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Zain takes two to Tango

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Category: Service Management
05 August 2009
9115 views
  • 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
9329 views
  • 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
8324 views
  • 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
8007 views
  • 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
9781 views
  • 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
9551 views
  • 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
7646 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
9294 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
13340 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
12165 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
10953 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
10178 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
11023 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
10140 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
7262 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
7241 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
12828 views
  • 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
7886 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
10785 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
10604 views
  • 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...

Sotelco enters Cambodia with Comverse ONE billing platform

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Category: Revenue & Billing
06 July 2009
9535 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cambodia
  • Sotelco
  • Customer management
  • Comverse
Comverse has been commissioned by Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, to supply its ONE billing and active customer management solution...

Telikom PNG chooses Gilat for remote broadband satellite network

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Category: Satellite Networks
06 July 2009
13672 views
  • Rural
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Gilat
  • Telikom PNG
Citizens in the most remote regions of Papua New Guinea can expect to enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite, now that government-owned Telikom PNG has commissioned Gilat Satellite to build a network for the country's outlying areas...

Alvarion wins US$7 million WiMAX deal in Nigeria

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 July 2009
9760 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4G
  • Nigeria
  • WiMAX
Although initially to be rolled out in Nigeria's key cities, Alvarion's US$7 million contract to bring WiMAX to Nigeria will offer voice and high-bandwidth data services to thousands of residences and businesses...

Momentum underway for mobile money - Barcelona summit

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Category: Mobile Finance
01 July 2009
8388 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Money
  • GSMA
Great economic and social momentum have been kick-started by mobile money initiatives, according to reports from the Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona. The GSMA, the industry's standard-bearer, has announced that the first three applications to the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund have been approved...

Togo Telecom chooses ECI for fibre-optic turnkey network

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
01 July 2009
9340 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Cabling
  • Togo
  • Fiber-Optic
ECI Telecom has won a contract from Togo Telecom, that country's  incumbent fixed-line operator, to deliver an end-to-end turnkey solution for a new high-speed IP network in the country...

Central Asian incumbents up for sale - companies and markets

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
01 July 2009
11140 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Tajikistan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Uzbekistan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Companies and Markets
In its telecommunications report for 2Q09, analyst Companies and Markets has refined its review of Central Asia into a study of the five individual countries of the region. Fixed-line penetration remains low, even allowing for Kazakhstan's relative success. Proposed privatisations will be tempting once they have been agreed...

Colibria, Telefonica launch mobile IM across Latin America

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2009
8120 views
  • Latin America
  • Instant Messaging
  • Telefonica International
Colibria has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile Instant Messaging services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end Movistar Messenger service with a rich set of messaging and presence features, and full integration with SMS...

Philippines electric, long-distance companies set up broadband jv

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2009
9473 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • PLDT
  • Philippines
  • Utilities
  • BPL
In a proposed link to carry broadband along existing electricity lines, the Manila Electric Company and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co have established working parties to evaluate the financial and technical aspects of Broadband over Power Lines...

Etihad Atheeb starts Internet, breaks STC monopoly

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
30 June 2009
10839 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Fixed-line
Saudi Telecom's fixed-line monopoly in Saudi Arabia has been broken. Etihad Atheeb Telecoms has now commenced operations in the Saudi Capital Riyadh and in the port of Jeddah. It is expected that the percentage of the Saudi population with high-speed Internet will now soar...

Collaboration key to growth of Latin American mobile payments market

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Category: Mobile Finance
29 June 2009
8744 views
  • Latin America
  • Mobile Payments
  • Banking
  • Upaid

The Mobile Payments in Latin America is still relatively under developed. However, it has the potential to grow rapidly and offers a significant prospective market for mobile operators, financial services, governments, retailers and end users. But without increased collaboration between the major stakeholders the market could take much longer to develop...

East Africa - a major telecoms hub for the future?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
29 June 2009
10729 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EASSy
  • Seacom
  • TEAMS
  • Undersea Cabling
  • Fibre-optics
Emerging markets in telecoms often start with a blank canvas: those developing these new markets can implement whichever telecoms strategy they wish: enter fibre cabling. Michael Schwartz looks at some very exciting fibre-optic developments in East Africa...

GSMA supports Baltic Sea states' harmonised approach to spectrum allocation

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
29 June 2009
12331 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Poland
  • Estonia
  • Digital Dividend
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Spectrum Allocation
  • Harmonisation
The GSMA is welcoming an initiative driven by the Finnish Ministry of Communications to develop a unified approach to the allocation of Digital Dividend spectrum, ie, the spectrum that will be freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV, within the Baltic Sea region...

Mobile Money Service Provider Profiles

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Emmanuel Okoegwale
Category: Mobile Finance
25 June 2009
12549 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Money Service Providers

Mobile money specialist Emmanuel Okoegwale takes a look at some of the major players on the Mobile Money sector in Africa and elsewhere. This article was first posted as a blog on ZDNet in May 2009 when it covered eight companies. It is now expanded with addition of three further providers. Other organisations wishing to be included are invited to submit profiles to Developing Telecoms...

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