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HP has announced a new blade platform designed to help service providers reduce costs and efficiently expand capacity...
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CBOSS Corporation has announced CBOSSsms, a new hi-end short message center based on the NonStop platform. The solution's improved architecture guarantees timely short message delivery...
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Albania's IT market continued to grow solidly in 2007, fueled by increased spending in the government, finance, and telecom sectors, by falling equipment prices and by favourable economic development. This is according to a recent IDC study, which concludes that Albania's IT market reached US$89.34 million in 2007, representing 28.3% year-on-year growth. In local currency, the market expanded 16.3% year on year...
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Integrated VAS solutions provider Bharti Telesoft and multinational MTN Group have announced an alliance aimed at delivering Multimedia Messaging Center, Short Message Service Center and Wireless Application Protocol Gateway solutions for all MTN Operations...
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The Romanian PC market continued to grow at a fast pace in 2Q08 in terms of both shipments and value, albeit not as rapidly as in previous quarters. According to the latest data from IDC, shipments grew 29.3% year on year, while the value of the market expanded year on year by 23.3%...
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In line with its commitment to combat the sale and use of counterfeit and pirated products, Cisco announced this month that it will participate in the launch of a new set of guidelines to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy...
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Consumers in Russia's eastern region of Khabarovsk now have access to affordable high-definition digital TV, video on demand and multimedia services through a Metro Multiservice Transport Network from Cisco...
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The Western Union Company has created an alliance with Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Orascom and Western Union plan to work together to introduce mobile remittance services in select markets. The services aim to make low-principal, high-frequency remittances more convenient to the millions of consumers who send money every day...
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The Serbian IT market increased 30% year on year in US Dollars in 2007, fueled by a growing economy, structural reforms, privatisation, tax cuts, and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a recent IDC study, total spending on hardware, software, and IT services in Serbia reached almost US$751 million in 2007...
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Huawei has announced that it has been selected by HT Mobile Communications Centre, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company and US-based Hutchison Telecom, as a key partner in rolling out its new national GSM network. HT Mobile is currently undergoing a telecom transformation and switching from CDMA to GSM technology, and is scheduled to launch its new GSM national network next year...
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Agilent Technologies and Anite have announced the first shipments of their LTE UE protocol tester. This is the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620 wireless communications test set platform.
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iCON Communications, the newest provider of wireless broadband IP based communications services in Armenia, believes it is on track to launch its WiMAX service in Yerevan prior by January 2009, and extending its coverage into major cities in Armenia during 2009. WiMAX has been singloed out by iCON as extending the range and speed of existing wireless internet technologies by covering an entire geographic area rather than limited "hot-spots"...
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Through its Wireless Reach initiative, Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm, has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to information and multimedia services...
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A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...
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Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...
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Representing a major step forward for renewable energy use in the Pakistani telecoms industry, Pakistani operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country's first solar powered Macro Base Station (M-BTS) site. The site uses a solar powered M-BTS from leading Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies...
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Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November...
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Tanzanian carrier Six Telecoms has selected Telarix iXLink systems to conduct business with other carriers across the globe. The announcement comes not only within the context of growing interconnection business for Six Telecoms but also at the opening of the recent Capacity Africa conference...
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Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...
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In this viewpoint feature Stephen Gibb, Chief Information Officer at mobile payments specialist Upaid, looks at how businesses and consumers can benefit from cross-border payments in emerging markets such as Brazil...
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Global IP Solutions, which provides IP multimedia processing solutions, has announced its VideoEngine Mobile on the Windows Mobile platform: it enables peer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing on mobile phones...
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The objectives of Connect Africa took a major step forward when the NetHope aid alliance joined the Global VSAT Forum, the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC) and iDirect in launching an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training programme in Nairobi this week...
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Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia...
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Live Current Media, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, has announced that the outgoing President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Shri Sharad Pawar, has launched the BCCI's own website...
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The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...
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Sixteen of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, intending to deliver an alternative to WiFi whereby customers will go online while on the move...
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A major acquisition, contracts worldwide and authoritative words on mobile email. A busy summer for Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. Michael Schwartz caught up with him...
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The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...
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The GSM Association has launched its Green Power for Mobile programme. It aims by 2012 to bring renewable energy to half the developing world's new off-grid base stations. Total target is 118,000 such installations...
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The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...
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Sify, a pioneer and leader in data telecom and Internet services in India is to migrate its infrastructure to a Next Generation IP Network in a first of its kind deal with Cisco. The network aims to set new standards for the data telecom services industry in India...
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SMART, a Czech metropolitan optical networks operator, plans to build a fiber-to-the-home optical network in Brno in the Czech Republic. The service will cover about 6,600 homes and residents will be able to use triple-play services (Internet access, digital TV and VoIP telephony) in a converged way, with a quality superior to that of most commonly available types of connections...
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A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...
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