Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 July 2008; 12959 views

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...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 02 July 2008; 11065 views

Kenyan businesses are to get a new VSAT network to deliver high quality voice, broadband data and video services...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 01 July 2008; 9307 views

BPL, the leading Indian wireless operator, is to install Redknee's IPRC real-time rating and charging solution...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 01 July 2008; 8825 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 30 June 2008; 12238 views

Tanla, a leading provider of Telecom infrastructure headquartered in Hyderabad, India has announced its acquisition of Openbit, of Tampere, Finland for $US18.6 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11421 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 10400 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11156 views

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...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 26 June 2008; 8508 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 June 2008; 7926 views

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...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 June 2008; 8616 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 June 2008; 12367 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 June 2008; 9426 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 June 2008; 10438 views

The Arab Advisors Group publishes a yearly update on the rates of connectivity within the various Arab countries. this year broadband and fixed services have played their part alongside mobile in fueling substantial improvements in connectivity rates...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 17 June 2008; 9108 views

Vodacom Tanzania began trials of Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection solution to connect rural and suburban communities earlier this year, following a successful development by NSN in India...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 11 June 2008; 7895 views

For Orange Moldova, 2007 was a year of change - not only did the company, formerly known as SA Voxtel, adopt its new name, but it saw a massive boom in traffic, market share, penetration and multimedia. The changes required by this rebranding to Orange Moldova, as well as the this tremendous shift in the magnitude of business, were supported by CBOSS Corporation...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 10365 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. Key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 6896 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 11 June 2008; 11112 views

Aperto Networks has announced that Icosnet has deployed a WiMAX network using PacketMAX 5000 base stations and PacketMAX 100 subscriber units. There is a strong commercial aspect of the contract, whose customers will initially at least be businesses, banks and energy companies...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 June 2008; 11574 views

No fewer than 30 countries lie in the South Pacific region. Some are established players, such as Australia. Others are tiny specks of rock. Together they form Oceania...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 10 June 2008; 10383 views

Telco operators in China are counting the economic as well as the human cost of the country's recent earthquakes. A financial total of over US$1 billion is almost certain...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 June 2008; 8307 views

Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 June 2008; 6808 views

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 10 June 2008; 7810 views

RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 06 June 2008; 8401 views

Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has announced it will collaborate with Cisco to identify areas in which Cisco networking technologies and solutions can benefit the MIC's quest to accelerate the socio-economic development of Vietnam...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 June 2008; 10772 views

Russia is set to dominate the pay TV sector in Eastern Europe with a 50% share of the market by 2012. This prediction is made by Screen Digest in its latest media analysis. The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 05 June 2008; 9938 views

Running simultaneously with ITU's relief work in Myanmar, the ITU is deploying satellite terminals in quake-hit China. Some 100 terminals are helping China get communication links back up and running in the Sichuan Province...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 05 June 2008; 11191 views

Alcatel-Lucent is heavily involved in the efforts to help those suffering from the effects of the Chinese earthquake. The company has 10,000 employees in China with 500 in Chengdu, little more than 100 miles from the epicentre of the quake...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 26 May 2008; 9104 views

In support of the ITU's "Connect Africa" initiative, the global satellite communications sector plans to double the number of earth station terminals operating in the region by 2012, empowering more than 1 billion Africans located in under-served rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout the continent. To support this growth, more than 20 satellites will be brought into service to connect Africa during the next five years...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 26 May 2008; 26255 views

A study examining the impact the SAT-3 fibre-optic submarine cable has had on telecommunications in four African countries has found that the potential of this major cable has not been properly exploited. Instead, ownership of the cable by telecoms incumbents in the countries researched has reinforced their market positions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 May 2008; 16188 views

Aircom International, a mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has won a contract with Vietnamese mobile network operator Vinaphone to provide RF network planning, design support and surveying activities for the expansion of Vinaphone's GSM 900 network...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 20 May 2008; 9740 views

Messaging company Acision is outlining a five-step strategy to achieve increased messaging revenue. The company's predictions forecast doubled revenue in thee years time. Acision, the messaging company, has forecast mobile messaging revenues of US$165 billion globally by 2011, 200% higher than previous industry predictions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 11579 views

Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 12837 views

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the contract by Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network in Libya...

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