Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 29 June 2009; 8744 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 June 2009; 10730 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 June 2009; 12332 views

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...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 12550 views

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...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 10761 views

Telcos in Nigeria are taking the battle to the next frontier in coming months: Mobile Money. Not to be left out of this race are banks and independent providers which had seen the clearly untapped potential. No one wants to be left behind in the evolving ecosystems...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 6952 views

In an attempt to target over 650 million Chinese mobile users, GyPSii is introducing Java platform compatibility. Both Chinese and English will be supported...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 7359 views

Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 June 2009; 7688 views

Perhaps reflecting a thaw in the frosty relations between Mainland China and Taiwan, the largest fixed-line operators from each country - Chunghwa Telecom and China Telecom - are set to spend nearly US$15 million on an undersea link...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 8890 views

As a part of our coverage on mobile banking, we are publishing a summary of a review from Financial Insights called Mobile Banking and Beyond. Increased convergence in the Asia-Pacific Internet and mobile banking channels is expected in the next 12 months...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 10415 views

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the National Payment System Bill, which is intended to safeguard public savings as mobile banking gains a hold in the country. The last three years have seen a staggering 150% rise in the number of banked Kenyans. Michael Schwartz summarises...

Details: Category: Investment; 22 June 2009; 10360 views

Following our report of the dispute over ownership of Egyptian mobile operator Mobinil, it has become all too clear that the arguments between France Telecom and Orascom Telecom will become fiercer, arbitration or not...

Details: Category: Regulation; 22 June 2009; 9215 views

As soon as he was sworn into his new post as India's Communications and IT Minister, Andimuthu Raja declared that the country's auctions for 3G licences would be allocated a date as a matter of urgency...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 22 June 2009; 11717 views

The GSMA's Mobile Money Summit is timely in the light of several recent developments, all of which bring home the empowerment that mobile money can bring to those called the "unbanked"...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 June 2009; 9940 views

Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 June 2009; 9648 views

BH Telecom end-users can enjoy new triple-play services enabled by NSN. Key to the project are NSN switching and broadband access solutions to optimise BH Telecom's legacy assets, as the company advances towards an all-IP network of the future...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 June 2009; 10028 views

High-end video streaming has arrived in China. China Telecom has selected NSN to achieve the launch, utilising the latter's 3G CDMA EVDO service...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 16 June 2009; 7497 views

ZTE has announced that it sold 10 million terminal units worldwide in 1Q09, representing an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 13590 views

TelicPhil has selected ECI Telecom for a DWDM network expansion. Utilising ECI's MSPP, the Philippines operator can expand its existing network to offer increased bandwidth capacity to deliver data and international voice services...

Details: Simon Kong; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 15 June 2009; 12060 views

With the current economic climate taking its toll around the world, mobile network operators are considering new tactics to improve customer service and reduce churn while also lowering costs. Network Sharing is an important strategy available for network operators to pursue. In this article Simon Kong looks at some of the factors holding back network sharing in Asia...

Details: Neeren Ramharakh; Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 9740 views

Neeren Ramharakh, Vice-President, Sub-Saharan Africa at Cambridge Broadband Networks, discusses how African operators are delivering mobile broadband to regions where there is no fixed line infrastructure...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 June 2009; 10146 views

Comverse has announced that TELE2 Russia has selected its Multimedia Messaging Centre (MMSC) and Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) to optimise messaging and browsing for its more than ten million subscribers...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 10 June 2009; 7893 views

China Mobile has selected ST-Ericsson's company in China, T3G, as a major technology partner for the development of its high-end and low-cost handsets, based on the 3G standard TD-SCDMA. ST-Ericsson will also support four of its customers in order to commercialise their mobile phones during 2009-2010...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 09 June 2009; 9491 views

Our review of mobile money mentioned a project in Gabon where a key player was the Toronto-based Redknee. Michael Schwartz visited Redknee and met its Chief Technology Officer Bohdan Zabawskyj...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 June 2009; 8190 views

Aircraft featuring broadband for passengers will total nearly 800 by the end of 2009, according to analyst In-Stat. Reflecting apparently insatiable demand from passengers for broadband, revenues from this stream will exceed US$1 billion in three years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 09 June 2009; 9834 views

Despite good results at the end of 2008, the Bulgarian PC market lost momentum 1Q09. According to the latest data from IDC, PC shipments grew only 3.5%, the worst result in three years, while revenues contracted 13.7% year on year...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 09 June 2009; 9668 views

The IT services market in Croatia continued to grow in 2008 despite the slowing economy, according to a recent IDC study. The market totaled US$424.45 million in 2008, representing 16.3% year-on-year growth in US$. Measured in local currency, the market expanded 7.0% year-on-year...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 June 2009; 7863 views

Iridium is reporting that its new-generation global marine satellite communication system OpenPort has successfully completed sea trials on a number of different vessels, and worldwide commercial rollout is now underway...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 June 2009; 9469 views

Re-farming 2G spectrum will be key to enabling mobile broadband coverage outside major population centres. This is according to a new report from Analysys Mason, Prospects for UMTS900: status review and outlook...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 05 June 2009; 10080 views

Customer awareness of broadband technology or rather the lack of it accounts for the Digital Divide in broadband rather than any lack of availability of the relevant technology. The Ovum consultancy makes this claim in its recent report Bridging the broadband divide: challenges and solutions...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 June 2009; 9593 views

Industry experts connected in Abu Dhabi this week to evaluate the state of telecoms in the Middle East. An appropriate time to look at telecoms in the developing markets as a whole at a time of global economic difficulty. Michael Schwartz writes...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 June 2009; 9292 views

Exploiting TD technology from China Mobile nationally, the Tibetan branch of China Mobile is bringing 3G to this remote land. People in the capital Lhasa will soon be able to enjoy video phone calls to 38 cities whether China Mobile, China Unicom or China Telecom. Roaming will also be available to those countries that are running 3G...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 02 June 2009; 10090 views

Mobile taxation continues to be a major issue impacting mobile penetration across East Africa. Despite widespread investment from the mobile operator community, fierce price competition and market liberalisation making mobile more accessible, subscriber take-up in the region continues to lag behind the rest of the world...

Details: Category: Operators; 02 June 2009; 12787 views

In an official signing ceremony held in Amman, Jordan, Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC (Zain) and Palestinian Telecommunications Company Plc (Paltel) have entered into an agreement for a share-for-share exchange...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 02 June 2009; 9607 views

Nokia is bringing the Internet in emerging markets "closer to reality" with the announcement of three new mobile phones that open the door to information, entertainment, family and friends...

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