Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 8978 views

This week, Wayfinder's award winning navigation services are being launched in Chile through the mobile operator Movistar. This is Wayfinder's first entry into the South American market...

Details: Category: Service Management; 03 March 2008; 7891 views

Team Telecom International, which supplies Operations Support Systems to communications service providers, has signed a partnership agreement with TechnoServ A/S, a Russian company dedicated to system integration, IT services and creation of engineering facilities...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 7357 views

Spice Corporation, an Indian telecoms company, launched several products at the Mobile World Congress 2008. In particular, it claims to be marketing what it calls "The Peoples' Phone - probably the world's cheapest phone at under US$20 to the consumer"...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 8764 views

Claiming that it will play a real part in bridging the Digital Divide, an alliance of hardware and software vendors took the opportunity of the Mobile World Congress to announce that they had joined up to develop the world's lowest-cost smart entry phone that can enable email and web-based messaging functions...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 February 2008; 9973 views

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will be delivering its largest-ever Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) agreement in a contract with Global Mediacom designed to being a mobile TV network to Indonesia...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 February 2008; 9780 views

London Business School Professor Leonard Waverman and global economic consulting firm LECG have published a pioneering - and very revealing - report in to the efficiency of governments and business when it comes to ICT.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 February 2008; 11545 views

North Korea, despite its reputation for being autocratic and backward, does boast an existing GSM network. It is centered around the capital city Pyongyang. In recent years but have been difficult to tell whether the number of mobile subscribers has increased or decreased but it is generally agreed that investment can only benefit the country...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8530 views

GyPSii, the world's leading geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, has signed an agreement with Broadway Pvt. Ltd., to offer the full suite of GyPSii services to the world's second largest and fastest growing mobile market with 233 million mobile subscribers and growing at a monthly rate of over 8 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 9485 views

WIN plc, specialists in interactive mobile entertainment and information, and MagtiCom, with more than one million subscribers, the largest mobile operator in Georgia, together announced the launch of Magti Fun, a fully managed content service portal provided by WIN...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8365 views

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 February 2008; 8148 views

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M2M

Network revenue from machine-to-machine communications is projected to grow at three times the rate of the mobile handset business, according to Harbor Research. With typical per-dollar revenue profit margins for cellular M2M services also considerably higher than the handset market, operators investing now can benefit from this growth opportunity...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8307 views

AdaptiveMobile, the leading provider of mobile subscriber protection for enterprises and individuals, today unveiled a powerful set of parental controls that operate across any mobile device, network or technology. The solution, which combines the AdaptiveMobile Policy Control Framework with the Cisco Service Exchange Framework...

Details: Category: Service Management; 22 February 2008; 9794 views

Jasper Wireless, the licensed global machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile operator, has announced that it has signed operator partnership agreements in over 45 European, American and African countries...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 21 February 2008; 14267 views

Oracle today announced that IDEA Cellular Limited, a leading mobile operator in India and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM to deliver a unique customer service experience to pre- and post-paid mobile subscribers across its entire operations in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 9376 views

Oracle today announced that Polkomtel, a leading mobile provider in Poland, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, Oracle Communications Service Activation and Oracle Communications Inventory Management to help improve operational efficiency, enhance customer service and enable rapid deployment of next-generation services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 9890 views

Millenicom, Turkey's largest calling card and call shop operator, has migrated its entire prepaid services portfolio onto the Digitalk Media Application Server (MAS), providing a full set of turnkey value-added features and applications on the multiservice platform.

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 8791 views

RAD Data Communications has unveiled its fully "future-proof" ACE-3205 cell site gateway. "RAD's ACE-3205 cell site gateway is triply unique," says Gaby Junowicz, Director of Business Development at RAD Data Communications...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 February 2008; 12256 views

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC , the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, and Microsoft Corp today announced their co-operation to deliver new mobile communications services for MTS customers. The collaboration is aimed at extending the range of products in MTS' market-leading portfolio of value-added services...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 19 February 2008; 8721 views

Redknee Solutions Inc. announced that it has been selected by Inmarsat plc. to provide a real-time Turnkey Converged Billing solution...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 February 2008; 10346 views

Vodafone Turkey, Turkey's second largest mobile operator, has successfully launched End2End's fully outsourced Content Retailing Solution replacing Vodafone Turkey's previous platform service...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9409 views

ZTE demonstrated the company's newly IOT (Inter Operability Testing) tested 5.76Mbps HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) network equipment at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008, following the successful launch of ZTE's 7.2Mbps HSDPA/2Mbps HSUPA network equipment at China's PT/Wireless & Networks Comm exhibition in October last year...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 February 2008; 9258 views

ZTE has launched the ZXGW B8036 SDR (Software Defined Radio) base station. The ZXGW B8036, the world's first pre-commercial SDR base station, supports GSM and WCDMA simultaneously within software...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8363 views

Redknee Solutions has announced that it has been selected by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company to provide a real-time messaging rating and charging solution. VMS, operating under the brand name MobiFone, is a GSM service provider with the largest market share (approximately 39%) in Vietnam...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 15 February 2008; 8609 views

Redknee Solutions, a leading provider of innovative software that monetizes and personalizes services and content for mobile operators, has announced the launch of IP Rating and Charging (IPRC) 5.0...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 9353 views

Max Telecom today announced it has completed the first phase of its WiMAX rollout in Bulgaria, using the Cisco AE Mobile WiMAX technology paired with its access and aggregation solutions. Max Telecom plans to expand coverage to 90 percent of Bulgaria's population by the end of 2009...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 February 2008; 11684 views

Galaxia Telecom International PLC, the telecom integrator and operator specializing in the innovation and deployment of wireless broadband technologies, has announced the listing of the company's shares on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the launch of its first mass market WiMAX network in Algeria...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 9250 views

Kirusa, the world's leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services, has demonstrated the world's first exchange of Voice SMS messages between diverse carriers using different Voice SMS systems...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 February 2008; 11925 views

Essel Group, India's largest entertaiment/media conglomerate, has turned to the expertise of U-Turn Media to break into the mobile portal market in Northern India. The Group will be working with wireless operator BSNL...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 February 2008; 8568 views

A group of leading software players has recognised the need for greater monetisation of mobile network resources, supported by highly flexible advertising campaigns . The Mobile Advertising Alliance has chosen the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona to publicise its launch...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9015 views

Enhanced results for users of European Space Agency services are the intention of recent collaboration between ESA and World Telecom Labs, the Brussels-based maufacturer of VoIP equipment...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 February 2008; 8948 views

Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners, of Cleveland, Ohio has purchased the Satellite Communications Division of Andrew Corporation. Andrew Corporation, the CommScope subsidiary, has completed the sale of its Satellite Communications business to Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 February 2008; 9012 views

A DVB-H trial by Latvian Mobile Telephone is using Thomson's Management and Encoding System. Thomson's Mobile TV solutions are being demonstrated during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 February 2008; 9336 views

Cisco and Personeta have announced that the two companies are delivering a fixed-mobile converged voice solution to Globul, the fastest-growing mobile operator in Bulgaria...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 February 2008; 10867 views

Kuwait's private sector has experienced its highest ever net profits posting, thanks to mobile operator Zain...

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