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Fiberlink Introduces MaaS360 Visibility Service for Handhelds

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
17 February 2010
10351 views
  • Global
  • Handsets
  • BlackBerry

Fiberlink has introduced a new subscription-based service that gives businesses unprecedented knowledge and reporting about enterprise BlackBerry devices. The new service, named MaaS360 Visibility Service for Handhelds, will extend the company’s MaaS360 platform to include handheld mobile devices in addition to existing desktop, laptop, Macintosh, USB and netbook reporting...

Siano expands Mobile Digital TV markets in Brazil and China

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 February 2010
7927 views
  • Latin America
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Brazil
  • China

Siano Mobile Silicon, a supplier of mobile digital TV receiver chips, is set to bring Mobile Digital TV to mass-market levels in Brazil and China...

certgate to port microSD-based smartcard security into Symbian OS – for the first time on Nokia phones

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
17 February 2010
8967 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • SmartCard

Nuremberg-based IT security company certgate has announced that its SmartCard microSD will from now on also support business cell phones with Symbian operating systems. This development will allow users of Nokia phones a way to protect their digital identity with hardware certificates...

Tagattitude provides secure mobile payments with new solution

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 February 2010
5592 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Payments
  • Tagattitude
  • TagPay Online

Tagattitude has unveiled "TagPay online", the newest facet of its TagPay turnkey mobile payment platform...

Tagattitude provides secure mobile payments with new solution

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
16 February 2010
7089 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Payments
  • Tagattitude
  • TagPay Online

Tagattitude has unveiled "TagPay online", the newest facet of its TagPay turnkey mobile payment platform...

Comarch introduces M2M Platform for Mobile Operators

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
16 February 2010
9228 views
  • Global
  • M2M
  • Comarch
  • B2B Gateway

Comarch has unveiled a new solution – an M2M platform which contains the necessary features for operators entering the market to provide services for M2M partners...

Mobile Broadband Investment Set to Soar as HSPA Connections pass 200 million

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James Barton
Category: Data Centres & Networks
16 February 2010
8798 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Broadband
  • GSMA
  • CAPEX
  • HSPA

The GSMA has announced that mobile operators around the world will invest up to $72 billion in Mobile Broadband* technologies in 2010. The new operator CAPEX investment data, compiled by global investment firm Deutsche Bank, reflects the continued consumer and enterprise demand for Mobile Broadband services and the need for underlying infrastructure, and comes as global HSPA connections reach the 200 million milestone...

NII Holdings selects Nokia Siemens Networks for network managed services in Latin America

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
15 February 2010
12163 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • NII
  • Argentina
  • Peru
  • NSN
  • Chile
  • Managed Services

NII Holdings, Inc. has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to manage its network operations throughout Latin America...

NEC to Launch New Femtocell Access Point from Ubiquisys

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
15 February 2010
9174 views
  • Global
  • NEC
  • Femtocells

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today the addition of a new femtocell access point from Ubiquisys, to its end-to-end femtocell solution.  The NEC FP810 femtocell access point will be available to mobile operators in April 2010...

M-giving For Haiti Is a Snap At Mobile World Congress

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
15 February 2010
11579 views
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Haiti

 In what is believed to be the world's first m-giving campaign powered by 2-d barcode technology, delegates at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are able to donate money to Haitian relief efforts by simply snapping a barcode with their mobile phones...

Zain appoints new CEO following Al Barrak’s resignation

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James Barton
Category: Investment
15 February 2010
9528 views
  • Service Providers
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Zain
  • Nabil Bin Salama
  • Saad Al Barrak

Zain has announced that its new CEO, effective from Sunday, February 14th, will be Mr Nabil Bin Salama. The appointment, made by the Board of Directors of Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC, follows the sudden resignation of former Chief Executive Mr Saad Al Barrak...

Red Bend to Unveil New Mobile Software Management Capabilities for Consumers and Service Providers at Mobile World Congress

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
12 February 2010
7024 views
  • Global
  • Mobile World Congress

Red Bend Software will unveil new product capabilities for Mobile Software Management (MSM) at GSMA’s 2010 Mobile World Congress..

NEC to Show Smallest All-in-One Compact LTE Base Station at MWC 2010

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
12 February 2010
10039 views
  • Global
  • LTE
  • NEC
  • Base Stations
  • Mobile World Congress

NEC Corporation will showcase the world’s smallest, all-in-one compact LTE (Long Term Evolution) base station at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 next week...

Vodacom Tanzania brings pre- and post-paid benefits to all with NSN billing solution

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
12 February 2010
8841 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • NSN
  • Vodacom
  • Tanzania
  • Unified Charging

Tanzania’s leading communications service provider, Vodacom Tanzania, has adopted Nokia Siemens Networks’ unified charging and billing solution - a single modular system serving prepaid, postpaid and hybrid subscribers alike that enables a personalized customer service approach through a suite of flexible, convergent services...

Turkcell selects CelleBrite’s synchronisation and backup services

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 February 2010
10197 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Turkcell
  • CelleBrite
  • Synchronisation

Turkcell customers will soon benefit from immediate mobile content synchronisation and backup services, following the operator’s purchase of over 1000 UME-36 devices from CelleBrite, a provider of phone synchronisation and management systems...

Synchronica and KC Mobile target emerging markets with low-cost MessagePhone

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
12 February 2010
8683 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Messaging
  • Handsets
  • Emerging Markets
  • Synchronica

Synchronica and Korean manufacturer KC Mobile have revealed the MessagePhone, a low-cost messaging device that delivers smartphone-like functionality and messaging services at lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than similar products – with the result that the MessagePhone is being targeted towards emerging markets...

Mozambique Mobile lucrative and set to boom soon - Research and Markets

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 February 2010
11039 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mozambique
  • Mobile Markets
  • Research and Markets
Mozambique is set to become an attractive and lucrative market for for mobile investors, according to Mozambique Mobile Communications Market, a new report from Research and Markets. The low mobile penetration rate is a very tempting base on which to build business...

IDC: IT transformation strong despite modest economy

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 February 2010
10245 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • IDC
  • Economy
  • Predictions

Governments in APEJ, that is, Asia-Pacific excluding Japan will continue to spend until their countries recover from recession. Ten predictions are recorded in IDC’s recently released Asia/Pacific Public Sector 2010 Top Ten Predictions...

Subex reports record number of fraud management implementations in third quarter FY10

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
10 February 2010
7864 views
  • Global
  • Subex
  • Fraud Management

Subex Ltd. has completed 12 implementations of ROC (Revenue Operations Centre) for fraud management across different regions in the third quarter of FY10, ending December 2009 – the highest tally in the industry to date...

TIGO to deploy Comverse Voice HUB in Bolivia and Honduras

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 February 2010
12705 views
  • Latin America
  • Millicom
  • Tigo
  • Honduras
  • Comverse
  • Bolivia

Designed to drive growth and boost revenues in Bolivia and Honduras, Comverse’s Voice HUB will be deployed via Millicom brand TIGO. Other benefits will be visual voicemail and call completion...

Vodafone Qatar: second fixed-line licence delayed for up to two years

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
10 February 2010
8442 views
  • Cable
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Licensing
  • Fixed-line
  • Qatar

The second stage in Vodafone’s fixed-line strategy for Qatar has been delayed until 2011 or even 2012. Building the fixed-line infrastructure is one reason offered for the delay by Vodafone, which won its first licence in 2008...

Redknee launches data services with India’s Loop Mobile

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Category: Revenue & Billing
09 February 2010
7808 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • charging
  • Redknee
  • NGRC
  • Rating
  • Loop Mobile

Redknee has launched its Next Generation Rating and Charging (NGRC) solution with India’s Loop Mobile, formerly BPL Mobile. Loop Mobile will offer subscribers enhanced differentiated, value-added data services via Redknee’s real-time charging platform...

Maravedis: cell and 3G great for Brazil but WiMAX...

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 February 2010
12078 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Broadband
  • WiMAX
  • Maravedis

Maravedis has released its Brazil wireless broadband and WiMAX market analysis for 2010. Initial enthusiasm and success for WiMAX have cooled somewhat but 3G and cell have great futures. What follows is the Maravedis report’s executive summary...

Network investments, cheaper handsets boost East African mobile - Frost & Sullivan

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 February 2010
10706 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
  • Frost and Sullivan

Four East African markets are set for growth by 2017 as a result of higher network investment, product innovation and cheaper handsets. Frost & Sullivan make their confident assertions in a new report East African Mobile Communications Markets...

Altair Semiconductor and SkyCross announce LTE cooperation

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
08 February 2010
8298 views
  • Global
  • LTE
  • SkyCross

Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company developing advanced mobile semiconductors for handheld devices, and SkyCross, a global antenna designer and manufacturer, have announced cooperation on high-performance LTE product solutions...

3GVision exhibiting i-nigma barcode reader at Mobile World Congress 2010

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
08 February 2010
10332 views
  • Global
  • Mobile World Congress

3GVision has confirmed that it will be among the exhibitors at the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 3GVision stand will be dedicated to a wide variety of mobile barcode reading solutions including an advertising campaign tracking platform...

MTN’s Voice SMS catching on in Uganda

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
08 February 2010
11735 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Uganda
  • Kirusa
  • MTN
  • Voice SMS

Three months after launching its Voice SMS service in Uganda, MTN has ordered an upgrade to triple the capacity of the Voice SMS system following an impressive adoption rate. Launched across Uganda, the service is based on technology from Kirusa, and has already seen adoption by over 11% of MTN’s subscribers...

Level 3 to deliver high-speed Internet services for PLDT

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Category: Satellite Networks
05 February 2010
9063 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • PLDT
  • Philippines
  • Connectivity

The Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system has received a boost with the news that the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) will use Level 3’s landing station connectivity. The latter extends PLDT’s pan-Asian voice, data and video network into the United States...

Tunisian telecoms set for shake-up: Onda Analytics

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 February 2010
10783 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Tunisia
  • France Telecom
  • Onda Analytics
  • Tunisie Telecom
France Telecom is set to add a major competitive element to Tunisian telecoms as it enters this market. There is also substantial interest in the 35% of Tunisie Télécom held by Dubai Holdings subsidiary EIT. Onda Analytics has just reviewed these and many other developments in Tunisia...

Companies and Markets: Bangladeshi fixed-line still growing

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 February 2010
11514 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Fixed-line
  • Bangladesh
  • BTCL
Sharply contrasting with her neighbours, Bangladesh’s fixed-line sector is in good health: it grew by 158,000 lines in 3Q09. The sector’s market-leader was the casualty: BTCL’s share fell eight percentage points to 54% in the year to 3Q09. Companies and Markets’ new report has all the details...

Clickatell provides free SMS services for Haiti aid organisations

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
04 February 2010
14652 views
  • Latin America
  • SMS
  • Caribbean
  • Clickatell
  • Haiti
  • Charity
  • Aid

Clickatell has extended its free SMS services to organisations providing aid to Haiti. The versatility of SMS has made it the communication channel of choice in the aftermath of the recent earthquake, and Clickatell’s move is sure to be welcomed not just by aid workers and residents in Haiti, but by those donating to the numerous charities providing aid to the country...

Africa and the mobile web - an opportunity grasped

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 February 2010
11861 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Facebook
  • Social Networking
  • Twitter

Facebook and Twitter have found loyal users in Africa. Some say that a lack of fixed-line infrastructure has somehow forced mobile users into using these socially-oriented functions. Michael Schwartz challenges this perception...

Globecomm brings 3G into managed wireless services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 February 2010
9103 views
  • Global
  • 3G
  • Roaming
  • Globecomm
Satcom specialist Globecomm is now incorporating 3G technology within its managed wireless business offering...

Zain expands Zap mobile commerce service to Malawi, Niger and Sierra Leone

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Category: Mobile Finance
03 February 2010
10674 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Malawi
  • Niger
  • Mobile Commerce
  • Sierra Leone

Zain’s customers in Malawi, Niger and Sierra Leone are set to enjoy Zap, the company’s mobile commerce service. While Zap in Malawi is only at the pilot stage, the service has been up and running for nearly a year in East Africa...

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