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Huawei and Vodafone launch “Project Spring” in Europe and Africa

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 March 2014
11718 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Vodafone
  • South Africa
  • Huawei
  • Czech Republic
  • Ghana
  • Hungary
  • Mozambique
  • Egypt
  • Lesotho
  • Romania

A new five-year agreement between Vodafone and Huawei will expand the operator group’s Single Radio Access Network (SingleRAN) for its “Project Spring” Phase 1 programme across the world.

Mark Zuckerberg is wrong about Emerging Markets

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Alec Barton
Category: Blogs & Opinion
10 March 2014
18517 views
  • Global
  • OTT
  • WhatsApp
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Facebook
  • Internet.org

The hottest ticket at Mobile World Congress 2014 was without doubt Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's session.

Tata Communications and Turkcell Superonline deploy MPLS PoP in Turkey

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
10 March 2014
7404 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Tata Communications
  • Turkey
  • MPLS
  • Turkcell Superonline

A new collaboration agreement between Tata Communications and Turkcell Superonline will establish a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) node in Istanbul.

MTN and Mahindra Comviva bring MDP to Congo Brazzaville

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
10 March 2014
8148 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Data Plans
  • Mahindra Comviva
  • Congo-Brazzaville
  • MTN Congo Brazzaville

MTN has launched Mahindra Comviva’s Mobile Data Platform (MDP) in Congo Brazzaville.

Orange reviewing African options

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James Barton
Category: Operators
07 March 2014
8513 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Orange
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Orange has begun a strategic review of its assets in Uganda and Kenya, although it has not confirmed that it is looking to sell either unit.

China Unicom launching LTE in March

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 March 2014
9280 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 4G
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • TD LTE

Following on from its major rivals, China Unicom will become the last operator in the country to launch 4G services later this month.

Voxox Partners with VTC Intecom to Offer OTT App in Vietnam

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
06 March 2014
9498 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • Social Networking
  • VTC

A new partnership between VTC Intecom and rich communication service Voxox will launch a co-branded OTT app as part of the Voxox for Operators program.

Kenya loses an operator as Yu exits market

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James Barton
Category: Operators
06 March 2014
15555 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Airtel
  • Safaricom
  • yu

Kenyan operator Yu has ceased operations, selling off its assets and subscribers to its competitors.

KT gives up on Tunisie Telecom acquisition

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James Barton
Category: Operators
05 March 2014
9129 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Tunisia
  • KT
  • Tunisie Telecom
  • Emirates International Telecommunications

South Korean operator KT has abandoned its attempt to acquire a 35% stake in Tunisie Telecom without providing an explanation.

Tele2 Estonia aiming for 300Mb/s LTE but shuns tri-band CA

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James Barton
Category: Operators
05 March 2014
9764 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • LTE
  • NSN
  • Estonia
  • 300Mbs
  • Tele2 Estonia
  • Tri-band Carrier Aggregation

The CTO of Tele2 Estonia, Ervins Kampans, has stated that this year the operator is aiming to achieve theoretical peak download speeds of 300Mb/s for LTE.

Firefox OS bringing $25 smart devices to emerging markets

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
05 March 2014
9138 views
  • Global
  • Telkomsel
  • Indosat
  • Mozilla
  • Firefox OS

With the appetite for smartphones growing all the time in emerging markets, the field could be shaken up by Mozilla’s announcement of a low-cost device aimed at these regions.

Apple most coveted but Google Play most accessible in emerging markets

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
04 March 2014
8392 views
  • Global
  • Brazil
  • India
  • China
  • Nigeria
  • Google
  • Vietnam
  • Apple
  • Upstream
  • Google Play

With 5.2 billion of the world’s 6.8 billion mobile subscribers in the developing world, handset manufacturers and developers such as Nokia, Ericsson, Facebook and Mozilla, are renewing their efforts to connect and cater to emerging market consumers.

MWC: The Coming Year in Emerging Markets

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James Barton
Category: Blogs & Opinion
04 March 2014
12219 views
  • Global
  • LTE
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Optimisation
  • Bandwidth
  • Low-cost smartphones

Now that the dust has settled after Mobile World Congress, I’ve had time to collect my thoughts following on from some of the conversations I had at the show.

MegaFon Claims World’s Fastest Mobile Data Network

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
03 March 2014
8553 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • MegaFon
  • Russia
  • Huawei
  • LTE Advanced
  • 300Mbs

Russian operator MegaFon has launched a commercial LTE Advanced network delivering speeds of up to 300Mb/s.

Millicom launches world’s first international mobile money service with currency conversion

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
28 February 2014
7236 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Rwanda
  • Millicom
  • Tigo Cash
  • Tigo Pesa
  • Currency Conversion

For the first time ever, mobile money users will be able to transfer cash across borders with currency conversion automatically included.

VivaCell-MTS Armenia Appoints Teclo Networks for High-Speed Mobile Internet

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
27 February 2014
7037 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Armenia
  • VivaCell-MTS Armenia

Armenian operator VivaCell-MTS has deployed a solution from Teclo Networks for enhanced mobile internet speeds.

Epsilon Connects with TransIndonesia Network

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
27 February 2014
7900 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Epsilon

Indonesian network operator TransIndonesia Network has selected Epsilon to provide interconnectivity solutions out of Singapore across Asia, Europe & the Americas.

Mobile revenue up in CEE but OTT threat looms

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
26 February 2014
10602 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • OTT
  • Smartphones
  • Russia
  • Poland
  • Czech Republic
  • Hungary
  • Estonia
  • Bulgaria
  • Romania
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Mobile Termination Rate

Total mobile service revenue in the Central & Eastern Europe region grew 0.6 % year-on-year in the first half of 2013, reaching EUR22.5 billion, according to Analysys Mason.

Jinny providing managed services across all LIME Caribbean operations

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
26 February 2014
9846 views
  • Latin America
  • LIME
  • Caribbean
  • Managed Services
  • Messaging
  • Jinny Software

Jinny Software has signed a multi-year agreement with CWI Caribbean (LIME) to provide messaging platforms across its operation.

Orange Slovakia Launches Shared Data Plans Based on Openet Solution

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James Barton
Category: Customer Management
26 February 2014
7505 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Openet
  • Policy Control
  • Slovakia
  • Data Bundles
  • Orange Slovakia

Orange Slovakia has deployed Openet’s Policy and Charging Control (PCC) infrastructure to enable a major rollout of advanced shared data bundles.

Mobily and Ciena Provide Advanced Connectivity Services to Businesses in Saudi Arabia

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
25 February 2014
6493 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Ciena
  • Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia
  • OTN

Saudi Arabian market leader Mobily is launching a suite of Advanced Connectivity Services (ACS) in partnership with network specialist Ciena.

MTN Nigeria selects Ericsson for managed services

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
25 February 2014
8465 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Network Optimisation
  • Nigeria
  • Ericsson
  • Managed Services
  • MTN Nigeria

Ericsson has signed a five-year managed services agreement with MTN, a leading telecommunications company with presence in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East, for its Nigeria operations.

Infobip extends reach into Russian market with direct mobile billing

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
24 February 2014
5780 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • M-Commerce
  • Infobip

Mobile messaging and payments provider Infobip has enabled m-commerce direct mobile billing connections for its global network of merchants and retailers throughout the Russian market.

Tango Telecom awarded major Policy Control expansion deal by Robi Axiata

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James Barton
Category: Customer Management
24 February 2014
7435 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Bangladesh
  • Policy Control
  • Tango Telecom
  • Robi Axiata

Bangladeshi mobile operator, Robi Axiata is increasing its capacity and introducing new use cases with Tango Telecom’s Policy Control solution.

BICS delivering roaming VAS across Airtel’s African operation

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 February 2014
7602 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Roaming
  • BICS
  • Airtel Africa

Airtel Africa will deploy a range of value-added BICS services across seventeen countries to improve revenues from roaming, over and above their current roaming services.

Airtel acquiring Loop for Mumbai’s largest network

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James Barton
Category: Operators
21 February 2014
8772 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Acquisitions
  • Spectrum
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Loop Mobile

The Indian market leading operator Bharti Airtel has confirmed that it will buy smaller local operator Loop Mobile.

Sequans and Pinyon launch LTE dongle for India

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
21 February 2014
6354 views
  • Central South Asia
  • LTE
  • India
  • Sequans Communications

Sequans Communications and Pinyon Technologies have collaborated to build a new LTE consumer device for the Indian market.

Telefónica Digital to Deploy Funambol Personal Cloud Solution Globally

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
21 February 2014
5285 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Telefonica Digital
  • Funambol
  • Personal Cloud

Telefónica Digital is deploying Funambol’s personal cloud solution across Telefónica operating units in Europe and Latin America, with the service already live in Brazil.

Polish Railway expands GSM-R infrastructure with NSN

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 February 2014
7433 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Nokia Solutions and Networks
  • Poland
  • Transport Infrastructure

Nokia Solutions and Networks will provide its GSM-Railway (GSM-R) mobile infrastructure to cover a 440-kilometer section of Poland’s E-20 railway corridor.

Telefonica pushes internal M2M system to Lat Am

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James Barton
Category: Customer Management
20 February 2014
6885 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • M2M
  • Telefonica
  • Argentina
  • Ericsson
  • Chile

Telefonica has extended the availability of its in-house M2M management system to three more Latin American countries.

Indian tax dispute will not disrupt Microsoft sale, says Nokia

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
20 February 2014
10275 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Nokia
  • Microsoft

Nokia has stated that the sale of its Devices & Services unit to Microsoft will not be affected by its continuing legal dispute with the Indian tax authorities.

Astellia delivers network quality audit for Moldtelecom

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
20 February 2014
7424 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Astellia
  • Moldova
  • Moldtelecom

Moldova’s national operator Moldtelecom has selected Astellia to audit the voice and data service quality of its 3G network and provide expert recommendations to improve the overall customer experience.

China Telecom launching 4G in 100 cities

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
19 February 2014
7143 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • Licensing
  • China Telecom
  • 4G LTE

Chinese third-place operator China Telecom is planning an expansive 4G launch across 100 cities.

Myanmar ROI possible within three years, says Telenor boss

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James Barton
Category: Operators
19 February 2014
8511 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Myanmar
  • Telenor

Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas believes that the operator will break even on its Myanmar business within three years.

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