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Reseller agreement to bring advanced solutions to Sub-Saharan Africa

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
17 November 2011
7441 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4G
  • Huawei
  • Data Centres

A major African ICT provider will soon be able to deliver advanced MFS and networking solutions across sub-Saharan Africa...

African Mobile Networks: The Smartphone Dilemma

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Tom Makau
Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 November 2011
12488 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Smartphones
  • Mobile Penetration
  • Data Traffic

Developing Telecoms' Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at the measures African operators will need to adopt in order to cope with the widespread adoption of smartphones across the continent...

New solution adds NFC functionality to legacy mobile phones using SIM card

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
16 November 2011
7498 views
  • Global
  • NFC
  • SIM Card

A leading technology firm has created a solution which allows an NFC card emulation solution to fit into a standard SIM card form factor and still achieve industry-standard four cm proximity transaction performance...

Polish provider adds security services to its offering

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
16 November 2011
7041 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Poland
  • Fortinet

Poland’s market leading operator has implemented a platform of multi-threat network security appliances to help secure its internal networks against external threats...

Ring back tones are a hit in Angola

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 November 2011
9819 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • onmobile
  • Angola
  • Ring Back Tones
  • Unitel SA

The market-leading Angolan operator has seen a swift adoption of its new ring back tone service, with a service penetration rate of 8%...

Filipino wireless provider implements cross-network connectivity

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
15 November 2011
9621 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Smart Communications
  • Greenpacket
  • Converged Communications

Converged connectivity across 3G and Wi-Fi networks will soon be available to subscribers of the market leading wireless operator in the Philippines...

Green base stations deploying across Nigeria

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James Barton
Category: Energy & Sustainability
15 November 2011
9385 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Ericsson
  • Base Stations
  • Flexenclosure
  • Bharti Airtel

An initial batch of 250 diesel-powered base stations in Nigeria is being upgraded to a new green energy solution...

Indian SMBs’ Interest in Infrastructure as a Service is on the Rise

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
14 November 2011
7112 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • SMBs
  • IaaS

Small and medium businesses (SMBs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...

World’s largest GPON deployment underway in China

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
14 November 2011
8989 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • GPON

One of China’s leading operators is expanding its broadband access network...

Prepaid recharge services reaching out to international Gabonese communities

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 November 2011
8904 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Gabon
  • ezetop
  • Mobile Top Up

Subscribers of one of Gabon’s major operators are now able to access a top up service which allows the Gabonese community living or working abroad to directly recharge the prepaid mobiles of their families back home in Gabon...

Alvarion Announces BreezeCOMPACT Super-fast Wireless Broadband Compact Base Station

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 November 2011
9632 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Base Stations
  • Alvarion

Alvarion Ltd., a provider of optimised wireless broadband solutions addressing the connectivity, capacity and coverage challenges of public and private networks, has unveiled its new BreezeCOMPACT compact base station...

Nuclear plant upgrades comms network in Slovakia

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
11 November 2011
7764 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Slovakia
  • IP Telephony

A Slovakian subsidiary of the Enel Group is enhancing the communications and emergency broadcast system at its nuclear power plant in Mochovce, Slovakia...

AfricaCom Awards 2011 / Orange wins “Best New Service” award at AfricaCom 2011

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 November 2011
9038 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Orange

Orange won the “Best New Service” award at the AfricaCom Awards 2011...

Backhaul Boost for Africa as Transition Networks Strengthens Product Offering

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 November 2011
9029 views
  • Backhaul
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Fibre Access

Transition Networks Inc., the fibre access technology expert which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ-GM: JCS), is showcasing two of its next generation products at AfricaCom...

Unique Java app enables low-cost smartphone-style Facebook, email and online chat on mid-range handsets in Africa

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
11 November 2011
10367 views
  • Devices
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Applications
  • ForgetMeNot Africa
  • Social Networking

A first-of-its-kind Java application will enable a smartphone-style internet messaging experience on mid-range mobile handsets in Africa, giving users visually attractive access to Internet-free Facebook, email and online chat services...

Fibre network goes live in Zambia

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
11 November 2011
9501 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Broadband
  • Zambia
  • Fibre
  • CEC Liquid Telecom

Countrywide broadband connectivity is now available across Zambia...

Hungarian service provider updates OSS for future LTE upgrade

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
10 November 2011
8113 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • LTE
  • Hungary
  • Comptel
  • Telenor Hungary

A leading operator in Hungary has implemented a dynamic OSS solution to ensure smooth network evolution to LTE...

Indian telecom giant puts focus on customer experience

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James Barton
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
10 November 2011
10024 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Bharti Airtel

One of India’s major operators is deploying a new Customer Experience Management (CEM) platform across the country...

From Theory to Practice: Evolution in the Middle East

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
10 November 2011
8964 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • LTE
  • Nokia Siemens Networks

With a spate of recent LTE launches in the Middle East, the region is plunging headlong into the next generation – but what are the factors that have led to near-simultaneous launches across several territories? And what does the advent of LTE mean for consumers and operators in the region? DT editor James Barton spoke to Mohamed Abdulrahim, LTE specialist (Middle East) at Nokia Siemens Networks, to find out...

Number One operator in Zimbabwe boosting Quality of Service

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
09 November 2011
8829 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Astellia
  • QoS
  • Econet Wireless

The market-leading operator in Zimbabwe is deploying a solution for optimising QoS across its mobile network...

Huawei hit with Android royalty demands by Microsoft

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
09 November 2011
9974 views
  • Global
  • Android
  • Huawei
  • Microsoft
  • Patents

The latest vendor to be targeted by Microsoft for royalty payments is the Chinese firm Huawei, according to new reports...

Ericsson forecasts tenfold increase in mobile data traffic by 2016

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James Barton
Category: Data Centres & Networks
08 November 2011
9381 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Data
  • Ericsson
  • Forecasts

A new report from Swedish vendor Ericsson predicts that mobile data traffic will increase up to tenfold over the next five years, and that there will be nearly 5 billion mobile broadband subscriptions by 2016...

Security solution to improve major Egyptian network’s reliability

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
08 November 2011
7518 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Egypt
  • HP
  • Mobinil

The Egyptian market-leading operator is implementing a solution to improve the reliability and security of its network...

Indian M&A regulation to be overhauled by year-end 2011?

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
07 November 2011
7986 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Consolidation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

The secretary of India’s Department of Telecoms has expressed his belief – and wish – that new regulations encouraging consolidation in the country’s mobile market will be introduced by the end of 2011...

Funding in place for Iraqi network overhaul

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Anne Williams
Category: Investment
07 November 2011
10879 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • NSN
  • Iraq
  • Asiacell
  • HSBC

An Iraqi operator has secured financing for a network upgrade, allowing it to improve the quality of services it provides to customers across Iraq as well as to accommodate ongoing growth in subscriber numbers to its network...

Has the cloud gone mobile?

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Roelof Louw, cloud computing expert at T-Systems in South Africa
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
04 November 2011
7304 views
  • Global
  • Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Cloud

The proliferation of mobile devices and applications has changed the way we buy and use business today. And interestingly, it is employees that are driving this trend, not IT...

Nigeria’s unbanked targeted by mobile financial services launch

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
04 November 2011
7418 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Payments
  • Nigeria
  • Roamware

A new mobile payments service is launching in Nigeria by a consortium focused on increasing mobile payment usage in the country...

Netbook to provide South African customers with affordable internet access

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
03 November 2011
8093 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Vodacom

A new affordable netbook aimed at boosting connectivity in South Africa has been released...

Investment boost for African infrastructure firm

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Anne Williams
Category: Investment
03 November 2011
9683 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • IHS
  • Tower Infrastructure

The leading pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has invested US$32 million into IHS, a leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider...

Gmail Messenger launches in Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 November 2011
14059 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • SMS
  • Indonesia
  • Algeria
  • Kuwait
  • Google
  • Maldives
  • QTel
  • Tunisia
  • Palestine

Customers of Qtel Group companies in six different markets can now use the pioneering Gmail SMS Chat service...

UANI Calls on Huawei Technologies to End Work in Iran

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
02 November 2011
9575 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Huawei
  • Iran
  • Human Rights
  • Surveillance

On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications company, to immediately end its business in Iran...

Tata adopting new cable standard for future deployments

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
02 November 2011
7728 views
  • Cable
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Commscope
  • Tata Teleservices

One of India’s major wireless operators is switching from standard copper cable to smoothwall RF feeder coaxial cable for its new site roll-outs...

Chinese iPhone rival manufacturer looking to software development

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
02 November 2011
8684 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • iPhone
  • Android
  • Xiaomi Phone

The manufacturer of an Android smartphone billed as a home-grown competitor to the iPhone in China is reportedly interested in creating software for its device...

NFC payments coming to UAE

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
02 November 2011
9240 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mobile Payments
  • Etisalat
  • NFC
  • UAE

obile payment services based on NFC (Near Field Communication) technology will soon be offered by UAE-based operator Etisalat, in partnership with Mastercard Worldwide and Network International...

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