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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
16759 views
  • 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
9750 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
18395 views
  • 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
10523 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
9041 views
  • 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
10774 views
  • 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
10714 views
  • 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
7130 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
7936 views
  • 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
12624 views
  • 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
8442 views
  • 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
10481 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
7332 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
10012 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
12201 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
9086 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
8835 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
9336 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
9046 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
7361 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
11408 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
6041 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
15306 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
9573 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
9356 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
10605 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
11284 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
14267 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
8107 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
7637 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
7555 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
12544 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...

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