Details: Dr. Nicolae Oaca; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2008; 13290 views

Orange and Vodafone are winners in the contest for the last two 3G licenses in Romania. At least that is how it now appears, in a story which has lessons for regulators and operators in emerging markets worldwide...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 27 January 2008; 11169 views

The 2008 International Aid + Trade Event brings together the global humanitarian relief, aid and development community to share knowledge and experience, improve coordination and communication, increase the effectiveness of aid response and humanitarian relief and embrace the challenge of integrated aid and development...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 27 January 2008; 7406 views

Talia, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet for North Africa and the Middle East, is launching its new 'Good Works' scheme at the 2008 International Aid + Trade conference in Geneva, Switzerland...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 17159 views

This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 27 January 2008; 10440 views

Moving to a VoIP paradigm presents real challenges for operators in the emerging markets. Developing Telecoms asked Yossi Ben Harosh, President & CEO, Telrad Networks, to outline some of the difficulties that can be expected - and to suggest the best way forward...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 10328 views

Fibre-optics professionals should be simplifying the classification of fibre-optics, particularly in the face of competition from copper products...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 12831 views

The imminent transfer of Algeria's telecoms services from state to private ownership is keenly anticipated. During the build-up to final roll-out revenues are expected to show substantial growth. The Arab Advisors Group has issued a report on this exciting issue...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 13483 views

Many of the Western European operators appear inward-looking, almost unwilling to look into overseas markets even when the latter make up the real areas of growth in the context of current global telecoms...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 27 January 2008; 9910 views

Subex, which specialises in OSS solutions, has released an enhanced version of its Prevea credit-risk management system...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 14714 views

Developing Telecoms reported last month that Zain was on its way to creating a roaming-free market in Africa, with a dozen countries all enjoying one single telecoms market. Since then, Zain has announced a single roaming-free market for its Middle East customers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 11527 views

SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As Lebanon’s telecoms market may well be on the way to liberalisation, Arab Advisory Group figures show that only 10% of GSM users do not use SMS...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 10143 views

Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 10383 views

Acision has announced that global SMS traffic was 30% higher over the 2008 New Year period when compared to the equivalent in 2007. People are obviously texting in the changes rather than ringing them in…

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 12732 views

Antenna Hungaria, T-Mobile Hungary, and Vodafone Hungary have all recently carried out trials for mobile television to DVB-H specifications...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 16834 views

Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 9815 views

JDSU has launched a short-range LAN OTDR to provide a testing combination of up to five wavelengths in both multi-mode and single-mode...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 January 2008; 18461 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; 10573 views

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

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 9146 views

For most of the last century, Nauru relied on one source of income, phosphates. As is all too often the case with minerals, the primary resource exhausts itself, and as is all too often the case with a developing nation, there is no other source of income for its people...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 January 2008; 132400 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; 10900 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: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 10859 views

Operating as a telecoms service provider in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, GTS Central Europe has been sufficiently independent to run its own regional fibre network...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 December 2007; 7210 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; 7991 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; 12682 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; 8510 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; 10548 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; 7407 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; 10108 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: Trends & Forecasts; 07 December 2007; 12372 views

Zain subsidiary Celtel International has announced the extension of its "One Network", the world's first borderless mobile network in Africa, to six more countries. The network now connects 400 million people across 12 countries...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 December 2007; 9151 views

Latin America

Airwide Solutions, which provides next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, has entered into an agreement with American Telecommunication Holdings to resell Airwide products throughout Latin America...

Details: Category: Service Management; 30 November 2007; 8948 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; 9383 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; 9096 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...

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