In anticipation of the expected explosion in the variety and volumes of products incorporating embedded 3GPP wireless modules, the Global Certification Forum (GCF) has launched a streamlined certification process for new categories of connected device...

Einar Lindquist, CEO of Teligent Telecom, offers his views on the problem of incompleted calls, and how a good strategy can help network operators to maximise revenues and increase subscriber stickiness.

Aito Technologies Oy, a provider of customer experience analytics, has announced a strategic partnership with Anritsu A/S, a global provider of testing, monitoring and management solutions for advanced and converged networks...

ITU welcomed new Directors of its Radiocommunication and Telecommunication Development Bureaux as François Rancy of France and Brahima Sanou of Burkina Faso were elected at the Plenipotentiary Conference taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico...

Member States of the International Telecommunication Union have elected Dr Hamadoun Touré of Mali as Secretary-General of ITU for a second four-year term...

VimpelCom and Weather Investments – the owner of Orascom Telecom – have confirmed a merger between the two firms. The resulting entity will be the world’s fifth-largest mobile operator group...

A new agreement between Voice Commerce and Alcatel-Lucent is set to provide new mobile money and payment options for mobile operators, with the two companies aiming to satisfy the burgeoning demand for these services in emerging markets...

Access to telecommunications services is increasingly viewed as a basic right, and consumers – particularly in the developed world - often take for granted the availability of these services without considering the ramifications...

ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré today challenged global leaders to ensure that more than half of all the world’s people have access to broadband networks by 2015, and make access to high-speed networks a basic civil right...

Fixed broadband costs over five times more relative to average incomes in BRIC countries than in developed nations. In an interview with Developing Telecoms, Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the ITU, called on developing and emerging markets to lower the cost of broadband relative to monthly incomes in order to narrow the ‘broadband divide’...

The prohibitive costs of high-end smartphones, high-speed internet and additional memory have long stymied the development of mobile social networking in the developing world. A new service named MyXenzo aims to remedy this issue, claiming to offer a consistent user interface on 80% of handsets with even the most basic Internet access...

The second quarter of 2010 saw global smartphone shipments increase by 64%, according to the research firm Canalys, with Android devices demonstrating a very respectable 886% year-on-year growth rate...

A Telecom Advisory Services (TAS) report delivered in conjunction with the GSMA has revealed how mobile sector-specific taxation is impacting on the development and deployment of Mobile Broadband in developing countries...

Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia have jointly conducted the world’s first end-to-end LTE data call with Nokia Siemens Networks’ commercial equipment on the 800 MHz frequency band...

Mobile money is a highly topical - and highly successful - area of interest for the emerging telecom regions. As our report shows, mobile money can function in even the most inhospitable conditions. Michael Schwartz looks at some recent trends which can themselves be adopted by entrants to m-banking...

Global economic downturn has not affected the smartphone market, which is experiencing robust growth...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at promoting international cooperation on cybersecurity has been signed between the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and the Malaysia-based International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT)...

Pankaj Agrawal, Associate Director of Analysys Mason, weighs up the options available to operators for sustaining growth in emerging markets...

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, much has been written about the Apple smartphone, its features and its overwhelming success in the market. But, a little known fact is that the original iPhone and its predecessors have created a huge grey market, where iPhones are bought and sold in bulk internationally outside of official distribution channels...

As part of its C-series range, Nokia has released four new low-cost handsets which are being targeted at emerging markets...

Nokia Siemens Networks and Cisco have joined forces to address an issue increasingly affecting mobile operators across the world – the capacity demands of smart devices...

Expand Networks have announced a new pricing structure for their WAN optimization solution which is designed to mirror service provider revenue models...

Ceragon Networks has announced a new product in its FibeAir RFU (Radio Frequency Unit) solutions range...

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced a new base station and antenna combination which is claimed to double GSM network capacity by improving spectrum efficiency and network performance...

Seldom in history has any invention offered so much to so many in such a short period of time. Mahuya Ghosh, Product Manager of Connectiva Systems, looks at the Mobile Miracle...

Steve Subar, CEO and President of OK Labs, believes that users should have just one platform to serve all their needs. Virtualisation makes that a reality...

Global mobile handset shipments totaled approximately 1.15 billion in 2009, with enhanced phones and smartphones capturing approximately 81% of all handset shipments, according to the latest data from ABI research...

For a whole week, air travel in Europe was paralysed by the effects of volcanic ash belched into the atmosphere by a volcano on Iceland. There had been more disruption since the tragedy of 9/11. While, in one case, the USA struggled to bring 40,000 of its citizens home, the telecoms sector has been trying to make the best of a particularly challenging and difficult situation...

4G is clearly a very powerful marketing at present. Ned Taleb, CEO and Co-Founder of Nexius, offers his executive commentary on why he thinks 4G is one of this year’s most buzzed-about topics...

Strand Consult has been evaluating the impact of the Apple iPad on the mobile and ISP sectors - a development which should get mobile operators and ISPs thinking about its implications.

Spirit, the provider of carrier-grade voice and video software engines for desktop and mobile video-conferencing, has demonstrated its TeamSpirit video-conferencing engine on iPad, iPhone and Android devices to selected customers in China, Korea, Europe and the USA...

In an initiative to harness common responses to face a global challenge, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO, the London-based premier ICT agency of the Commonwealth) is organising a cyber-security forum on 17-18 June 2010 in London, in partnership with the UK Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the UK’s Office of Cyber-Security (OCS). The forum promises to bring together high level delegates and key decision makers from the public and private sectors together with the civil society from across the Commonwealth, to promote international cooperation in cyber-security...