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Kenya Broadcast Corporation launches e-Learning

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 August 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Education
  • E-Learning

Kenya has pioneered e-Learning in sub-Saharan Africa now that the Kenya Broadcast Corporation has launched digital content for use in schools. Doreen Apollos, writing on the Corporation’s website, introduces us to the development...

Legal Protection of Submarine Cables in Latin America

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
12 August 2009
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  • Cable
  • Latin America
  • Uruguay
  • Cabling
  • Legal

Issue 45 of Submarine Telecoms Forum contains an article by Dr Andrés J Fígoli Pacheco, a Senior Legal Counsel with Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been engaged in improving the legal framework protecting submarine cables in Latin America...

Stagnating infrastructure + poor penetration rates = Haiti fixed-line

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 August 2009
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  • Latin America
  • Penetration
  • Haiti
  • Companies and Markets
  • Teledensity Fixed-line

Analyst and forecaster Companies and Markets has recently turned its attention to the less-publicised markets in the Caribbean. Its profile of Haiti’s fixed line system can hardly be described as optimistic...

3G in Turkey - by sharing infrastructure?

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Category: Wireless Networks
12 August 2009
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • 3G
  • Mobile Internet
  • Turkey
  • Turkcell
  • Turk Telecom

Statements by the CEOs of both Turkcell and Turk Telecom indicate that both believe that introducing 3G into Turkey will be achieved more cheaply by the two companies sharing the costs of infrastructure...

Azerfon, Vodafone sign strategic partnership

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 August 2009
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  • Central South Asia
  • Middle East North Africa
  • 3G
  • Vodafone
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Azerbaijan

Azerfon, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in Azerbaijan, and Vodafone have announced a non-equity partnership to provide customers with “high quality communications services and to collaborate jointly on future technological developments”...

Mundo Startel expands Angolan broadband with Alvarion WiMAX

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Category: Service Management
12 August 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4G
  • Broadband
  • Angola
  • Wireless
  • Alvarion
  • WiMAX

WiMAX provider Alvarion and Angolan operator Mundo Startel will be expanding the WiMAX facilities available in Angola as a result of the contract they have just signed...

Gilat’s SkyEdge II to meet Servicio Satelital broadband needs

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Category: Satellite Networks
12 August 2009
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  • Satellite
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Gilat

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide Argentina’s Servicio Satelital with a SkyEdge II satellite communications network to enable broadband Internet connectivity at hundreds of sites nationwide. The sites will include schools, oil and gas firms and retail lottery locations...

Teledensity in rural India is 16.54% - Indian Comms, IT Minister

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 August 2009
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  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Teledensity
  • BSNL

Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Gurudas Kamat updated his country’s Upper House of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha) regarding progress towards rural tele-density projects and penetration...

ZTE to build Madagascar’s first all-IP mobile broadband Network

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Category: Wireless Networks
12 August 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Broadband
  • ZTE
  • Madagascar
  • IP

ZTE Corporation is rolling out a state-of-the-art all-IP mobile phone and data network for a newcomer to Madagascar, mobile operator Madamobil...

MTI Wireless Edge: omni-directional antennas for under US$10

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Category: Wireless Networks
12 August 2009
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  • Global
  • Wi-fi
  • Wireless
  • WiMAX
  • Radio
  • MIMO

MTI Wireless Edge’s new production facility in India is mass producing IP67 Outdoor Omni Directional antennas priced from under US$10...

Indian state giant MTNL welcomes global bids for 3G

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Category: Regulation
12 August 2009
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  • Service Providers
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • MTNL

Operating 3G services in India’s capital Delhi and major city Mumbai may soon be possible now that Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, is inviting tenders to run these operations on a ten-year franchise...

Newcomer Augere will focus on developing nations

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Category: Wireless Networks
11 August 2009
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  • Global
  • 4G
  • WiMAX
  • Emerging Markets
  • Broadband Internet
Emerging markets will soon have a new supplier of broadband Internet. France Telecom's former head of mobile business, Indian-born Sanjiv Ahuja, has formed a new company called Augere for just this purpose...

Ovum: Africa threatens to sink Zain

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
10 August 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Vivendi
  • Ovum

Vivendi's confirmation that it has broken off talks with Zain about the sale of the latter's African operations lays bare the likelihood that Zain is seriously considering selling up, according to a statement from analyst group Ovum...

Zain takes two to Tango

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Category: Service Management
05 August 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • SMS
  • Zain
  • Ghana
  • Madagascar
  • Tango Telecom
Tango Telecom, which provides advanced messaging, real-time charging and policy control solutions, has won contracts to deploy its advanced iAX SMS technology with Zain's Ghana and Madagascar mobile networks...

Three million Indian households set for AirTies IPTV boxes

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 August 2009
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • IPTV
  • Entertainment
  • AirTies
Wireless home networking vendor AirTies has been chosen by Smart Digivision to provide its Set-Top Boxes (STBs) as part of the latter's award-winning IPTV service MyWay...

ViaSat signs US$53 million contracts for RascomStar-Qaf's new African infrastructure

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Category: Satellite Networks
31 July 2009
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  • Rural
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • VSAT
  • ViaSat
Low-density telephony with an Internet option will become more widespread across Africa thanks to two contracts signed by ViaSat and satellite operator RascomStar-Qaf. Valued at US$53 million, the VSAT terminals in the contract are due for delivery between this year and 2011...

Serbia Broadband boosts TV platform with new transponders

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Category: Satellite Networks
30 July 2009
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Serbia
  • Entertainment
  • Transponders
Serbia Broadband (SBB) will be expanding its Total TV platform via new multi-year contracts signed with Eutelsat Communications for two transponders at its 16 degrees video neighbourhood...

América Móvil, Nokia to introduce Latin America-wide mobile email services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
29 July 2009
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  • Latin America
  • Nokia
  • America Movil
  • Mobile Messaging
América Móvil and Nokia will be bringing a top of the line messaging experience via multiple devices to customers in Latin America...

InterSwitch chooses Gemalto instant issuance to accelerate chip migration in Nigeria

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Category: Revenue & Billing
28 July 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Customer management
  • e-commerce
Digital security specialist Gemalto will be supplying its Dexxis Instant Issuance solution to InterSwitch in order to accelerate chip migration in Nigeria...

Wuhan, Guangzhou select Alcatel-Lucent, Thales to enhance metro speed, safety and reliability

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Category: Service Management
27 July 2009
7632 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Transportation
  • Thales
  • Signalling
A consortium involving Alcatel-Lucent and Thales has been selected by the municipalities of Wuhan and Guangzhou in China to provide turnkey signaling solutions for metro projects...

NEC Pasolink aids growth of Avea mobile backhaul

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
14 July 2009
9275 views
  • Backhaul
  • Middle East North Africa
  • NEC
  • Turkey
  • Avea
  • Pasolink
Offering an ultra-compact microwave communications system, NEC's Pasolink has been selected by Turkey's Avea to support the growth of mobile backhaul solutions. The contract comes on the eve of the launch of 3G in Turkey next month...

NSN rolls out networks in seven new Indian regions for Vodafone Essar

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
14 July 2009
13321 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • NSN
  • GSM
  • Vodafone Essar
Taking just ten months, Vodafone Essar has rolled out a series of networks in seven of India's regions. The company was acting for its existing infrastructure partner, Nokia Siemens Networks...

Fortune Smiles on African Communications

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
14 July 2009
12136 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • fibre optic
  • Mobile Money
  • Submarine Cable
  • Power Supply
  • Energy
By a fortunate series of co-incidences, the outlook for communications in Africa is currently looking better than it has for a long time. There are positive developments in both network infrastructure and services which address challenges which go back years...

Ericsson powers interactive TV for Ucom in Armenia

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 July 2009
10941 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IPTV
  • Entertainment
  • Armenia
Armenian telecoms service provider Ucom has commissioned Ericsson to supply an end-to-end IPTV solution. Including an iPlex head-end from Tandberg Television, the IPTV service will allow access to the latest fibre-access technology via GPON...

Delivering on a promise in spite of hard times

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Andrea Casini, Andrew Solutions
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 July 2009
10156 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Service Quality
Mobile operators are under increasing pressure to deliver services with sufficient quality and capacity to meet customer expectations, while simultaneously reducing CAPEX and OPEX in order to stay competitive in the face of the difficult economic outlook.  Andrea Casini, VP Sales and Marketing, EMEA, Andrew, explains how Russian wireless operators can best protect revenues in the midst of the financial crisis...

Icon to put US$200 million into Russian remote WiMAX

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 July 2009
11004 views
  • Investment
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • WiMAX

One of Russia's largest private equity funds, Icon Private Equity, will be investing US$200 million to establish a national WiMAX operator. The new operator will deploy in the remoter regions of Russia and the CIS, aiming for a market of 20 million customers...

AZERFON & CBOSS tackle roaming fraud

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
10 July 2009
10123 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Roaming
  • Fraud
  • Azerbaijan
Leading Azerbaijani service provider AZERFON, operating under the Nar Mobile brand, has contracted CBOSS to supply and implement its new roaming subsystem, CBOSSnrtrde, with the aim of tackling roaming fraud...

Corning LEAF Fibre Passes 30 Million Kilometres Sold to Worldwide Customers

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
09 July 2009
7242 views
  • Global
  • fibre optic
  • Corning
Corning Incorporated has sold more than 30 million kilometres of LEAF optical fibre since introducing the product in 1998, making LEAF fibre the most widely deployed non-zero dispersion-shifted fibre in the world...

Tadiran wins two tenders for world's biggest subway extension in Beijing

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Category: Wireless Networks
08 July 2009
7226 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Tadiran
  • Subway
Tadiran Telecom's IP business telephony and communications solutions have again been chosen again as part of the Beijing Subway's expansion plan. Beijing is planning to build the world's biggest subway by 2015, spending over US$7.6 billion in track transport development this year alone...

Slow take-off for Indian 3G?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
08 July 2009
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  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • BSNL
  • MTNL
Recent reports in the Indian press have looked at 3G's success -  or otherwise - in India. BSNL and MTNL have yet to see more than a few sales of 3G services. Is there something flawed with the companies' approach to 3G? Michael Schwartz analyses...

Grameen, MTN Uganda, Google empower Ugandan poor with mobile services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 July 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Uganda
  • Digital Divide
  • Grameen
A brand-new initiative to promote existing technology to empower the poor of Uganda has been launched by Grameen, Google and MTN Uganda. Five mobile-enabled applications will be made available to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities...

T-VIPS claims pioneering live 3D surgical broadcast in HD

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 July 2009
7865 views
  • Global
  • Video
  • Tele-medicine
T-VIPS, which specialises in professional video management and distribution, and in the contribution and distribution of broadcast quality video signals, has provided a JPEG2000 IP-based contribution system for a live 3D broadcast of robotic surgical procedures...

Romania "fourth CEE telecom player by year end" - Pyramid

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 July 2009
10769 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • IPTV
  • Romania
  • WiMAX
Through the widespread selling of bundling services, the Romanian telecoms market is set to become the fourth largest player in the CEE market. Pyramid Research make this assertion in their new report Communications Markets in Romania, which also looks five years into the future...

Research and Markets: Mid-East has world's highest growth potential

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 July 2009
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • ICT
  • Growth
  • Research and Markets
ICT's highest growth potential anywhere in the world lies in the Middle East, according to a new report from Dublin-based Research and Markets. Difficulties in the oil sector and in the global economy will generate a need for continuous ICT development. In turn, security, Internet, IPTV, WiMAX and 3G make for attractive opportunities. Michael Schwartz reviews...

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