Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 April 2008; 10009 views

WiMAX suffered a major setback when the partnership between US operator Sprint Nextel, one of the technology's strongest advocates, and wireless high-speed Internet service provider Clearwire fell apart in November 2007. Now a new frontrunner has emerged with ambitious plans that may strengthen the case for WiMAX...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 06 April 2008; 8435 views

The FOA has created a new certification programme covering "Fiber Optic Network Design"...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 06 April 2008; 13371 views

The 200,000 fisherman that work on Lake Victoria will soon be using mobile phones to call for help if they get into trouble on the world's second largest inland lake. In an initiative coordinated by the GSMA's Development Fund, mobile networks will be expanded to cover Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, fuelling economic and social development of the lakeside communities and potentially reducing the number of fishing-related deaths each year...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 9774 views

GyPSii, the geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 April 2008; 9766 views

As projects continue in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Andrew Wireless Solutions is helping to ensure wireless coverage is well up to standard in Beijing Metro's six rail lines...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 03 April 2008; 11302 views

The ITU has deployed 25 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of severe floods that have inundated low-lying districts across Zambia. A total of 3,418 homes and 44 schools collapsed as a result of heavy rainfall, and ensuing floods have destroyed roads and communication links, hampering the coordination and delivery of assistance...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 April 2008; 7889 views

Veraz Networks recently announced the availability of its latest Network-adaptive Border Controller, the next generation of Session Border Controllers (SBC)...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 8111 views

Colibria, the leading new generation provider of mobile instant messaging (MIM) and Presence-enabled solutions, recently announced availability of its Colibria Lite client to support low cost Java based handset growth in emerging markets...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 8425 views

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Sonus Networks has announced the latest release of its industry-leading software. Sonus 7.1 which claims to deliver a new levels of IP-voice capability...

Details: Category: Service Management; 03 April 2008; 10091 views

China Unicom, one of the largest mobile carriers in the world, has deployed the marketing delivery platform from Pontis to enable them to plan and deliver marketing offers tailored to their customers' needs...

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 03 April 2008; 7265 views

Better Energy Systems recently announced two new handheld solar power systems...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 29 March 2008; 8959 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; 10027 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; 9565 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; 7586 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; 10716 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; 8238 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; 9620 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; 10170 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; 11340 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; 9030 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; 7685 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; 7188 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; 10872 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; 9000 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; 7914 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; 7390 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; 8789 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; 9999 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; 9805 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; 11587 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; 8551 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; 9503 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; 8394 views

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