Should Auld acquaintance be forgot? Not according to the record numbers of SMS sent this New Year. Thousands of miles, different time zones and even the seas and oceans proved no barrier for friends, family and loved ones this most recent New Year...

The Sudanese telecoms market is increasingly becoming more competitive in both the fixed and cellular markets...

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...

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

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...

Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...

Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...

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

Latin Business Chronicle has just launched its Latin Technology Index, a review of how 17 countries in Central and South America are rising to the challenge of boosting penetration rates in PC, fixed and wireless telephony, Internet, and broadband Internet.

Egypt's telecom market is fairly liberalised, declares the Arab Advisors Group. By December 2006, the regulator (NTRA) had issued more than 200 telecom licences, three cellular licences, two payphone licences, two prepaid calling card licences, four VSAT licences and four international GMPCS operators...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...