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Corning optical fibre is chosen for du's pan-Emirates network

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
14 November 2008
10621 views
  • Cable
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • UAE
  • du
UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...

The Impact of Technology on Social Inclusion

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Cisco
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 November 2008
8131 views
  • Latin America
  • Cisco
  • Argentina
  • Social Inclusion
  • Video Conferencing
Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...

Vodafone to gain control of Vodacom

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 November 2008
10735 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodafone
  • South Africa
  • Vodacom
In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...

New HP switch reduces space / power needs and doubles performance

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 November 2008
8376 views
  • Global
  • Switching
  • HP
HP has announced a new blade platform designed to help service providers reduce costs and efficiently expand capacity...

New Short Message Centre to provide 99.999% Availability

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 November 2008
7995 views
  • Global
  • SMS
  • CBOSS
  • Network Availability
CBOSS Corporation has announced CBOSSsms, a new hi-end short message center based on the NonStop platform. The solution's improved architecture guarantees timely short message delivery...

Albanian IT spurred by public spending, foreign investment, buoyant economy - IDC

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
10 November 2008
10699 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IT
  • Albania
  • IDC
Albania's IT market continued to grow solidly in 2007, fueled by increased spending in the government, finance, and telecom sectors, by falling equipment prices and by favourable economic development. This is according to a recent IDC study, which concludes that Albania's IT market reached US$89.34 million in 2007, representing 28.3% year-on-year growth. In local currency, the market expanded 16.3% year on year...

Bharti Telesoft and MTN Group alliance to provide VAS solutions to emerging markets

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 November 2008
11899 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • South Africa
  • MTN
  • MMSC
  • Bharti Telesoft
Integrated VAS solutions provider Bharti Telesoft and multinational MTN Group have announced an alliance aimed at delivering Multimedia Messaging Center, Short Message Service Center and Wireless Application Protocol Gateway solutions for all MTN Operations...

Romanian PC market growing rapidly but losing momentum: IDC

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 November 2008
10186 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Romania
  • IDC
  • Computing
  • PC
The Romanian PC market continued to grow at a fast pace in 2Q08 in terms of both shipments and value, albeit not as rapidly as in previous quarters. According to the latest data from IDC, shipments grew 29.3% year on year, while the value of the market expanded year on year by 23.3%...

Cisco uses technology to protect Intellectual Property Rights in Middle East

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Category: Revenue & Billing
06 November 2008
8620 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Cisco
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Intellectual Property Rights
In line with its commitment to combat the sale and use of counterfeit and pirated products, Cisco announced this month that it will participate in the launch of a new set of guidelines to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy...

Russia's Far East Region gets Digital TV and Broadband Multimedia

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
06 November 2008
9155 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Cisco
  • Russia
  • Multimedia

Consumers in Russia's eastern region of Khabarovsk now have access to affordable high-definition digital TV, video on demand and multimedia services through a Metro Multiservice Transport Network from Cisco...

Western Union, Orascom ally to pilot mobile money transfers

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Category: Mobile Finance
05 November 2008
10139 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Egypt
  • Western Union
  • Orascom
  • Commerce
The Western Union Company has created an alliance with Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Orascom and Western Union plan to work together to introduce mobile remittance services in select markets. The services aim to make low-principal, high-frequency remittances more convenient to the millions of consumers who send money every day...

IDC: favourable economic factors fuel IT spending in Serbia in 2007

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 November 2008
10351 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IT
  • Serbia
  • IDC
The Serbian IT market increased 30% year on year in US Dollars in 2007, fueled by a growing economy, structural reforms, privatisation, tax cuts, and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a recent IDC study, total spending on hardware, software, and IT services in Serbia reached almost US$751 million in 2007...

Vietnam's HT Mobile awards new GSM network contract to Huawei

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Category: Service Management
04 November 2008
8714 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Huawei
  • Vietnam
  • GSM
Huawei has announced that it has been selected by HT Mobile Communications Centre, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company and US-based Hutchison Telecom, as a key partner in rolling out its new national GSM network. HT Mobile is currently undergoing a telecom transformation and switching from CDMA to GSM technology, and is scheduled to launch its new GSM national network next year...

Anite, Agilent announce first shipments of joint LTE UE protocol tester

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Category: Service Management
04 November 2008
10058 views
  • Test and Measurement
  • Global
  • Agilent
  • Anite

Agilent Technologies and Anite have announced the first shipments of their LTE UE protocol tester. This is the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620 wireless communications test set platform.

iCON Communications to launch WiMAX in Armenia, 2009

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Category: Wireless Networks
04 November 2008
8769 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • WiMAX
  • Armenia
iCON Communications, the newest provider of wireless broadband IP based communications services in Armenia, believes it is on track to launch its WiMAX service in Yerevan prior by January 2009, and extending its coverage into major cities in Armenia during 2009. WiMAX has been singloed out by iCON as extending the range and speed of existing wireless internet technologies by covering an entire geographic area rather than limited "hot-spots"...

Vodacom, GSMA and Qualcomm bring high-speed Internet cafes to Tanzania

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Category: Wireless Networks
03 November 2008
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodacom
  • Tanzania
  • GSMA
  • Qualcomm
  • HSPA
Through its Wireless Reach initiative, Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm, has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to information and multimedia services...

Latin America - winner or loser in the telecoms race? Part 1: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 November 2008
10968 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • Argentina
  • Chile
A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...

Latin America - winner or loser in the telecoms race? Part 2: The best of the rest

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 November 2008
10056 views
  • Latin America
  • Colombia
  • Guatemala
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
  • Costa Rica
  • Bolivia
Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...

Pakistan's First Solar Powered Base Station deployed by Warid Telecom

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James Barton
Category: Energy & Sustainability
03 November 2008
13165 views
  • Green energy
  • Central South Asia
  • Huawei
  • Warid Telecom
  • Pakistan
  • Base Stations
  • Solar
Representing a major step forward for renewable energy use in the Pakistani telecoms industry, Pakistani operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country's first solar powered Macro Base Station (M-BTS) site. The site uses a solar powered M-BTS from leading Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies...

Roadmap to Vietnam's ICT Future

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 November 2008
11526 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • ICT

Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November...

Six Telecoms chooses Telarix's iXTools ASP to manage interconnect role

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Category: Service Management
20 October 2008
10123 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Interconnection
Tanzanian carrier Six Telecoms has selected Telarix iXLink systems to conduct business with other carriers across the globe. The announcement comes not only within the context of growing interconnection business for Six Telecoms but also at the opening of the recent Capacity Africa conference...

Dominican Republic's Codetel deploys Ceragon FibeAir 3200T

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Category: Wireless Networks
20 October 2008
12479 views
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Dominican Republic
  • Codetel
Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...

The cross-border conundrum

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Stephen Gibb
Category: Mobile Finance
20 October 2008
6332 views
  • Brazil
  • Mobile Money
  • Customer management
  • Upaid
In this viewpoint feature Stephen Gibb, Chief Information Officer at mobile payments specialist Upaid, looks at how businesses and consumers can benefit from cross-border payments in emerging markets such as Brazil...

Global IP Solutions launches video calling capabilities on mobile phones

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 October 2008
7070 views
  • Global
Global IP Solutions, which provides IP multimedia processing solutions, has announced its VideoEngine Mobile on the Windows Mobile platform: it enables peer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing on mobile phones...

NetHope alliance launches advanced VSAT installation/maintenance training

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Category: Satellite Networks
20 October 2008
10858 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • VSAT
  • Education
  • Digital Divide
  • NetHope
The objectives of Connect Africa took a major step forward when the NetHope aid alliance joined the Global VSAT Forum, the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC) and iDirect in launching an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training programme in Nairobi this week...

ECI Telecom is selected by Triton Telecom for multi-million dollar Caribbean fibre network

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
20 October 2008
8454 views
  • Cable
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • ECI Telecom
Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

Research and Markets: Asian DSL market fast-growing internally, dominant globally

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2008
10050 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Broadband
  • DSL
  • Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia...

Indian cricket gains home on the web

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 October 2008
6176 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
Live Current Media, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, has announced that the outgoing President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Shri Sharad Pawar, has launched the BCCI's own website...

Croatia: elections stunt your growth

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2008
10479 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IT Services
  • Croatia
  • Serbia
The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...

Industry giants unite to deliver alternative future for Mobile Broadband

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Category: Wireless Networks
13 October 2008
8226 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Broadband
  • GSMA

Sixteen of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, intending to deliver an alternative to WiFi whereby customers will go online while on the move...

Synchronica aims for mobile email throughout the emerging markets

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 October 2008
7710 views
  • Global
  • Acquisitions
  • Synchronica
  • Mobile Email
  • Gateway
A major acquisition, contracts worldwide and authoritative words on mobile email. A busy summer for Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. Michael Schwartz caught up with him...

Two-mobile habit catching on in Bahrain

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 October 2008
10393 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Handsets
  • Bahrain

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

GSMA: renewable energy for half all new off-grid base stations by 2012

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
02 October 2008
9903 views
  • Global
  • Base Stations
  • GSMA
  • Renewable Energy
  • Green Power
The GSM Association has launched its Green Power for Mobile programme. It aims by 2012 to bring renewable energy to half the developing world's new off-grid base stations. Total target is 118,000 such installations...

Emergency Co-ordination Workshop Launched

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
01 October 2008
10677 views
  • Global
  • Disaster Management
  • Common Alerting Protocol
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...

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