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In partnership with Safaricom, ADC will be supplying its InterReach Fusion solutions to provide in-building wireless coverage at over 40 sites in Kenya, including the famous 14-storey Landmark Plaza in Nairobi...
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ITU has published its annual report, Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2008: Six Degrees of Sharing, detailing a set of regulatory strategies designed to lower the costs of network rollout...
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Mada, the Kuwaiti-based broadband wireless provider is expected to launch WiMAX services before the end of 2008, now that it and Motorola have started the roll-out of an end-to-end 802.16e-based WiMAX network...
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Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile Group Fujian have teamed up to provide an eCommerce platform that is intended to "promise an important link between rural consumers and urban businesses"...
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Comverse, which supplies software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, has announced that Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC), Albania's largest mobile phone operator and part of the Cosmote group, has expanded its Comverse Fun Dial ringback tone capacity as a result of quick and widespread service take-up...
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In the light of recession, IDC has revised its forecast for IT growth in the EMEA region from 4.5% to 3%. Even after this revision EMEA compares favourably with the 1.2% growth IDC forecasts for Western Europe. There may also be “silver linings” to help growth...
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Telenor Pakistan is now the 100th customer for NetAct Traffica real-time customer traffic monitoring and analysis software, having acquired the GPRS module within the solution for further enhancing the data service experience for its customers...
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Jinny Software, a supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators, has announced that its Ringback Tone Server solution has driven a ten-day Return-on-Investment for a Zain Group operator in Africa...
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Stratus Technologies has been commissioned by Danawa Resources, a broadband service provider operating in Malaysia, Cambodia and Indonesia, to deploy its Stratus Entice E-REV telecoms platform to expand into residential, enterprise and wholesale VoIP-based phone service throughout its coverage area...
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Telecom Italia Sparkle and Bharti Telesoft will be working together on the commercial launch of the new Prepaid Roaming Hub value-added solution for mobile operators globally...
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Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced that it has signed a deal to deliver network optimisation tools to MTN Uganda...
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Aircom International, an independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been selected by Indonesia's Axis to support that operator's drive for increased penetration across the country...
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Risk management software vendor, Neural Technologies is enabling telecoms operators to beat the global recession by offering its risk management software solutions on a pay-on-performance basis...
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Omnix Software, which supplies project automation software solutions for telecommunications infrastructure management, and Powertech IST have entered into a mobile telecommunications partnership aimed at improving network efficiency across sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership was launched at the pan-African telecommunications summit, AfricaCOM, recently held in Cape Town...
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Incomnet has added Gilat Satellite Network's SkyAbis cellular backhaul solution to its satellite communications network to serve Mongolia's mobile operators. Incomnet is one of Mongolia's largest telecommunications service providers...
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Redknee, a provider of mission-critical convergent billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is now congratulating Digicel on launching mobile services across three new markets - Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga...
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Vodafone Essar has launched Voice SMS service in 16 circles across India. With the launch of this service, any Vodafone customer can send a Voice SMS message to a mobile subscriber, anywhere in India, for a fixed price of approximately US$0.01 per minute. The Voice SMS service is available to both prepaid and postpaid subscribers...
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Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced that it is working with Mozambique operator mcel to support the update of mcel's planning tools for 2G and 3G networks...
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Comarch has concluded the last phase of a WiMAX project for Promonte, a GSM mobile service provider in Montenegro. The project introduces global telecoms activity within the context of Promonte-owner Telenor's "Internet to the people" and takes advantage of the combination of up-to-date technologies like 3GHSPA, WiMAX and WiFi...
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Most areas of Libya have now witnessed the installation of portable satellite broadband terminals supplied by Thuraya. The deployment follows a deal earlier this year between Thuraya and Libya's General Post & Telecommunications Company...
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Intelsat and Sonema, which provides telecommunication services in Europe and Africa, have expanded their current agreement for contracted satellite capacity, whereby Sonema will be able to increase its enterprise services offerings...
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The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications for the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced her country's intention to implement market liberalisation and regulatory reforms so as to enable more effective delivery of mission-critical satellite, wireless, and fibre-based telecommunication solutions to citizens throughout the nation...
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Whether you measure in US$ or local currency, increases of 32% and 20.5% respectively ensured that Bulgaria's IT spending soared last year. IDC believes that the rise is due to a number of favourable economic criteria. And there will be more over the next five years...
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Millicom International Cellular has been successful in the tender for the third national mobile licence in Rwanda against three other bidders. Millicom will hold 87.5% of the equity in a newly created joint venture company in partnership with Marathon Corporation, an established local company with numerous business interests in Rwanda...
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Synchronica is promoting SimpleMail, its mass-market Consumer Push Email (CPE) solution, as suitable for basic and feature phones, and in particular as ideal for emerging markets in Asia. The company has licensed SimpleMail to two new emerging market mobile operators...
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Backhaul is crucial in that it provides the connection between the core network and the mobile base stations that connect to users' devices. Any cellular network is only as good as its backhaul since it does not matter how well the cellular base stations perform or how wide a choice of handsets the customer has: if the backhaul capacity isn't available the user suffers...
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Claimed to be the most comprehensive set of information on fibre-optics anywhere, the Fibre-Optic Association's Online Fibre Optic Reference Guide is now available...
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Liberalisation in MENA will create opportunities and will entice new entrants into this market, according to Analysys Mason in a new report looking five years into the future. The award of a third 2G licence in Morocco typifies the region's good news...
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Lior Kahan of Gilat Satcom has written to Developing Telecoms, asking whether fibre-based and satellite communications are really the rivals they are made out to be, ie, do they compete with each other or do they complement each other?
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The ITU's recent high-level meeting on ICT trends aimed to strengthen cybersecurity and mitigate climate change. Present were the Presidents of Burkina Faso and Rwanda...
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What is claimed to be the world's first GSM/WiMAX handset, the HTC MAX 4G, has been launched in partnership with Russian Mobile WiMAX provider Scartel (brand-name Yota). The handset is intended to support the next evolution in mobile connectivity...
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Taking the opportunity of the Electronica trade show, Infineon Technologies AG launched what it claims is "the world's smallest Transient Voltage Suppression diode" for the protection of antennas in the latest electronic equipment...
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Andrew and its representative in Chile, Raylex, have been chosen by Entel PCS to deploy wireless network infrastructure. The overall contract is intended to enhance the already well-subscribed Chilean mobile market...
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Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East saw an increase of no less than 47% for the last year-on-year figures available. Informa Telecoms & Media will shine a spotlight on the region at a forthcoming event in Dubai...
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