Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 16 July 2008; 8117 views

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

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 16 July 2008; 11919 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; 11390 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; 9445 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; 9027 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; 9248 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; 9915 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; 7867 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; 13686 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; 9806 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; 12738 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; 9683 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; 13056 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; 11160 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; 9370 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; 8890 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; 12408 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; 11490 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; 10464 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; 11234 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; 8554 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; 7983 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; 8684 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; 12425 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; 9532 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; 10538 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; 9220 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; 8001 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; 10469 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...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 6988 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...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 11 June 2008; 11220 views

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...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 June 2008; 11705 views

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...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 10 June 2008; 10509 views

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...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 June 2008; 8407 views

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...

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