Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 February 2008; 8178 views

Network revenue from machine-to-machine communications is projected to grow at three times the rate of the mobile handset business, according to Harbor Research. With typical per-dollar revenue profit margins for cellular M2M services also considerably higher than the handset market, operators investing now can benefit from this growth opportunity...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8353 views

AdaptiveMobile, the leading provider of mobile subscriber protection for enterprises and individuals, today unveiled a powerful set of parental controls that operate across any mobile device, network or technology. The solution, which combines the AdaptiveMobile Policy Control Framework with the Cisco Service Exchange Framework...

Details: Category: Service Management; 22 February 2008; 9835 views

Jasper Wireless, the licensed global machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile operator, has announced that it has signed operator partnership agreements in over 45 European, American and African countries...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 21 February 2008; 14321 views

Oracle today announced that IDEA Cellular Limited, a leading mobile operator in India and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM to deliver a unique customer service experience to pre- and post-paid mobile subscribers across its entire operations in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 9420 views

Oracle today announced that Polkomtel, a leading mobile provider in Poland, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, Oracle Communications Service Activation and Oracle Communications Inventory Management to help improve operational efficiency, enhance customer service and enable rapid deployment of next-generation services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 9924 views

Millenicom, Turkey's largest calling card and call shop operator, has migrated its entire prepaid services portfolio onto the Digitalk Media Application Server (MAS), providing a full set of turnkey value-added features and applications on the multiservice platform.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 8844 views

RAD Data Communications has unveiled its fully "future-proof" ACE-3205 cell site gateway. "RAD's ACE-3205 cell site gateway is triply unique," says Gaby Junowicz, Director of Business Development at RAD Data Communications...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 12300 views

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC , the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, and Microsoft Corp today announced their co-operation to deliver new mobile communications services for MTS customers. The collaboration is aimed at extending the range of products in MTS' market-leading portfolio of value-added services...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 19 February 2008; 8755 views

Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it has been selected by Inmarsat plc. to provide a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 10391 views

Vodafone Turkey, Turkey's second largest mobile operator, has successfully launched End2End's fully outsourced Content Retailing Solution replacing Vodafone Turkey's previous platform service...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9454 views

ZTE demonstrated the company's newly IOT (Inter Operability Testing) tested 5.76Mbps HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) network equipment at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008, following the successful launch of ZTE's 7.2Mbps HSDPA/2Mbps HSUPA network equipment at China's PT/Wireless & Networks Comm exhibition in October last year...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9304 views

ZTE has launched the ZXGW B8036 SDR (Software Defined Radio) base station. The ZXGW B8036, the world's first pre-commercial SDR base station, supports GSM and WCDMA simultaneously within software...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8399 views

Redknee Solutions has announced that it has been selected by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company to provide a real-time messaging rating and charging solution. VMS, operating under the brand name MobiFone, is a GSM service provider with the largest market share (approximately 39%) in Vietnam...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 15 February 2008; 8638 views

Redknee Solutions, a leading provider of innovative software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, has announced the launch of IP Rating and Charging (IPRC) 5.0...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 9403 views

Max Telecom today announced it has completed the first phase of its WiMAX rollout in Bulgaria, using the Cisco AE Mobile WiMAX technology paired with its access and aggregation solutions. Max Telecom plans to expand coverage to 90 percent of Bulgaria's population by the end of 2009...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 11722 views

Galaxia Telecom International PLC, the telecom integrator and operator specializing in the innovation and deployment of wireless broadband technologies, has announced the listing of the company's shares on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the launch of its first mass market WiMAX network in Algeria...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 9315 views

Kirusa, the world's leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services, has demonstrated the world's first exchange of Voice SMS messages between diverse carriers using different Voice SMS systems...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 11992 views

Essel Group, India's largest entertaiment/media conglomerate, has turned to the expertise of U-Turn Media to break into the mobile portal market in Northern India. The Group will be working with wireless operator BSNL...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8604 views

A group of leading software players has recognised the need for greater monetisation of mobile network resources, supported by highly flexible advertising campaigns . The Mobile Advertising Alliance has chosen the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona to publicise its launch...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9051 views

Enhanced results for users of European Space Agency services are the intention of recent collaboration between ESA and World Telecom Labs, the Brussels-based maufacturer of VoIP equipment...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 February 2008; 8988 views

Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners, of Cleveland, Ohio has purchased the Satellite Communications Division of Andrew Corporation. Andrew Corporation, the CommScope subsidiary, has completed the sale of its Satellite Communications business to Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9053 views

A DVB-H trial by Latvian Mobile Telephone is using Thomson's Management and Encoding System. Thomson's Mobile TV solutions are being demonstrated during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 February 2008; 9380 views

Cisco and Personeta have announced that the two companies are delivering a fixed-mobile converged voice solution to Globul, the fastest-growing mobile operator in Bulgaria...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 February 2008; 10930 views

Kuwait's private sector has experienced its highest ever net profits posting, thanks to mobile operator Zain...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 February 2008; 10183 views

Better planning and more efficient networks are the promise of Aircom International's ASSET system. ASSET is now more widely available thanks to a recent distribution agreement for the Asia-Pacific region. AIRCOM will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Details: Dr. Nicolae Oaca; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2008; 13222 views

Orange and Vodafone are winners in the contest for the last two 3G licenses in Romania. At least that is how it now appears, in a story which has lessons for regulators and operators in emerging markets worldwide...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 27 January 2008; 11047 views

The 2008 International Aid + Trade Event brings together the global humanitarian relief, aid and development community to share knowledge and experience, improve coordination and communication, increase the effectiveness of aid response and humanitarian relief and embrace the challenge of integrated aid and development...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 27 January 2008; 7355 views

Talia, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet for North Africa and the Middle East, is launching its new 'Good Works' scheme at the 2008 International Aid + Trade conference in Geneva, Switzerland...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 17085 views

This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 27 January 2008; 10362 views

Moving to a VoIP paradigm presents real challenges for operators in the emerging markets. Developing Telecoms asked Yossi Ben Harosh, President & CEO, Telrad Networks, to outline some of the difficulties that can be expected - and to suggest the best way forward...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 27 January 2008; 10251 views

Fibre-optics professionals should be simplifying the classification of fibre-optics, particularly in the face of competition from copper products...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 12762 views

The imminent transfer of Algeria's telecoms services from state to private ownership is keenly anticipated. During the build-up to final roll-out revenues are expected to show substantial growth. The Arab Advisors Group has issued a report on this exciting issue...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 27 January 2008; 13404 views

Many of the Western European operators appear inward-looking, almost unwilling to look into overseas markets even when the latter make up the real areas of growth in the context of current global telecoms...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 27 January 2008; 9831 views

Subex, which specialises in OSS solutions, has released an enhanced version of its Prevea credit-risk management system...

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