Details: Terence Trench, Upaid; Category: Mobile Finance; 08 January 2008; 10538 views

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

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 January 2008; 9084 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; 132324 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; 10799 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; 10750 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; 7164 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; 7957 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; 12649 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; 8463 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; 10504 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; 7352 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; 10039 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; 12240 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; 9102 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; 8875 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; 9350 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; 9059 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; 7389 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; 11446 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; 6058 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; 15323 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; 9616 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; 9383 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; 10619 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; 11316 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; 14301 views

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

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 October 2007; 8128 views

Reuters is currently working with the Nokia Research Centre to develop a mobile application which will enable journalists to file and publish text, photo, audio and video news stories from handheld devices rather than laptops...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 31 October 2007; 7656 views

Designed to assist users of fibre-optic communications systems, the Fibre-Optic Association's new website is designed to help these very users plan and install fibre-optic communications systems...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 31 October 2007; 7581 views

Reports of severe WiMAX interference during tests conducted simultaneously with satellite tests have led a global industry coalition to argue against re-allocating C-Band spectrum...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 31 October 2007; 12566 views

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Details: Category: Humanitarian Comms; 31 October 2007; 12226 views

ITU has deployed 25 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of severe floods that have affected the eastern and northern regions of Uganda...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 October 2007; 14610 views

Aimed at cable, telco and broadband service providers worldwide, Spirit's TeamSpirit Voice & Video Engine PC Version 3.0 is designed to factor in a rapid time-to-market along with what it calls "unprecedented voice and video quality"...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 October 2007; 9673 views

Subex Azure Ltd is meeting the challenges arising from Analysys Research’s report "Global Operator Attitudes to Revenue Management"...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 26 October 2007; 13688 views

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s largest telecoms service provider, to deploy broadband access across 7,000 Indian villages...

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