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Zain Nigeria taps Tekelec to raise consumer offerings, lower operating costs

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Category: Service Management
17 April 2009
9335 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Nigeria
  • Customer management
  • Tekelec
Zain Nigeria, Zain Group's largest mobile network operator, has selected network signaling company Tekelec to help its migration to an all-IP network. The move will enable Zain Nigeria to offer its subscribers the multimedia applications typically associated with the more advanced IP network on its current network...

China Telecom expands into new provinces

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 April 2009
9431 views
  • Billing
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Telecom
China Telecom is rolling out new services to prepaid customers in two provinces, Hubei and Sichuan, covering an additional 150 million people. The new services will include 3G and are delivered using HP's Internet Usage Manager (IUM)...

Smart billing helps operators boost NGN revenues

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Category: Revenue & Billing
17 April 2009
7574 views
  • Global
  • Customer management
  • ngn
At the recent CTIA Wireless event in Las Vegas a key trend was the growth of innovative pricing and billing techniques. These can both raise mobile operator profits and subscriber satisfaction in the context of Next-Generation Networks...

ILS Proton soars to its half-century of launches

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Category: Satellite Networks
16 April 2009
6601 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • ILS
  • Launches
International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, has successfully carried the W2A satellite to orbit on behalf of Eutelsat Communications of France via a ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Mecca pilgrims benefit from world's largest indoor wireless coverage

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
15 April 2009
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Indoor Wireless
Communications in Mecca's King Abdul Aziz Endowment have been vastly improved since Powerwave and its Saudi Arabian partner ACES were selected by Mobily Saudi Arabia to deploy the world's largest wireless coverage within the towers currently comprising the Endowment...

Endorse satellite installer certificates and you improve quality

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Category: Satellite Networks
15 April 2009
8840 views
  • Global
  • VSAT
  • SES
  • Training
  • Intelsat
Intelsat and SES are advocating VSAT installation training for technicians in both developing and developed countries...

Türk Telekom chooses Envivio convergence for massive IPTV service launch

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 April 2009
10331 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Turk Telekom
  • IPTV
  • Envivio
Envivio Inc, which provides IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has sold its Convergence Series video head-end to Türk Telekom's local IPTV project...

cVidya deploys MoneyMap revenue assurance at Antel Uruguay

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Category: Revenue & Billing
14 April 2009
9276 views
  • Latin America
  • Uruguay
  • ngn
  • cVidya
  • MoneyMap
cVidya Networks, which specialises in enhancing telecom data integrity, revenue assurance and dealer management systems, has announced that Antel, Uruguay's state-owned telecoms service provider, has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya's MoneyMap suite solution throughout its operation in Uruguay...

Improving SMS delivery and revenues in Latin America

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Vince Lesch
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 April 2009
11412 views
  • Latin America
  • SMS
Vince Lesch reviews successes in enhancing SMS in Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Latin America as a whole...

Thuraya launchs PCO in Zambia, Cameroon

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
31 March 2009
9346 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zambia
  • Cameroon
  • Thuraya
Thuraya's drive in the emerging markets has been rewarded with the launch of Public Calling Offices in Zambia and Cameroon. Both countries are set to benefit from a versatile business tool oriented towards small entrepreneurs...

Arab cell rates revealed: Egypt and Yemen are winners

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
30 March 2009
11185 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Egypt
  • Yemen
  • Mobile Tariffs
Arab Advisors Group has analysed the cellular tariffs for 19 Arab countries - and 46 operators. The research shows that Egypt and Yemen are the winners in terms of low-cost cell rates...

Syniverse to provide mobile number portability for India

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Category: Service Management
27 March 2009
8858 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Syniverse
  • Customer management
Syniverse has been selected by the India Department of Telecommunications to implement mobile number portability in the country. Number portability, clearing house and centralised database solutions will be Syniverse's responsibility for the next ten years...

Telefónica O2 extends 2G/3G to customers in Slovakia, Czech Republic

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Category: Service Management
26 March 2009
9333 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia
Nokia Siemens Networks is set to expand O2's delivery of mobile services to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A three-year contract will see NSN as sole supplier of 2G and optionally 3G to Prague and Brno...

21 ViaNet chooses On2 VP7 Video Codec for new VOD services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 March 2009
10684 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • On2
  • Video Compression

On2 Technologies, which specialises in video compression solutions, has licensed its VP7 video codec to 21ViaNet (China). Founded in 1996, 21ViaNet is a carrier-neutral Internet Data Centre (IDC) service provider in China...

Frost & Sullivan validates ECI Telecom's market share of Russian transmission

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 March 2009
12652 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • DWDM
  • Transmission
  • SDH
  • ROADM
Russia has been registering some of the fastest growth in telecoms penetration and modernisation anywhere in the world. According to analyst Frost & Sullivan, the transmission market is growing by 50% per year. One key beneficiary is Israel's ECI Telecom...

wi-tribe Pakistan selects Oracle to streamline business processes

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Category: Service Management
20 March 2009
8831 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • Pakistan
  • Network Management
  • WiMAX
  • wi-tribe
A newcomer to WiMAX in Pakistan, wi-tribe Pakistan Ltd, has commissioned solutions from Oracle Communications to enhance its efficiency...

Zain Zap dials up mobile banking in Africa

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Category: Mobile Finance
20 March 2009
12728 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Zain
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Mobile Banking
Zap is the new service from Zain which the operator claims will become a comprehensive and accessible African mobile banking service. Zap is aimed at 100 million people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...

Atlantique Telecom chooses Aircom for EDGE planning in West Africa

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Category: Service Management
19 March 2009
12270 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 3G
  • Central African Republic
  • Gabon
  • Niger
  • Togo
  • EDGE
  • Ivory Coast
  • Network Quality
  • Benin
EDGE services in West Africa marketed under the title Moov by Atlantique Telecom will be improved by network planning tools to be supplied by Aircom International...

NSN to expand Bakcell GSM service in Azerbaijan

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Category: Wireless Networks
19 March 2009
11835 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • NSN
  • GSM
  • Azerbaijan
  • EDGE
NSN will provide a GSM network expansion and upgrade to EDGE to provide Bakcell with enhanced quality and coverage in Azerbaijan...

Aircom delivers network planning and optimisation for MTN Syria

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Category: Wireless Networks
18 March 2009
11199 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • MTN
  • Aircom
  • Syria
  • Network Quality
MTN Syria's 2G and 3G networks coverage and capacity are set for enhancement as a result of a contract placed with Aircom International...

Meru WLAN brings non-stop Internet freedom to Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 March 2009
9512 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Poland
  • Education
  • Service Quality
  • Wireless Networks
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland is now giving students non-stop Internet freedom with a new Meru WLAN. Meru saw off competition from five companies, notably in eliminating breaks in service and coverage being encountered on campus...

Qtel chooses Ditech Networks voice-quality equipment for Qatar

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Category: Wireless Networks
17 March 2009
8495 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Qatar
  • Voice Quality
Ditech Networks voice-quality technology has been deployed throughout Qtel's mobile network in Qatar. The aim is to that Qtel, will consistently deliver excellent mobile calls, regardless of where a call is made or which device is used...

Unitel, Angola's largest mobile operator, picks Comverse voice services

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Category: Revenue & Billing
17 March 2009
15935 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • Comverse
  • Subscriber Management
  • Unitel
Unitel SA will be rolling out Comverse's Voice HUB to drive revenues from Visual Voicemail and unanswered phone calls from a current customer database of 4.5 million...

Visafone launches Kirusa Voice SMS in Nigeria

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 March 2009
13181 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Kirusa
  • Visafone
  • Voice Messaging
Visafone Communications Limited, a wholly owned Nigerian telecoms company, has launched Voice SMS across Nigeria. The Voice SMS solution has been sourced from Kirusa, a provider of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services...

Bharti Telesoft, Sofrecom partner for VAS

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 March 2009
9533 views
  • Global
  • Bharti Telesoft
Value-added services will play a greater part in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America as a result of a partnership between Bharti Telesoft and Sofrecom...

Cellular coverage in Jakarta set to improve

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 March 2009
11991 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • FlexWave Prism
  • ADC
  • DAS
  • Jakarta

Cellular coverage in the dense and capacity-strained central business district of Jakarta is set to improve thanks to a new contract for outdoor DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) announced by Indonesia's leading cellular distribution company, P.T. Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP)...

End2End to run Cometa's Mobile Games Portal for Indonesian Mobile Operators

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Category: Service Management
12 March 2009
8846 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • End2End
  • Games
Cometa Mobile, the Indonesian mobile content provider and aggregator, has outsourced the running of a dedicated Cometa games portal for Indonesian mobile operators to End2End...

Bharti Telesoft helps found GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme

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Category: Mobile Finance
12 March 2009
7658 views
  • Global
  • M-Commerce
  • Bharti Telesoft
  • Value Added Services
Bharti Telesoft, which provides integrated Value-Added Services to mobile operators in emerging markets, has been invited to be a founding member of the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Working Group by the GSMA, as a result of its work in the development and deployment of mobile banking solutions in emerging markets worldwide...

Indian regulator right to welcome MVNOs

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 March 2009
11918 views
  • Regulation
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • MVNOs
  • Ovum
On Monday March 2, the Indian government finally gave the go-ahead for Mobile Virtual Network Operators to enter the market. This follows a recommendation back in August 2008 from India's regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The government is expected to release detailed guidelines for MVNO entrants soon. We believe this approval will benefit both existing MNOs and new entrants...

Bharti Telesoft partners Grand Technology for data services hub

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 March 2009
9391 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Yemen
  • Bharti Telesoft
  • Data Hubs
Bharti Telesoft has formed a partnership with Grand Technology, a telecom solution provider in the Middle East, notably in Yemen, for their Data Services Hub...

Vodafone Essar's outsources mobile games to End2End

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Category: Service Management
10 March 2009
7681 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone Essar
  • End2End
  • Games
Vodafone Essar has fully outsourced its mobile games portal to End2End, a European provider of managed service solutions for mobile content retailing...

Zain announces record financial results for 2008

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 March 2009
9124 views
  • Investment
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Zain
Mobile operator Zain is present in 22 countries. It has just released its 2008 results, and is reporting great strides in key performance indicators. For example, its active customer total is up to 63.5 million, 50% over 2007, its consolidated revenues are up 26% to US$7.44 billion and EBITDA is up 15% to US$2.78 billion...

Mobile banking for the unbanked set to grow: CGAP

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Category: Mobile Finance
09 March 2009
7832 views
  • Global
  • Mobile
  • Banking
CGAP, the global microfinance centre has been releasing new research and data to encourage telecom operators, financial institutions and governments to see the business potential in expanding access to financial services for poor people in developing markets. The current economic climate makes the need for widespread availability of safe alternatives to cash even more pressing...

Scartel, Cisco bring 4G to Moscow, St Petersburg

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Category: Wireless Networks
06 March 2009
9387 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 4G
  • Russia
  • WiMAX
  • Yota
Scartel, Russia's first provider of high-speed wireless Internet, is now offering access under the Yota brand, powered by Cisco's latest mobility technologies. Yota's network provides service within the Sadovoye Ring in Moscow and at the Vassilyevsky Island and Petrogradsky District in St Petersburg. The network will provide a platform for high-speed, 4G mobile services that will help make "on-the-move" broadband access available to more people...

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