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NDS, the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has been chosen by Tata Sky to supply its industry-leading XTV DVR solution for Tata Sky+, a service that will offer full Personal Video Recorded functionality in the Indian pay-TV market...
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Vodafone's African shopping trip shows no sign of abating in the face of the global financial crisis, according to Jeremy Green, Mobile Practice Leader at Ovum. Last week, the company announced that it had achieved its long-held ambition to take a controlling stake in Vodacom, the South African mobile operator in which it held a 50% share...
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SeaChange International, which provides IPTV and Video-on-Demand (VoD) software, systems and services, will partner Turkey-based Argela, a provider of next-generation telecom solutions, to serve the growing global market for IPTV. Turk Telekom, one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies, is the first customer for the partnership. SeaChange is also providing systems integration and professional services...
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New submarine cables being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring unprecedented connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region...
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The customer base of ETK, the telco serving Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khkassia, has exceeded 2 million subscribers. ETK is fully owned by Siberia's largest telco, Sibirtelecom, and with 40% of the local market is the leading company in Krasnoyarsk Krai, far outpacing its federal competitors. Today, it runs GSM-900/1800 and IMT-MC 450 networks...
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Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN)'s vision of five billion people connected by 2015 involves smart connectivity, an innovative concept that will provide powerful solutions for heterogeneous networks...
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Freescale Semiconductor is helping accelerate the build-out of China's Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA, a third-generation wireless standard that is being widely adopted throughout China) networks, leveraging deep industry relationships and a broad technology portfolio for wireless infrastructure equipment...
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Algeria's leading mobile operator Orascom Telecom Algeria has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register solution...
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Nokia will launch Nokia Life Tools, a range of innovative agriculture information and education services targeted at non-urban consumers. Designed specifically for emerging markets, Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints and provides services to this next generation of mobile users...
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Claimed to extend the addressable market for mobile email to almost 100% of mobile handsets in use today, Synchronica's SimpleMail technology has been licensed to two new emerging market mobile operators...
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Tata Communications has announced the launch of its TelePresence rooms available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India...
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Seven GSM mobile networks in as many countries in Africa are to be connected via a VSAT network to be installed by Globecomm Systems. The contract follows Atlantique Telecom's programme of consolidation of its African markets...
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Intec, a provider of both business and operations support systems, has announced a contract extension with Atlantique Telecom, one of the fastest growing GSM operators in West and Central Africa...
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UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...
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Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...
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In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...
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HP has announced a new blade platform designed to help service providers reduce costs and efficiently expand capacity...
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CBOSS Corporation has announced CBOSSsms, a new hi-end short message center based on the NonStop platform. The solution's improved architecture guarantees timely short message delivery...
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Albania's IT market continued to grow solidly in 2007, fueled by increased spending in the government, finance, and telecom sectors, by falling equipment prices and by favourable economic development. This is according to a recent IDC study, which concludes that Albania's IT market reached US$89.34 million in 2007, representing 28.3% year-on-year growth. In local currency, the market expanded 16.3% year on year...
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Integrated VAS solutions provider Bharti Telesoft and multinational MTN Group have announced an alliance aimed at delivering Multimedia Messaging Center, Short Message Service Center and Wireless Application Protocol Gateway solutions for all MTN Operations...
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The Romanian PC market continued to grow at a fast pace in 2Q08 in terms of both shipments and value, albeit not as rapidly as in previous quarters. According to the latest data from IDC, shipments grew 29.3% year on year, while the value of the market expanded year on year by 23.3%...
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In line with its commitment to combat the sale and use of counterfeit and pirated products, Cisco announced this month that it will participate in the launch of a new set of guidelines to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy...
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Consumers in Russia's eastern region of Khabarovsk now have access to affordable high-definition digital TV, video on demand and multimedia services through a Metro Multiservice Transport Network from Cisco...
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The Western Union Company has created an alliance with Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Orascom and Western Union plan to work together to introduce mobile remittance services in select markets. The services aim to make low-principal, high-frequency remittances more convenient to the millions of consumers who send money every day...
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The Serbian IT market increased 30% year on year in US Dollars in 2007, fueled by a growing economy, structural reforms, privatisation, tax cuts, and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a recent IDC study, total spending on hardware, software, and IT services in Serbia reached almost US$751 million in 2007...
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Huawei has announced that it has been selected by HT Mobile Communications Centre, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom Joint Stock Company and US-based Hutchison Telecom, as a key partner in rolling out its new national GSM network. HT Mobile is currently undergoing a telecom transformation and switching from CDMA to GSM technology, and is scheduled to launch its new GSM national network next year...
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Agilent Technologies and Anite have announced the first shipments of their LTE UE protocol tester. This is the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620 wireless communications test set platform.
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iCON Communications, the newest provider of wireless broadband IP based communications services in Armenia, believes it is on track to launch its WiMAX service in Yerevan prior by January 2009, and extending its coverage into major cities in Armenia during 2009. WiMAX has been singloed out by iCON as extending the range and speed of existing wireless internet technologies by covering an entire geographic area rather than limited "hot-spots"...
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Through its Wireless Reach initiative, Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm, has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to information and multimedia services...
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A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...
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Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...
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Representing a major step forward for renewable energy use in the Pakistani telecoms industry, Pakistani operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country's first solar powered Macro Base Station (M-BTS) site. The site uses a solar powered M-BTS from leading Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies...
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Top level representatives from the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group will present the future roadmap of Vietnam ICT market development at the forthcoming Vietnam Telecomp conference, due to take place in Ho Chi Minh City in November...
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Tanzanian carrier Six Telecoms has selected Telarix iXLink systems to conduct business with other carriers across the globe. The announcement comes not only within the context of growing interconnection business for Six Telecoms but also at the opening of the recent Capacity Africa conference...
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