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 1^st August 2008...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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