Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 14610 views

Developing Telecoms reported last month that Zain was on its way to creating a roaming-free market in Africa, with a dozen countries all enjoying one single telecoms market. Since then, Zain has announced a single roaming-free market for its Middle East customers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 11433 views

SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As Lebanon’s telecoms market may well be on the way to liberalisation, Arab Advisory Group figures show that only 10% of GSM users do not use SMS...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 January 2008; 10058 views

Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 10255 views

Acision has announced that global SMS traffic was 30% higher over the 2008 New Year period when compared to the equivalent in 2007. People are obviously texting in the changes rather than ringing them in…

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 January 2008; 12661 views

Antenna Hungaria, T-Mobile Hungary, and Vodafone Hungary have all recently carried out trials for mobile television to DVB-H specifications...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 16760 views

Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 9751 views

JDSU has launched a short-range LAN OTDR to provide a testing combination of up to five wavelengths in both multi-mode and single-mode...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 January 2008; 18398 views

Telenor d.o.o., Serbia’s first mobile operator, has commissioned Nokia as sole supplier of its 3G radio network...

Details: Terence Trench, Upaid; Category: Mobile Finance; 08 January 2008; 10523 views

Mobile payments could explode into a US$22 billion market within the next three years...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 9041 views

For most of the last century, Nauru relied on one source of income, phosphates. As is all too often the case with minerals, the primary resource exhausts itself, and as is all too often the case with a developing nation, there is no other source of income for its people...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 January 2008; 132287 views

Eleven years ago Dr William Welty founded the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite System project. Swansat initially applied to the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Republic of Nauru so as to operate a group of space stations in W-Band...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 January 2008; 10774 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been awarded a pan-Indian contract by Bharti Airtel to deploy a single Interactive Voice Response platform across all 23 of the latter's telecoms circles...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 10715 views

Operating as a telecoms service provider in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, GTS Central Europe has been sufficiently independent to run its own regional fibre network...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 December 2007; 7131 views

There is widespread shortage of high capacity connectivity in all segments of the African continent. A new consulting service based in Africa aims to address these issues...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 20 December 2007; 7937 views

A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 12624 views

Huawei Technologies, China's largest provider of Next Generation Telecoms networks (NGN) solutions has licensed SPIRIT's TeamSpirit 3.0 to offer PC VoIP solutions to its operator and service provider customers...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 December 2007; 8444 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan Passenger-dedicated Line...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 December 2007; 10481 views

China Mobile Group Beijing has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its General Packet Radio Services core network. The expansion will help the millions of visitors to the Olympic games in 2008...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 December 2007; 7333 views

SWANSAT - the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite - first proposed as a satellite based service in 2003, aims to provide low cost voice and data services using a constellation of four high powered geosynchronous orbit (GSO) telecommunications satellites...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 December 2007; 10012 views

Cisco has announced its strategy to help service providers in Asia Pacific deliver an end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solution...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 December 2007; 12202 views

Zain subsidiary Celtel International has announced the extension of its "One Network", the world's first borderless mobile network in Africa, to six more countries. The network now connects 400 million people across 12 countries...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 07 December 2007; 9086 views

Latin America

Airwide Solutions, which provides next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, has entered into an agreement with American Telecommunication Holdings to resell Airwide products throughout Latin America...

Details: Category: Service Management; 30 November 2007; 8835 views

Bashcell, a telecoms company dating from 1998 in the Bashkortostan Republic, has signed a contract for supply, implementation, and technical support of the end-to-end convergent IT solution...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 November 2007; 9336 views

What is described as the world's first distributed SMS-C architecture which "brings increased resilience and throughput to the messaging infrastructure marketplace" has been launched...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 30 November 2007; 9046 views

Nokia has unveiled a premium pair of handsets aimed at the most discerning and style-conscious consumers. The company's accompanying press release, in common with one or two other Nokia announcements we have published, has attracted our attention. So here goes...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 November 2007; 7361 views

A major rise in VoIP over 3G (VoIPo3G) will take place in the next five years according to a report by London-based Disruptive Analysis. Growth will be driven not only by wireless carriers but also by a number of independent challengers...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 27 November 2007; 11410 views

Designed to "enable global mobile operators to drive down transmission costs" and to attain a "huge cost-saving impact on community-centric, low-ARPU/high-growth markets" a recent agreement has been signed by Ericsson and Altobridge...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 26 November 2007; 6041 views

Global

Poor accuracy in location technology is costing millions for Fixed Mobile Substitution operators. Seeker Wireless is releasing a cannibalisation calculator and a detailed study to highlight the loss in revenues operators can suffer...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 November 2007; 15308 views

Anite's WiMAX Protocol Conformance Toolset has become the industry's first protocol test solution to be successfully validated by the WiMAX Forum for certifying the latest Fixed WiMAX devices to Wave 2 specifications...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 15 November 2007; 9574 views

Mobile payments specialist Upaid has launched its Mobile Payment Service (MPS) marketing campaign across Serbia. Including all three mobile operators and ten banks in Serbia, this national launch expands the service started in October 2006...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 November 2007; 9356 views

Supporters of WiMAX have been left disappointed by the fact that Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp will not now be building a WiMAX-based wireless network...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 November 2007; 10605 views

Mobile music specialist Shazam and Egyptian telecom provider TA Telecom today announced an agreement which will see Shazam Music Discovery enable all TA Telecom customers discover and purchase new tracks as they are heard via mobile music recognition...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 November 2007; 11285 views

India’s cellular operator Bharti Airtel has chosen technology from NDS for its new digital satellite platform...

Details: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Service Management; 31 October 2007; 14268 views

GEOCELL, the leading GSM operator of Georgia, launched 3G services based on the convergent solution from CBOSS...

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