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

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...

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

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

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 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)...

Work on the East African Submarine System (EASSy) is likely to start early next year. The World Bank is willing to offer finance. After all, the Internet and mobile-based commerce can change people's lives. Michael Schwartz says lessons can be learnt from a predecessor.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has awarded Nokia a comprehensive GSM/EDGE and GPRS network expansion project in Northern India ...

Cable and Wireless will be boosting the range of services its Caribbean bmobile customers will enjoy by integrating a messaging gateway which will enable access to more content services, will use more content providers, and will act at a more rapid pace...

Convergent billing specialist Cerillion Technologies will be supplying Caymanone with a complete CRM and billing solution for its local telecoms network in the Cayman Islands...

Motorola has settled its financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).

Cameroon will soon enjoy the benefits of a telecoms spinal cord carried in a backbone stretching right down the country...

E-Link Americas, a not-for-profit corporation established to promote connectivity for social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean , has selected Nera to supply broadband satellite equipment...

Fifteen West African nations have today (7 October 2005) agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets...

Bangladesh is opening up its telecoms market by inviting open tenders for another GSM licence, for 15 years initially.

Deregulation and its consequent competition have led Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago to order three Intec OSS/BSS products to increase efficiency and service quality...

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation has selected Nokia to supply the first Push to talk over Cellular network solution in the United Arab Emirates...