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Algeria's fixed, cellular revenues are projected to grow in lead to privatization

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
27 January 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • Privatisation
  • Arab Advisors
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...

WiMAX is lever to France Telecom plans for expansion

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
27 January 2008
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • 4G
  • Wireless
  • WiMAX
  • France Telecom
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...

Subex boosts Prevea credit risk management solution

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Category: Revenue & Billing
27 January 2008
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  • Revenue
  • Billing
  • Global
  • Customer Service
Subex, which specialises in OSS solutions, has released an enhanced version of its Prevea credit-risk management system...

Zain creates Mid-East roam-free zone, buys Iraqna, launches in Saudi via NSN

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 January 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mergers
  • Zain
  • Iraq
  • Saudi Arabia
 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...

Ninety percent of Lebanese GSM users send SMS; youth market tops nearly 96%

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 January 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • SMS
  • Lebanon
  • GSM

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...

Saudi Arabia Internet users spend over US$3 billion in B2C e-commerce in 2007

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 January 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia

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

Huge global growth in SMS continues over New Year - Acision

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 January 2008
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  • Global
  • SMS
  • Mobile
  • Acision

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…

Three Hungarian players run mobile TV trial over NSN

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 January 2008
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Vodafone
  • T-Mobile
  • Hungary
  • TV
  • DVB-H
  • Antenna Hungary

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

BRAVO goes live in Saudi Arabia with hybrid accounts

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Category: Service Management
08 January 2008
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  • Billing
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Interconnect
Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...

JDSU introduces multi-mode/single-mode OTDR with five-wavelength test capability

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Category: Service Management
08 January 2008
9744 views
  • Test and Measurement
  • Global
  • JDSU
  • LAN
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...

Telenor Srbija chooses Nokia 3G

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
08 January 2008
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Nokia
  • Serbia
  • Multimedia

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

Eastern Europe will lead Western Europe in mobile payments

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Terence Trench, Upaid
Category: Mobile Finance
08 January 2008
10518 views
  • Billing
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Commerce
  • Upaid
Mobile payments could explode into a US$22 billion market within the next three years...

Nauru: a tiny territory with large leverage

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
08 January 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • Broadband
  • Swansat
  • Nauru
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...

2Mb connection across the world - and for US$1 per month?

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Category: Satellite Networks
08 January 2008
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Broadband
  • Swansat
  • Nauru
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...

Bharti Airtel Awards Nokia Interactive Voice Response Deal

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Category: Service Management
08 January 2008
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  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • NSN
  • Bharti Airtel

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...

Private equity group to take over GTS Central Europe

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
08 January 2008
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
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...

Network design & consulting service from Africa

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Category: Service Management
20 December 2007
7109 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Network design
  • Consulting
  • High capacity connectivity
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...

One third of Saudi internet users utilize WiFi hotspots

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 December 2007
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • WiFi
A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...

China's largest NGN provider picks SPIRIT IMS-ready PC VoIP software

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 December 2007
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Huawei
  • VoIP
  • IMS
  • ngn
  • SPIRIT

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...

NSN Expands Railway Communication for Hefei-Wuhan in China

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 December 2007
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • NSN
  • Railway
Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan Passenger-dedicated Line...

NSN expands China Mobile network for Olympics

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 December 2007
10468 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
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...

SWANSAT canvasses for support from Africa

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Category: Satellite Networks
17 December 2007
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  • 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
9994 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
11392 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
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  • 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
15295 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
9564 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
9348 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...

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