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SWANSAT canvasses for support from Africa

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Category: Satellite Networks
17 December 2007
7308 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Swansat
  • GSO
SWANSAT - the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite - first proposed as a satellite based service in 2003, aims to provide low cost voice and data services using a constellation of four high powered geosynchronous orbit (GSO) telecommunications satellites...

Cisco Announces Comprehensive IPTV Strategy for Asia Pacific

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 December 2007
9970 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cisco
  • Singapore
  • IPTV

Cisco has announced its strategy to help service providers in Asia Pacific deliver an end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solution...

Africa abolishes roaming claims Zain with new One Network

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 December 2007
12153 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Roaming
  • Zain
  • Sudan
  • Nigeria
  • Malawi
  • Niger
  • ONE NETWORK
  • Chad
Zain subsidiary Celtel International has announced the extension of its "One Network", the world's first borderless mobile network in Africa, to six more countries. The network now connects 400 million people across 12 countries...

Airwide, American Telecommunication Holdings extend into Latin America

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 December 2007
9059 views
  • Latin America
Airwide Solutions, which provides next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, has entered into an agreement with American Telecommunication Holdings to resell Airwide products throughout Latin America...

Bashcell opts for convergent solution

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Category: Service Management
30 November 2007
8803 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • GSM
  • Convergent Billing
Bashcell, a telecoms company dating from 1998 in the Bashkortostan Republic, has signed a contract for supply, implementation, and technical support of the end-to-end convergent IT solution...

Tyntec launches Supernet SMS-C architecture

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
30 November 2007
9320 views
  • Global
  • tyntec
What is described as the world's first distributed SMS-C architecture which "brings increased resilience and throughput to the messaging infrastructure marketplace" has been launched...

Two new gems convey sophistication and style in 3G (Nokia are at it again)

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Category: Devices & Platforms
30 November 2007
9030 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Handsets
Nokia has unveiled a premium pair of handsets aimed at the most discerning and style-conscious consumers. The company's accompanying press release, in common with one or two other Nokia announcements we have published, has attracted our attention. So here goes...

VoIP over 3G set to top 250 million in five years

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
27 November 2007
7336 views
  • Global
  • 3G
  • VoIP
A major rise in VoIP over 3G (VoIPo3G) will take place in the next five years according to a report by London-based Disruptive Analysis. Growth will be driven not only by wireless carriers but also by a number of independent challengers...

Ericsson, Altobridge partner to meet demand for Radio Base Station Local Switching

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Category: Wireless Networks
27 November 2007
11374 views
  • Global
  • Ericsson
  • Base Stations
  • Altobridge
  • GSM
Designed to "enable global mobile operators to drive down transmission costs" and to attain a "huge cost-saving impact on community-centric, low-ARPU/high-growth markets" a recent agreement has been signed by Ericsson and Altobridge...

Seeker Wireless launches revenue cannibalisation calculator

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Category: Revenue & Billing
26 November 2007
6022 views
  • Global

Poor accuracy in location technology is costing millions for Fixed Mobile Substitution operators. Seeker Wireless is releasing a cannibalisation calculator and a detailed study to highlight the loss in revenues operators can suffer...

Anite wins first WiMAX Forum approval for protocol test solutions

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Category: Service Management
26 November 2007
15275 views
  • Test and Measurement
  • Global
  • WiMAX
  • Anite

Anite's WiMAX Protocol Conformance Toolset has become the industry's first protocol test solution to be successfully validated by the WiMAX Forum for certifying the latest Fixed WiMAX devices to Wave 2 specifications...

Upaid launches Serbian national payment service

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Category: Mobile Finance
15 November 2007
9544 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Visa
  • Serbia
  • Mobile Payment
  • Upaid
Mobile payments specialist Upaid has launched its Mobile Payment Service (MPS) marketing campaign across Serbia. Including all three mobile operators and ten banks in Serbia, this national launch expands the service started in October 2006...

Two key WiMAX players pull out of projects

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Category: Wireless Networks
15 November 2007
9330 views
  • Global
  • WiMAX
  • Clearwire
  • Sprint Nextel
Supporters of WiMAX have been left disappointed by the fact that Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp will not now be building a WiMAX-based wireless network...

Egyptian TA Telecom signs mobile services agreement with UK-based Shazam Entertainment

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
09 November 2007
10589 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Egypt
Mobile music specialist Shazam and Egyptian telecom provider TA Telecom today announced an agreement which will see Shazam Music Discovery enable all TA Telecom customers discover and purchase new tracks as they are heard via mobile music recognition...

Bharti Airtel chooses NDS for new digital satellite project

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 November 2007
11237 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Bharti Airtel
  • NDS
  • digital satellite
India’s cellular operator Bharti Airtel has chosen technology from NDS for its new digital satellite platform...

CBOSS Technologies Enable 3G Services in GEOCELL

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CBOSS Corporation
Category: Service Management
31 October 2007
14244 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Customer Care
  • CBOSS
  • Georgia
  • GEOCELL
GEOCELL, the leading GSM operator of Georgia, launched 3G services based on the convergent solution from CBOSS...

Nokia, Reuters team up for mobile reporting breakthrough

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
31 October 2007
8086 views
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Multimedia
  • Reuters

Reuters is currently working with the Nokia Research Centre to develop a mobile application which will enable journalists to file and publish text, photo, audio and video news stories from handheld devices rather than laptops...

Fibre-Optic Association creates end-user-friendly website

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
31 October 2007
7613 views
  • Cable
  • Global
  • Education
  • Fibre-Optic

Designed to assist users of fibre-optic communications systems, the Fibre-Optic Association's new website is designed to help these very users plan and install fibre-optic communications systems...

Industry coalition rejects C-Band re-allocation after WiMAX interference during tests

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Category: Satellite Networks
31 October 2007
7521 views
  • Global
  • WiMAX
  • C-Band
Reports of severe WiMAX interference during tests conducted simultaneously with satellite tests have led a global industry coalition to argue against re-allocating C-Band spectrum...

Zimbabwe's Econet Wireless upgrades revenue assurance & fraud management

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Category: Revenue & Billing
31 October 2007
12519 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Revenue Assurance
  • Zimbabwe
  • Econet
  • Fraud Management

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Uganda flood victims receive ITU telecoms links; ITU launches Saving Lives meeting

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
31 October 2007
12149 views
  • Rural
  • Satellite
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • ITU
  • Uganda
  • Flooding
ITU has deployed 25 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of severe floods that have affected the eastern and northern regions of Uganda...

Spirit launches TeamSpirit Voice & Video engine

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
31 October 2007
14546 views
  • Global
  • Voice
  • Video
  • IMS
  • SPIRIT
Aimed at cable, telco and broadband service providers worldwide, Spirit's TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine PC Version 3.0 is designed to factor in a rapid time-to-market along with what it calls "unprecedented voice and video quality"...

Subex Azure meets revenue assurance challenges from Latin America

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Category: Service Management
26 October 2007
9625 views
  • Latin America
  • Revenue Assurance
  • Analysys
  • Subex Azure
Subex Azure Ltd is meeting the challenges arising from Analysys Research’s report "Global Operator Attitudes to Revenue Management"...

NSN will bring broadband to 7,000 Indian villages

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
26 October 2007
13604 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Broadband
  • NSN
  • BSNL

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s largest telecoms service provider, to deploy broadband access across 7,000 Indian villages...

Competitive advantages and profitability in India's liberalised market

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Georgia Hanias
Category: Trends & Forecasts
25 October 2007
12153 views
  • OSS
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Competition
India’s telecoms industry is now confronting its biggest challenges, with major investments in OSS Systems. Georgia Hanias draws on her vast experience of the Indian telecoms market to explain how new technologies can help India progress towards becoming a key telecoms player worldwide...

Cisco boosts Polish, Hungarian medical services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 October 2007
10527 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Cisco
  • Poland
  • Hungary
  • Health
Cisco's announcements from Eastern Europe, following the tenth anniversary of Cisco Networking Academy in Turkey, confirm the company's belief that network technology is the key to global advancement for emerging markets...

ITU satellite terminals restore Bangladeshi commmunications post-monsoon

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Category: Satellite Networks
16 October 2007
6642 views
  • Central South Asia
  • ITU
  • Bangladesh

Thirty satellite terminals deployed by ITU have helped restore vital communication links in remote and underserved areas of Bangladesh, a country recently ravaged by floods...

C&W chooses NSN for US$40 million NGN Caribbean deal

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Category: Service Management
15 October 2007
10203 views
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Nokia
  • C&W
  • Siemens

Nokia Siemens Networks has been named Cable & Wireless' preferred supplier of Release 4 and Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture. The announcement follows the awarding of a US$40 million contract for the modernisation of C&W's Caribbean networks.

Experts use ITU to promote roadmap to cyber-security, fight cyber-crime

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Category: Revenue & Billing
09 October 2007
7868 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • Cyber-Security
  • crime

Experts from around the world have gathered at ITU headquarters in Geneva to lay the foundation for a global response to the constantly evolving nature of cyber-threats and the increasing level of sophistication of cyber-crimes. Their strategy is based on a roadmap which will promote cyber-security from the start - a case of prevention rather than cure...

Movilnet selects Comverse for Venezuelan billing and mobile internet gateway

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Category: Revenue & Billing
04 October 2007
12802 views
  • Billing
  • Latin America
  • Venezuela
  • Comverse
  • Movilnet
Telecomunicaciones Movilnet CA, a mobile operator in Venezuela, will expand its existing use of Comverse billing solutions by deploying Comverse's Real-Time Billing Solution and by leveraging its real-time marketing capabilities...

Warid Telecom selects Motorola for Uganda WiMAX deployment

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Category: Wireless Networks
02 October 2007
13004 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Uganda
  • WiMAX
  • Motorola
  • Warid

Warid Telecom Uganda, part of Abu Dhabi based Warid Telecom International, has selected Motorola to design and deploy an 802.16e WiMAX network in Uganda...

Montenegro newcomer chooses Comverse converged billing

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Category: Revenue & Billing
02 October 2007
8945 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Comverse
  • Converged Billing
  • Montenegro
  • MTEL
MTEL, Montenegro's latest mobile operator, has selected Comverse's Converged Billing Suite as well as several value-added services in order to deploy a complete suite which includes Voicemail, SMS, MMS and Call Completion solutions. The suite of services is powered by Comverse's InSight Open Services Environment...

CenterTelecom, Alvarion move Central Russia towards WiMAX

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
25 September 2007
10415 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Alvarion
  • WiMAX

Alvarion is strengthening its presence in the fast-growing market that is Central Russia. Its BreezeMAX system has been selected by inter-regional operator CenterTelecom for WiMAX Deployment in the country’s Central Federal District...

Vital communication links restored by ITU after Peru quake

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Humanitarian Comms
25 September 2007
10653 views
  • Latin America
  • Peru
  • Satellite terminals
  • Earthquake

Following the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale that struck Southern Peru on 15 August 2007, ITU deployed 50 satellite terminals to help restore communication links in remote and underserved areas...

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