Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 February 2009; 9311 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 February 2009; 8738 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 February 2009; 8132 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 February 2009; 6708 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 February 2009; 7396 views

On2 Technologies, specialist in video compression solutions, will demonstrate high-definition mobile video solutions at next week's Mobile World Congress...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 13 February 2009; 10106 views

This year is going to be a year for fibre network boom in Pakistan. To support the construction of a massive fibre-optic infrastructure in Pakistan, Digital Solution, as distributor for Aspen Optics, will introduce the latter's fibre connectivity products, including media converters, fibre switches and next generation optical transceivers...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 12 February 2009; 7588 views

Better Energy Systems, which manufactures portable renewable energy products, will be introducing the Solio Mono multi-device solar hybrid charger at Mobile World Congress 2009...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 11 February 2009; 9602 views

Kalimantan and Sulawesi will soon be joining the rest of Indonesia in enjoying the benefits of high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable. PT Telkom has awarded the contract for a 1,000-mile-plus link to General Cable Corporation subsidiary Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) and partner Fujitsu...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 February 2009; 9977 views

New York-based Access Markets International has been predicting where small and medium businesses will be spending the most money. The company identifies China, Korea, and India as the top three markets...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 February 2009; 9452 views

A key contract win for Synchronica in Chile means that Entel PCS becomes its first Latin American operator. Strategic partner Brightstar has helped Synchronica's Mobile Gateway into the Chilean market...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 February 2009; 8079 views

During next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, multimedia specialist Explay will be unveiling Colibri, its third-generation projection module...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 06 February 2009; 8988 views

Bandwidth, or rather the lack of it, greatly affects the ability for emerging markets to communicate with the world at large. The G.711 codec, as adopted by all incumbent wireline telcos in developed markets, requires at least 64kb/s of bandwidth per channel. G.711 requires minimal resources due to its relatively uncompressed content but is very sensitive to network problems (especially prevalent on IP networks)...

Details: Category: Service Management; 05 February 2009; 9894 views

Clarity will extending Operational Support Systems platform to handle all voice, data and IP services offered on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia's (PT Telkom) CDMA network...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 05 February 2009; 10690 views

Uzbekistan's fastest growing GSM operator, FE Coscom LLC whch operates under the UCell brand, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks' (NSN) charge@once mediate convergent mediation solution to collect and process data for the accurate billing of more than 2.8 million prepaid and postpaid customers...

Details: Dawn M. Hogh, Vice President Marketing, Veraz Networks; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 04 February 2009; 12038 views

Asia-Pacific is already the world's most dynamic market for mobile telecommunications services and providers need a way to manage the rapidly increasing cross-operator traffic they handle but also to enable and support voice and data roaming services. Veraz Networks' IP Packet eXchange (IPX) offers an architecture for interconnecting GSM and CDMA mobile operators, fixed networks and application service providers...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 04 February 2009; 8431 views

Infineon Technologies has announced its third generation of ultra-low-cost (ULC) mobile phone chips. The X-Gold110 is claimed by Infineon to be a very cost effective one-chip solution for GSM/GPRS ultra-low-cost phones. System costs (bill-of-material) for mobile phone manufacturers are said to be 20 per cent lower compared to existing solutions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 February 2009; 8437 views

Multimedia Generation Network (MGN) specialist Veraz Networks, which provides application, control, and bandwidth optimisation products, has announced a programme to enable service providers using Nortel's legacy DMS circuit switches to quickly migrate to a next-generation IP network powered by Veraz's MGN portfolio...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 February 2009; 12707 views

Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia & US has today announced the launch of its Next-Generation Network known as the Multi-Service Platform in India...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 02 February 2009; 9044 views

Anite, which specialises in testing technology for the wireless industry, today announced the launch of its Mobile WiMAX Host Tester, claimed to be the only Host Testing Solution (HTS) available in the market for Mobile Station Stack (MSS) developers and integrators...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 February 2009; 10242 views

Despite the anticipated cautious spending on Information and Communications Technology in the Philippines, IDC predicts that specific pockets of opportunities will exist...

Details: Category: Service Management; 30 January 2009; 8436 views

WFN Strategies has been contracted by Windward Telecom Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago to provide network planning and design services for the Trinidad Offshore Fibre Electronics (TOFFE) project. WFN Strategies will oversee the development of a network architecture which meets the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry operating in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as perform an initial cable route study...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 January 2009; 10880 views

Saudi Telecommunications has successfully handled another year of the holy Hajj pilgrimage, a two-week-long event that welcomed millions of visitors. Well aware of the importance of reliable communications, STC partnered with Nokia Siemens Networks to provide voice and data services to Mecca's Hajj pilgrims...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 30 January 2009; 6487 views

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SES New Skies has announced that its NSS-9 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The NSS-9 spacecraft, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, will now be readied for launch onboard an Ariane 5 booster, scheduled for take off on February 12, 2009. The launch window for NSS-9 onboard Ariane 5 opens at 22:09 GMT time...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 29 January 2009; 8495 views

IP networking solutions from Tadiran Telecom have been chosen by the Bank of Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) to provide an IP telephony network of 60 systems and sites throughout Vietnam...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 January 2009; 8188 views

This year many companies GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be launching new products and services. Developing Telecoms provides a round-up.

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 28 January 2009; 7824 views

Boingo Wireless has added 10,904 China Telecom hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai; the locations are the first three of 18 provinces and three municipalities that will be added to the Boingo network. With the addition of these locations, Boingo members will enjoy broadband connections throughout the Yangtze Delta, including airports, hotels and cafés...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 28 January 2009; 8390 views

India is growing rapidly in both mobile phone penetration and Internet usage, making it an ideal market for a "mobile email for all" solution. India's 12 wireless operators signed up a record 10.16 million new subscribers in March 2008, bringing the total customer base to 261.09 million, and making India the second largest wireless market in the world, overtaking the US with its 258 million subscribers. India is also now the third largest country in Asia when measured by the number of Internet users, with 60 million users...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 January 2009; 9792 views

Zain Group, has successfully tendered to continue managing one of Lebanon's two mobile operations, MIC2 (Mobile Interim Company 2, which is branded as mtc touch) for an additional year...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 27 January 2009; 7727 views

Did you know that 40% of the world's population does not have a bank account, and yet more than 60% have access to a mobile phone? Redknee and its operator customers would like to brief delegates to Mobile World Congress 2009 on how mobile money services are bridging the crucial gap, and how these services will change the industry and the way people bank in 2009...

Details: Category: Service Management; 27 January 2009; 10469 views

Veraz Networks, which specialises in Multimedia Generation Network application and control as well as in bandwidth optimisation products, has been commissioned by Bangla Trac Communications to deploy its I-Gate 4000 PRO high-density bandwidth optimisation system to interconnect sites in London, Hong Kong and Dhaka...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 21 January 2009; 9866 views

Zain has launched a nationwide Voice SMS service on Kirusa platforms. All of Zain Kuwait's prepaid and postpaid subscribers can now send Voice SMS to mobile customers in Kuwait and to over a billion people across the globe. Kirusa is respected as a vendor of Voice SMS and a developer of mobile value added services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 January 2009; 9201 views

Barcelona has proved itself both a worthy and a worthwhile location for the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Developing Telecoms will be keeping readers in touch with news of this year's MWC just as soon it is released. In this initial report we profile five companies all set not just to be at MWC but also ready to introduce new products and services in Barcelona...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 January 2009; 10222 views

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Communications in Colombia have led to the signature of new agreements for services under the Compartel I, Compartel II and Telecentros projects which were awarded to Gilat's Colombian subsidiaries in 1999 and 2002...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 January 2009; 10354 views

Under an agreement just signed with China Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile will provide their TD-SCDMA solution for 11 of the 28 cities covered by China Mobile's phase 2 network, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Changchun, Hefei, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Urumqi...

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