Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 July 2009; 13109 views

Recent reports in the Indian press have looked at 3G's success - or otherwise - in India. BSNL and MTNL have yet to see more than a few sales of 3G services. Is there something flawed with the companies' approach to 3G? Michael Schwartz analyses...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 July 2009; 12860 views

A brand-new initiative to promote existing technology to empower the poor of Uganda has been launched by Grameen, Google and MTN Uganda. Five mobile-enabled applications will be made available to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 July 2009; 7947 views

T-VIPS, which specialises in professional video management and distribution, and in the contribution and distribution of broadcast quality video signals, has provided a JPEG2000 IP-based contribution system for a live 3D broadcast of robotic surgical procedures...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 July 2009; 10843 views

Through the widespread selling of bundling services, the Romanian telecoms market is set to become the fourth largest player in the CEE market. Pyramid Research make this assertion in their new report Communications Markets in Romania, which also looks five years into the future...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 06 July 2009; 10683 views

ICT's highest growth potential anywhere in the world lies in the Middle East, according to a new report from Dublin-based Research and Markets. Difficulties in the oil sector and in the global economy will generate a need for continuous ICT development. In turn, security, Internet, IPTV, WiMAX and 3G make for attractive opportunities. Michael Schwartz reviews...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 July 2009; 9577 views

Comverse has been commissioned by Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, to supply its ONE billing and active customer management solution...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 06 July 2009; 13711 views

Citizens in the most remote regions of Papua New Guinea can expect to enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite, now that government-owned Telikom PNG has commissioned Gilat Satellite to build a network for the country's outlying areas...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 July 2009; 9821 views

Although initially to be rolled out in Nigeria's key cities, Alvarion's US$7 million contract to bring WiMAX to Nigeria will offer voice and high-bandwidth data services to thousands of residences and businesses...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 01 July 2009; 8419 views

Great economic and social momentum have been kick-started by mobile money initiatives, according to reports from the Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona. The GSMA, the industry's standard-bearer, has announced that the first three applications to the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund have been approved...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 01 July 2009; 9449 views

ECI Telecom has won a contract from Togo Telecom, that country's incumbent fixed-line operator, to deliver an end-to-end turnkey solution for a new high-speed IP network in the country...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 01 July 2009; 11209 views

In its telecommunications report for 2Q09, analyst Companies and Markets has refined its review of Central Asia into a study of the five individual countries of the region. Fixed-line penetration remains low, even allowing for Kazakhstan's relative success. Proposed privatisations will be tempting once they have been agreed...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2009; 8163 views

Colibria has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile Instant Messaging services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end Movistar Messenger service with a rich set of messaging and presence features, and full integration with SMS...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2009; 9510 views

In a proposed link to carry broadband along existing electricity lines, the Manila Electric Company and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co have established working parties to evaluate the financial and technical aspects of Broadband over Power Lines...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 30 June 2009; 10896 views

Saudi Telecom's fixed-line monopoly in Saudi Arabia has been broken. Etihad Atheeb Telecoms has now commenced operations in the Saudi Capital Riyadh and in the port of Jeddah. It is expected that the percentage of the Saudi population with high-speed Internet will now soar...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 29 June 2009; 8797 views

The Mobile Payments in Latin America is still relatively under developed. However, it has the potential to grow rapidly and offers a significant prospective market for mobile operators, financial services, governments, retailers and end users. But without increased collaboration between the major stakeholders the market could take much longer to develop...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 June 2009; 10819 views

Emerging markets in telecoms often start with a blank canvas: those developing these new markets can implement whichever telecoms strategy they wish: enter fibre cabling. Michael Schwartz looks at some very exciting fibre-optic developments in East Africa...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 June 2009; 12421 views

The GSMA is welcoming an initiative driven by the Finnish Ministry of Communications to develop a unified approach to the allocation of Digital Dividend spectrum, ie, the spectrum that will be freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV, within the Baltic Sea region...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 12640 views

Mobile money specialist Emmanuel Okoegwale takes a look at some of the major players on the Mobile Money sector in Africa and elsewhere. This article was first posted as a blog on ZDNet in May 2009 when it covered eight companies. It is now expanded with addition of three further providers. Other organisations wishing to be included are invited to submit profiles to Developing Telecoms...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 10785 views

Telcos in Nigeria are taking the battle to the next frontier in coming months: Mobile Money. Not to be left out of this race are banks and independent providers which had seen the clearly untapped potential. No one wants to be left behind in the evolving ecosystems...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 6979 views

In an attempt to target over 650 million Chinese mobile users, GyPSii is introducing Java platform compatibility. Both Chinese and English will be supported...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 7398 views

Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 June 2009; 7746 views

Perhaps reflecting a thaw in the frosty relations between Mainland China and Taiwan, the largest fixed-line operators from each country - Chunghwa Telecom and China Telecom - are set to spend nearly US$15 million on an undersea link...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 8945 views

As a part of our coverage on mobile banking, we are publishing a summary of a review from Financial Insights called Mobile Banking and Beyond. Increased convergence in the Asia-Pacific Internet and mobile banking channels is expected in the next 12 months...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 10447 views

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the National Payment System Bill, which is intended to safeguard public savings as mobile banking gains a hold in the country. The last three years have seen a staggering 150% rise in the number of banked Kenyans. Michael Schwartz summarises...

Details: Category: Investment; 22 June 2009; 10445 views

Following our report of the dispute over ownership of Egyptian mobile operator Mobinil, it has become all too clear that the arguments between France Telecom and Orascom Telecom will become fiercer, arbitration or not...

Details: Category: Regulation; 22 June 2009; 9301 views

As soon as he was sworn into his new post as India's Communications and IT Minister, Andimuthu Raja declared that the country's auctions for 3G licences would be allocated a date as a matter of urgency...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 22 June 2009; 11747 views

The GSMA's Mobile Money Summit is timely in the light of several recent developments, all of which bring home the empowerment that mobile money can bring to those called the "unbanked"...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 June 2009; 10021 views

Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 June 2009; 9723 views

BH Telecom end-users can enjoy new triple-play services enabled by NSN. Key to the project are NSN switching and broadband access solutions to optimise BH Telecom's legacy assets, as the company advances towards an all-IP network of the future...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 June 2009; 10111 views

High-end video streaming has arrived in China. China Telecom has selected NSN to achieve the launch, utilising the latter's 3G CDMA EVDO service...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 16 June 2009; 7526 views

ZTE has announced that it sold 10 million terminal units worldwide in 1Q09, representing an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 13661 views

TelicPhil has selected ECI Telecom for a DWDM network expansion. Utilising ECI's MSPP, the Philippines operator can expand its existing network to offer increased bandwidth capacity to deliver data and international voice services...

Details: Simon Kong; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 15 June 2009; 12125 views

With the current economic climate taking its toll around the world, mobile network operators are considering new tactics to improve customer service and reduce churn while also lowering costs. Network Sharing is an important strategy available for network operators to pursue. In this article Simon Kong looks at some of the factors holding back network sharing in Asia...

Details: Neeren Ramharakh; Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 9838 views

Neeren Ramharakh, Vice-President, Sub-Saharan Africa at Cambridge Broadband Networks, discusses how African operators are delivering mobile broadband to regions where there is no fixed line infrastructure...

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