More than 3,500 rural sites on Peru will enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite communications thanks to a contract signed between Gilat and Telefonica del Peru. The contract is part of Telefonica Latinoamerica's initiative to deploy broadband services across the region...

Research and Markets estimate that smartphone sales in China are set for real growth: over 73 million by 2013, which equates to 31% of all handset sales...

Ruckus Wireless has launched its Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) solution: it is claimed by the company to be the world's first end-to-end Wi-Fi solution that “challenges” 3G, LTE and WiMAX models...

Stephane Boyera, Programme Manager to the World Wide Web Foundation, accompanied Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Web Foundation Director Rosemary Leith on their visit to Kenya and Uganda. The journey followed on from their presentation to the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Stephane Boyera’s account is summarised here...

MTN Cameroon has announced the launch of MTN Virtual, which is aimed at orienting the economics of telephony towards those consumers in Cameroon who are at the base of the consumer hierarchy...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by VMS MobiFone for its 3G network roll-out in South Vietnam. Over-competition and subsequent failing revenues are a motivating force behind VMS MobiFone’s decision...

Major operators in 15 Middle East markets come under the scrutiny of a new analysis from Reportlinker. The countries’ telecoms infrastructure and fixed-voice sector are described and ranked in order of tele-density...

Video and streaming over 2G and 3G will soon be a possibility in India’s South Zone thanks to a recent contract drawn up between BSNL and Dilithium. Michael Schwartz profiles Dilithium and summarises its success...

A collaboration between German satellite provider Satlynx and Middle East satellite operator Arabsat will provide the Central Bank of Iraq with a new, fully redundant satellite network that will provide the foundations of an extensive communications platform...

Confirming its plans to move into the smart phone industry, computer giant Dell has unveiled the Mini 3 and announced partnerships with two of the world’s largest mobile operators...

Telecel Globe’s subsidiaries have now been rebranded under the name leo. In Namibia, the operator, previously known as Cell One, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to enable new services in a country offering major growth potential...

Entertainment is the core of Nokia’s latest mobile, the 5330 Mobile TV Edition. Designed via 3G technology to be an entertainment hub, the 5330 unites mobile broadcast TV, networking, gaming and music...

Ericsson and Zain have joined forces to combat poverty in the Amansie-West district of Ghana’s Ashanti region. Working with the Millennium Villages project, the telecom giants have deployed mobile communications services to six villages...

Some telecoms commentators have commented that the skill-shortage in India will mean higher wages and consequent deployment to Eastern Europe. Tony Kalcina, Chief Product Officer, Clarity, explains how India is already overcoming these potential dangerous obstacles...

Jinny Software, a supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, is trialling its VoiceSMS service with several Mobile Network Operators in countries across Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania and Burkino Faso...

Nokia-enabled devices in Hungary can now bring the Nokia Messaging email service to their owners. Nokia Messaging is described as an easy to set up and use push-email service whereby users cab mobilise ten personal email accounts on one device...

Somalian subscribers have finally gained the benefits of one code and one rate for the whole of their country. Somafone will expand its seamless mobile network with Tecore hosted managed services...

Botswana Telecommunications Company has chosen Ceragon’s solutions to upgrade its nationwide wireless backbone, as well as the backhaul network of its cellular subsidiary BeMobile. This deployment will enable BTC to support rapid subscriber growth and meet its service expansion plans...

As part of Developing Telecoms’ coverage of 3G in India we publish a press release from Wireless Intelligence covering problems confronting Indian 3G. Such challenges are the RoI timetable, restrictions on the 3G consumer marketplace, late roll-out and network sharing to cut costs and thereby survive...

According to a new report from Onda Analytics, Zamtel’s privatisation could result in its market share increasing by 15% under its new owner within six years...

Two Ghanaian journalists, Emily Nyarko and Lawrence Quartey, have been looking at the strengths and challenges that the ICT sector faces in their country. What follows is a shortened version of their recent report on the impact of liberalisation...

 Iskon.TV can offer its Croatian customers over 40 television channels, as well as VoD and Internet via television. Key to the new services is Appear TV’s SC2000 IP streamer...

IMT-Advanced is now being predicted by the ITU to “revolutionise mobile communication.” At present, six proposals have been submitted to the ITU by those wishing to claim their technology as true 4G...

A new report from Ovum concludes that while rural India presents significant growth opportunities for mobile, the market that is currently being addressed is less than 25% of the country’s 800 million potential customers. Tackling low ARPU and high service costs is the challenge...

Gold certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) scheme makes Nokia’s Jucu factory the first building in Romania to be awarded global leader status because of its green design and construction...

Arab Bank Jordan is enhancing the quality of its support for mobile messaging operations by introducing Derdack’s message master software. Enterprise-wide deployment has been rolled out across Jordan, UAE, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Morocco...

Arthur Noonan, Sales Manager (EMEA) at Omnix Software, presents us with a clear insight into the  varied and sometimes outright physical safety and security threats facing mobile operators around the world...

Wataniya Palestine has launched its new mobile network in the Palestine territories, despite the fact that the spectrum allocation agreed for the network has not been fully released by Israel...

Nokia has released the Nokia 6788, its first device for TD-SCDMA - China's domestic 3G standard - in Beijing. The Nokia 6788 is the result of close collaboration between Nokia and the world's largest mobile phone operator, China Mobile...

Alvarion has won Safaricom’s contract for the initial phase of a US$12 million+ new infrastructure project to connect Kenya with high-speed broadband using 802.16e WiMAX and Kenya’s new maritime fibre-optic cable...

Five West African markets were chosen for Research and Markets to base its analysis of regional broadband. The familiar problems of poor infrastructure and over-regulation make their presence felt but the analysts are optimistic...