Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8573 views

A group of leading software players has recognised the need for greater monetisation of mobile network resources, supported by highly flexible advertising campaigns . The Mobile Advertising Alliance has chosen the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona to publicise its launch...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9019 views

Enhanced results for users of European Space Agency services are the intention of recent collaboration between ESA and World Telecom Labs, the Brussels-based maufacturer of VoIP equipment...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 February 2008; 8951 views

Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners, of Cleveland, Ohio has purchased the Satellite Communications Division of Andrew Corporation. Andrew Corporation, the CommScope subsidiary, has completed the sale of its Satellite Communications business to Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9015 views

A DVB-H trial by Latvian Mobile Telephone is using Thomson's Management and Encoding System. Thomson's Mobile TV solutions are being demonstrated during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 February 2008; 9339 views

Cisco and Personeta have announced that the two companies are delivering a fixed-mobile converged voice solution to Globul, the fastest-growing mobile operator in Bulgaria...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 February 2008; 10869 views

Kuwait's private sector has experienced its highest ever net profits posting, thanks to mobile operator Zain...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 February 2008; 10142 views

Better planning and more efficient networks are the promise of Aircom International's ASSET system. ASSET is now more widely available thanks to a recent distribution agreement for the Asia-Pacific region. AIRCOM will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Details: Dr. Nicolae Oaca; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2008; 13169 views

Orange and Vodafone are winners in the contest for the last two 3G licenses in Romania. At least that is how it now appears, in a story which has lessons for regulators and operators in emerging markets worldwide...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 27 January 2008; 10997 views

The 2008 International Aid + Trade Event brings together the global humanitarian relief, aid and development community to share knowledge and experience, improve coordination and communication, increase the effectiveness of aid response and humanitarian relief and embrace the challenge of integrated aid and development...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 27 January 2008; 7321 views

Talia, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet for North Africa and the Middle East, is launching its new 'Good Works' scheme at the 2008 International Aid + Trade conference in Geneva, Switzerland...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 17043 views

This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 27 January 2008; 10313 views

Moving to a VoIP paradigm presents real challenges for operators in the emerging markets. Developing Telecoms asked Yossi Ben Harosh, President & CEO, Telrad Networks, to outline some of the difficulties that can be expected - and to suggest the best way forward...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 10196 views

Fibre-optics professionals should be simplifying the classification of fibre-optics, particularly in the face of competition from copper products...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 12704 views

The imminent transfer of Algeria's telecoms services from state to private ownership is keenly anticipated. During the build-up to final roll-out revenues are expected to show substantial growth. The Arab Advisors Group has issued a report on this exciting issue...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 13359 views

Many of the Western European operators appear inward-looking, almost unwilling to look into overseas markets even when the latter make up the real areas of growth in the context of current global telecoms...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 27 January 2008; 9784 views

Subex, which specialises in OSS solutions, has released an enhanced version of its Prevea credit-risk management system...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 14581 views

Developing Telecoms reported last month that Zain was on its way to creating a roaming-free market in Africa, with a dozen countries all enjoying one single telecoms market. Since then, Zain has announced a single roaming-free market for its Middle East customers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 11399 views

SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As Lebanon’s telecoms market may well be on the way to liberalisation, Arab Advisory Group figures show that only 10% of GSM users do not use SMS...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 10029 views

Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 10223 views

Acision has announced that global SMS traffic was 30% higher over the 2008 New Year period when compared to the equivalent in 2007. People are obviously texting in the changes rather than ringing them in…

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 12624 views

Antenna Hungaria, T-Mobile Hungary, and Vodafone Hungary have all recently carried out trials for mobile television to DVB-H specifications...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 16730 views

Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 9721 views

JDSU has launched a short-range LAN OTDR to provide a testing combination of up to five wavelengths in both multi-mode and single-mode...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 January 2008; 18369 views

Telenor d.o.o., Serbia’s first mobile operator, has commissioned Nokia as sole supplier of its 3G radio network...

Details: Terence Trench, Upaid; Category: Mobile Finance; 08 January 2008; 10507 views

Mobile payments could explode into a US$22 billion market within the next three years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 9011 views

For most of the last century, Nauru relied on one source of income, phosphates. As is all too often the case with minerals, the primary resource exhausts itself, and as is all too often the case with a developing nation, there is no other source of income for its people...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 January 2008; 132244 views

Eleven years ago Dr William Welty founded the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite System project. Swansat initially applied to the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Republic of Nauru so as to operate a group of space stations in W-Band...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 10733 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been awarded a pan-Indian contract by Bharti Airtel to deploy a single Interactive Voice Response platform across all 23 of the latter's telecoms circles...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 10676 views

Operating as a telecoms service provider in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, GTS Central Europe has been sufficiently independent to run its own regional fibre network...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 December 2007; 7094 views

There is widespread shortage of high capacity connectivity in all segments of the African continent. A new consulting service based in Africa aims to address these issues...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 December 2007; 7913 views

A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 12597 views

Huawei Technologies, China's largest provider of Next Generation Telecoms networks (NGN) solutions has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit 3.0 to offer PC VoIP solutions to its operator and service provider customers...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 8416 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan Passenger-dedicated Line...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 December 2007; 10457 views

China Mobile Group Beijing has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its General Packet Radio Services core network. The expansion will help the millions of visitors to the Olympic games in 2008...

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