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Caller ID app now available in Vietnam

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
23 November 2012
10382 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • Caller ID

Vietnamese users of Android and iOS phones now have access to a caller identification lookup application...

Brazilian minister hits out at bureaucracy, encourages local manufacturing

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
23 November 2012
8548 views
  • Regulation
  • Latin America
  • LTE
  • Brazil

The Brazilian Minister of Communications, Paolo Bernado, has delivered a coruscating tirade against regulation over the deployment of mobile infrastructure, which he believes is stymieing mobile growth...

Can policy control inspire customer loyalty in emerging markets?

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
23 November 2012
10588 views
  • Global
  • charging
  • Intersec
  • Openet
  • Policy Control
  • Customer Loyalty

Many factors in the industry are now affecting policy and charging together. Operators are experiencing increasing pressure over their business models as they face decreasing revenues exacerbated by rising costs...

Fuel cell meets base station for the perfect blackout coverage solution

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James Barton
Category: Energy & Sustainability
22 November 2012
9839 views
  • Global
  • fuel cells
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Base Stations

Sustaining network coverage in communities with unreliable grid power is a significant problem in emerging markets, with providers and vendors constantly looking for new ways of providing coverage without relying on diesel generators...

Africa’s largest modernisation program now underway

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 November 2012
10778 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Infrastructure
  • Network Management
  • Ericsson
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Switching

Bharti Airtel has announced an end-to-end network transformation program across its mobile operations in 16 African countries...

Caribbean carrier improves sailing safety

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
21 November 2012
9205 views
  • Latin America
  • LIME
  • Caribbean
  • Cable and Wireless
  • Maritime
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Coastguard services around St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been augmented by the introduction of a new Global Maritime Distress and Safety System...

Mobile connectivity brings m-health services to rural Niger

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
21 November 2012
10494 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Orange
  • Altobridge
  • Niger
  • Off-grid Infrastructure

Remote regions of Niger that were previously underserved by any form of telecommunications services will soon have access to mobile connectivity, following the completion of the first phase of a remote network rollout...

Could a merger be on the cards for SSTL?

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
21 November 2012
10428 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Licensing
  • Aircel
  • 2G
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • SSTL

With the dust settling after the 2G spectrum auctions, the Indian market’s landscape could shift significantly through mergers and acquisitions...

Public cloud services coming to Philippines

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
21 November 2012
7135 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • PLDT
  • Philippines
  • NEC
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Cloud services in the Philippines are to be enhanced following a new agreement for dedicated cloud infrastructure...

Weather Investments sues Algerian Government over Djezzy

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James Barton
Category: Investment
20 November 2012
11216 views
  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • Weather Investments
  • Orascom
  • Djezzy
  • Legal

Weather Investments is suing the government of Algeria for US$5 billion, claiming that the state was responsible for damages to the firm’s holding in Orascom Telecom Algérie (branded as Djezzy)...

Cloud services agreement to benefit Hungarian businesses

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
20 November 2012
7584 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • T-Systems
  • Cloud Services
  • Hungary
  • CE On-Demand
  • Magyar Telekom

The ICT subsidiary of Hungary’s incumbent telecom provider has forged a strategic alliance to resell cloud solutions under its branding...

LTE agreement will bring services to three African markets

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 November 2012
9659 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • LTE
  • 4G
  • Tanzania
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Smile Telecoms
  • Ugnada

4G LTE services are to be deployed in three African countries following the extension of an agreement between Smile Telecoms and Alcatel-Lucent...

Telenor spends big in Indian 2G auctions

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
20 November 2012
10033 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Licensing
  • Spectrum
  • Telenor
  • 2G

Scandinavian operator Telenor reaffirmed its commitment to the Indian market by spending more than any of its competitors in the country’s 2G auctions...

Cloud backup launching across Jordan

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
19 November 2012
7155 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Orange
  • Jordan
  • Gemalto
  • LinqUs

A major Jordanian operator is rolling out a cloud back-up service to its three million subscribers...

iPhone 5 to launch in China before year-end

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
19 November 2012
7873 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • China Telecom
  • Apple
  • iPhone 5

The latest model of Apple’s iPhone will be available through two of China’s largest operators by the end of the year...

Broadband network expansion underway for Mozambique carrier

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
19 November 2012
9351 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ceragon
  • Microwave
  • Mozambique
  • mcel

A major carrier in Mozambique is expanding its microwave network...

Afghan network audit prompts upgrade

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
19 November 2012
8164 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Optimisation
  • Managed Services
  • MTN
  • Aircom
  • Afghanistan

A major operating group in Afghanistan is upgrading the quality of its network with a new managed service solution...

Free intercontinental roaming service marks a world first

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 November 2012
9048 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Central South Asia
  • Roaming
  • Bharti Airtel
  • ONE NETWORK

The world’s first free intercontinental incoming roaming service has been launched by Bharti Airtel across its African and South Asian operations...

2.5GHz wireless broadband launched in Harare

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
16 November 2012
9468 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Alvarion
  • Wireless Broadband
  • uMAX

A major wireless broadband provider in Zimbabwe has completed the deployment of its wireless broadband network...

African satellite gets a boost with vendor-neutral earth station

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
16 November 2012
7777 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Teraco
  • Earth Station

Satellite service providers, carrier and Internet service providers across Africa will soon be able to provide connectivity through the continent’s first vendor-neutral satellite earth station...

Optimisation augments end user experience in South Africa

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
16 November 2012
6825 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Celcite
  • MTN

South Africa’s market-leading operator has adopted a new solution as a service to maximise the optimisation of its growing 2G and 3G networks...

MTS regains control of Uzbek operations

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James Barton
Category: Operators
14 November 2012
9134 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • MTS
  • Uzbekistan

Following a successful appeal, the Uzkbek government must relinquish control of local operator Uzdonrobita to its owner, Russian firm MTS...

Free mobile internet coming to the Philippines

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 November 2012
10695 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Google
  • Mobile Internet
  • Globe Telecom

Subscribers of one the largest mobile operators in the Philippines will be able to access free mobile Internet following a new agreement...

Is fibre the only option for LTE data speeds?

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
13 November 2012
8920 views
  • Cable
  • Global
  • LTE
  • Fibre
  • Small Cells
  • Data Speeds
  • Metrofibre Networx
  • MEF

It doesn’t matter if a provider is offering 3G or 4G – whatever device is being used, it needs to be able to connect to the network. As the demand for smartphones increases in developing markets, picking up a connection has become increasingly difficult...

LTE coverage launches in Mexico

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 November 2012
9885 views
  • Latin America
  • LTE
  • Mexico
  • Ericsson
  • Telcel

One of Mexico’s largest operators is deploying an LTE network across the country...

Voice SMS service launches in Uganda

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 November 2012
8705 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Warid Telecom
  • Uganda
  • Kirusa
  • Voice SMS

One of Uganda’s leading operators is introducing a new Voice SMS service to the country...

Satellite bandwidth speeds up Cook Islands’ connectivity

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
12 November 2012
8026 views
  • Rural
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Remote
  • Broadband
  • O3b Networks
  • Cook Islands

A new bandwidth agreement will provide for high speed Internet connectivity to five of the islands in the southern group of the Cook Islands archipelago.

Emerging markets key to a strong Q4 for Qualcomm

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
09 November 2012
8808 views
  • Global
  • Brazil
  • China
  • Qualcomm

Chip manufacturer Qualcomm has cited emerging markets as the main driver behind the revenue and profit that it reported in Q4 2012...

Russian retail centres to promote Windows 8 devices

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
09 November 2012
8682 views
  • Devices
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • MTS
  • Microsoft
  • Handsets

Russian operator MTS has announced a partnership with Microsoft to promote innovative mobile solutions...

Vodacom triples its LTE coverage

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
09 November 2012
9115 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • LTE
  • South Africa
  • Vodacom

South African operator Vodacom has tripled the number of LTE-enabled base stations in its network from just under 70 at launch a month ago to over 200 in Johannesburg...

Operators can keep spectrum after India’s spectrum switch

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
09 November 2012
9331 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Spectrum
  • 1800MHz
  • 900MHz

Operators in India will be able to keep 2.5MHz of higher-quality 900MHz spectrum after the country switches to the 1800MHz band...

Mobile signature solutions make their debut in India

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
08 November 2012
6200 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Gemalto

Indian mobile users will soon have access to the country’s first ever mobile signature solution for legally binding digital transactions...

Kuwaiti player takes billing wholesale

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
08 November 2012
8139 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Kuwait
  • CSG
  • QTel
  • Wataniya Telecom
  • Wholesale Billing Management

A leading Kuwaiti operator is migrating from manual billing to a new solution that will allow for wholesale billing management...

Blow for CDMA in India as Tata withdraws bid

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
07 November 2012
10229 views
  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Licensing
  • CDMA
  • Tata Teleservices

One of India’s major operators has reportedly pulled out of the country’s impending spectrum auctions, meaning that there are now no participants bidding on CDMA frequencies...

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