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Rural a major growth area for India’s telecoms sector

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
26 October 2011
7822 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India

The development of India’s telecom sector has witnessed a major process of transformation in terms of growth, technological content, and market structure in the last decade through policy reforms introduced by the Indian Government...

Roaming solution targets bill shock in Malaysia

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
26 October 2011
7378 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Malaysia
  • Maxis
  • Bill Shock
  • Roamware

One of Malaysia’s major service providers has deployed a roaming solution to reduce bill shock...

Indonesian LTE trial a success

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
25 October 2011
10580 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • LTE
  • Indonesia
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Indosat
  • Trials

Indonesia’s first successful LTE field trial in the 1800 MHz band has been completed by the country’s market leader...

First top up service launched for Zambian communities living abroad

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 October 2011
9530 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zambia
  • MTN Zambia

A new top up service has been launched in Zambia which allows Zambian nationals living abroad to recharge prepaid mobiles of family and friends in their homeland...

Windows Phone online store coming to Middle East and Africa

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
24 October 2011
8270 views
  • Devices
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Microsoft
  • Windows Phone

Windows Phone devices will soon be launching across the Middle East and Africa following the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft Middle East & Africa and wireless distributor Brightpoint...

Preparing for the Unified Communications Boom

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Manu Bonnassie, Brocade Communications
Category: Blogs & Opinion
24 October 2011
9835 views
  • Global
  • Unified Communications

Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011...

China Mobile posts solid results in the face of future challenges

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James Barton
Category: Investment
21 October 2011
9360 views
  • Service Providers
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • Market Saturation

Although the first three quarters of 2011 have been stable for China Mobile, a statement from the world’s largest operator acknowledge that there were still many factors which “posed challenges to the group” going forward, such as market saturation in China and the advent of new technologies...

New agreement to bring sustainable mobile broadband to UAE

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 October 2011
9417 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Etisalat
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • UAE

As global demand for Internet on-the-move services grows dramatically, together with the adoption of the latest smartphones and tablet devices, the need for operators to extend their wireless network coverage and capacity is also growing exponentially to cope with this demand...

A new era of converged communications

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Paul McKibbin, Divisional Managing Director, Jasco Carrier Networks
Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 October 2011
11416 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • ICT
  • Converged Communications

Information and communication are at the heart of any modern business, and thanks to advances in technology these two previously disparate areas have begun to blur into one, creating what has become known as Information Communication Technology...

Bharti overhauling data services and connectivity in Africa

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
20 October 2011
7631 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Device Management

Customers in 16 African countries will soon have access to seamless internet connectivity and simpler mobile data services...

Security as a service launching via cloud in Kuwait

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
20 October 2011
7719 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Kuwait
  • Zajil
  • Cloud Security
  • Zservices

Kuwaiti internet service provider Zajil will soon offer its customers cloud-delivered web security as value-added service...

Next-gen backhaul solution for Indian mobile operator

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
19 October 2011
9294 views
  • Central South Asia
  • NEC
  • Tata Teleservices

major Indian operator is set to upgrade its backhaul mobile transport network...

Incoming cables will break Côte d’Ivoire’s broadband monopoly

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
19 October 2011
8853 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Submarine Cable

Political upheavals notwithstanding, Côte d’Ivoire has benefited from sophisticated developments in its telecom sector - and a short-term misstep is unlikely to upset a long term trend towards growth...

Sudanese operator augments VAS offering

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 October 2011
9599 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Sudan
  • Jinny Software

Subscribers of Zain Sudan will soon have access to an expanded suite of VAS solutions...

Indian government lays down the gauntlet for Chinese vendors

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
18 October 2011
6816 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • BSNL

India’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) has previously cautioned local operators against importing telecoms equipment, both for security reasons and as a means of securing business for Indian vendors...

Mexico pioneers LatAm mobile banking joint venture

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
17 October 2011
8452 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • America Movil
  • Mobile Banking
  • Citigroup

Mobile banking services could be set to take off in Latin America following the announcement of a joint venture between the region’s most prolific operator, America Movil, and the US bank Citigroup...

Indian spectrum-sharing pacts ruled illegal

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
17 October 2011
8829 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Idea Cellular
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Spectrum-Sharing
  • Vodafone Essar

Three of India’s leading operators may be fined by the country’s Department of Telecoms after an agreement between them was ruled illegal...

Can Cloud Security Work in Emerging Markets?

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
14 October 2011
8625 views
  • Security
  • Global
  • Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a seemingly unstoppable force, with its popularity increasing steadily across the world as its applications become more apparent. However, while many consumers can see the advantage of cloud storage, there are still many reservations about cloud service provision, with security a particular area of concern. DT editor James Barton spoke to Blue Coat’s Nigel Hawthorn about the reliability of a cloud security solution, and whether the introduction of such services is currently an option for emerging markets...

India outlines proposed changes to regulation

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
14 October 2011
8646 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Consolidation
  • Spectrum Licensing
  • Mobile Number Portability

India’s government has detailed the much-anticipated changes to be made to the country’s telecoms regulation...

South Africa pulls itself out of a market slump

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
14 October 2011
9643 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Mobile Penetration
  • BMI

South Africa's mobile market leaders, Vodacom and MTN, are experiencing an impressive comeback following a massive loss of mobile customers in H209 and H110...

Indian 4G provider lining up 2012 network launch

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 October 2011
12450 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • India
  • TD LTE
  • Ericsson
  • Augere

Indian consumers will soon have access to 4G services via TD-LTE technology being deployed by Augere...

Chinese operator integrates planning tools into network

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
13 October 2011
7067 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • Aircom

A subsidiary of China Mobile is deploying new planning tools throughout its network....

Mobile and broadband on the rise in Kenya

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2011
9793 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • BMI
  • Market Saturation
  • Mobile Subscriptions

Kenya has long been one of the most prosperous telecoms markets in Africa, and while saturation looms, short-term growth will remain strong...

Bandwidth efficient VoIP platform launching in India

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 October 2011
8468 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • VoIP

A new joint venture has been formed to offer VoIP services in the Indian market...

Mobile Communications to Transform Smallholding Farmers’ Livelihoods in Emerging Markets

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
12 October 2011
9354 views
  • VAS
  • Global
  • Agriculture
  • Mobile Banking

The findings of a new research programme intended to measure the impact of mobile communications on the lives and prosperity of farming communities in some of the world's poorest countries have been announced...

Thailand’s mobile sector exceeds expectations

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 October 2011
10052 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Broadband
  • Thailand
  • Fixed-line
  • Mobile

Based on operator figures from the first half of 2011, Thailand’s mobile market has performed more positively than might have been expected...

Bharti to commission ZTE for TD-LTE deployment?

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 October 2011
11320 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • TD LTE
  • ZTE
  • Bharti Airtel

India’s leading operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly adopting the TD-LTE framework for its 4G network, which will be among the first in the country...

LTE booming across Middle East

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 October 2011
12305 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • LTE
  • UAE
  • Qatar
  • du
  • QTel

With LTE launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE underway by operators such as Mobily, Etisalat and STC, others – including Qatari QTel and UAE-based Du – are now joining the fray...

More choice over billing for Vodacom Tanzania cutsomers

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
11 October 2011
7474 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Vodacom Tanzania

Customers of Vodacom Tanzania are now able to benefit from more flexible billing options...

4G launches in Cayman Islands

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 October 2011
12980 views
  • Latin America
  • 4G
  • Caribbean
  • Cable and Wireless
  • Cayman Islands

The first 4G network to launch in the Cayman Islands has gone live...

OSS overhaul for Egypt’s leading operator

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
10 October 2011
7570 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Clarity
  • Egypt
  • Mobinil

The Egyptian market leader Mobinil is replacing a number of disparate third-party systems for tracking infrastructure changes with one unified solution...

New deployment brings fast wireless broadband to Angola

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 October 2011
10030 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • Alvarion
  • Wireless Broadband

A new high-speed wireless broadband network is being deployed in Angola by ACS (Angola Communications Systems), a Business Unit of MSTelcom...

Caching in: how emerging market operators can save on bandwidth

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 October 2011
11661 views
  • Global
  • Capacity
  • Bandwidth
  • Caching
  • Blue Coat

With data use soaring across the globe, it’s no surprise that mobile users emerging markets are increasingly hungry for services which place greater pressure on bandwidth – and operators are definitely feeling the strain. Fortunately, a total infrastructure upgrade is not the only option for operators in these regions, as Adrian Liu of Blue Coat explained to DT editor James Barton...

Turning setbacks into advantages – mobile growth strong in Ghana

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 October 2011
9350 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ghana
  • Mobile Number Portability
  • SIM Registration

Subscriber growth in Ghana has exceeded expectations in the face of mandatory SIM registration and mobile number portability...

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