Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 November 2008; 6928 views

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...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 November 2008; 10197 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 9824 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 November 2008; 10733 views

Algeria's leading mobile operator Orascom Telecom Algeria has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register solution...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 November 2008; 10555 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 November 2008; 8047 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 November 2008; 7776 views

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...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 November 2008; 10256 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 14 November 2008; 11334 views

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...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 November 2008; 10626 views

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...

Details: Cisco; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 November 2008; 8135 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 November 2008; 10742 views

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%...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 10 November 2008; 8378 views

HP has announced a new blade platform designed to help service providers reduce costs and efficiently expand capacity...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 November 2008; 8000 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 10 November 2008; 10705 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 November 2008; 11904 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 November 2008; 10189 views

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%...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 November 2008; 8622 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 06 November 2008; 9158 views

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...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 05 November 2008; 10141 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 05 November 2008; 10354 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 04 November 2008; 8718 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 04 November 2008; 10061 views

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.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 04 November 2008; 8772 views

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"...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 November 2008; 14082 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10971 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10058 views

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...

Details: James Barton; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 03 November 2008; 13169 views

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...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 11529 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 October 2008; 10126 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 October 2008; 12485 views

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...

Details: Stephen Gibb; Category: Mobile Finance; 20 October 2008; 6334 views

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...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 October 2008; 7074 views

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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...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 20 October 2008; 10861 views

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...

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