Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 29 March 2008; 8943 views

The ITU Regional Cyber-Security Forum recently ended with the adoption of the Doha Declaration on Cyber-Security. Recognising that cyber-security has global implications that need regional and international efforts as well as close collaboration between governments and industry, the Forum urges each country in the region to develop capabilities using a new ITU Cyber-Security Framework...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 March 2008; 10002 views

Liberalising telecoms in Saudi Arabia and conflict-torn Iraq will result in major growth markets for the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector. What is more, the Arabian Gulf ICT market is one of the fastest growing in the world, with Middle East telecoms and broadband Internet expected to generate US$70 billion in annual sales revenue by 2015. These are two claims by the organisers of Middle East Communications 2008...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 March 2008; 9544 views

GyPSii, a geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Dopod in China to provide location-based information and content features and services for use on mobile phones or via the Internet. The new services will be available to members of the Dopod Club...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 29 March 2008; 7556 views

After a series of major - and sometimes spectacular - failures in Internet services in the Middle East and Indian regions, FLAG Telecom (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) has undertaken the construction of a far stronger cable between Egypt and France...

Details: Category: Service Management; 29 March 2008; 10700 views

XIUS-bcgi, which aims to delivering revenue-generating solutions to mobile operators and MVNOs worldwide, along with the Bahraini-based International Agencies Company Limited, have announced that Zain Bahrain has deployed XIUS-bcgi's InstaRoam product to provide roaming service for start-up mobile operators...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 21 March 2008; 8214 views

ECI Telecom has unveiled a new converged framework for next-generation products, solutions and services. The company claims its new ECI 1Net supports smooth transition to Next-Generation Networks...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 March 2008; 9590 views

A new Networking Skills Gap study commissioned by Cisco has revealed a future gap of nearly 27 percent between supply and demand of Internetworking experts by 2010. The shortage equates to nearly 90,000 qualified professionals who would need to be trained before then to meet the expected demand...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 March 2008; 10145 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 March 2008; 11322 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 9014 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 7674 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 07 March 2008; 7173 views

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...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 07 March 2008; 10837 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 8988 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 03 March 2008; 7901 views

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...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 7368 views

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"...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 8774 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 February 2008; 9982 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 February 2008; 9788 views

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.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 February 2008; 11561 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8542 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 9493 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8372 views

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 February 2008; 8154 views

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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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8317 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 22 February 2008; 9804 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 21 February 2008; 14282 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 9392 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 9900 views

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.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 8801 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 12267 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 19 February 2008; 8729 views

Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it has been selected by Inmarsat plc. to provide a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 10358 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9419 views

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...

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