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'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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Spice Nepal Private Ltd, the country’s first privately-owned mobile operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to upgrade its end-to-end convergent IT CBOSS solution after just 18 months of successful operation...

For the fifth year running, telecom research firm Analysys has conducted a global study of operator attitudes when it comes to concerning revenue assurance and revenue leakage. Michael Schwartz looks at the key findings...

Qualcomm is launching its Wireless Reach initiative in Sri Lanka by opening a Last Mile Initiative centre in Wennappuwa. The centre, known as Easy Seva, is one of 15 that will be launched in the country with support from Qualcomm, Dialog Telekom, the US Agency for International Development, the National Development Bank and Synergy Strategies Group...

Protege QV - Promotion of Technologies that Guarantee Environment and a better Quality of Life - is a Cameroonian NGO created in 1995. It aims to promote individual and collective initiatives to induce rural development, protect the environment and improve community well-being. Avis Momeni, Executive Director of Protege QV, introduces his organisation to us and then describes an exciting and vital project...