Wireless Networks

The first 4G wireless broadband network in Trinidad and Tobago has been deployed by the majority state-owned operator Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT). The company was issued a temporary licence for the deployment of its fourth generation network in April...

Ruckus Wireless has launched its Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) solution: it is claimed by the company to be the world's first end-to-end Wi-Fi solution that “challenges” 3G, LTE and WiMAX models...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by VMS MobiFone for its 3G network roll-out in South Vietnam. Over-competition and subsequent failing revenues are a motivating force behind VMS MobiFone’s decision...

Telecel Globe’s subsidiaries have now been rebranded under the name leo. In Namibia, the operator, previously known as Cell One, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to enable new services in a country offering major growth potential...

Somalian subscribers have finally gained the benefits of one code and one rate for the whole of their country. Somafone will expand its seamless mobile network with Tecore hosted managed services...

Botswana Telecommunications Company has chosen Ceragon’s solutions to upgrade its nationwide wireless backbone, as well as the backhaul network of its cellular subsidiary BeMobile. This deployment will enable BTC to support rapid subscriber growth and meet its service expansion plans...

Wataniya Palestine has launched its new mobile network in the Palestine territories, despite the fact that the spectrum allocation agreed for the network has not been fully released by Israel...

Alvarion has won Safaricom’s contract for the initial phase of a US$12 million+ new infrastructure project to connect Kenya with high-speed broadband using 802.16e WiMAX and Kenya’s new maritime fibre-optic cable...

COTAS, the Bolivian carrier, is set to deliver triple-play broadband services to residents and businesses as a result of a contract awarded to Airspan Networks. Airspan will establish a WiMAX NGN across major Bolivian cities...

COTAS, the Bolivian carrier, is set to deliver triple-play broadband services to residents and businesses as a result of a contract awarded to Airspan Networks. Airspan will establish a WiMAX NGN across major Bolivian cities...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected as Unitech Wireless’ exclusive pan-Indian network supplier for high speed data services, ie, a complete GPRS package from implementation to after-care...

Zain Bahrain subscribers are set to enjoy richer and more advanced telecom services under the region’s first Long Term Evolution contract. Nokia Siemens Networks will modernise Zain’s network and charging system...

VNL has announced the first commercial deployment of its award-winning zero-opex solar-powered GSM system. The system is designed to help mobile operators build sustainable – and profitable – networks in remote rural areas where ARPUs are less than $2 a month...

The recent software upgrade of a proven receiver by Agilent Technologies enables early verification of base-station coverage and integrated testing of networks up to eight frequency bands...

ITU and Nokia Siemens Networks have formed a partnership to provide expertise and equipment at no charge to expand rural and remote connectivity. The agreement, announced at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva, is targeted at the almost three billion people living in rural areas with little or no current access to communications infrastructure. As a first step villages in island countries of the Pacific region will be connected...

East African company Jamii Telecommunications is enabling global carriers to deliver services to and from East Africa with Veraz Networks’ softswitch solution. JTL now no longer has to rely on other local providers...

 Cambridge Broadband Networks has won the contract to supply Saudi Arabia’s Mobily with its VectaStar point-to-multipoint, microwave backhaul platform. The platform is expected to play a significant part in Mobily’s ambitious infrastructure plans...

Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company (VMS) has chosen the NEC Pasolink ultra-compact microwave communications system to support the growth of its mobile backhaul solutions...

Telekom Slovenije will now be able to monitor every customer endpoint by placing embedded software agents on Iskratel home gateways. This facility comes as a result of Telekom Slovenije commissioning Ixia’s IxRave service verification solution...

NEC has announced that Pannon, the second largest mobile operator in Hungary and a subsidiary of Telenor, has chosen it to build a national optical transport network. The contract will see NEC providing Metro WDM equipment from Transmode to Pannon’s national network in Hungary and supplying design and operational support services...

ZTE’s ZXR10 T8000 is claimed to be the first high-end router in China to use proprietary chip technology. In a frank statement of its ambition, ZTE has set itself a target of more than US$10 billion revenue in the next three years.

Network access specialist Zhone has been named as Preferred Access Provider by the Lebanese-government-owned operator Ogero, which is seeking to expand IP network services nationwide. Public WiFi access throughout Beirut and ADSL2+, EFM and VDSL2 nationwide are the target...

Wavion's new category of Wi-Fi base station has led to a contract with Uralsvyazinform, the largest provider of telecoms services in the Urals region of Russia, to deploy broadband wireless access to the towns and cities of the Urals. Wavion will be delivering this project with ARD Satcom, local integrator...

Subscribers to T-Mobile in the Czech Republic can expect to enjoy advanced 3G data and multimedia services thanks to a faster mobile broadband network. Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to build an advanced 3G mobile network...

Russian operator Synterra is to deploy ECI’s new XDM-3000 to accommodate growing customer demand for capacity-intensive carrier-class infrastructure solutions that can simultaneously handle both Ethernet and TDM-based services, fundamental to the ECI 1Net framework for optimal network transition...

Pakistan’s Universal Service Fund has chosen Balochistan and Southern Punjab as the targets for its latest initiative to bring telecoms to the country’s remote areas. Half a million Balochistanis will be helped by this new development...

Statements by the CEOs of both Turkcell and Turk Telecom indicate that both believe that introducing 3G into Turkey will be achieved more cheaply by the two companies sharing the costs of infrastructure...

ZTE Corporation is rolling out a state-of-the-art all-IP mobile phone and data network for a newcomer to Madagascar, mobile operator Madamobil...

MTI Wireless Edge’s new production facility in India is mass producing IP67 Outdoor Omni Directional antennas priced from under US$10...

Emerging markets will soon have a new supplier of broadband Internet. France Telecom's former head of mobile business, Indian-born Sanjiv Ahuja, has formed a new company called Augere for just this purpose...

Taking just ten months, Vodafone Essar has rolled out a series of networks in seven of India's regions. The company was acting for its existing infrastructure partner, Nokia Siemens Networks...

Tadiran Telecom's IP business telephony and communications solutions have again been chosen again as part of the Beijing Subway's expansion plan. Beijing is planning to build the world's biggest subway by 2015, spending over US$7.6 billion in track transport development this year alone...

Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...