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Synchronica distribution deal with global mobile solutions leader Brightstar

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
09 March 2008
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  • Global
  • Brightstar
  • Synchronica
  • Push Email
  • Mobile Gateway
  • Distribution
Fast growing Synchronica has announced a worldwide agreement with Brightstar Corp for distribution of its award-winning mobile push email and synchronization technology Mobile Gateway. The company has also demonstrated its commitment to emerging markets by announcing it has raised an additional US$3.9 million to further fund its push into emerging markets...

Tata Communications Expands Global VPN Services to China Through Partnership with China Entercom

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
09 March 2008
11319 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Tata
  • Integration
  • VPN
Tata Communications leading provider of a new world of communications, announced today the expansion of its Global VPN service to China through an NNI agreement with China Enterprise Netcom Corporation Limited, a value-added telecommunication services and integrated IT solutions provider and subsidiary of CITIC...  

Digit Wireless Fastap Keypad Technology Receives Chinese Market Certification for Text Input

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 March 2008
9007 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • SMS
  • China
  • Fastap
Digit Wireless, Inc. has announced its Fastap technology has been certified under the Chinese text-entry standard GF 3006 2001 Standard Scheme of Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Input with Universal Keypad by China's State Language Commission...

Fastap Hindi Language Platform Slated to Revolutionise India Mobile Market

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 March 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Fastap
Digit Wireless, Inc. was selected by the HeadStart 2008 Organization in India as one of 2008's leading innovators of mobile technology entering the Indian market. The HeadStart award recognizes Digit Wireless as a company pioneering interface innovation in mobility and communications with its cutting edge Fastap Hindi Language Platform...

Starhome Showcases Solutions to Monitor and Control Roaming Voice and Data Charges at MWC

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Category: Revenue & Billing
07 March 2008
7169 views
  • Global
  • Roaming
  • Starhome
Starhome has exhibited its latest roaming solutions to provide users with greater transparency of roaming costs at the Mobile World Congress. The new releases of Roam in Control and Data Charge Advisor offer users the ability to receive real-time notification of roaming charges to monitor and control roaming costs and allow operators to comply with the latest EU legislation for outbound roamers to receive notification of roaming charges on arrival in a new country...

UN-Vodafone Partnership to aid emergency communications

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
07 March 2008
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  • Global
  • Vodafone
  • UN
  • Disaster Response
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), The Vodafone Group Foundation, and the United Nations Foundation announced today a ground-breaking "global partnership for emergency communications". The partnership will increase the effectiveness of the information and communications technology (ICT) response to major emergencies and disasters around the world...

Wayfinder enters South America with Movistar

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 March 2008
8983 views
  • Latin America
  • Chile
  • Navigation
  • GPS
This week, Wayfinder's award winning navigation services are being launched in Chile through the mobile operator Movistar. This is Wayfinder's first entry into the South American market...

TTI Telecom & TechnoServ agree on OSS marketing

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Category: Service Management
03 March 2008
7895 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
Team Telecom International, which supplies Operations Support Systems to communications service providers, has signed a partnership agreement with TechnoServ A/S, a Russian company dedicated to system integration, IT services and creation of engineering facilities...

Spice Corporation launches sub-US$20 phone

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Category: Devices & Platforms
03 March 2008
7361 views
  • Devices
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Low-cost Phones
Spice Corporation, an Indian telecoms company, launched several products at the Mobile World Congress 2008. In particular, it claims to be marketing what it calls "The Peoples' Phone - probably the world's cheapest phone at under US$20 to the consumer"...

Mobile ULC2 Alliance claims world's lowest-cost smart entry phone

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Category: Devices & Platforms
03 March 2008
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  • Devices
  • Global
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Low Cost Phones
Claiming that it will play a real part in bridging the Digital Divide, an alliance of hardware and software vendors took the opportunity of the Mobile World Congress to announce that they had joined up to develop the world's lowest-cost smart entry phone that can enable email and web-based messaging functions...

Global Mediacom adopts NSN for Indonesian mobile TV

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
26 February 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • NSN
  • Indonesia
  • Mobile TV
  • DVB-H
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will be delivering its largest-ever Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) agreement in a contract with Global Mediacom designed to being a mobile TV network to Indonesia...

Wake up and get your ICT right - that means Eastern Europe

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
26 February 2008
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • NSN
  • ICT
London Business School Professor Leonard Waverman and global economic consulting firm LECG have published a pioneering - and very revealing - report in to the efficiency of governments and business when it comes to ICT.

North Korea signs up Orascom 3G, invests US$400 million

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Category: Wireless Networks
26 February 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • North Korea
  • GSM
  • Orascom
North Korea, despite its reputation for being autocratic and backward, does boast an existing GSM network. It is centered around the capital city Pyongyang. In recent years but have been difficult to tell whether the number of mobile subscribers has increased or decreased but it is generally agreed that investment can only benefit the country...

Broadway signs comprehensive agreement to launch GyPSii into India

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
22 February 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • GyPSii
GyPSii, the world's leading geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, has signed an agreement with Broadway Pvt. Ltd., to offer the full suite of GyPSii services to the world's second largest and fastest growing mobile market with 233 million mobile subscribers and growing at a monthly rate of over 8 million...

WIN launch fully managed content service Magti Fun for MagtiCom

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
22 February 2008
9488 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Georgia
  • WIN Plc
  • MagtiCom
WIN plc, specialists in interactive mobile entertainment and information, and MagtiCom, with more than one million subscribers, the largest mobile operator in Georgia, together announced the launch of Magti Fun, a fully managed content service portal provided by WIN...

WIN launch fully managed content service Magti Fun for MagtiCom

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
22 February 2008
8366 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Georgia
  • WIN Plc
  • MagtiCom
WIN plc, specialists in interactive mobile entertainment and information, and MagtiCom, with more than one million subscribers, the largest mobile operator in Georgia, together announced the launch of Magti Fun, a fully managed content service portal provided by WIN...

Machine-to-Machine Communications Provides Mobile Operators with Revenue Generating Opportunities

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Category: Revenue & Billing
22 February 2008
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  • Global
  • M2M
Network revenue from machine-to-machine communications is projected to grow at three times the rate of the mobile handset business, according to Harbor Research. With typical per-dollar revenue profit margins for cellular M2M services also considerably higher than the handset market, operators investing now can benefit from this growth opportunity...

AdaptiveMobile Launch Parental Controls for Mobile Devices using Cisco's Service Exchange Framework

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
22 February 2008
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  • Global
  • AdaptiveMobile
  • Parental Controls
AdaptiveMobile, the leading provider of mobile subscriber protection for enterprises and individuals, today unveiled a powerful set of parental controls that operate across any mobile device, network or technology. The solution, which combines the AdaptiveMobile Policy Control Framework with the Cisco Service Exchange Framework...

Jasper Wireless Expands Global Coverage with Signed Operator Partnerships in More Than 45 Countries

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Category: Service Management
22 February 2008
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  • Global
  • M2M
  • Jasper Wireless
Jasper Wireless, the licensed global machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile operator, has announced that it has signed operator partnership agreements in over 45 European, American and African countries...

IDEA Cellular Selects Oracle's Siebel CRM to Provide Service to Pre- and Post-Paid Customers

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
21 February 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • Oracle
  • India
  • Idea Cellular
  • Siebel CRM
Oracle today announced that IDEA Cellular Limited, a leading mobile operator in India and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM to deliver a unique customer service experience to pre- and post-paid mobile subscribers across its entire operations in India...

Polkomtel Selects Oracle to Enhance Customer Experience

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Category: Service Management
19 February 2008
9379 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Poland
  • Polkomtel
  • Siebel CRM
Oracle today announced that Polkomtel, a leading mobile provider in Poland, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, Oracle Communications Service Activation and Oracle Communications Inventory Management to help improve operational efficiency, enhance customer service and enable rapid deployment of next-generation services...

Turkey's prepaid market-leader migrates entire prepaid portfolio onto Digitalk IP platform

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
19 February 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • VoIP
  • Digitalk
Millenicom, Turkey's largest calling card and call shop operator, has migrated its entire prepaid services portfolio onto the Digitalk Media Application Server (MAS), providing a full set of turnkey value-added features and applications on the multiservice platform.

RAD Unveils Market's First Cell Site Gateway for Simultaneous Backhaul over SHDSL and ADSL2+

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Category: Wireless Networks
19 February 2008
8793 views
  • Backhaul
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • RAD
RAD Data Communications has unveiled its fully "future-proof" ACE-3205 cell site gateway. "RAD's ACE-3205 cell site gateway is triply unique," says Gaby Junowicz, Director of Business Development at RAD Data Communications...

MTS and Microsoft to Work Together to Deliver Mobile Services Across Russia and CIS

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
19 February 2008
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • MTS
  • Microsoft
  • CIS
  • Mobile TeleSystems OJSC
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC , the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, and Microsoft Corp today announced their co-operation to deliver new mobile communications services for MTS customers. The collaboration is aimed at extending the range of products in MTS' market-leading portfolio of value-added services...

Redknee to Provide Turnkey Converged Billing to Inmarsat

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Category: Revenue & Billing
19 February 2008
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  • Global
  • Redknee
  • Inmarsat
  • Converged Billing
Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it has been selected by Inmarsat plc. to provide a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution...

End2End provides fully managed Content Retailing Solution to Vodafone Turkey

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Category: Service Management
19 February 2008
10351 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Turkey
  • Content
  • End2End
  • Retail
Vodafone Turkey, Turkey's second largest mobile operator, has successfully launched End2End's fully outsourced Content Retailing Solution replacing Vodafone Turkey's previous platform service...

ZTE demonstrates 5.76Mbps HSUPA at GSMA Mobile World Congress

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Category: Wireless Networks
19 February 2008
9411 views
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • HSPA
  • Technology
ZTE demonstrated the company's newly IOT (Inter Operability Testing) tested 5.76Mbps HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) network equipment at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008, following the successful launch of ZTE's 7.2Mbps HSDPA/2Mbps HSUPA network equipment at China's PT/Wireless & Networks Comm exhibition in October last year...

ZTE Showcases Industry's First SDR Base Station at GSMA Mobile World Congress

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Category: Wireless Networks
19 February 2008
9260 views
  • Global
  • ZTE
  • Technology

ZTE has launched the ZXGW B8036 SDR (Software Defined Radio) base station. The ZXGW B8036, the world's first pre-commercial SDR base station, supports GSM and WCDMA simultaneously within software...

Redknee to Provide Real-Time Messaging Rating and Charging Solution To Vietnamese GSM Operator

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Category: Service Management
15 February 2008
8364 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Redknee
  • Vietnam
  • Mobifone

Redknee Solutions has announced that it has been selected by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company to provide a real-time messaging rating and charging solution. VMS, operating under the brand name MobiFone, is a GSM service provider with the largest market share (approximately 39%) in Vietnam...

Redknee Introduces Rating and Charging Innovation

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Category: Revenue & Billing
15 February 2008
8612 views
  • Billing
  • Global
  • Redknee
Redknee Solutions, a leading provider of innovative software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, has announced the launch of IP Rating and Charging (IPRC) 5.0...

Max Telecom Completes First Phase of Nationwide WiMAX Rollout in Bulgaria

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Category: Wireless Networks
15 February 2008
9355 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Bulgaria
  • WiMAX
Max Telecom today announced it has completed the first phase of its WiMAX rollout in Bulgaria, using the Cisco AE Mobile WiMAX technology paired with its access and aggregation solutions. Max Telecom plans to expand coverage to 90 percent of Bulgaria's population by the end of 2009...

GTI launches Africa's largest commercial WiMAX network in Algeria

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Category: Wireless Networks
15 February 2008
11687 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • WiMAX
Galaxia Telecom International PLC, the telecom integrator and operator specializing in the innovation and deployment of wireless broadband technologies, has announced the listing of the company's shares on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the launch of its first mass market WiMAX network in Algeria...

Kirusa enables world's first exchange of Voice SMS messages across mobile networks and vendors

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
15 February 2008
9254 views
  • Central South Asia
  • SMS
  • Pakistan
  • Kirusa
  • GSM
Kirusa, the world's leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services, has demonstrated the world's first exchange of Voice SMS messages between diverse carriers using different Voice SMS systems...

Essel launches Indian mobile video portal via BSNL

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
15 February 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Video
  • BSNL
Essel Group, India's largest entertaiment/media conglomerate, has turned to the expertise of U-Turn Media to break into the mobile portal market in Northern India. The Group will be working with wireless operator BSNL...

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