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How is the RAM Crisis impacting emerging markets?
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From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...
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TT&T is deploying the first Cisco WiMAX network in Asia Pacific at Mae Fah Luang University. Expected to help bridge the digital divide, this will also be the first production WiMAX network in Thailand...
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Thuraya billing systems have now been integrated into one database, which Thuraya regards as essential for billing convergence and ease of operations...
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In many developing economies, more citizens own mobile phones than own traditional bank accounts. A new research report by Mercator Advisory Group stresses the lessons to be learnt from mobile money experiences in South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya...
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According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region...
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To take advantage of the deregulated market in Poland, rapidly increasing traffic volumes and widening demand for services, Netia, the country's largest alternate carrier, was faced with a major challenge of upgrading its optical network. The solution entailed a radical shift in the core network design using the best technology available on the market. As a result Netia is now able to deliver revenue generating services including IPTV...
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Product Development Support for new services is the key to dynamic and successful growth of telecoms operators. CBOSS has announced a new service - Product Development Support - which allows telecom operators to enjoy fast time-to-market and exceptional efficiency for their new innovative services and marketing campaigns...
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Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.
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Radiográfica Costarricense, a telecom operator in Central America, has selected ECI’s XDM MSPP solutions. ECI was selected based on its capabilities to offer several key technologies on a single platform - SDH, Ethernet and WDM - in order to assist RACSA with its aggressive expansion efforts in Costa Rica.
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Paragon Software has released its new SlovoEd 7.0 engine which is claimed to offer fast browsing and highly compressed content for its talking e-dictionary...
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Zain, a mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, has launched commercial services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has now joined Zain's One Network, claimed by Zain to be the world’s first borderless mobile service, offering over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries favourable rates, free of high roaming charges for cross-border communications...
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India's Business Standard and Economic Times have both recently investigated claims by Intel that it can help provide India with WiMAX-enabled laptops for under US$400, if not for as little as US$300.
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Keithley Instruments, which specialises in solutions for emerging measurement needs, is introducing what it believes to be the industry’s first measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO system. The system is used for primary research of next-generation RF MIMO devices and technologies.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Mobilink GSM of Pakistan will be deploying Tekelec TekMedia anti-spam firewall in order to establish better network control and to enhance customer experience.
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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.
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