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Bangladesh set to offer three WiMAX licences - to new bidders

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Category: Regulation
23 July 2008
10724 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • Bangladesh
  • WiMAX
  • BWA
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, has published its draft guidelines for issuing three nationwide Broadband Wireless Access licences. Two will be in the 2.3Ghz band and one in the 2.5Ghz band...

Upaid Launches Online Top-Up Service to Brazilians

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Category: Revenue & Billing
22 July 2008
7996 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Upaid
  • Online payments
Upaid Systems has launched a new online service which allows Brazilian expatriates in the USA to top up the phones of their friends and family in Brazil. RechargeBrazil.com is the first website of its kind: a bilingual English/Brazilian-Portuguese service accessible via any internet connection. Long-distance phone recharge services have typically required credit to be purchased in a participating outlet...

JDSU introduces fibre-optic kits to prevent dirty fibre

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
22 July 2008
7748 views
  • Cable
  • Global
  • JDSU
  • Fibre-optics
JDSU has an all-in-one fibre-optic test kit, providing network technicians with a way to avoid one of the leading causes of network downtime: contaminated, or "dirty," fibre...

Clarity Wins Globe and Innove unified OSS contract

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Category: Service Management
21 July 2008
10703 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Globe Telecom
  • Clarity
Clarity, a company specialising in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), will be extending its contract with Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines' largest network operators, to provide Unified OSS for the company's wireless business and its fixed line network subsidiary Innove Communications...

BTC signs up for Redknee Turnkey Converged Billing Solution

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Category: Revenue & Billing
21 July 2008
10812 views
  • Billing
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Botswana
  • Redknee
  • GSM
Redknee Solutions has sold its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution to Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, which is a government-owned communications service provider in Africa...

China's telecoms industry - a case for more reorganisation?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 July 2008
9858 views
  • Regulation
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
China's online-video site Youku.com has received its long-awaited licence from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This may indicate that China's government will not take as tough a line on privately owned online-video companies as some had feared...

Multimedia Solutions to expand international operations via Sovereign Wealth Corp.

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 July 2008
9109 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • South Africa
  • MMS
South African based mobile marketing company Multimedia Solutions has been purchased by Sovereign Wealth Corp., in a move that will allow the company to expand its operations internationally and reach high growth markets such as Brazil, India, and Asia...

Forum Systems and Techlogix to provide SOA solutions to UAE and Asia-Pacific

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
18 July 2008
10628 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • UAE
  • SOA

A new partnership between Forum Systems Inc. and Techlogix will provide SOA products to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific...

Research and Markets publishes report on telecoms, mobile and broadband in the Mediterranean, Levant

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 July 2008
9048 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Broadband
  • Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top Commtouch "zombie" Charts

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Category: Revenue & Billing
16 July 2008
8017 views
  • Global
  • Fraud
  • Spam
Commtouch, which specialises combating Internet fraud, has released its 2Q08 Email Threats Trend Report...

Shyam Telelink prepares network rollout in India

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Category: Wireless Networks
16 July 2008
11753 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • ZTE
  • Huawei
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Shyam Telelink
  • CDMA 800
Shyam Telelink, the Indian subsidiary of Sistema, has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

iQor expands in Philippines with new call centre

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Category: Service Management
15 July 2008
11304 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Call Centres
At a meeting in New York with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, iQor President and CEO Vikas Kapoor announced the opening of iQor's third call centre in the Philippines, in this case creating 700 new jobs...

FTTH will become FTEH (Fibre to Every Home) by 2010, predicts Aspen Optics

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
15 July 2008
9307 views
  • Cable
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Dubai
  • FttH
  • Fibre Technology
FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

Middle East leads fight against threats to mobile

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
15 July 2008
8931 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mobile Security
With increasingly open mobile operator networks, the rise in mobile content and applications, and the influx of smartphones, the world is seeing a revolution in mobile adoption. Perhaps nowhere else are the potentials and pitfalls of this technology being seen more clearly than in the emerging markets of the Middle East...

Tata Communications Launches Telepresence Services Worldwide

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 July 2008
9132 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Cisco
  • telepresence
  • Conferencing facilities
Tata Communications has announced the launch of its Telepresence services, the first ever offering to deliver both private and public Cisco TelePresence rooms to businesses across the world...

Wavion wins wide-area Wi-Fi project in San Luis

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
09 July 2008
9804 views
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Wi-fi
  • Wavion
High-speed wireless Internet is now a reality in Argentina's San Luis Province, as the result of collaboration by Wavion, La Punta University and Xiden Networking. This is a pioneering project which brings free, wide-area Internet to a region of Argentina...

Redknee awarded new US patent for customer profiling system

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Category: Service Management
08 July 2008
7766 views
  • Global
  • Redknee
  • Customer Profiling
Redknee, which provides mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, has received approval from the US patent system for its Telecommunications Subscriber Profile Management System...

Shyam Telelink chooses trio to build Indian CDMA 800 MHz mobile network

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Category: Wireless Networks
08 July 2008
13503 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • CDMA
  • Sistema
  • Shyam Telelink
Sistema, the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, which manages fast-growing companies within the consumer services sector, has announced that its Indian telecoms subsidiary Shyam Telelink has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Subex, Siemens help Vietnamese telecoms provider combat fraud

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Category: Revenue & Billing
07 July 2008
9689 views
  • Revenue
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Subex
  • Vietnam
  • Fraud Management
Subex Ltd, which supplies Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), is working with one of its key partners, Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL), to implement its Nikira Fraud Management product at a leading mobile telecommunications service provider in Vietnam...

Vodafone moves to 70% control over Ghana Telecom

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Category: Investment
07 July 2008
12556 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Ghana
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mobile operators
Vodafone has acquired a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom from the Government of Ghana. Total consideration is US$900 million on a debt-free, cash-free basis, which would imply a total enterprise value for Ghana Telecom of approximately US$1.3 billion...

Celtel Targets Rural Market With New Offer

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Africa Correspondent
Category: Wireless Networks
04 July 2008
9557 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Celtel
Mobile telephone service providers look set to extend their turf battles to the rural areas, where the cost factor is the only lure for consumers...

Morocco define Broadband Strategy with Cisco assistance

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2008
12946 views
  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Morocco

Internet Business Solutions Group, the consulting arm of Cisco has entered into a partnership with the Moroccan government to boost economic development and accelerate digital transformation...

Kenya to get new VSAT network

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Category: Satellite Networks
02 July 2008
11051 views
  • Satellite
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Technology
  • SkyEdge II
Kenyan businesses are to get a new VSAT network to deliver high quality voice, broadband data and video services...

BPL takes Redknee IPRC real-time rating and charging

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Category: Revenue & Billing
01 July 2008
9293 views
  • Billing
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Redknee
  • BPL
BPL, the leading Indian wireless operator, is to install Redknee's IPRC real-time rating and charging solution...

Huawei launches new terminals to help operators boost 3G business

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Category: Devices & Platforms
01 July 2008
8809 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Huawei
  • Technology
Leading Chinese vendor Huawei launched an array of new products at the recent Communicasia exhibition in Singapore including its latest HSPA USB stick, 3G phones and an HSDPA gateway...

Leading Indian equipment vendor buys Finnish Openbit

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Category: Wireless Networks
30 June 2008
12225 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Acquisitions
  • Mobile Payments
  • Tanla
Tanla, a leading provider of Telecom infrastructure headquartered in Hyderabad, India has announced its acquisition of Openbit, of Tampere, Finland for $US18.6 million...

Baidu new Instant Messaging Service will offer Video

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
11411 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Baidu
Baidu.com, the largest Chinese language internet search engine, is launching an instant messaging application with real-time video chat as it aims to hold on to its top spot...

Redknee Launches Voucherless Top-Up Solution for Pre-Paid Wireless Subscribers

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
10396 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Redknee
  • Lebanon
Redknee has announced the launch of Mobile Money Airtime Reseller which enables completely voucherless, pre-paid wireless airtime top-up. This addresses the needs of many high-growth / emerging market operators and subscribers...

New name for industry body as DSL Forum becomes Broadband Forum

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 June 2008
11147 views
  • Global
  • Broadband Forum
As industry convergence and triple play take root, the DSL Forum has decided on a new name and identity which it feels reflects its current role more accurately...

On-demand text banking steps closer in 200 countries with new partnership

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Category: Mobile Finance
26 June 2008
8499 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Banking
S1 Enterprise Corporation, a provider of software for financial and payment services and Clickatell have announced a partnership to provide an on-demand text-based banking service which will be available to companies in more than 200 countries...

ITU calls for harmonised 116 111 global child helpline number

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
26 June 2008
7915 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • Child Helpline
Children around the world will more easily call for support, counselling and intervention, thanks to the new global child helpline number being advocated by the ITU...

SwissQual technology is a turn off

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Category: Devices & Platforms
25 June 2008
8608 views
  • Global
  • Network Optimisation
  • Handsets

SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing...

ELVA-1 modifies PPC-1000 Gb radio link for Czech ISP JHComp

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 June 2008
12361 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • Ethernet
The Millimeter Wave Division of ELVA-1 has announced another installation of its specially modified PPC-1000 Gb Ethernet mm-wave link for Czech ISP JHComp. Both residential and business customers will benefit from Internet and voice service improvements...

Cutting the Cost of Transmission in Emerging Markets

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Category: Wireless Networks
24 June 2008
9411 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Malaysia
  • Altobridge
  • MNO

Despite significant advances to drive down capital costs for Mobile Network Operators, several key challenges still remain before the digital divide is able to be fully bridged. Transmission costs stand out as the No.1 barrier...

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