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Middle East leads fight against threats to mobile

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
15 July 2008
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  • 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
9144 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
9829 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
7784 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
13524 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
9707 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
12573 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
9573 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
12966 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
11070 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
9309 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
8832 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
12244 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
11421 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
10401 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
11160 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
8513 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
7926 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
8622 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
12370 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
9432 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...

UAE, Bahrain Saudi Arabia lead Arab World dash for telecoms

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 June 2008
10442 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • Arab Advisors
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...

Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection expands

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Category: Wireless Networks
17 June 2008
9111 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • NSN
  • Vodacom
  • Tanzania
  • Village Connection
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...

CBOSS Supports Re-branding of Orange Moldova

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Category: Revenue & Billing
11 June 2008
7902 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Markets
  • Orange Moldova
  • Mobile Network Providers
  • Moldova
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...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
10373 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
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...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
6903 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
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...

Aperto Packetmax selected by Icosnet for Algerian WiMAX network

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Category: Wireless Networks
11 June 2008
11115 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • WiMAX
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...

Networking the challenging markets of the South Pacific

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 June 2008
11579 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Digicel
  • Telikom PNG
  • Oceania
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...

Costs of China earthquake soar to US$1 billion

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
10 June 2008
10387 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Disaster Response
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...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
8310 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
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...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
6812 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
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...

RadioFrame iDEN offers more capacity for less energy

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
10 June 2008
7813 views
  • Global
  • Base Stations
RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...

Vietnam MIC explores role of technology in national transformation with Cisco

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
06 June 2008
8407 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cisco
  • Vietnam
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...

Russia to gain half Eastern Europe's pay TV by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 June 2008
10782 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Digital TV
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...

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