ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...
Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo
Carriers, services providers and end users in
Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia...
Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside
Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...
On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).
Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...
Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the
Radio Frequency Systems has recently demonstrated a remote radio head unit which the company claims to exhibit the fastest bit-rate of any 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution...
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It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt...
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Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool...
On June 6
Sky Link, a telco established to develop a nationwide CDMA450 network in Russia, and Lucent have instigated a project to increase the capacity and coverage of Sky Link's network in Moscow and the Moscow region, and in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region...
Two 20-year-old British inventors aim to cure Internet boredom by creating a virtual button has attracted supporters in more than 120 countries since its launch less than two months ago...
Claiming that Cambodia's morality is not yet advanced enough to withstand the lures of pornographic videos on mobile telephones, Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 26 announced a 10-year ban on 3G technology. Esther McClaren, a writer with the Phnom Penh Post, the main English language newspaper in Cambodia, brings us up to date with reactions locally...
After more than two years of hesitating to make a decision, CosmoRom was taken over by Greece's Cosmote and commercially re-launched on December 6 2005 under the new brand name Cosmote Romania. Developing Telecoms welcomes its new Central and Eastern Europe analyst Dr Nicolae Oacã, who fills in the gaps in a complex market.
ADC and Andrew Corporation, two companies well established in emerging markets, have announced that they are merging, creating a global player in wireline and wireless network infrastructure solutions. Developing Telecoms assesses the implications of the merger...
On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the
Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards their aim of integrating the economies of their region...
New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in
A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country's government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.
Revenue assurance specialist cVidya's new MoneyMap Suite R3.0 now provides full revenue assurance operations support, including rating and billing verification capabilities...
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