Customers in rural Albania will soon have access to free satellite broadband Internet, to be provided by the Albanian Post in conjunction with SES ASTRA...

Vodafone Albania will soon provide high-quality and high-speed broadband 3G services across the country. Albania’s leading mobile operator has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to build its 3G network, and enhance the experience for its users and visitors roaming onto its network...

NEC Corporation has unveiled a new flexible backhaul solution, the iPASOLINK 400...

The managed network services provider Reliance Globalcom is set to upgrade a key cable route connecting Western Europe with the Middle East...

The newest version of QIP, one of Russia’s most widespread IM services, is now powered by Spirit DSP’s TeamSpirit 3.1 Voice and Video engine...

Paul Chester Children’s Hope Foundation (PCCHF) is partnering with Guardian 24/7, a telemedicine company founded by military physician Dr. Sean O’Mara, to bring greater medical access to patients in Kenya...

Mobile Instant Messaging continues its spread across Latin America, with Claro Perú becoming the fifth subsidiary of América Móvil to launch the Claro Messenger service...

A new alliance has been formed between three major Asian operators – China Mobile, South Korean KT, and Japan’s NTT Docomo – aimed at providing “new experiences and greater convenience” to mobile subscribers in Northeast Asia...

In the past year there have been a number of changes of ownership and take-overs among communication service providers (CSPs) in emerging markets. This is part of the process of the network consolidation taking place across emerging regions as the realities of operating in low ARPU markets, such as increased competition and rising fuel and labour costs, begin to bear down on CSPs...

One of Indonesia’s largest operators is continuing the consolidation of their network onto one management platform in order to offer improved CDMA Fixed Mobile services to its 16 million subscribers...

The chairman of TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has announced that the regulator is soon to publish proposed guidelines for the pricing of 2G mobile spectrum...

Subscribers of Telenor Hungary will soon benefit from the automatic management of their device settings, making new mobile services instantly available...

Although the original deadline for a final deal was 15^th January, Etisalat has stated that it will persist in its attempt to purchase a 46% stake in Zain although its initial offer has now expired...

Compared to many other Middle Eastern countries, Jordan’s telecommunications sector is flourishing, with a liberalised market and healthy competition...

VimpelCom and Telenor still appear to be at loggerheads over the former’s acquisition of the newly renamed Wind Telecom (previously known as Weather Investments), if official statements issued by the two operators are to be believed...

The Chennai-based Global Networks Solutions Centre operated by Nokia Siemens Networks is to be expanded and relocated to a new site in the same Indian city...

India is apparently following in China’s footsteps in the field of network development, as its telecoms department has reportedly detailed swathes of 2G and 3G spectrum to be “exclusively used for developing indigenous telecommunications networks”...

Sixteen WiMAX operators from across the globe gathered in Taipei this week to draft roaming agreements and bring consumers one step closer to true global roaming on 4G networks. The first WiMAX Forum Global Operator Summit served as an interactive working event for all service providers to gain a concrete understanding of the opportunity for roaming and how to build a best-in-class framework for execution...

Etisalat’s attempted acquisition of a 46% stake in Zain is facing more trouble in the form of competition from the Turkish conglomerate Cukurova, which is currently in talks with Zain shareholder Al-Fawares Holding...

Small and medium business (SMB) spending in India on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), a key component of cloud computing, is anticipated to rise by a sizable 43% in 2011...

A leading provider of energy saving solutions has launched a new hybrid renewable energy solution which provides cost effective, uninterrupted green energy. The solutions have been launched as part of Delta Electronics’ SolutionE concept, which aims to overhaul market standards by enabling substantial direct and indirect energy savings...

Robert Schumann, a Manager at Anaylsys Mason, examines Kenya’s forward-thinking approach to 4G network-sharing...

A new comprehensive web security appliance has been unveiled by Blue Coat Systems. The ProxyOne appliance brings the same enterprise-class Web security used by 88% of the FORTUNE Global 500 to organisations that require a low-touch solution at a lower price point...

One of the Philippines’ largest network operators, Globe Telecom, will now be able to manage its network changes via a Network Operations Centre, guaranteeing data integrity and improving service assurance. The second phase of Globe Telecom’s NOC implementation has been completed by the solutions provider Clarity...

Thailand’s state-owned operator TOT is inviting bidders for a contract to build its 3G network infrastructure, and the auctions have thus far attracted four consortia of vendors...

A new research centre is to be established in Bangalore, India, by The International Data Corporation (IDC). The centre will be wholly owned by IDC, signalling the end of the firm’s long-standing relationship with Cyber Media (India) Limited, which served as IDC's partner and representative in India...

One of Panama’s largest telecommunications carriers, Telefónica Moviles Panama, S.A., has interconnected to iBasis’s network for the exchange of international fixed and mobile phone calls. The network spans more than 100 countries, delivering more than 24 billion minutes of voice traffic annually...

Costa Rica’s state-owned operator is set to face competition for the first time, as the Latin American country has awarded mobile operating licences to Telefonica and America Movil. The two firms won licences with bids of US$95 million and $75 million respectively...

Going into 2011, new reports on the telecommunications sectors of two Middle Eastern countries detail the past year’s progress and potential future developments...

A new partnership between mobile solutions provider Comviva and Airtel Bangladesh will provide messaging solutions across Bangladesh via Comviva’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, Short Message Service Centre and Bulk Messaging Gateway portfolio...

The world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, has received permission from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to commence trials of TD-LTE technology in six cities across the country...

A new acquisition could see the early deployment of 3G services by Thailand’s third-largest operator. True Corp, which owns the operator True Move, has confirmed that it will purchase the entirety of Hutchison Telecommunications International’s local CDMA business, complete with associated firms...

A new network-sharing agreement in India between two private operators and state-owned operator MTNL will see extended 3G services in two of the country’s major cities, Delhi and Mumbai...