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VoIP / GSM Operator Expands Value Added Services

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 September 2008
8699 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • Norway
  • CBOSS Corporation
  • MTU Gruppen AS

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

VoIP / GSM Operator Expands Value Added Services

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CBOSS Corporation
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 September 2008
7592 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • Norway
  • CBOSS Corporation
  • MTU Gruppen AS

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

The emerging telecoms market: a quantum leap for OSS?

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Jon Wells, Clarity Consulting
Category: Service Management
28 August 2008
7911 views
  • Global
  • Clarity
  • Emerging Markets
  • Digital Divide
Jon Wells, OSS Consultant at Clarity, a vendor of Unified OSS solutions that manages over 120 million subscribers, many of them from emerging economies, discusses how pressures in emerging markets are forcing OSS to change, for the benefit of all.

Ericsson in mobile broadband pilot to improve Bangladeshi social/economic development

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
28 August 2008
9911 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • Ericsson
  • Bangladesh
  • HSPA
Rural telecoms in Bangladesh are set to enjoy a boost with the news that Ericsson is launching a pilot scheme to show how high-speed Internet - directed via 3G/HSPA - can enhance life in the country's rural communities. 

Greater Mumbai partners with Sify Technologies to open up e-ports

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
28 August 2008
8258 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Sify Technology
Millions of citizens in Mumbai will now enjoy access to municipally provided services thanks to a tie-up with Sify technologies' ePort cyber café chain...

Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte reflects authenticity and performance

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Devices & Platforms
28 August 2008
10148 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
Yes, it's that time of the year when Nokia's resident poets pour out their souls in paeans of praise for the company's latest state-of-the-art mobile device.

Great firewall of China still blocking online trade - Backbone IT Group

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 August 2008
11699 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Censorship
  • firewall
Internet censorship is effectively preventing thousands of American and European e-commerce websites from reaching Chinese consumers, claim Internet marketing consultants Backbone IT Group in a recent study.

ITU Report highlights broadband leadership in Asia-Pacific region

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
11818 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Broadband
It's now official - Asia-Pacific is the world leader in ICT. A new report from the ITU, published to co-incide with ITU Telecom Asia 2008 next month confirms what analysts and observers, including Developing Telecoms, have believed to be the case for years, that Asia-Pacific dominates in fixed and wireless telecommunications. But there is still a big divide in the region between ICT rich and poor economies...

Research and Markets releases "Armenia - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics"

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
8935 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Armenia
  • Research and Markets
  • Deregulation

Dublin-based Research and Markets has emerged as one of the most prolific publishers of telecoms analysis and forecasting. Reports on developing markets are no exception. We submit below just one of the many releases we have received from Research and Markets...

Tata Communications enables prepaid roaming at Beijing Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
19 August 2008
10347 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Roaming
  • China
  • Tata
  • Olympics
  • Beijing
Foreign mobile users attending the Beijing Olympics have been enjoying seamless roaming provided by Tata Communications. Tata's eXchange system enables mobile network operators to establish roaming more quickly and cheaply...

Rising demand for enterprise IP telephony fuels Asia-Pacific

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 August 2008
8511 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Frost and Sullivan
  • IP Telephony

Internet Protocol is rapidly penetrating a range of key vertical and horizontal enterprise telephony markets in the Asia Pacific region. Although time division multiplexing still holds sway overall in Asia, high demand for IP from countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore has triggered a growth spurt in the region...

Thuraya releases video-streaming portable broadband terminal

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
18 August 2008
7653 views
  • Global
  • Broadband
  • Thuraya
Thuraya's strategy of product innovation has led to a portable satellite terminal with advanced video-streaming capacity. The terminal is aimed at commercial enterprises such as oil terminals, coastguards, media and transport...

Andrew wins race to install wireless coverage on new Chinese train

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 August 2008
10552 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Wireless
  • Olympics
  • Siemens
Jointly developed by Andrew and Siemens, advanced wireless communications are being installed on the new CRH3 Harmony multiple unit trains running on the Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway...

As mobile markets mature in Latin America, operators look to address rural areas cost effectively

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 August 2008
14418 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Entel
  • Venezuela
  • Paraguay
  • Gilat
  • Bolivia
In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Chinese TV selects SafeNet for secure online broadcasting of the Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
12 August 2008
8102 views
  • Security
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Olympics
  • SafeNet
A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements.

Celltick, China Unicom join for Olympics mobile media service

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 August 2008
9532 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • Olympics
  • Celltick
Celltick is launching a mobile media service over the China Unicom network for the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will distribute content from Xinhua News, China’s official news agency...

Zain rebrands Celtel Africa as it unveils global aspirations

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 August 2008
10608 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Celtel

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1st August 2008...

Bulgarian Telecommunications Company selects Alcatel-Lucent for US$49 million GSM/EDGE contract

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
11 August 2008
11211 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Bulgaria
  • GSM
  • EDGE
Alcatel-Lucent has won a US$49 million contract right through 2011 by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to supply GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC’s GSM mobile subsidiary.

VNL: Solar-power GSM ready to serve remote, rural areas

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Energy & Sustainability
08 August 2008
21589 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • VNL

VNL, an Indian telecom equipment vendor, is claiming to have re-engineered GSM in order to help operators provide affordable mobile telephony to new customers in rural markets. The company is quoting energy requirements of 50W and 120W to operate, compared to 3,000W for a typical GSM base station...

Pakistan's Mobilink GSM Selects Tekelec TekMedia to fight spam

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 August 2008
10592 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Pakistan
  • Spam
  • firewall
Mobilink GSM of Pakistan will be deploying Tekelec TekMedia anti-spam firewall in order to establish better network control and to enhance customer experience.

Personal VoIP is confirmed as legal in Qatar

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
05 August 2008
11391 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Qatar
  • VoIP
  • Legal
There has recently been confusion in Qatar as to whether VoIP calls are legal or not, so much so that the country's Supreme Council for Information and Communications Technology (ictQATAR) has had to issue a statement confirming that such calls are indeed legal. 

Synchronica licences Mobile Gateway to service provider Emircom.

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
04 August 2008
8320 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • UAE
  • Synchronica
  • Mobile Gateway
Emircom is a fast-growing systems integrator headquartered in the Middle East. It has been licenced by Synchronica, a vendor of mobile email and synchronisation software, to exploit Synchronica's email software Mobile Gateway. 

Managing mobile communications at the Beijing Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
01 August 2008
10074 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • JDSU
  • Mobile Networks
  • Olympics
Almost 600 million mobile users, a major restructuring of the country's mobile sector - and the Olympic Games. How on earth will China cope? Peter Collingwood, Vice-President, JDSU's Communications Test & Measurement business segment, EMEA, offers some answers.

Grameen Foundation announces global Village Phone Grant competition

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
01 August 2008
9000 views
  • Rural
  • Global
  • Competition
  • Grameen Foundation

The Grameen Foundation is well known for pioneering telephone networks in rural surroundings. Its latest scene will allow two organisations to spend US$10,000 on building up village phone systems.

World Telecom Lab's VoIP-over-satellite research will help African, Mid-East Telecoms

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 August 2008
9525 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • VoIP
  • Gambia

Using the European Space Agency's Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, telecom operators across Africa and the Middle East can now improve VoIP over satellite services.

WFN Strategies set to supervise ADONES cable installation in Angola

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
01 August 2008
9872 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • WFN Strategies
  • Satellite communications
Nearly 70% of Angolans will now be able to receive satellite communications through a fibre-optic cable running the length of the Angolan coastline. WFN Strategies will supply Angola Telecom with telecoms, business and engineering support.

ITU responds to industry's quicker, cleaner and greener call

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Energy & Sustainability
01 August 2008
9371 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • ICT
  • Environment

The number of ICT users has trebled since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. As a result of a call from the telecoms industry, the ITU is to set up a new group to establish standards for lower ICT emissions and how ICT itself can help reduce emissions in other sectors, eg, energy, transport and buildings.

HP charges into emerging markets

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
28 July 2008
10983 views
  • Latin America
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Mexico
  • China
  • Russia
  • Poland
  • HP
  • Real-Time Charging
Four major telecoms providers operating in emerging markets have recently adopted HP's new charging technology to service up to 320 million subscribers. The system allows operators to offer customer-centric pricing models...

Synchronica sets sights on Africa with 'BlackBerry' like solution

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
25 July 2008
9554 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • BlackBerry
  • Synchronica
  • Mobile Gateway

Synchronica, a provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, is offering Mobile Gateway, its mass-market push email infrastructure software in response to major mobile operators in Africa wishing to provide affordable 'BlackBerry like' services...

Neonode Phone to feature Chinese, Malay and Indonesian language support

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
25 July 2008
8265 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific

The Swedish mobile company Neonode, which develops touch screen technologies and designs mobile handsets, has integrated Chinese XT9 text input interface with phrase prediction in its pioneer multimedia touch screen phone, the Neonode N2...

Colibria confident of benefits from new SIP messaging solution

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 July 2008
9803 views
  • Global
  • Messaging
  • Convergence
  • Colibria
  • SIP
Colibria, which provides new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and presence-enabled solutions, has launched its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Instant Messaging Server...

Centre of Excellence brings Microsoft specialists to Mumbai

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 July 2008
8207 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
Sogeti, a member of Capgemini Group, has announced that it will open a global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India...

Arthur D. Little integrates Affinitiv into Middle East consultancy

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 July 2008
10913 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mergers
  • Arthur D. Little
  • Consultancy
Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little is set to integrate the staff of Affinitiv into its Middle East office. Zoran Vasiljev, founder and CEO of Affinitiv, will take on the role of company director as his leadership team and employees join Arthur D. Little's Middle East practice...

Comstar Completes Building First WiMAX Network in Armenia

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
23 July 2008
8746 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • WiMAX
  • Armenia
Cornet-AM, an Internet services provider and part of the Comstar Group, has finished building the Republic of Armenia's first mobile WiMAX network...

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