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

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
09 November 2007
10600 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
11258 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
14260 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
8096 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
7630 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
7545 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
12533 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
12171 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
14566 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
9642 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
13629 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
12174 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
10540 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
6654 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
10215 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
7880 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
12815 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
13028 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
8966 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
10438 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
10671 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...

Spice Nepal scales up CBOSS involvement to manage subscriber growth

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
25 September 2007
10820 views
  • Central South Asia
  • CBOSS
  • Nepal
  • Subscriber Management

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...

GTSCE launches regional MPLS network for retail customers

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
25 September 2007
14562 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Poland
  • Czech Republic
  • Hungary
  • MPLS
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Customer Support
Central European Holding BV (GTSCE), the Central European fixed-line telecoms group, is officially launching its regional MPLS network for retail customers...

Developing players - plug the leaks in your revenue processes!

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
25 September 2007
7290 views
  • OSS
  • Global
  • Fraud
  • Analysys

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, Dialog Telekom & USAID partner for high-speed rural wireless data

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
24 September 2007
9820 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • USAID
  • Qualcomm
  • Sri Lanka

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...

Global Vision selects Subex Azure fraud management/revenue solutions

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Revenue & Billing
24 September 2007
10817 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Subex Azure
Subex Azure, a provider of Operations Support Systems solutions for telecom operators, has won contracts to provide Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance solutions for Global Vision Telecom in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo to be deployed in its Prestel and U-COM Congo CDMA networks...

Convergys to enhance Telecom Egypt billing

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Revenue & Billing
24 September 2007
13402 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Convergys
  • Egypt
  • Customer Service
Convergys has signed a new agreement with Telecom Egypt, to provide consulting services to enhance billing operations...

Cameroon radio stations seek best multimedia kit for rural villages

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
24 September 2007
12743 views
  • Rural
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Cameroon
  • Radio
  • Digital Divide
  • Multimedia

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...

Next-generation networks - set to transform communications?

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Regulation
24 September 2007
9838 views
  • Regulation
  • Global
  • ITU
  • Next-generation networks
ITU has published guidelines for regulators in an attempt to foster investment and access. The medium is Trends in Telecommunication Reform: the Road to NGN, which has just been issued in its eighth edition.

Saudi Telecom, Huawei pioneer Mid-East commercial WiMAX

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
21 September 2007
11623 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Huawei
  • Saudi Arabia
  • WiMAX
Saudi Telecom has selected Huawei to deploy the first WiMAX 802.16e-based network in the Middle East, covering major cities including Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam...

FLAG to double in size

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
21 September 2007
8162 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • fibre optic
  • Submarine Cable
  • Fujitsu
  • FLAG
  • Reliance

Reliance Communications’ Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe subsidiary is set to achieve its ambition of becoming the world’s largest IP network over submarine cabling. FLAG has awarded Fujitsu the contract which will double FLAG’s size and build four new cable systems across the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

 

Hits Telecom Uganda US$100 million GSM deal

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 September 2007
15538 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Uganda
  • GSM
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a US$100 million contract with Hits Telecom Uganda, a new regional operator, to deploy a new mobile network based on GSM technology...

Uganda Telecom brings UMTS to Uganda, expands advanced mobile network

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
17 September 2007
11122 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 3G
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Uganda
  • Uganda Telecom

Uganda Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a contract to extend Uganda Telecom’s GSM/EDGE mobile network and deploy the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in Uganda, one of the first such deployments in the East Africa region.

New Telephone Company Vladivostok goes convergent

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Revenue & Billing
17 September 2007
11070 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • CBOSS

Vladivostok-based New Telephone Company has upgraded its CBOSS solution to full convergence, implementing the company’s real-time service billing and control system CBOSSrtb...

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