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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
7813 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
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  • 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
9566 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
7392 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
10842 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
8773 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
10746 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
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  • 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
10149 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
9032 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
7202 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
9545 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
9361 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
8241 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.

VoIP / GSM Operator Expands Value Added Services

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 September 2008
8720 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • Norway
  • CBOSS Corporation
  • MTU Gruppen AS

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

VoIP / GSM Operator Expands Value Added Services

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CBOSS Corporation
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
01 September 2008
7609 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • VoIP
  • Norway
  • CBOSS Corporation
  • MTU Gruppen AS

MTU Gruppen AS, a Norwegian VoIP and wireless operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to supply and deploy a range of value-added products to broaden it's bundle of value added services...

The emerging telecoms market: a quantum leap for OSS?

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Jon Wells, Clarity Consulting
Category: Service Management
28 August 2008
7941 views
  • Global
  • Clarity
  • Emerging Markets
  • Digital Divide
Jon Wells, OSS Consultant at Clarity, a vendor of Unified OSS solutions that manages over 120 million subscribers, many of them from emerging economies, discusses how pressures in emerging markets are forcing OSS to change, for the benefit of all.

Ericsson in mobile broadband pilot to improve Bangladeshi social/economic development

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
28 August 2008
9949 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 3G
  • Ericsson
  • Bangladesh
  • HSPA
Rural telecoms in Bangladesh are set to enjoy a boost with the news that Ericsson is launching a pilot scheme to show how high-speed Internet - directed via 3G/HSPA - can enhance life in the country's rural communities. 

Greater Mumbai partners with Sify Technologies to open up e-ports

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
28 August 2008
8278 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Sify Technology
Millions of citizens in Mumbai will now enjoy access to municipally provided services thanks to a tie-up with Sify technologies' ePort cyber café chain...

Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte reflects authenticity and performance

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Devices & Platforms
28 August 2008
10187 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
Yes, it's that time of the year when Nokia's resident poets pour out their souls in paeans of praise for the company's latest state-of-the-art mobile device.

Great firewall of China still blocking online trade - Backbone IT Group

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 August 2008
11731 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Censorship
  • firewall
Internet censorship is effectively preventing thousands of American and European e-commerce websites from reaching Chinese consumers, claim Internet marketing consultants Backbone IT Group in a recent study.

ITU Report highlights broadband leadership in Asia-Pacific region

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
11862 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Broadband
It's now official - Asia-Pacific is the world leader in ICT. A new report from the ITU, published to co-incide with ITU Telecom Asia 2008 next month confirms what analysts and observers, including Developing Telecoms, have believed to be the case for years, that Asia-Pacific dominates in fixed and wireless telecommunications. But there is still a big divide in the region between ICT rich and poor economies...

Research and Markets releases "Armenia - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics"

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 August 2008
8975 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Armenia
  • Research and Markets
  • Deregulation

Dublin-based Research and Markets has emerged as one of the most prolific publishers of telecoms analysis and forecasting. Reports on developing markets are no exception. We submit below just one of the many releases we have received from Research and Markets...

Tata Communications enables prepaid roaming at Beijing Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
19 August 2008
10365 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Roaming
  • China
  • Tata
  • Olympics
  • Beijing
Foreign mobile users attending the Beijing Olympics have been enjoying seamless roaming provided by Tata Communications. Tata's eXchange system enables mobile network operators to establish roaming more quickly and cheaply...

Rising demand for enterprise IP telephony fuels Asia-Pacific

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
18 August 2008
8544 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Frost and Sullivan
  • IP Telephony

Internet Protocol is rapidly penetrating a range of key vertical and horizontal enterprise telephony markets in the Asia Pacific region. Although time division multiplexing still holds sway overall in Asia, high demand for IP from countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore has triggered a growth spurt in the region...

Thuraya releases video-streaming portable broadband terminal

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
18 August 2008
7679 views
  • Global
  • Broadband
  • Thuraya
Thuraya's strategy of product innovation has led to a portable satellite terminal with advanced video-streaming capacity. The terminal is aimed at commercial enterprises such as oil terminals, coastguards, media and transport...

Andrew wins race to install wireless coverage on new Chinese train

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 August 2008
10585 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Wireless
  • Olympics
  • Siemens
Jointly developed by Andrew and Siemens, advanced wireless communications are being installed on the new CRH3 Harmony multiple unit trains running on the Beijing-Tianjin high speed railway...

As mobile markets mature in Latin America, operators look to address rural areas cost effectively

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
13 August 2008
14447 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Entel
  • Venezuela
  • Paraguay
  • Gilat
  • Bolivia
In recent years, mobile operators across Latin America have enjoyed addressing markets hungry for their services. Mobile penetration in the Americas, excluding the USA and Canada, stood at 69.35% as of March 2008, according to World Cellular Information Service. Growth has been strong...

Chinese TV selects SafeNet for secure online broadcasting of the Olympics

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
12 August 2008
8130 views
  • Security
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Olympics
  • SafeNet
A complete DRM solution from SafeNet is all set to protect Chinese television against copyright infringements.

Celltick, China Unicom join for Olympics mobile media service

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 August 2008
9545 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • Olympics
  • Celltick
Celltick is launching a mobile media service over the China Unicom network for the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will distribute content from Xinhua News, China’s official news agency...

Zain rebrands Celtel Africa as it unveils global aspirations

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 August 2008
10640 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zain
  • Celtel

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1st August 2008...

Bulgarian Telecommunications Company selects Alcatel-Lucent for US$49 million GSM/EDGE contract

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
11 August 2008
11248 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Bulgaria
  • GSM
  • EDGE
Alcatel-Lucent has won a US$49 million contract right through 2011 by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to supply GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC’s GSM mobile subsidiary.

VNL: Solar-power GSM ready to serve remote, rural areas

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Energy & Sustainability
08 August 2008
21608 views
  • Rural
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • VNL

VNL, an Indian telecom equipment vendor, is claiming to have re-engineered GSM in order to help operators provide affordable mobile telephony to new customers in rural markets. The company is quoting energy requirements of 50W and 120W to operate, compared to 3,000W for a typical GSM base station...

Pakistan's Mobilink GSM Selects Tekelec TekMedia to fight spam

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
07 August 2008
10618 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Pakistan
  • Spam
  • firewall
Mobilink GSM of Pakistan will be deploying Tekelec TekMedia anti-spam firewall in order to establish better network control and to enhance customer experience.

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