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Supernet Signs Multi-Year Contract with SES for GSM Backhaul in Pakistan

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
21 June 2013
6773 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Pakistan
  • SES
  • Supernet

SES has announced a multi-year multi-million dollar contract renewal with Supernet, Pakistan's leading satellite network service provider...

Vodafone Foundation to deploy mobile network in South Sudan refugee camp

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
21 June 2013
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodafone
  • South Sudan

The Vodafone Foundation will deploy its portable mobile phone network in the largest refugee camp in South Sudan, allowing aid workers to undertake life-saving work, enabling 70,000 refugees to contact relatives for free and giving children access to life-changing education programmes...

China Telecom Global joins African data centre community

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James Barton
Category: Data Centres & Networks
21 June 2013
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China Telecom Global is now offering services from Teraco’s vendor-neutral South African data centre, allowing it to deliver services across the country as well as link with other service providers and carriers in Africa...

Orange and Eaton enter Kenyan infrastructure agreement

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 June 2013
10092 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Orange
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya
  • Network Management
  • Telkom Kenya
  • Eaton Towers

One of Kenya’s major operators has signed a network management agreement covering its passive network infrastructure...

Project Loon delivers Internet to remote areas via balloon

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 June 2013
9994 views
  • Global
  • Google
  • Project Loon
  • Wireless Internet
  • Remote Coverage

Google is launching an innovative initiative to provide connectivity in remote, rural areas using helium-filled balloons...

Beeline expands 3G wireless backhaul network in Tajikistan

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 June 2013
9032 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • Ceragon
  • Tajikistan
  • Tacom
  • Beeline

The Tajik operator Tacom, branded as Beeline, has ordered a backhaul platform for 3G data and voice development across the country...

Consortium wins infrastructure contract in Israel

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
20 June 2013
6629 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • fibre optic
  • Israel

A new infrastructure venture formed by a new consortium will roll out fibre optic broadband and Internet services throughout Israel...

Learning Mobile Charging from Emerging Markets

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Jonathon Gordon
Category: Revenue & Billing
20 June 2013
8145 views
  • Revenue
  • Global
  • charging
  • Data

When we think of emerging markets, we often tend to think they are behind the times, busy playing catch-up with developed nations. While this may in fact be the case for traditional fixed telecoms infrastructure, it is certainly not true for today’s extensive mobile networks. In fact, when it comes to mobile data plans and charging, developed nations can learn a lot from emerging markets.

Google’s Asian boss: emerging markets “rebuilding the internet”

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
19 June 2013
9327 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Google
  • Mobile Internet

Google’s head of Asia Pacific, Karim Temsamani, has claimed that the increased mobile internet usage driven by emerging market consumers is resulting in a “rebuilding of the internet”...

Neostratus and Vipnet launch cloud partnership in Croatia

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
19 June 2013
6150 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Neostratus
  • Vipnet
  • Croatia

A new partnership between Croatian operator Vipnet and cloud enabler Neostratus will provide a range of cloud solutions for messaging, communication and collaboration to businesses across the country...

Ericsson and Entel implement education partnership in Chile

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
19 June 2013
10202 views
  • Latin America
  • Ericsson
  • Chile
  • Entel
  • Education

Ericsson has partnered with Chilean provider Entel to launch a new education initiative for students in rural areas of the Latin American country...

Emerging markets open to a premium on 4G services

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
18 June 2013
9103 views
  • Global
  • 4G
  • Accenture
  • Data Plans

According to a survey conducted by Accenture, customers in emerging markets are more open to paying a premium rate for 4G services than those in developed markets...

Globe Telecom upgrades Coron connectivity with fibre optics

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
18 June 2013
7521 views
  • Cable
  • Asia-Pacific
  • fibre optic
  • Philippines
  • Globe Telecom

Filipino operator Globe Telecom has extended its fibre optic network to the island of Coron in Palawan province, strengthening network coverage in a major tourist destination...

Powering Indian telecoms into the future

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Lee Juby
Category: Energy & Sustainability
18 June 2013
8064 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • solar power
  • fuel cells
  • Infrastructure

As the fourth largest economy in the world by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) driven primarily by the services sector, the telecom industry in India offers a great deal of opportunity. The last decade in particular has seen voice communications become a central part of day-to-day life for much of India with total national teledensity reaching 73.07% in January 2013.

Intelligent Energy and Microqual sign Indian infrastructure agreement

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
17 June 2013
7182 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Infrastructure
  • Intelligent Energy

Rapid telecoms expansion could soon be underway in India following an agreement between infrastructure provider Microqual Techno and Intelligent Energy.

How important is Real-time monitoring? Part two: Customer Profiling drives loyalty and revenue

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
14 June 2013
10326 views
  • Global
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Oracle
  • Pontis
  • Guavus
  • Targeted Advertising

At the start of this week, Developing Telecoms looked at the importance of real-time monitoring, with a focus on customer retention and roaming. As we continue to explore the subject, we look at how targeted advertising relies on the accurate customer profile that real-time monitoring can create. In addition, a closely-monitored network can drive down the SIM-swapping endemic to emerging markets.

Syniverse Selected by Idea Cellular for Roaming Solutions

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
14 June 2013
6620 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Syniverse
  • Idea Cellular
  • Fraud Prevention

India’s third largest mobile operator has signed a multi-year agreement for data clearing, financial clearing and fraud-prevention...

Gilat awarded extended broadband contract for rural Colombian schools

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
14 June 2013
6887 views
  • Latin America
  • Broadband
  • Colombia
  • Education
  • Gilat Satellite Networks

The Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Telecommunications (MINTIC) has extended its contract with Gilat Satellite Networks to provide broadband services to over 1500 schools in the Latin American country...

Reliance Jio Infocomm and RCom announce tower-sharing agreement

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James Barton
Category: Operators
13 June 2013
10702 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • India
  • Reliance Jio Infocomm
  • RCom
  • Tower-Sharing

A nationwide 4G network is on the cards in India following the announcement that Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a tower-sharing agreement with Reliance Communications...

Mauritanian operator launches loyalty management campaign

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 June 2013
8287 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mauritania
  • Loyalty Management
  • Intersec
  • Mauritel

Mauritania’s leading telecom provider Mauritel is now offering real-time promotions for targeted subscribers based on analysis of actual usage patterns...

Competition bill is ratified in Mexico

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
11 June 2013
10828 views
  • Regulation
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • America Movil

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto has signed a bill aimed at breaking the dominance of telecom monopolies...

LTE coming to Rwanda via Government JV

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 June 2013
8883 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • LTE
  • 4G
  • KT Corp
  • Rwanda

A new government joint venture is aiming to provide high-speed 4G/LTE broadband to 95% of Rwanda’s population within the next three years...

How important is real-time monitoring? Part one: customer retention and roaming

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
10 June 2013
10115 views
  • Global
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Big Data Analytics
  • CEM
  • Roaming
  • TecnoTree
  • Convergys
  • Customer Experience

Collecting and analysing data about customer usage is becoming the standard for operators in all markets, as it allows them to follow and respond to customer habits. They now have access to a lot of customer information, although it may not be as complete as they’d like – particularly in emerging markets where there are a lot of prepaid customers so there aren’t personally identifiable usage patterns as there are in developed markets.

Sisteer Signs Full MVNO Agreement with Vivo in Brazil

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James Barton
Category: Operators
07 June 2013
11601 views
  • Service Providers
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Vivo
  • MVNOs
  • Sisteer

The mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Sisteer has signed a full MVNO agreement with Telefonica’s Brazilian operation Vivo to operate as an MVNO using Vivo’s network...

Ukrainian oligarch acquires controlling stake in Ukrtelecom

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James Barton
Category: Investment
07 June 2013
10710 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Ukrtelecom
  • Ukraine

A holding group owned by Ukraine’s richest man has acquired a 92.79% stake in Ukrtelecom...

Zain Iraq commences IPO

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James Barton
Category: Investment
05 June 2013
12368 views
  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Iraq
  • Zain Iraq
  • IPO

Zain Iraq has set its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) into motion, creating a new company with which to register its Iraqi stock...

Viber hit with Saudi ban

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
05 June 2013
11474 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • OTT
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Viber

The mobile app Viber has been banned in Saudi Arabia, with the Kingdom’s regulator warning that similar services could suffer the same fate...

Pacnet Deploys Bangalore Content Delivery Network Point-of-Presence

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
04 June 2013
7063 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Content Delivery Networks
  • Pacnet

A new Content Delivery Network (CDN) Point of Presence (PoP) has been deployed in Bangalore by Pacnet. Bangalore is the epicentre of India's IT industry and home to many of country's most tech-savvy Internet users and has the nation’s largest number of broadband Internet connections...

Regional Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent launch Iraq’s first 4G LTE network

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
04 June 2013
12504 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • LTE
  • 4G
  • Iraq
  • Alcatel-Lucent

Iraq’s first 4G LTE network has been launched in the north of the country by service provider Regional Telecom, using equipment provided by Alcatel-Lucent...

Innovative CocoaLink Mobile Technology Program Expands to Cote d’Ivoire

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
03 June 2013
7432 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • CocoaLink
  • Agriculture

The Hershey Company is expanding its mobile phone program CocoaLink to Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), which is the world’s largest producer of cocoa...

DANTE and UbuntuNet Alliance award contract to WIOCC to provide connectivity services to Sub-Saharan Africa

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
03 June 2013
8404 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • WIOCC
  • Connectivity

A major connectivity contract that constitutes part of the AfricaConnect project has been awarded to the African carrier’s carrier WIOCC by DANTE...

New platform streamlines M2M for Malaysia's DiGi

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James Barton
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
03 June 2013
8826 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • M2M
  • Malaysia
  • Ericsson
  • DiGi Telecom

Malaysian operator DiGi Telecommunications is implementing Ericsson’s Device Connection Platform to provide its customers with everything they need to deploy, manage and monetize millions of machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer-electronics devices...

China Mobile and Vodafone give up on Myanmar licence

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
31 May 2013
11113 views
  • Service Providers
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • Vodafone
  • Licensing
  • Myanmar

After forming an alliance in an attempt to win a mobile licence in Myanmar, international telecom giants Vodafone and China Mobile have announced that they are abandoning the licensing race...

European Commission hits Estonia with EU Court Referral

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
31 May 2013
8539 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • European Commission
  • Estonia
  • Regulators
  • EU

Estonia has been referred to the EU Court of Justice after failing to update its national law concerning the impartiality of its telecoms regulator...

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