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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Comverse has been commissioned by Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, to supply its ONE billing and active customer management solution...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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In an attempt to target over 650 million Chinese mobile users, GyPSii is introducing Java platform compatibility. Both Chinese and English will be supported...
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Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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