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Dominican Republic's Codetel deploys Ceragon FibeAir 3200T

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Category: Wireless Networks
20 October 2008
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  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Dominican Republic
  • Codetel
Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...

The cross-border conundrum

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Stephen Gibb
Category: Mobile Finance
20 October 2008
6319 views
  • Brazil
  • Mobile Money
  • Customer management
  • Upaid
In this viewpoint feature Stephen Gibb, Chief Information Officer at mobile payments specialist Upaid, looks at how businesses and consumers can benefit from cross-border payments in emerging markets such as Brazil...

Global IP Solutions launches video calling capabilities on mobile phones

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 October 2008
7058 views
  • Global
Global IP Solutions, which provides IP multimedia processing solutions, has announced its VideoEngine Mobile on the Windows Mobile platform: it enables peer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing on mobile phones...

NetHope alliance launches advanced VSAT installation/maintenance training

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Category: Satellite Networks
20 October 2008
10845 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • VSAT
  • Education
  • Digital Divide
  • NetHope
The objectives of Connect Africa took a major step forward when the NetHope aid alliance joined the Global VSAT Forum, the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC) and iDirect in launching an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training programme in Nairobi this week...

ECI Telecom is selected by Triton Telecom for multi-million dollar Caribbean fibre network

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
20 October 2008
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  • Cable
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • ECI Telecom
Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

Research and Markets: Asian DSL market fast-growing internally, dominant globally

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2008
10028 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Broadband
  • DSL
  • Research and Markets
Research and Markets has announced the addition of its 2008 Asian - Broadband Market report to its range of publications. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the broadband Internet segment of the market across the various economies of Asia...

Indian cricket gains home on the web

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 October 2008
6167 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
Live Current Media, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, has announced that the outgoing President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Shri Sharad Pawar, has launched the BCCI's own website...

Croatia: elections stunt your growth

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 October 2008
10464 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • IT Services
  • Croatia
  • Serbia
The IT services market in Croatia slowed in 2007 compared to the two previous years. According to a new study from IDC, the market grew 15.2% year on year to US$365 million, down from nearly 40% annual growth in 2006. In local currency, IT services market growth was 10.2% in 2007, compared to 5.9% in 2006...

Industry giants unite to deliver alternative future for Mobile Broadband

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Category: Wireless Networks
13 October 2008
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  • Global
  • Mobile Broadband
  • GSMA

Sixteen of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, intending to deliver an alternative to WiFi whereby customers will go online while on the move...

Synchronica aims for mobile email throughout the emerging markets

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 October 2008
7700 views
  • Global
  • Acquisitions
  • Synchronica
  • Mobile Email
  • Gateway
A major acquisition, contracts worldwide and authoritative words on mobile email. A busy summer for Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. Michael Schwartz caught up with him...

Two-mobile habit catching on in Bahrain

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 October 2008
10375 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Handsets
  • Bahrain

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

GSMA: renewable energy for half all new off-grid base stations by 2012

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
02 October 2008
9887 views
  • Global
  • Base Stations
  • GSMA
  • Renewable Energy
  • Green Power
The GSM Association has launched its Green Power for Mobile programme. It aims by 2012 to bring renewable energy to half the developing world's new off-grid base stations. Total target is 118,000 such installations...

Emergency Co-ordination Workshop Launched

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
01 October 2008
10665 views
  • Global
  • Disaster Management
  • Common Alerting Protocol
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has been adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303 and become the foundation standard for all media public disaster and emergency warning. WMO is hosting a 2-day Workshop on 9-10 December 2008 in Geneva for people responsible for CAP implementation...

Sify Pioneers IP-NGN Adoption in India

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Category: Wireless Networks
25 September 2008
10990 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Data Services
  • ngn
  • Sify
Sify, a pioneer and leader in data telecom and Internet services in India is to migrate its infrastructure to a Next Generation IP Network in a first of its kind deal with Cisco. The network aims to set new standards for the data telecom services industry in India...

SMART to Install Fiber-to-the-Home Optical Infrastructure in Brno

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
24 September 2008
10018 views
  • Cable
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • VoIP
  • IPTV
  • Smart
  • FttH
SMART, a Czech metropolitan optical networks operator, plans to build a fiber-to-the-home optical network in Brno in the Czech Republic. The service will cover about 6,600 homes and residents will be able to use triple-play services (Internet access, digital TV and VoIP telephony) in a converged way, with a quality superior to that of most commonly available types of connections...

Lower-Income Groups Key to Broadband Growth in Chile

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
23 September 2008
9508 views
  • Latin America
  • Cisco
  • Broadband
  • Chile
A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

Viettel pioneers mobile email in Vietnam via Critical Path Memova solution

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
23 September 2008
11586 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • Mobile Email
  • Viettel Telecom
Mobile email is now a reality in Vietnam, as one of the country's mobile service providers, Viettel, has adopted Memova, a mobile email solution from Critical Path...

New Asian markets will produce half a billion more mobile subscribers by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
23 September 2008
11239 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • India
  • Cambodia
  • Pakistan
  • Indonesia
  • Vietnam
  • Bangladesh
  • ARPU
  • Frost and Sullivan
  • Laos
  • Sri Lanka
Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan...

With Google's backing will O3b reach the Other 3 Billion?

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 September 2008
9135 views
  • Global
  • O3b
  • Digital Divide
  • Broadband Networks
O3b, the brainchild of American entrepreneur Greg Wyler, who most recently rolled out fibre optic cable networks in Rwanda with his company Terracom, is a development with great potential. Standing for the "Other 3 Billion", the company aims to deliver high speed, low cost broadband internet to developing markets...

ITU asks: broadband connectivity for Asia-Pacific. Too much or too little?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 September 2008
11724 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Broadband
  • Digital Divide
ITU launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU Telecom Asia 2008, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The report focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society...

Google backed start up aims to offer low cost internet access via satellite

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
17 September 2008
7780 views
  • Satellite
  • Global
  • Broadband
  • O3b
  • Google
  • Wireless
  • Digital Divide
O3b Networks, a start up company is aiming to provide low cost, high speed broadband access to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East during 2010...

Mobile workforce among Indian SMEs rising fast

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 September 2008
10965 views
  • Central South Asia
  • SMEs
  • India
From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...

TT&T Thailand Deploys First Cisco WiMAX Network in Asia Pacific at Mae Fah Luang University

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
17 September 2008
9532 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cisco
  • Thailand
  • WiMAX
  • TT&T

TT&T is deploying the first Cisco WiMAX network in Asia Pacific at Mae Fah Luang University. Expected to help bridge the digital divide, this will also be the first production WiMAX network in Thailand...

Thuraya launches new integrated billing system

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Revenue & Billing
17 September 2008
7374 views
  • UAE
  • Thuraya
  • Integrated Billing

Thuraya billing systems have now been integrated into one database, which Thuraya regards as essential for billing convergence and ease of operations...

Mobile Money: lessons from South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Mobile Finance
16 September 2008
10830 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • South Africa
  • Kenya
  • Philippines
  • M-Commerce

In many developing economies, more citizens own mobile phones than own traditional bank accounts. A new research report by Mercator Advisory Group stresses the lessons to be learnt from mobile money experiences in South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya...

CDMA plunges, GSM continues to thrive

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
16 September 2008
8745 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • CDMA

According to Dell'Oro, a source of market information on networking and telecoms infrastructure, the CDMA market infrastructure worldwide contracted 25% last year even though CDMA grew in the Asia-Pacific region...

Telco Operator Strengthens Foundations for Triple-Play Services

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Cisco Systems
Category: Wireless Networks
11 September 2008
10711 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Cisco
  • Triple-play
  • Poland
  • IPTV
  • Routers
  • Netia

To take advantage of the deregulated market in Poland, rapidly increasing traffic volumes and widening demand for services, Netia, the country's largest alternate carrier, was faced with a major challenge of upgrading its optical network. The solution entailed a radical shift in the core network design using the best technology available on the market. As a result Netia is now able to deliver revenue generating services including IPTV...

Product Development Support for New Operator Services

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CBOSS Corporation
Category: Service Management
10 September 2008
9335 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • CBOSS
  • Azerbaijan
  • Azerfon
Product Development Support for new services is the key to dynamic and successful growth of telecoms operators. CBOSS has announced a new service - Product Development Support - which allows telecom operators to enjoy fast time-to-market and exceptional efficiency for their new innovative services and marketing campaigns...

Andicom creates a digital experience in Colombia

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
08 September 2008
10122 views
  • Latin America
  • Colombia
  • Digital Services
Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.

RASCA chooses ECI Telecom for network expansion in Costa Rica

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
04 September 2008
9004 views
  • Latin America
  • Costa Rica
  • ECI
Radiográfica Costarricense, a telecom operator in Central America, has selected ECI’s XDM MSPP solutions. ECI was selected based on its capabilities to offer several key technologies on a single platform - SDH, Ethernet and WDM - in order to assist RACSA with its aggressive expansion efforts in Costa Rica.

Mobiles, pocket PCs set to benefit from faster dictionary browsing

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
04 September 2008
7187 views
  • Global
  • Education
Paragon Software has released its new SlovoEd 7.0 engine which is claimed to offer fast browsing and highly compressed content for its talking e-dictionary...

Saudis join Zain African/Mid-East One Market

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 September 2008
9531 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Zain
  • Saudi Arabia
  • ONE NETWORK
Zain, a mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, has launched commercial services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has now joined Zain's One Network, claimed by Zain to be the world’s first borderless mobile service, offering over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries favourable rates, free of high roaming charges for cross-border communications...

Intel set to introduce sub-$400 WiMAX laptop

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Devices & Platforms
03 September 2008
9335 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • WiMAX
  • Intel
  • Laptops
India's Business Standard and Economic Times have both recently investigated claims by Intel that it can help provide India with WiMAX-enabled laptops for under US$400, if not for as little as US$300.

Keithley expands MIMO RF ability with 8x8 MIMO test system

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
02 September 2008
8216 views
  • Global
Keithley Instruments, which specialises in solutions for emerging measurement needs, is introducing what it believes to be the industry’s first measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO system. The system is used for primary research of next-generation RF MIMO devices and technologies.

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