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Wavion partners Uralsvyazinform for broadband in Ekaterinburg

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Category: Wireless Networks
07 September 2009
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Base Stations
  • Wireless Broadband
  • Wavion

Wavion's new category of Wi-Fi base station has led to a contract with Uralsvyazinform, the largest provider of telecoms services in the Urals region of Russia, to deploy broadband wireless access to the towns and cities of the Urals. Wavion will be delivering this project with ARD Satcom, local integrator...

Orascom: we’ve doubled North Korean 3G customers

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 September 2009
11097 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • North Korea
  • Orascom
  • Koryolink

Orascom, the company which bought into North Korea's new 3G market, has reported that customers for Orascom 3G more than doubled in 2Q09. The company has a 75% share in Koryolink, the sole cellular network open to individual customers...

Purchasers show interest in Nitel privatisation

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 September 2009
10759 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nitel
  • Nigeria
  • Privatisation
  • MTEL

Bids for Nigeria's state-run telecoms company Nitel are being received from both local and international firms. There appears to be a sticking-point in that the Nigerian Government will give priority to those bidding for the entire Nitel enterprise although the key asset and therefore target is the MTEL mobile division...

Huawei, Grameen turn to solar-powered BTS in Bangladesh

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
07 September 2009
13158 views
  • Central South Asia
  • solar power
  • Huawei
  • Grameenphone
  • Bangladesh
  • Base Transceiver Stations

Huawei has been selected by Grameenphone, a subsidiary of Telenor, to deploy solar-powered Base Transceiver Stations in Bangladesh...

Nokia brings mobile financial services to millions

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Category: Mobile Finance
02 September 2009
9893 views
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Mobile Banking
  • Digital Divide

Nokia's new mobile financial service Nokia Money will consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services...

Ovum: end in sight for India’s 3G auction saga - vision still fuzzy

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 September 2009
12154 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • Spectrum
  • Auctions
  • Ovum

Ovum’s new report, "3G spectrum licensing in India", outlines a number of issues which have caused auction delay, unresolved issues clouding future outlook and several contentious issues still to be resolved. For the author 3G spectrum auction is unlikely to attract additional new players or entice most of the new 2G licensees to participate...

MTN launches voice SMS solution for Uganda subscribers on Kirusa platform

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
02 September 2009
9375 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Uganda
  • Kirusa
  • MTN
  • Voice SMS

Ugandan mobile carrier MTN has launched Voice SMS service across the country, based on Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, a vendor of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services. The MTN Voice SMS offering in Uganda is bolstered by additional features like Scheduling and Dynamic Group Voice SMS...

T-Mobile, Nokia speed up Czech mobile broadband

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Category: Wireless Networks
01 September 2009
10226 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • T-Mobile
  • Czech Republic

Subscribers to T-Mobile in the Czech Republic can expect to enjoy advanced 3G data and multimedia services thanks to a faster mobile broadband network. Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to build an advanced 3G mobile network...

City University London wins funds for mobile banking security

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Category: Mobile Finance
01 September 2009
8081 views
  • Security
  • Global
  • Mobile Banking
  • R&D

A team of informatics and engineering specialists at City University London has received US$200,000 in funding from the UK Government’s UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) for a three-year project to develop new security measures for mobile banking...

Hunan Unicom gets 3G underway

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 August 2009
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • China
  • Unicom

Hunan's provincial government has announced that its local Unicom operation has launched 3G services. To encourage use, a 50% discount is available for all existing or potential Hunan Unicom subscribers...

Thuraya launches “world’s toughest hand-held phone”

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Category: Devices & Platforms
25 August 2009
7010 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Thuraya
  • Satellite Phone

Thuraya Telecommunications Company has launched what it describes as the world’s toughest satellite phone, namely the new Thuraya XT. Thuraya is also using the words most rugged and reliable phone in the market to reinforce the importance it is attaching to the launch...

Companies and Markets: Chile offers Latin America’s highest fixed telecoms rate

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
25 August 2009
9193 views
  • Latin America
  • Chile
  • Fixed-line
  • Companies and Markets

With a fixed-line penetration rate of 21%, Chile can now boast the highest such rate in Latin America. The newest report from Companies and Markets covers a variable market where fixed-line is successful but broadband has to date been disappointing in terms of growth...

Third-time unlucky for France Telecom Mobinil bid - appeal on the way

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
25 August 2009
10749 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Egypt
  • Mobinil
  • France Telecom
  • Appeals

Followers of the problems challenging the Egyptian mobile operator Mobinil and its would-be purchaser France Telecom will be aware of the coverage Developing Telecoms has given to this long-running saga...

3G bidders in India to be limited to four?

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
25 August 2009
13992 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • Spectrum
  • Auctions

According to the Times of India, rumours are circulating that the group of Indian Ministers with responsibility for allocating 3G spectrum will be confining the bids to just four new players...

China Telecom finishes 1st phase 3G network construction

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2009
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • China
  • China Telecom

Reports from China Knowledge and SinoCast Daily Business both indicate that 3G deployment in China is continuing faster than predicted by the three licencee companies. China Telecom appears to be enjoying a clear advantage over China Mobile and China Unicom...

Pyramid Research forecasts a Bali High for Indonesian 3G

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2009
10452 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • Indonesia
  • Forecasts
  • Pyramid Research

Indonesia is set for huge growth in 3G service uptake over the next five years, and operators are taking creative steps to build out that subscriber base, according to the latest forecast data and analysis from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network...

Iraq ousts Jordan as most competitive Arab cellular market

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2009
10629 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Competition
  • Cellular

Iraq is now the most competitive Arab cellular market. This year’s Cellular Competition Intensity Index, instituted by Arab Advisors Group, reveals that Jordan (most competitive market in 2007 and 2008) has come in second...

East Africa - broadband marches on

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Category: Satellite Networks
21 August 2009
10444 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Broadband
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • Mozambique
  • Seacom
  • Cabling

Following the recent prolific deployment of cabling systems in the seas around East Africa, two highly-respected organisations, the Christian Science Monitor and the BBC, have been bringing their customers up-to-date. Michael Schwartz reviews the articles...

ILS Proton launches AsiaSat 5 satellite

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Category: Satellite Networks
20 August 2009
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • C-Band
  • Hong Kong
  • ILS
  • Ku-band

International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on its ILS Proton on behalf of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong...

Cuba still has lowest mobile penetration in Latin America: Companies and Markets

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2009
12357 views
  • Latin America
  • Broadband
  • Mobile Penetration
  • Cuba

 London-based firm Companies and Markets have released a new report entitled 'Cuba - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband' which profiles the fixed-line, mobile and broadband markets in Cuba. The report notes that Cuba has the lowest mobile penetration rate in Latin America and that government-controlled Etecsa and its subsidiary Cubacel monopolise fixed-line and mobile respectively...

ABI: five years until Asia-Pacific hosts 40% of all cellular towers

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2009
10316 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ABI Research
  • Cellular Towers

The Asia-Pacific region will see huge numbers of cellular towers built over the next five years, with demand driven by the massive, rapid increase in mobile subscribers in China and India. By 2014, according to Cellular Base Station and Site Leasing Markets, a new study from ABI Research, the area will contain 39% of the world’s cell towers, in a Total Addressable Market worth nearly US$125 billion...

Xiamen hospital improves care with Aruba wireless LAN

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
19 August 2009
7169 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Medicine
  • Aruba
  • LAN

Xiamen Hospital in China’s Fujian Province is using a wireless LAN system from Aruba Networks to improve patient care in mobile Electronic Medical Records, patient registration applications, Real-Time Location Tracking, and video surveillance...

T-Hrvatski Telekom: 1 million broadband households by year-end

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
19 August 2009
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  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Broadband
  • Croatia
  • Forecasts

T-Hrvatski Telekom has released a review of its operations in Croatia,where it remains a key player in fixed-line and mobile. Fixed-line has experienced a minor decline as the company increases its role in Internet provision. Broadband technologies are proving successful with targets remaining ambitious...

India - busier and busier 3G or not

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
19 August 2009
13152 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • India
  • BSNL

The telecoms market seems rather quiet at present - with the exception of India. This review by Michael Schwartz looks at recent developments in this massive market and tries to identify some of the major current trends... 

Synterra, ECI partner to meet traffic growth

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Category: Wireless Networks
19 August 2009
8911 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Carriers
  • Synterra

Russian operator Synterra is to deploy ECI’s new XDM-3000 to accommodate growing customer demand for capacity-intensive carrier-class infrastructure solutions that can simultaneously handle both Ethernet and TDM-based services, fundamental to the ECI 1Net framework for optimal network transition...

Pakistan’s remote areas receive telecom boost

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Category: Wireless Networks
18 August 2009
9792 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • Remote
  • Pakistan
  • Digital Divide

Pakistan’s Universal Service Fund has chosen Balochistan and Southern Punjab as the targets for its latest initiative to bring telecoms to the country’s remote areas. Half a million Balochistanis will be helped by this new development...

KVH mini-VSAT broadband goes live in Asia-Pacific waters

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Category: Satellite Networks
18 August 2009
7513 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Maritime

Supported by Sky Perfect JSAT, KVH's newest mini-VSAT coverage area now supports broadband Internet and voice services for maritime and aeronautical applications...

Kenya Broadcast Corporation launches e-Learning

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
18 August 2009
13000 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Education
  • E-Learning

Kenya has pioneered e-Learning in sub-Saharan Africa now that the Kenya Broadcast Corporation has launched digital content for use in schools. Doreen Apollos, writing on the Corporation’s website, introduces us to the development...

Legal Protection of Submarine Cables in Latin America

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Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
12 August 2009
10322 views
  • Cable
  • Latin America
  • Uruguay
  • Cabling
  • Legal

Issue 45 of Submarine Telecoms Forum contains an article by Dr Andrés J Fígoli Pacheco, a Senior Legal Counsel with Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been engaged in improving the legal framework protecting submarine cables in Latin America...

Stagnating infrastructure + poor penetration rates = Haiti fixed-line

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 August 2009
9649 views
  • Latin America
  • Penetration
  • Haiti
  • Companies and Markets
  • Teledensity Fixed-line

Analyst and forecaster Companies and Markets has recently turned its attention to the less-publicised markets in the Caribbean. Its profile of Haiti’s fixed line system can hardly be described as optimistic...

3G in Turkey - by sharing infrastructure?

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Category: Wireless Networks
12 August 2009
13942 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • 3G
  • Mobile Internet
  • Turkey
  • Turkcell
  • Turk Telecom

Statements by the CEOs of both Turkcell and Turk Telecom indicate that both believe that introducing 3G into Turkey will be achieved more cheaply by the two companies sharing the costs of infrastructure...

Azerfon, Vodafone sign strategic partnership

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
12 August 2009
14387 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Middle East North Africa
  • 3G
  • Vodafone
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Azerbaijan

Azerfon, one of the fastest growing mobile operators in Azerbaijan, and Vodafone have announced a non-equity partnership to provide customers with “high quality communications services and to collaborate jointly on future technological developments”...

Mundo Startel expands Angolan broadband with Alvarion WiMAX

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Category: Service Management
12 August 2009
13410 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4G
  • Broadband
  • Angola
  • Wireless
  • Alvarion
  • WiMAX

WiMAX provider Alvarion and Angolan operator Mundo Startel will be expanding the WiMAX facilities available in Angola as a result of the contract they have just signed...

Gilat’s SkyEdge II to meet Servicio Satelital broadband needs

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Category: Satellite Networks
12 August 2009
7640 views
  • Satellite
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Gilat

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide Argentina’s Servicio Satelital with a SkyEdge II satellite communications network to enable broadband Internet connectivity at hundreds of sites nationwide. The sites will include schools, oil and gas firms and retail lottery locations...

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