Cerillion Technologies has been selected by three new clients for major CRM and Billing projects...

Telefónica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, and MoreMagic Solutions, a mobile solutions provider, have announced that US friends and family of Telefónica customers are now able to recharge Movistar mobile phones throughout Latin America...

Critical Path, a provider of messaging applications, has revealed search results indicating that consumers in emerging markets are dissatisfied with their social networking experience...

Mobile users in Bangladesh have accessed more than 1 million English lessons using a new service, BBC Janala (‘Window’), which is promising to transform the way people learn language through m-technology in the developing world...

Electro Power Systems SpA has launched a new self-recharging hydrogen fuel cell technology claimed to be the world’s first...

Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries with less developed banking systems, labour markets and IT and communications infrastructures can leapfrog over the established banking and payment infrastructures present in other parts of Europe to become more entrenched in smart card based payment methods, according to new analyses from Frost & Sullivan...

Fujairah in the UAE will host a landing station for Gulf Bridge International, the first privately owned Middle Eastern submarine cable operator. Partnering GBI will be local telecom service provider du...

ABI Research is predicting that a strong economic base is set to boost revenues from Latin American mobile business customers by 9% this year. Expected figure for the revenue in question is US$11.6 billion...

Jordan is to benefit from an MVNO supplied to Friendi Group by Sysmsoft, which specialises in real-time mobile data, charging and messaging solutions. Friendi’s Jordanian launch follows its Omani deployment, believed to be the first MVNO in the Middle East...

The Russian WiMAX operator Yota has been granted bandwidth spectrum use in Peru by the Latin American country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, following the operator’s winning bid for the $3.9 million contract...

 ABI Research has conducted a survey on using mobile phones for person-to-person payments. Interest was low in the seven countries surveyed. Interest in the developing markets was greater - but ABI did not ask anyone in those countries. Michael Schwartz reproaches...

In an important first for the Iraqi market, Asiacell – the largest private Iraqi company and the first and only mobile telecommunications company to provide coverage for all of Iraq – has announced a major strategic partnership with AMWAL, a consortium of Iraqi banks...

Reportlinker has announces their new market research report on the Saudi Arabian telecoms market. Looking towards 2014, Reportlinker is confident of major growth in the Saudi 3G sector...

me2me AG has selected Iperia’s MobileVX platform for Visual Voice Messaging as part of its “String of Pearls” strategy, which aims to offer a full suite of voice and web services to Mobile Operators and other Service Providers...

MCB, one of Pakistan’s leading banks, has passed an important milestone. In less than eight months the bank’s MCB Mobile service has processed more than US$10 million worth of transactions...

The Dominican Republic will soon benefit from a new mobile WiMAX network, which is to be constructed by Samsung...

The emergence of the Wholesale Applications Community was perhaps the most significant event of Mobile World Congress 2010. Developing Telecoms' editor-in-chief Alec Barton ponders how this will affect the industry...

Developing Telecoms' editor-in-chief Alec Barton gives his impressions of Mobile World Congress 2010...

 Synchronica has unveiled Mobile Gateway 5, a complete mobile messaging suite that enables operators to offer push email and synchronisation, instant messaging, social networking services, and web feeds to consumers and business users regardless of the handset they use...

This month, BSNL will roll out WiMAX services in Dhakor of Greater Noida, which is located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The area is under the remit of the Indian National Capital Region...

Alcatel-Lucent and Bulgarian telco Vivacom have signed a five-year partnership focusing on the end-to-end strategic transformation of Vivacom’s fixed and mobile network throughout the country. Vivacom is outsourcing end-to-end network operations to Alcatel-Lucent as of March 1, 2010...

A new report from Companies and Markets provides a detailed analysis of the Central American telecoms market, listing great successes as well as markets which the authors considered to be under-achievers...

A new contract signed by Trace Systems will be supporting US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), including the Joint Network Operations Control Centre. Valued at over US$55 million, the contract will involve more than 40 IT experts supporting the Joint Network Operations Control Center in Afghanistan...

  Suntrica has brought out a new range of solar-powered chargers, including a community charger for rural villages in emerging markets, as well as and chargers for iPods and iPhones...

Two dozen carriers worldwide have taken the opportunity of the Mobile World Congress to unveil what they describe as the “Wholesale Applications Community,” an “open international applications platform.” It is generally accepted that the lobby has been formed to respond to the success of the Apple iPhone App Store...

After its success in Spain, mobile operator fonYou Telecom is to offer its Online Mobile Telephony platform to other mobile network operators...

NEC Corporation showcased its new digital signage solution at Mobile World Congress. The new solution, a full scale digital signage service named “PanelDirector”, is a cutting-edge advertisement distribution application service that enables telecom carriers to offer a first-class cloud service to their corporate customers while generating additional revenue...

CelleBrite Ltd., a provider of mobile forensic solutions, announced application upgrades to the UFED family of products at Mobile World Congress 2010...

ITU has signed an important Cooperation Agreement with Singapore-based smartBridges Solutions, a leading provider of wireless broadband equipment, to provide WiMAX and WiFi systems to strengthen ITU’s on-the-ground disaster response capabilities...

LSI Corporation has announced its next-generation link communication processor designed to allow migration of network traffic to IP-based networks...

Genaker, a supplier of mobile business productivity solutions, has unveiled a Push-to-Talk over Cellular client, based on the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard for iPhone and BlackBerry devices...