Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 August 2008; 8333 views

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.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 August 2008; 10091 views

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.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 01 August 2008; 9014 views

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.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 August 2008; 9532 views

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.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 01 August 2008; 9889 views

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.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 01 August 2008; 9381 views

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.

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 28 July 2008; 11005 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 25 July 2008; 9579 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 July 2008; 8273 views

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...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 9814 views

Colibria, which provides new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and presence-enabled solutions, has launched its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Instant Messaging Server...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 8216 views

Sogeti, a member of Capgemini Group, has announced that it will open a global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 July 2008; 10926 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 23 July 2008; 8759 views

Cornet-AM, an Internet services provider and part of the Comstar Group, has finished building the Republic of Armenia's first mobile WiMAX network...

Details: Category: Regulation; 23 July 2008; 10736 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 July 2008; 8006 views

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...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 22 July 2008; 7761 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 21 July 2008; 10718 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 21 July 2008; 10828 views

Redknee Solutions has sold its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution to Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, which is a government-owned communications service provider in Africa...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 21 July 2008; 9874 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 July 2008; 9121 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 18 July 2008; 10641 views

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

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 July 2008; 9064 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 16 July 2008; 8030 views

Commtouch, which specialises combating Internet fraud, has released its 2Q08 Email Threats Trend Report...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 16 July 2008; 11771 views

Shyam Telelink, the Indian subsidiary of Sistema, has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 July 2008; 11317 views

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...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 15 July 2008; 9324 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 15 July 2008; 8943 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 July 2008; 9139 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 09 July 2008; 9819 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 July 2008; 7779 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 July 2008; 13518 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 07 July 2008; 9704 views

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...

Details: Category: Investment; 07 July 2008; 12566 views

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...

Details: Africa Correspondent; Category: Wireless Networks; 04 July 2008; 9568 views

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...

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