Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 16 April 2009; 6677 views

International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, has successfully carried the W2A satellite to orbit on behalf of Eutelsat Communications of France via a ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 April 2009; 7399 views

Communications in Mecca's King Abdul Aziz Endowment have been vastly improved since Powerwave and its Saudi Arabian partner ACES were selected by Mobily Saudi Arabia to deploy the world's largest wireless coverage within the towers currently comprising the Endowment...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 15 April 2009; 8983 views

Intelsat and SES are advocating VSAT installation training for technicians in both developing and developed countries...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 14 April 2009; 10425 views

Envivio Inc, which provides IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has sold its Convergence Series video head-end to Türk Telekom's local IPTV project...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 14 April 2009; 9331 views

cVidya Networks, which specialises in enhancing telecom data integrity, revenue assurance and dealer management systems, has announced that Antel, Uruguay's state-owned telecoms service provider, has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya's MoneyMap suite solution throughout its operation in Uruguay...

Details: Vince Lesch; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 April 2009; 11520 views

Vince Lesch reviews successes in enhancing SMS in Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Latin America as a whole...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 March 2009; 9436 views

Thuraya's drive in the emerging markets has been rewarded with the launch of Public Calling Offices in Zambia and Cameroon. Both countries are set to benefit from a versatile business tool oriented towards small entrepreneurs...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 30 March 2009; 11288 views

Arab Advisors Group has analysed the cellular tariffs for 19 Arab countries - and 46 operators. The research shows that Egypt and Yemen are the winners in terms of low-cost cell rates...

Details: Category: Service Management; 27 March 2009; 8966 views

Syniverse has been selected by the India Department of Telecommunications to implement mobile number portability in the country. Number portability, clearing house and centralised database solutions will be Syniverse's responsibility for the next ten years...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 March 2009; 9416 views

Nokia Siemens Networks is set to expand O2's delivery of mobile services to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A three-year contract will see NSN as sole supplier of 2G and optionally 3G to Prague and Brno...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 March 2009; 10753 views

On2 Technologies, which specialises in video compression solutions, has licensed its VP7 video codec to 21ViaNet (China). Founded in 1996, 21ViaNet is a carrier-neutral Internet Data Centre (IDC) service provider in China...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 March 2009; 12758 views

Russia has been registering some of the fastest growth in telecoms penetration and modernisation anywhere in the world. According to analyst Frost & Sullivan, the transmission market is growing by 50% per year. One key beneficiary is Israel's ECI Telecom...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 March 2009; 8934 views

A newcomer to WiMAX in Pakistan, wi-tribe Pakistan Ltd, has commissioned solutions from Oracle Communications to enhance its efficiency...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 20 March 2009; 12813 views

Zap is the new service from Zain which the operator claims will become a comprehensive and accessible African mobile banking service. Zap is aimed at 100 million people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 March 2009; 12430 views

EDGE services in West Africa marketed under the title Moov by Atlantique Telecom will be improved by network planning tools to be supplied by Aircom International...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 March 2009; 11967 views

NSN will provide a GSM network expansion and upgrade to EDGE to provide Bakcell with enhanced quality and coverage in Azerbaijan...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 18 March 2009; 11345 views

MTN Syria's 2G and 3G networks coverage and capacity are set for enhancement as a result of a contract placed with Aircom International...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 March 2009; 9580 views

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland is now giving students non-stop Internet freedom with a new Meru WLAN. Meru saw off competition from five companies, notably in eliminating breaks in service and coverage being encountered on campus...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 17 March 2009; 8594 views

Ditech Networks voice-quality technology has been deployed throughout Qtel's mobile network in Qatar. The aim is to that Qtel, will consistently deliver excellent mobile calls, regardless of where a call is made or which device is used...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 17 March 2009; 16039 views

Unitel SA will be rolling out Comverse's Voice HUB to drive revenues from Visual Voicemail and unanswered phone calls from a current customer database of 4.5 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 March 2009; 13295 views

Visafone Communications Limited, a wholly owned Nigerian telecoms company, has launched Voice SMS across Nigeria. The Voice SMS solution has been sourced from Kirusa, a provider of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 March 2009; 9584 views

Value-added services will play a greater part in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America as a result of a partnership between Bharti Telesoft and Sofrecom...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 13 March 2009; 12140 views

Cellular coverage in the dense and capacity-strained central business district of Jakarta is set to improve thanks to a new contract for outdoor DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) announced by Indonesia's leading cellular distribution company, P.T. Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP)...

Details: Category: Service Management; 12 March 2009; 8906 views

Cometa Mobile, the Indonesian mobile content provider and aggregator, has outsourced the running of a dedicated Cometa games portal for Indonesian mobile operators to End2End...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 12 March 2009; 7734 views

Bharti Telesoft, which provides integrated Value-Added Services to mobile operators in emerging markets, has been invited to be a founding member of the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Working Group by the GSMA, as a result of its work in the development and deployment of mobile banking solutions in emerging markets worldwide...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 March 2009; 12091 views

On Monday March 2, the Indian government finally gave the go-ahead for Mobile Virtual Network Operators to enter the market. This follows a recommendation back in August 2008 from India's regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The government is expected to release detailed guidelines for MVNO entrants soon. We believe this approval will benefit both existing MNOs and new entrants...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 March 2009; 9490 views

Bharti Telesoft has formed a partnership with Grand Technology, a telecom solution provider in the Middle East, notably in Yemen, for their Data Services Hub...

Details: Category: Service Management; 10 March 2009; 7737 views

Vodafone Essar has fully outsourced its mobile games portal to End2End, a European provider of managed service solutions for mobile content retailing...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 09 March 2009; 9226 views

Mobile operator Zain is present in 22 countries. It has just released its 2008 results, and is reporting great strides in key performance indicators. For example, its active customer total is up to 63.5 million, 50% over 2007, its consolidated revenues are up 26% to US$7.44 billion and EBITDA is up 15% to US$2.78 billion...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 09 March 2009; 7902 views

CGAP, the global microfinance centre has been releasing new research and data to encourage telecom operators, financial institutions and governments to see the business potential in expanding access to financial services for poor people in developing markets. The current economic climate makes the need for widespread availability of safe alternatives to cash even more pressing...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 06 March 2009; 9501 views

Scartel, Russia's first provider of high-speed wireless Internet, is now offering access under the Yota brand, powered by Cisco's latest mobility technologies. Yota's network provides service within the Sadovoye Ring in Moscow and at the Vassilyevsky Island and Petrogradsky District in St Petersburg. The network will provide a platform for high-speed, 4G mobile services that will help make "on-the-move" broadband access available to more people...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 05 March 2009; 12402 views

After expanding its radio and core mobile network by using Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) equipment, Africell is to deploy NSN's state-of-the art 3GPP mobile softswitching solution...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 March 2009; 8812 views

Yahoo! has announced the launch of a new mobile service to be known, not surprisingly, as Yahoo! Mobile. Available initially only for Apple iPhones and top end handsets from other makers including Windows Mobile smartphones, the service will be of interest in emerging markets where the Yahoo! brand still has significant traction...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 March 2009; 9272 views

Following an agreement with Chuan Wei (Cambodia) Co Ltd, Alcatel-Lucent will be providing Cambodia with a nation-wide WiMAX Rev-e (802.16e-2005 standard) wireless broadband network, the first in the country. The service should launch in mid 2009...

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