The Broadband Forum took the opportunity of Mobile World Congress to announce its first ever certification program, as a crucial component in its drive to develop the full potential of broadband and support the smooth broadband architecture convergence around the world...

Comprion has unveiled the first solution for LTE/USIM handset conformance testing according to 3GPP TS 31.121 USIM Rel-8...

GyPSii and Telmap have announced a partnership to develop and introduce advanced location-based social networking as part of Telmap’s Mobile Location Companion...

Qtel International has concluded a major framework agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks to support its long-term development strategy across international markets...

Fiberlink has introduced a new subscription-based service that gives businesses unprecedented knowledge and reporting about enterprise BlackBerry devices. The new service, named MaaS360 Visibility Service for Handhelds, will extend the company’s MaaS360 platform to include handheld mobile devices in addition to existing desktop, laptop, Macintosh, USB and netbook reporting...

Siano Mobile Silicon, a supplier of mobile digital TV receiver chips, is set to bring Mobile Digital TV to mass-market levels in Brazil and China...

Nuremberg-based IT security company certgate has announced that its SmartCard microSD will from now on also support business cell phones with Symbian operating systems. This development will allow users of Nokia phones a way to protect their digital identity with hardware certificates...

Tagattitude has unveiled "TagPay online", the newest facet of its TagPay turnkey mobile payment platform...

Tagattitude has unveiled "TagPay online", the newest facet of its TagPay turnkey mobile payment platform...

Comarch has unveiled a new solution – an M2M platform which contains the necessary features for operators entering the market to provide services for M2M partners...

The GSMA has announced that mobile operators around the world will invest up to $72 billion in Mobile Broadband* technologies in 2010. The new operator CAPEX investment data, compiled by global investment firm Deutsche Bank, reflects the continued consumer and enterprise demand for Mobile Broadband services and the need for underlying infrastructure, and comes as global HSPA connections reach the 200 million milestone...

NII Holdings, Inc. has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its network operations throughout Latin America...

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today the addition of a new femtocell access point from Ubiquisys, to its end-to-end femtocell solution.  The NEC FP810 femtocell access point will be available to mobile operators in April 2010...

 In what is believed to be the world's first m-giving campaign powered by 2-d barcode technology, delegates at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are able to donate money to Haitian relief efforts by simply snapping a barcode with their mobile phones...

Zain has announced that its new CEO, effective from Sunday, February 14^th, will be Mr Nabil Bin Salama. The appointment, made by the Board of Directors of Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC, follows the sudden resignation of former Chief Executive Mr Saad Al Barrak...

Red Bend Software will unveil new product capabilities for Mobile Software Management (MSM) at GSMA’s 2010 Mobile World Congress..

NEC Corporation will showcase the world’s smallest, all-in-one compact LTE (Long Term Evolution) base station at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 next week...

Tanzania’s leading communications service provider, Vodacom Tanzania, has adopted Nokia Siemens Networks’ unified charging and billing solution - a single modular system serving prepaid, postpaid and hybrid subscribers alike that enables a personalized customer service approach through a suite of flexible, convergent services...

Turkcell customers will soon benefit from immediate mobile content synchronisation and backup services, following the operator’s purchase of over 1000 UME-36 devices from CelleBrite, a provider of phone synchronisation and management systems...

Synchronica and Korean manufacturer KC Mobile have revealed the MessagePhone, a low-cost messaging device that delivers smartphone-like functionality and messaging services at lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than similar products – with the result that the MessagePhone is being targeted towards emerging markets...

Governments in APEJ, that is, Asia-Pacific excluding Japan will continue to spend until their countries recover from recession. Ten predictions are recorded in IDC’s recently released Asia/Pacific Public Sector 2010 Top Ten Predictions...

Subex Ltd. has completed 12 implementations of ROC (Revenue Operations Centre) for fraud management across different regions in the third quarter of FY10, ending December 2009 – the highest tally in the industry to date...

Designed to drive growth and boost revenues in Bolivia and Honduras, Comverse’s Voice HUB will be deployed via Millicom brand TIGO. Other benefits will be visual voicemail and call completion...

The second stage in Vodafone’s fixed-line strategy for Qatar has been delayed until 2011 or even 2012. Building the fixed-line infrastructure is one reason offered for the delay by Vodafone, which won its first licence in 2008...

Redknee has launched its Next Generation Rating and Charging (NGRC) solution with India’s Loop Mobile, formerly BPL Mobile. Loop Mobile will offer subscribers enhanced differentiated, value-added data services via Redknee’s real-time charging platform...

Maravedis has released its Brazil wireless broadband and WiMAX market analysis for 2010. Initial enthusiasm and success for WiMAX have cooled somewhat but 3G and cell have great futures. What follows is the Maravedis report’s executive summary...

Four East African markets are set for growth by 2017 as a result of higher network investment, product innovation and cheaper handsets. Frost & Sullivan make their confident assertions in a new report East African Mobile Communications Markets...

Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, and SkyCross, a global antenna designer and manufacturer, have announced cooperation on high-performance LTE product solutions...

3GVision has confirmed that it will be among the exhibitors at the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 3GVision stand will be dedicated to a wide variety of mobile barcode reading solutions including an advertising campaign tracking platform...

Three months after launching its Voice SMS service in Uganda, MTN has ordered an upgrade to triple the capacity of the Voice SMS system following an impressive adoption rate. Launched across Uganda, the service is based on technology from Kirusa, and has already seen adoption by over 11% of MTN’s subscribers...

The Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system has received a boost with the news that the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) will use Level 3’s landing station connectivity. The latter extends PLDT’s pan-Asian voice, data and video network into the United States...