Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9271 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8369 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 15 February 2008; 8620 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 9361 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 11694 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 9276 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 11933 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8580 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; 9025 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; 8958 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; 9022 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; 9343 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; 10884 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; 10148 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; 13176 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; 11002 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; 7327 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; 17051 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; 10325 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; 10201 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; 12713 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; 13369 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; 9789 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; 14589 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; 11404 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; 10037 views

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

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 10230 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; 12639 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; 16734 views

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

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 9728 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; 18377 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; 10511 views

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

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 9021 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; 132252 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...

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