteeing that suppliers are paid is a key factor in any contract, as PowerCom Namibia knows...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 28 December 2006; 14780 views

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) believes it has gained a major advantage over its rivals by collaborating with Intel to create India's first wireless broadband system...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 22 December 2006; 13181 views

Alcatel-Lucent and Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau SARL are collaborating on a new IP service...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 21 December 2006; 11332 views

Nokia is currently supporting Polish mobile operator Polkomtel which is launching its commercial High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network in the Warsaw area...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 20 December 2006; 13387 views

Mobile Telecommunications Company, is set to deliver high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in Kuwait via Nortel optical solutions...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Satellite Networks; 19 December 2006; 12606 views

Currently boasting the largest subscriber base of satellite handheld users, UAE-based Thuraya will be launching a new satellite, Thuraya-3, by the end of March 2007...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 12 December 2006; 10545 views

Shanghai Unicom, a branch of China Unicom, recently took the opportunity of a press conference to announce several new mobile services...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 11 December 2006; 10142 views

Texas Instruments is expanding its portfolio of WiMAX solutions with 2 new announcements in the WiMAX sector...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 08 December 2006; 12843 views

Iraq Telecommunications & Post Corporation (ITPC) has awarded Nortel a US$20 million contract to build a nationwide optical backbone...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 07 December 2006; 11013 views

Radio Frequency Systems will unveil its all-in-one rooftop antenna solution - the Optimizer Rooftop - at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 06 December 2006; 11474 views

Mpathix Inc, a supplier of wireless messaging solutions, has announced that Wataniya Maldives has chosen to deploy Mpathix Mobile Email...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 05 December 2006; 13695 views

Pakistan is to witness a major expansion of its 3G capacity as the result of a contract signed by Ericsson and Warid Telecom...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 29 November 2006; 13729 views

PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications has selected Nokia to supply and manage a complete Service Delivery Platform solution as part of its GSM/WCDMA 3G rollout...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Devices & Platforms; 27 November 2006; 9850 views

WiMAX,Wireless Broadband, Global: Samsung Electronics Co has unveiled a three-way gadget that combines a phone, personal computer and music player...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 November 2006; 13057 views

Since this July mobile has come to more than 75% of the population of Ivory Coast, and more than 500,000 of the country's citizens have signed up for it...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 November 2006; 15539 views

Developing-market observers are very often impressed with the way that Middle Eastern countries have shown the greatest enthusiasm for implementing telecoms technologies. One recent disappointment, however, concerns the termination of Skype telephony in the United Arab Emirates. Developing Telecoms attempts to set out the background to this action, and to find out the reasons for it.