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Qtel chooses Ditech Networks voice-quality equipment for Qatar

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Category: Wireless Networks
17 March 2009
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Qatar
  • Voice Quality
Ditech Networks voice-quality technology has been deployed throughout Qtel's mobile network in Qatar. The aim is to that Qtel, will consistently deliver excellent mobile calls, regardless of where a call is made or which device is used...

Unitel, Angola's largest mobile operator, picks Comverse voice services

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Category: Revenue & Billing
17 March 2009
15948 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • Comverse
  • Subscriber Management
  • Unitel
Unitel SA will be rolling out Comverse's Voice HUB to drive revenues from Visual Voicemail and unanswered phone calls from a current customer database of 4.5 million...

Visafone launches Kirusa Voice SMS in Nigeria

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 March 2009
13187 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Kirusa
  • Visafone
  • Voice Messaging
Visafone Communications Limited, a wholly owned Nigerian telecoms company, has launched Voice SMS across Nigeria. The Voice SMS solution has been sourced from Kirusa, a provider of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services...

Bharti Telesoft, Sofrecom partner for VAS

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 March 2009
9541 views
  • Global
  • Bharti Telesoft
Value-added services will play a greater part in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America as a result of a partnership between Bharti Telesoft and Sofrecom...

Cellular coverage in Jakarta set to improve

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 March 2009
12009 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • FlexWave Prism
  • ADC
  • DAS
  • Jakarta

Cellular coverage in the dense and capacity-strained central business district of Jakarta is set to improve thanks to a new contract for outdoor DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) announced by Indonesia's leading cellular distribution company, P.T. Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP)...

End2End to run Cometa's Mobile Games Portal for Indonesian Mobile Operators

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Category: Service Management
12 March 2009
8858 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • End2End
  • Games
Cometa Mobile, the Indonesian mobile content provider and aggregator, has outsourced the running of a dedicated Cometa games portal for Indonesian mobile operators to End2End...

Bharti Telesoft helps found GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme

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Category: Mobile Finance
12 March 2009
7668 views
  • Global
  • M-Commerce
  • Bharti Telesoft
  • Value Added Services
Bharti Telesoft, which provides integrated Value-Added Services to mobile operators in emerging markets, has been invited to be a founding member of the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Working Group by the GSMA, as a result of its work in the development and deployment of mobile banking solutions in emerging markets worldwide...

Indian regulator right to welcome MVNOs

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 March 2009
11938 views
  • Regulation
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • MVNOs
  • Ovum
On Monday March 2, the Indian government finally gave the go-ahead for Mobile Virtual Network Operators to enter the market. This follows a recommendation back in August 2008 from India's regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The government is expected to release detailed guidelines for MVNO entrants soon. We believe this approval will benefit both existing MNOs and new entrants...

Bharti Telesoft partners Grand Technology for data services hub

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
10 March 2009
9417 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Yemen
  • Bharti Telesoft
  • Data Hubs
Bharti Telesoft has formed a partnership with Grand Technology, a telecom solution provider in the Middle East, notably in Yemen, for their Data Services Hub...

Vodafone Essar's outsources mobile games to End2End

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Category: Service Management
10 March 2009
7690 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone Essar
  • End2End
  • Games
Vodafone Essar has fully outsourced its mobile games portal to End2End, a European provider of managed service solutions for mobile content retailing...

Zain announces record financial results for 2008

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 March 2009
9134 views
  • Investment
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Zain
Mobile operator Zain is present in 22 countries. It has just released its 2008 results, and is reporting great strides in key performance indicators. For example, its active customer total is up to 63.5 million, 50% over 2007, its consolidated revenues are up 26% to US$7.44 billion and EBITDA is up 15% to US$2.78 billion...

Mobile banking for the unbanked set to grow: CGAP

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Category: Mobile Finance
09 March 2009
7840 views
  • Global
  • Mobile
  • Banking
CGAP, the global microfinance centre has been releasing new research and data to encourage telecom operators, financial institutions and governments to see the business potential in expanding access to financial services for poor people in developing markets. The current economic climate makes the need for widespread availability of safe alternatives to cash even more pressing...

Scartel, Cisco bring 4G to Moscow, St Petersburg

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Category: Wireless Networks
06 March 2009
9401 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 4G
  • Russia
  • WiMAX
  • Yota
Scartel, Russia's first provider of high-speed wireless Internet, is now offering access under the Yota brand, powered by Cisco's latest mobility technologies. Yota's network provides service within the Sadovoye Ring in Moscow and at the Vassilyevsky Island and Petrogradsky District in St Petersburg. The network will provide a platform for high-speed, 4G mobile services that will help make "on-the-move" broadband access available to more people...

NSN modernises Africell core network in Sierra Leone and Gambia

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Category: Wireless Networks
05 March 2009
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 3G
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Sierra Leone
  • Gambia
  • Modernisation
After expanding its radio and core mobile network by using Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) equipment, Africell is to deploy NSN's state-of-the art 3GPP mobile softswitching solution...

Yahoo Launches Mobile App

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 March 2009
8725 views
  • Global
  • Applications
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Yahoo!
Yahoo! has announced the launch of a new mobile service to be known, not surprisingly, as Yahoo! Mobile. Available initially only for Apple iPhones and top end handsets from other makers including Windows Mobile smartphones, the service will be of interest in emerging markets where the Yahoo! brand still has significant traction...

Chuan Wei and Alcatel-Lucent to deploy Cambodia's first WiMAX Rev-e network

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 March 2009
9229 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cambodia
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • WiMAX
  • Chuan Wei
Following an agreement with Chuan Wei (Cambodia) Co Ltd, Alcatel-Lucent will be providing Cambodia with a nation-wide WiMAX Rev-e (802.16e-2005 standard) wireless broadband network, the first in the country. The service should launch in mid 2009...

NEC wins order for Pasolink ultra-compact microwave system from Croatian Optima Telekom

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Category: Service Management
02 March 2009
8415 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • NEC
  • Croatia
  • Fixed Line
  • Optima Telekom
NEC Corporation has concluded its full-turnkey supply contract with Croatian fixed telecom operators Optima Telekom to deliver, install and provide after-sales services for approximately 40 Pasolink Neo systems...

Datatronics deploys NewNet CT SS7 and Sigtran platform for Latin America prepaid and online charging

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Category: Revenue & Billing
02 March 2009
7643 views
  • Latin America
  • charging
During 2008, Datatronics has supplied, integrated, and deployed more than 170 signaling nodes with NewNet CT's Distributed7 signalling platform in Latin America to manage pre- and postpaid services...

Next-Generation WiMAX to reach over 800 million by 2010

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Category: Regulation
02 March 2009
7872 views
  • Global
  • 4G
  • WiMAX
A milestone in the development of WiMAX has just been acheived, with the WiMAX Forum granting the WiMAX Forum Certified seal of approval to Mobile WiMAX 3.5GHz products for the first time...

Transmode and NEC enter global partnership

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Category: Satellite Networks
27 February 2009
8639 views
  • Backhaul
  • Global
  • NEC
  • Optical Networking
  • Transmode
Transmode, a leading Scandinavian provider of optical networking solutions and NEC Corporation have announced global a partnership agreement...

Barcelona: What a difference a year makes

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Alec Barton
Category: Energy & Sustainability
27 February 2009
7099 views
  • Global
  • Mobile World Congress
Alec Barton, Publisher of Developing Telecoms, gives a personal view of his visit to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Please do not supply him with any paper press releases. And go green - this is the example the emerging markets can show the developed markets...

TOT selects 3Com advanced networking to connect 30,000 Thai government employees

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Category: Service Management
27 February 2009
7670 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Thailand
  • Government
TOT, Thailand's largest telecommunications company, has chosen 3Com solutions to provide the network communications infrastructure at the Bangkok Government Centre, a brand new mega-project of the Thai government...

Aircom strikes performance management deal with Croatia's Vipnet

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Category: Service Management
26 February 2009
9292 views
  • OSS
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Croatia
  • Aircom
  • Performance Management
Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced a contract with Croatian mobile operator Vipnet to supply its Optima Performance Management solutions across both the Core and Radio Access networks...

Telkomsel boosts mobile broadband via NSN Direct Tunnel

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Category: Wireless Networks
26 February 2009
12773 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Telkomsel
  • Data Transmission
Indonesia's Telkomsel will enable a growing number of its 3G/HSDPA customers to enjoy the best quality unblocked data access as a result of its commissioning Nokia Siemens Networks' Direct Tunnel, which reduces transmission link requirements...

Russian mobile firms are now among the largest in Europe - Wireless Intelligence

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
25 February 2009
12570 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • MegaFon
  • Russia
  • VimpelCom
  • MTS
  • Wireless Intelligence
Fast-growing mobile markets in Eastern Europe such as Russia are rapidly shifting the make-up of Europe's mobile operator market, according to new research by Wireless Intelligence. The new data reveals that major operator groups in the region - most notably the Russian-based operators MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon - are now accumulating customer bases that rank among the largest in Europe...

Ovum at Barcelona: no more femtocells? Commerce/philanthropy duo for emerging markets?

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Category: Wireless Networks
24 February 2009
9236 views
  • Global
  • Ovum
  • ICT
  • Mobile World Congress
As the mobile industry gathers in Barcelona to set out its roadmap, Ovum analysts provide their opinion of the most interesting announcements made in the frst 48 hours...

Mongolia's remote GSM service wins award

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
23 February 2009
8711 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Mongolia
  • Altobridge
  • GSM
MobiCom Corporation, a leading Mongolian mobile network operator has received an award for ‘Best New Technology' in recognition of its remote GSM service, which is provided by Altobridge's Remote Community Solution and enables service delivery to isolated small user groups...

Kaspersky Lab unveils Mobile Security 8.0

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Category: Revenue & Billing
19 February 2009
9248 views
  • Security
  • Global
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Cybercrime
Kaspersky Lab will unveil the beta version of its new solution Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona...

Anam announces major Vietnamese operator for its SMS smart services

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 February 2009
10647 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • SMS
  • Vietnam
  • Anam Mobile

A move back to SMS will be one of the talking points of this year's Mobile World Congress, according to Anam Mobile, which is announcing three new international operator customers at Barcelona...

Botswana's Gabz FM delivers interactive listener experience via Derdack message master xsp

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 February 2009
9296 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Botswana
  • Messaging
  • Radio
  • Derdack
Derdack, provider of mobile messaging platforms and notification workflow software, has announced that Gabz FM, a licensed Botswana radio station, is live on the latest version of message master xsp...

Kirusa announces Voice SMS Version 5.0

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 February 2009
8719 views
  • Global
  • SMS
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Kirusa
Kirusa, a vendor of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value-added services, will be announcing the immediate availability of Kirusa Voice SMS Version 5.0 for examination at Mobile World Congress (MWC) at Barcelona...

Movius to launch new messaging and presence solutions at MWC

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 February 2009
8126 views
  • Global
  • Messaging
  • Movius
  • Voicemail
Movius Interactive Corporation will be unveiling new mass market applications at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including visual voicemail solutions that can be deployed with any device and a new suite of presence-based solutions...

Materna Communications to showcase broad range of new equipment

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
16 February 2009
6695 views
  • Global
  • Smart Metering
This year's exhibition presence by Materna Communications will see the unveiling in Barcelona of a full range of new products. In addition to its established product portfolio, Materna is in particular opting for innovations that will be playing a major part in telecoms in general this year...

On2 Technologies to display new high-def mobile video solutions

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 February 2009
7378 views
  • Global
  • Mobile Video
  • On2
  • HD Video
On2 Technologies, specialist in video compression solutions, will demonstrate high-definition mobile video solutions at next week's Mobile World Congress...

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