Wireless Networks

EVN Telecom (formerly known as Vietnam Power Telecom) has selected Lucent Technologies for its phase III CDMA 450 network expansion project.

Obstacles to sending or receiving SMS messages are likely to be substantially reduced thanks to a new hub-based interoperability scheme currently undergoing trials...

Nokia has won a contract to expand Wataniya Telecom's High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) radio and core network in Kuwait...

Golden Telecom has commissioned Nortel to provide a solution for launching a mobile WiMAX field trial in Moscow based on Nortel 4G technology.

Nokia has implemented a complete GSM core network for Telefónica Móviles Perú...

Lucent Technologies has signed a new contract with Eletropaulo Telecom, a telecom service provider forming part of AES Eletropaulo's electric energy distribution group and operating in the state of Sao Paulo .

Robert G Rogers is Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. In a forceful statement on the Digital Divide he identifies what for him is the crucial question - lack of infrastructure.

Indian Railways will use wireless railway communications technology from Nortel to help improve safety and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail arteries serving India' s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh...

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company has introduced further enhancements to its high-speed data product Thuraya DSL...

Globecomm Systems Inc, a provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has received a contract modification worth US$2.7million.

Teledata Networks, has announced an US$8milion contract to deliver its BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways (MSAGs) to Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan' s Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)...

Guatemala has a wireline tele-density of less than 30%. Michael Schwartz was briefed on the modernisation - and on the role of key contractor Teledata Networks - by Teledata Networks' new CEO Eran Ziv...

Colombia Movil, the country's third largest mobile operator, is to bring enhanced services to over 560,000 users across Colombia 's five biggest cities...

A Next Generation Network (NGN) with integrated multimedia platform for advanced IP-based applications is set to provide Moscow personal, mobile and secure multimedia services...

Part of the first stage of its interregional transport backbone network, Russian operator Golden Telecom is planning to extend secure, affordable voice and broadband Internet services across Russia.

Redback Networks Inc, a provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, has announced that its SmartEdge multi-service edge routers have been selected by True Corporation...

Nokia has won its first network deal with Bulgarian operator Vivatel...

Telecommunications in the rural areas of China 's Yunnan  Province are set for modernisation and improvement...

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

The new opportunities from a state-of-the-art factory in Brno in the Czech Republic make for exciting times at Andrew Corporation. Michael Schwartz has been speaking to Andrea Cassini, Andrew Corporation's President of EMEA Sales and Marketing...

Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong...

Golden Telecom, which provides integrated telecommunications and Internet services throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, is implementing its strategy of rolling-out global broadband access in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan...

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

It seems only natural that we start our analysis of the Digital Divide with one of the giants of world telecoms. Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, a vice-president of Siemens Communications, explains the role of wireless technology - and makes some predictions.

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

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...

Palanga in Lithuania is witnessing the launch of High Speed Data Packet Access services at the hands of the Baltic's largest telecoms company, Omnitel.

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool...

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...

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...

New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in Costa Rica , to rapidly develop and launch capabilities such as VoIP and Virtual Private Networks.

Transporting approximately 11 million passengers every day on the Moscow Metro is now claimed to be safer and more efficient with Andrew Corporation's completion of the first phase of a major communications network covering seven lines of the Russian capital's landmark 12-line system.