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GSM is Brazil's network of choice

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
30 January 2006
13288 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • GSM

Just three and a half years after it first arrived in Brazil , GSM is now used by more than 50% of Brazilian mobile phone users. According to the Brazilian regulator Anatel, of the 86 million people with mobile phones in Latin America 's largest country, more than 44 million are connected to GSM networks.

Base-station software announced by Andrew

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
30 January 2006
10499 views
  • Global
  • Network Management
  • Antenna

Andrew Corporation has introduced a software system that works with the Teletilt(r) ATC200-1000 local rack-mounted controller and enables real-time adjustments to base station antennas from anywhere an Internet connection is established...

Enhancing availability with standardisation

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Carl Kleynhans, APC
Category: Humanitarian Comms
30 January 2006
12397 views
  • Global
  • APC
  • Standardisation
Last week, Developing Telecoms talked about the urgent need for standardised and compatible equipment in the wake of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Now Carl Kleynhans, country general manager: Africa at American Power Conversion (APC) puts the case forward for standardising IT architecture as a matter of course - disasters or not.

Agilent win US$14.5 million order with VSNL and Tata

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Alec Barton
Category: Service Management
20 January 2006
10858 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Tata
  • Agilent
  • Videsh Sanchar Nigam

Agilent Technologies Inc is celebrating a US$14.5 million order with India 's primary communications service providers Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Tata Teleservices Ltd to provide operator support  services solutions...

Fujian MCC selects Nokia push to talk

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Alec Barton
Category: Service Management
20 January 2006
18004 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Nokia
  • PoC

Eastern China's Fujian Mobile Communications has chosen Nokia's Push to Talk over Cellular platform for businesses in Fujian province, and plans expand the service to consumers at a later date...

Czech Republic leads as C&E Europe broadband catches up West

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 January 2006
10927 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Broadband
  • Czech Republic
  • ADSL

During the first week of January this year, the number of ADSL-based broadband Internet subscribers in the Czech   Republic reached 275,000, that is to say an increase of 175% over January 2005 - almost 3 fold growth.

Vistula & IUSAcom in Mexican VoIP deal

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 January 2006
8995 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • VoIP

Mexican communications company IUSAcom and New York-based Vistula Communications Service Inc have signed a deal to provide Voice Over Internet Protocol communications services...

How Hurricane Katrina can help you

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Humanitarian Comms
19 January 2006
180344 views
  • Global
  • USA
  • Disasters
  • Communication Breakdown
Hurricane Katrina exposed every possible obstacle that could arise from incompatible or sub-standard telecoms equipment and networks. Many of the short-fallings - which serve as a lesson for telecoms in the emerging markets - are discussed by Michael Schwartz.

Nokia, CommTel expand Pacific broadband

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 January 2006
10900 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Nokia
  • DSL
  • Cook Islands
  • Solomon Islands

Nokia network reseller CommTel Network Solutions Australia will establish a new market for Nokia, having signed an agreement to supply broadband DSL solutions and related services to Telecom Cook Islands Ltd...

Two Koreas get phone link

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
10 January 2006
10581 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • North Korea
  • Korea Telecom
  • South Korea

North and South Korea' s first-ever telephone link, connecting the South with the North's Kaesong Industrial Complex, has led to South Korea lobbying for a massive expansion of the service...

North Korea to allow mobiles?

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
10 January 2006
12985 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • CDMA
  • North Korea
  • Mobile Phones

Although GSM-based mobile phones have been accepted in North Korea for ten years in the Rajin-Sonbong economic area, North Korea has had a totally hostile attitude towards mobile technology...

Chile's RedVoiss set to rival Skype

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 January 2006
13210 views
  • Latin America
  • Chile
  • Skype
  • VoIP
Chilean internet telephony provider RedVoiss has launched SippyPhone, a free service which it hopes will compete with Skype. The service consists of software installed on a PC; communication is possible by microphone or through a handset...

AlanDick, Redline sign WiMAX agreement

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 January 2006
10626 views
  • Global
  • WiMAX
  • AlanDick

AlanDick Group has announced an agreement with Redline Communications, a provider of standards-based broadband wireless equipment...

GlobeTel wireless set for 30 Russian cities

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 January 2006
9007 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia

GlobeTel will be installing wireless networks in 30 Russian cities. The company will complete this provision of high-speed communications by the start of 2009 and will be acting on behalf of LLC Internafta in order to supply broadband, VoIP and several other services...

Getting it right for Afghanistan

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Blogs & Opinion
10 January 2006
181523 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Afghanistan
  • Globecomm
  • Afghan Telecom

First the Soviets built a telephone system in Afghanistan. The Chinese did too. The two weren’t compatible.  Afghan Telecom is the company ordered to sort it all out. It is using expertise from Globecomm Systems.  Michael Schwartz learns more...

China to invest 25% of IPTV

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 January 2006
13257 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • IPTV
  • Broadcasting
  • Forecasts
  • Siemens

Siemens has predicted that in four years time global investment in Internet Protocol television (IPTV) could touch US$1 billion. Prime mover will be China which will account for 25% of world spend...

Nokia launches smallest-ever Bluetooth headset

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
06 January 2006
10109 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Bluetooth
  • Headsets

Nokia has announced three new Bluetooth headsets: the BH-800, the BH-900 and the BH-200 at the Consumer Electronics Fair, Las Vegas...

Text don't talk after disasters - GSMA

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Editorial staff
Category: Humanitarian Comms
03 January 2006
11976 views
  • Global
  • SMS
  • GSMA

The mobile phone has become the device most people turn to in an emergency. Mobile networks experience huge increases in traffic immediately following a disaster and high-levels of demand continue for many days afterwards.

One more year for Globecomm with Afghan Telecom

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
03 January 2006
10406 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Afghanistan
  • Globecomm
  • Afghan Telecom

Afghan Telecom has announced that its new District Communications Network has recently gone live...

SES Global to buy rival New Skies for US$760 million

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
22 December 2005
8224 views
  • Global

SES Global, the world's largest operator of satellites, is to buy New Skies Satellites for US$760 million...

Prepare for summer - APC's checklist against power-outs

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Alan Morgan, APC
Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 December 2005
12131 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • APC
  • Electricity Shortages
Alan Morgan, District Manager, East Africa at American Power Conversion, submits his list of preventative measures designed to ensure operations do not come unstuck through electricity shortages.

Eurotel chooses Arieso to optimise 3G success in Czech Republic

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 December 2005
10642 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Czech Republic
  • Eurotel Praha

Eurotel Praha has selected UK-based wireless network optimisation specialists Arieso to maximise performance of its new 3G network, which went live at the start of December...

Disaster Management: A new response to emergencies

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Dave Watkins - Softscape
Category: Humanitarian Comms
22 December 2005
13164 views
  • Global
  • Disaster Management
  • Emergencies
Softscape has introduced an emergency management system designed to ensure disaster victims receive rapid assistance. Its web-based platform is open to government agencies as they direct both citizens and agency workers through their crisis. Dave Watkins, founder and CEO, Softscape, explains the requirements that any such system must meet.

Nokia taps Chennai expertise for Global Networks Solutions Centre

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 December 2005
11849 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Nokia
  • Research and Development

After evaluating a number of sites in India , Nokia will locate its new Global Networks Solutions Centre in Chennai...

Sony Ericsson introduces J210 basic phone

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
22 December 2005
14201 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Handsets
  • Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson's J210 phone is a straightforward device for people whose primary communication style is voice and basic messaging and who have no need for a fully-featured mobile phone...

 

Singapore's Filipinos set for M1/SMART mobile initiative

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 December 2005
11121 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Prepaid

Philippines M1  and PLDT Singapore are entering into a strategic partnership to provide prepaid mobile services to the sizeable Filipino community in the region...

Mobile is crucial to Latin America's economies says GSMA

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GSM Association
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 December 2005
13213 views
  • Latin America
  • Ovum
  • GSMA
  • Research
Latin America's mobile industry generates almost US$20 billion of economic activity each year: nearly 1.3% of regional GDP and 2.5% of the region's capital investment. Last year, moreover, mobile operators invested more than US$7 billion in Latin America.

Turkcell plumps for Visto mass-market mobile email

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 December 2005
113642 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Turkcell
  • Visto

Turkey' s largest mobile communications operator, Turkcell, has selected Visto Corporation's Mobile with ConstantSync technology to deliver mass-market push mobile email services to a customer's wireless device of choice...

Nokia powers Eurotel's WCDMA 3G network in the Czech Republic

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 December 2005
10177 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • Nokia
  • Eurotel Praha

Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the first WCDMA 3G network in the Czech Republic...

Nokia expands Dongguan mobiles production

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
07 December 2005
10864 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Nokia
  • Handsets
  • Production

Nokia is set to expand its mobile device production in Dongguan, China . The expansion will provide more capacity and flexibility to meet growing market demand worldwide, especially in China and the rest of Asia...

Nokia/Telefónica Móviles cover Colombia

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 December 2005
11418 views
  • Latin America
  • Colombia
  • Telefonica Moviles
  • Nokia
  • GSM

Nokia and Telefónica Móviles will be supplying a complete GSM system deal to Telefónica Móviles Colombia which includes GSM radio access and the MSC Server System (MSS)...

Roamware brings roaming to half a billion new customers

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Alec Barton
Category: Service Management
07 December 2005
9773 views
  • Global
  • Roaming
  • GSM
  • Roamware

Global roaming specialist Roamware believes its new network solution will hand operators the missing link in the roaming world: its Prepaid Local Number service is claimed to give every operator the capability to provide enhanced roaming and home network services to visitors, both pay-as-you-go or prepaid...

Nokia and PLDT work for fixed-mobile convergence

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 December 2005
12510 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Convergence
  • ngn

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and Nokia have set up a Next Generation Network laboratory to develop and test end-to-end fixed-mobile convergence prior to commercial launch...

Nokia expands Indonesian GSM with Indosat

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 December 2005
11869 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Nokia
  • GSM
  • Indosat

One of the largest network operators in Indonesia , Indosat, has chosen Nokia to expand its GSM network in Bali and Java...

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