Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 January 2009; 9182 views

Barcelona has proved itself both a worthy and a worthwhile location for the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Developing Telecoms will be keeping readers in touch with news of this year's MWC just as soon it is released. In this initial report we profile five companies all set not just to be at MWC but also ready to introduce new products and services in Barcelona...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 January 2009; 10208 views

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Communications in Colombia have led to the signature of new agreements for services under the Compartel I, Compartel II and Telecentros projects which were awarded to Gilat's Colombian subsidiaries in 1999 and 2002...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 January 2009; 10340 views

Under an agreement just signed with China Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile will provide their TD-SCDMA solution for 11 of the 28 cities covered by China Mobile's phase 2 network, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Changchun, Hefei, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Urumqi...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 January 2009; 10755 views

Tele Atlas, a provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and Location-Based Solutions (LBS), and Cadtech, a Moroccan company specialising in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and geolocalisation, have announced the first fully navigable digital databases of Morocco for personal navigation, wireless, Internet, automotive and enterprise navigation solutions companies worldwide...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 14 January 2009; 10923 views

Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc (DMPI) is one of the three major wireless carriers in the Philippines. Operating under the brand-name Sun Cellular, DMPI offers GSM technology, including voice services, messaging services, outbound and inbound international roaming, and value-added services. In early 2008, Digitel began deploying a new network designed to carry 3G (HSPA) services. The operator chose Ceragon's FibeAir IP-MAX2 wireless Ethernet solution to construct an all-IP backhaul network...

Details: Category: Regulation; 14 January 2009; 9221 views

The board of the GSMA, the global body for the mobile industry, has elected Alexander Izosimov, the Group Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom, as its new Chairman for a two-year term. As Chairman, he will help oversee the strategic direction of the GSMA, which represents more than 750 mobile operators worldwide. Bill Hague, Executive Vice President of AT&T, was elected as Deputy Chairman...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 13 January 2009; 10791 views

O3b Networks has been developing a new fibre-quality, satellite-based, global Internet backbone for telecoms operators and ISPs. It is now able to anounce that the largest ISP in Afghanistan, NEDA Telecommunications, will deploy O3b Networks' Quick Start service as part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement. The agreement will provide low-latency, fibre quality, Internet connectivity between Afghanistan and the global internet infrastructure...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 13 January 2009; 7368 views

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The first global standard offering an in-home, high-speed network capable of delivering room-to-room HDTV has been agreed by ITU. The standard, published under the G.hn banner, promises high quality multimedia over power, coaxial, phone and other home network wiring. It will give up to 20 times the throughput of existing wireless technologies and three times that of existing wired technologies...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 12 January 2009; 9684 views

Intelsat has entered into a Joint Venture (JV) with a South African investor group led by Convergence Partners that will utilise project financing to build and launch a new satellite into the 33º East orbital location, thereby ideally positioned to serve the African continent...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 12 January 2009; 12401 views

With the advent of new operators and increased competition in 2008, cellular subscribers in 19 Arab countries reached 194.533 million. AlJawal and MobiNil sustained their top rankings inthe region with 17.8 million and 16.3 million subscribers respectively. Vodafone ended the period with 15.2 million subscribers, settling as the third largest mobile operator in the region...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 12 January 2009; 8798 views

How do we ensure access to the internet is a human right enjoyed by everyone? This is one of the critical questions asked by an annual publication that highlights the importance of people's access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure - and where and how countries are getting it right or wrong, and what can be done about it.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 06 January 2009; 9924 views

NCC is assuming the new role of a broadband wireless Web access provider, having launched a wi-fi network in Nizhny Novgorod enabled by an end-to-end CBOSS solution...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 05 January 2009; 12809 views

Vodafone, Safaricom, and Western Union will be partnering to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer service between the UK and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers and within minutes...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 02 January 2009; 6856 views

Latin Americans living in the USA are keen to adopt money transfer using the less traditional method of a mobile phone, according to a survey commissioned by Upaid, the leading mobile payments provider. Upaid commissioned Research Now to survey US citizens transferring money to countries across Latin America...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 January 2009; 9217 views

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will be implementing advanced digital railway communication systems for Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens (SNCFT, ie, Tunisian Railways). NSN will deploy its Global System for Mobile Communications for Railways (GSM-R), a digital communications solution that mobilises and unites digital communications for railways by carrying signaling and operational information directly to train operators, enabling faster speeds and greater traffic density.

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 31 December 2008; 9619 views

Dormant accounts costing thousands to administer? Inefficient data management? Subscriber details going back years and not knowing how to exploit the data? You could always speak to Stephan Ouaknine, CEO of Montreal-based Blueslice. Michael Schwartz did.

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 December 2008; 9810 views

Uganda Telecom, Uganda's leading telecommunications provider, has launched a user friendly Voice SMS service nationwide. With this launch, all prepaid and postpaid subscribers of Uganda Telecom can send Voice SMS to any mobile subscriber in Uganda for a fixed price of approximately US$0.08...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 December 2008; 8466 views

Whatever the current economic crisis, IDC is still predicting pockets of opportunity within Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) next year. Developing Telecoms summarises a thought-provoking and insightful set of forecasts.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 December 2008; 10505 views

Qatar Telecom has signed an agreement to implement a full network modernisation project that is intended to double mobile broadband speeds in Qatar. Strategic partner Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will modernise and optimise Qtel's pioneering nationwide 2G and 3G networks, providing a network infrastructure based on the company's "future-proof" solutions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 23 December 2008; 12536 views

Zain has launched commercial services in Ghana with the start of the first 3.5G network on the continent outside South Africa. Zain Ghana's network will offer its customers ultra high-speed Internet access and, for the first time in Ghana, the ability to make video-calls and use rich multimedia content including sending video clips, music and pictures at the touch of a button. Zain's 3.5G network will give Ghanaians a new lifestyle option...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 23 December 2008; 8277 views

Motorola has announced the deployment of its first WiMAX trial network for Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), a member company of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), which is the largest ISP in Vietnam. The network allows VDC to test next-generation wireless broadband services in major cities of Vietnam...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 22 December 2008; 12217 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 22 December 2008; 8177 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 December 2008; 10164 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 December 2008; 8105 views

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"...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 December 2008; 11995 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 December 2008; 10143 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 18 December 2008; 7861 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2008; 8946 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 17 December 2008; 8985 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 December 2008; 9704 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 16 December 2008; 10458 views

Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced that it has signed a deal to deliver network optimisation tools to MTN Uganda...

Details: Category: Service Management; 16 December 2008; 9422 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 December 2008; 6771 views

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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