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UAE, Bahrain Saudi Arabia lead Arab World dash for telecoms

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 June 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • Arab Advisors
The Arab Advisors Group publishes a yearly update on the rates of connectivity within the various Arab countries. this year broadband and fixed services have played their part alongside mobile in fueling substantial improvements in connectivity rates...

Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection expands

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Category: Wireless Networks
17 June 2008
9092 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • NSN
  • Vodacom
  • Tanzania
  • Village Connection
Vodacom Tanzania began trials of Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection solution to connect rural and suburban communities earlier this year, following a successful development by NSN in India...

CBOSS Supports Re-branding of Orange Moldova

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Category: Revenue & Billing
11 June 2008
7885 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Markets
  • Orange Moldova
  • Mobile Network Providers
  • Moldova
For Orange Moldova, 2007 was a year of change - not only did the company, formerly known as SA Voxtel, adopt its new name, but it saw a massive boom in traffic, market share, penetration and multimedia. The changes required by this rebranding to Orange Moldova, as well as the this tremendous shift in the magnitude of business, were supported by CBOSS Corporation...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
10356 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. Key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Telecom Argentina modernises with Subex, Accenture input

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Category: Service Management
11 June 2008
6884 views
  • OSS
  • Latin America
  • Argentina
  • Subex
  • Accenture
  • Modernisation
A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Aperto Packetmax selected by Icosnet for Algerian WiMAX network

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Category: Wireless Networks
11 June 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • WiMAX
Aperto Networks has announced that Icosnet has deployed a WiMAX network using PacketMAX 5000 base stations and PacketMAX 100 subscriber units. There is a strong commercial aspect of the contract, whose customers will initially at least be businesses, banks and energy companies...

Networking the challenging markets of the South Pacific

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 June 2008
11557 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Digicel
  • Telikom PNG
  • Oceania
No fewer than 30 countries lie in the South Pacific region. Some are established players, such as Australia. Others are tiny specks of rock. Together they form Oceania...

Costs of China earthquake soar to US$1 billion

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
10 June 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Disaster Response
Telco operators in China are counting the economic as well as the human cost of the country's recent earthquakes. A financial total of over US$1 billion is almost certain...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
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  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

Romtelecom selects Subex for centralised operations, reduced revenue risk

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Category: Revenue & Billing
10 June 2008
6796 views
  • Revenue
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Subex
  • Romania
  • Quality Assurance
Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

RadioFrame iDEN offers more capacity for less energy

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
10 June 2008
7805 views
  • Global
  • Base Stations
RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...

Vietnam MIC explores role of technology in national transformation with Cisco

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
06 June 2008
8389 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Cisco
  • Vietnam
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has announced it will collaborate with Cisco to identify areas in which Cisco networking technologies and solutions can benefit the MIC's quest to accelerate the socio-economic development of Vietnam...

Russia to gain half Eastern Europe's pay TV by 2012

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
05 June 2008
10762 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Digital TV
Russia is set to dominate the pay TV sector in Eastern Europe with a 50% share of the market by 2012. This prediction is made by Screen Digest in its latest media analysis. The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia...

ITU restores telecoms links vital for Sichuan's rehabilitation effort

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • ITU
  • Satellite terminals
Running simultaneously with ITU's relief work in Myanmar, the ITU is deploying satellite terminals in quake-hit China. Some 100 terminals are helping China get communication links back up and running in the Sichuan Province...

Alcatel-Lucent supports relief effort for Chinese earthquake victims

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
05 June 2008
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  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Disaster Management
Alcatel-Lucent is heavily involved in the efforts to help those suffering from the effects of the Chinese earthquake. The company has 10,000 employees in China with 500 in Chengdu, little more than 100 miles from the epicentre of the quake...

We will double satellite earth stations - Global VSAT Forum

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Category: Satellite Networks
26 May 2008
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  • Rural
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
In support of the ITU's "Connect Africa" initiative, the global satellite communications sector plans to double the number of earth station terminals operating in the region by 2012, empowering more than 1 billion Africans located in under-served rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout the continent. To support this growth, more than 20 satellites will be brought into service to connect Africa during the next five years...

SAT-3 reinforces market monopolies in Africa - APC

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Category: Satellite Networks
26 May 2008
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  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • Senegal
  • Ghana
  • Cameroon

A study examining the impact the SAT-3 fibre-optic submarine cable has had on telecommunications in four African countries has found that the potential of this major cable has not been properly exploited. Instead, ownership of the cable by telecoms incumbents in the countries researched has reinforced their market positions...

AIRCOM to optimise Vinaphone's GSM 900 network

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Category: Wireless Networks
26 May 2008
16173 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • Aircom
  • Mobile Networks
  • Vinafone
Aircom International, a mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has won a contract with Vietnamese mobile network operator Vinaphone to provide RF network planning, design support and surveying activities for the expansion of Vinaphone's GSM 900 network...

Acision: mobile messaging revenues can double to US$165 billion globally by 2011

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Category: Revenue & Billing
20 May 2008
9728 views
  • Global
  • Acision
  • Emerging Markets
  • Mobile Messaging
Messaging company Acision is outlining a five-step strategy to achieve increased messaging revenue. The company's predictions forecast doubled revenue in thee years time. Acision, the messaging company, has forecast mobile messaging revenues of US$165 billion globally by 2011, 200% higher than previous industry predictions...

FITEL fund supports Peruvian rural broadband

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Category: Wireless Networks
20 May 2008
11567 views
  • Rural
  • Latin America
  • Broadband
  • Peru
  • FITEL
Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities...

Alcatel-Lucent win Libya's first WiMAX contract

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Category: Wireless Networks
20 May 2008
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  • Middle East North Africa
  • 4G
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Libya
  • WiMAX
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the contract by Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network in Libya...

China quake hits telecom networks hard

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
20 May 2008
10179 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
Telecoms facilities in China have not been exempt from the damage inflicted by the recent earthquake. Among the victims is Western China's economic powerhouse, Chengdu.

ITU satellites reconnect victims of Myanmar cyclone Nargis

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Category: Humanitarian Comms
20 May 2008
13191 views
  • Satellite
  • Asia-Pacific
  • ITU
  • Myanmar
Controversy has marked the relief efforts in Myanmar's recent cyclone tragedy. One encouraging sign is that ITU satellite terminals are restoring vital communications links. The International Telecommunication Union has deployed 100 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar on May 2 with devastating effect in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region...

WSIS take three: making what you are doing look important?

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Alec Barton
Category: Blogs & Opinion
20 May 2008
9977 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • ITU
  • Egypt
  • WSIS
  • WTISD

As ITU Telecom Africa wraps up in Egypt, the ITU segues seamlessly through World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on 17 May into 10 days of WSIS events, taking place in Geneva.

Ashbury Satcom moves in with Iridium and Inmarsat

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Service Management
16 May 2008
12001 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Inmarsat
  • Iridium
  • Ashbury Satcom
Ashbury Satcom of South Africa has been appointed an official service provider for Stratos Global, the world’s largest distribution partner for the Inmarsat and Iridium satellite networks...

Philippines 3G Operator CURE selects 3ple-Media's Mercury

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
08 May 2008
8266 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
Philippines based 3G Mobile Operator, CURE, has selected 3ple-Media's award winning Mercury multimedia platform as its core mobile multimedia platform...

Mi-Pay to Power Mobile Payments in Africa

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Category: Mobile Finance
08 May 2008
9237 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Payments
Leading mobile payments provider Mi-Pay has signed a contract with an East African operator to deliver a mobile money ecosystem to its subscribers in rural communities. Mi-Pay's technology will enable subscribers to benefit from international remittance services, as well as support a network of agents to support domestic payments via mobile...

Chip manufacturer moves into solar cells

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Category: Energy & Sustainability
08 May 2008
8266 views
  • Global
  • solar power
Qimonda, a manufacturer of memory chips and Centrosolar Group, a German solar company, have announced they are to jointly build, equip and operate a solar cell manufacturing plant... 

Bolivia's President Evo Morales announces his take-over of Bolivia's main telco, Entel

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 May 2008
12112 views
  • Latin America
  • Entel
  • Telecom Italia
  • Nationalisation
  • Bolivia
Living up to this reputation as a radical leader, Bolivian president Evo Morales has used the opportunity of May Day to announce that he will be nationalising Entel, his country's main telco. He also declared that he would take over four foreign-owned gas companies. Key to the decision is the fact that 50% of Entel's ownership is in the hands of Telecom Italia SpA. Negotiations whereby Entel would purchase Telecom Italia's share go back several months and have been complicated...

Better facilities at ITU Telecom World 2009

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Category: Consumer Ecosystems
06 May 2008
9129 views
  • Global
  • ICT
  • Events
In a joint statement seemingly intended to deflect previous criticism of Telecom World events, the ITU and the State of Geneva have promised improved facilities for participants at and visitors to next year's global ICT event, ITU Telecom World 2009...

Russia and Ukraine - the battleground for GSM and CDMA

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 May 2008
12878 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Fixed-line
  • Ukraine
  • CDMA
  • GSM
  • CIS
Delegates at the Russia & CIS Com congress in Moscow on 3-4 June 2008 will enjoy an opportunity to learn more about a sector undergoing major changes. For the Ukraine and Russia are currently a battleground for growing GSM and CDMA mobile operators...

Zain customers up by more than half, net profits up 10%

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 May 2008
10001 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Zain
  • Corporate
  • Customer Growth
  • Financial
Figures for the first quarter of trading have been released by Zain. Subscriber numbers have now reached 45 million in the Middle Eastern and African regions (15 million higher than at this time in 2007), with net profits up 10% to US$270 million...

Mobile net or net cafe? Competition comes to Cameroon

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Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 May 2008
16984 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Internet
  • Cameroon
Internet cafes have played their part in popularising the Net from the very start. In one country, Cameroon, it would appear that Internet cafe owners are worried that the mobile Net will threaten their market position...

Slovenia's Tusmobil chooses Nokia Siemens supply stations

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Category: Wireless Networks
06 May 2008
10832 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • NSN
  • Slovenia
  • Tusmobil
Slovenian operator Tusmobil has placed a contract with Nokia Siemens to supply 400 base stations and a mobile switching solution to enhance the operator's core network...

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