Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 21 July 2008; 10830 views

Redknee Solutions has sold its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution to Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, which is a government-owned communications service provider in Africa...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 21 July 2008; 9881 views

China's online-video site Youku.com has received its long-awaited licence from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. This may indicate that China's government will not take as tough a line on privately owned online-video companies as some had feared...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 July 2008; 9126 views

South African based mobile marketing company Multimedia Solutions has been purchased by Sovereign Wealth Corp., in a move that will allow the company to expand its operations internationally and reach high growth markets such as Brazil, India, and Asia...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 18 July 2008; 10645 views

A new partnership between Forum Systems Inc. and Techlogix will provide SOA products to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 July 2008; 9073 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 16 July 2008; 8039 views

Commtouch, which specialises combating Internet fraud, has released its 2Q08 Email Threats Trend Report...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 16 July 2008; 11782 views

Shyam Telelink, the Indian subsidiary of Sistema, has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 July 2008; 11329 views

At a meeting in New York with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, iQor President and CEO Vikas Kapoor announced the opening of iQor's third call centre in the Philippines, in this case creating 700 new jobs...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 15 July 2008; 9333 views

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 15 July 2008; 8953 views

With increasingly open mobile operator networks, the rise in mobile content and applications, and the influx of smartphones, the world is seeing a revolution in mobile adoption. Perhaps nowhere else are the potentials and pitfalls of this technology being seen more clearly than in the emerging markets of the Middle East...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 July 2008; 9148 views

Tata Communications has announced the launch of its Telepresence services, the first ever offering to deliver both private and public Cisco TelePresence rooms to businesses across the world...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 09 July 2008; 9831 views

High-speed wireless Internet is now a reality in Argentina's San Luis Province, as the result of collaboration by Wavion, La Punta University and Xiden Networking. This is a pioneering project which brings free, wide-area Internet to a region of Argentina...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 July 2008; 7787 views

Redknee, which provides mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, has received approval from the US patent system for its Telecommunications Subscriber Profile Management System...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 July 2008; 13528 views

Sistema, the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, which manages fast-growing companies within the consumer services sector, has announced that its Indian telecoms subsidiary Shyam Telelink has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 07 July 2008; 9712 views

Subex Ltd, which supplies Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), is working with one of its key partners, Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL), to implement its Nikira Fraud Management product at a leading mobile telecommunications service provider in Vietnam...

Details: Category: Investment; 07 July 2008; 12580 views

Vodafone has acquired a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom from the Government of Ghana. Total consideration is US$900 million on a debt-free, cash-free basis, which would imply a total enterprise value for Ghana Telecom of approximately US$1.3 billion...

Details: Africa Correspondent; Category: Wireless Networks; 04 July 2008; 9576 views

Mobile telephone service providers look set to extend their turf battles to the rural areas, where the cost factor is the only lure for consumers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 July 2008; 12968 views

Internet Business Solutions Group, the consulting arm of Cisco has entered into a partnership with the Moroccan government to boost economic development and accelerate digital transformation...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 02 July 2008; 11073 views

Kenyan businesses are to get a new VSAT network to deliver high quality voice, broadband data and video services...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 01 July 2008; 9310 views

BPL, the leading Indian wireless operator, is to install Redknee's IPRC real-time rating and charging solution...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 01 July 2008; 8834 views

Leading Chinese vendor Huawei launched an array of new products at the recent Communicasia exhibition in Singapore including its latest HSPA USB stick, 3G phones and an HSDPA gateway...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 30 June 2008; 12249 views

Tanla, a leading provider of Telecom infrastructure headquartered in Hyderabad, India has announced its acquisition of Openbit, of Tampere, Finland for $US18.6 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11424 views

Baidu.com, the largest Chinese language internet search engine, is launching an instant messaging application with real-time video chat as it aims to hold on to its top spot...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 10403 views

Redknee has announced the launch of Mobile Money Airtime Reseller which enables completely voucherless, pre-paid wireless airtime top-up. This addresses the needs of many high-growth / emerging market operators and subscribers...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11160 views

As industry convergence and triple play take root, the DSL Forum has decided on a new name and identity which it feels reflects its current role more accurately...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 26 June 2008; 8513 views

S1 Enterprise Corporation, a provider of software for financial and payment services and Clickatell have announced a partnership to provide an on-demand text-based banking service which will be available to companies in more than 200 countries...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 June 2008; 7926 views

Children around the world will more easily call for support, counselling and intervention, thanks to the new global child helpline number being advocated by the ITU...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 June 2008; 8623 views

SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 June 2008; 12371 views

The Millimeter Wave Division of ELVA-1 has announced another installation of its specially modified PPC-1000 Gb Ethernet mm-wave link for Czech ISP JHComp. Both residential and business customers will benefit from Internet and voice service improvements...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 June 2008; 9434 views

Despite significant advances to drive down capital costs for Mobile Network Operators, several key challenges still remain before the digital divide is able to be fully bridged. Transmission costs stand out as the No.1 barrier...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 June 2008; 10447 views

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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 17 June 2008; 9115 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 11 June 2008; 7907 views

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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 10376 views

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...

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