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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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RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...
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Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has announced it will collaborate with Cisco to identify areas in which Cisco networking technologies and solutions can benefit the MIC's quest to accelerate the socio-economic development of Vietnam...
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Russia is set to dominate the pay TV sector in Eastern Europe with a 50% share of the market by 2012. This prediction is made by Screen Digest in its latest media analysis. The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia...
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Running simultaneously with ITU's relief work in Myanmar, the ITU is deploying satellite terminals in quake-hit China. Some 100 terminals are helping China get communication links back up and running in the Sichuan Province...
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Alcatel-Lucent is heavily involved in the efforts to help those suffering from the effects of the Chinese earthquake. The company has 10,000 employees in China with 500 in Chengdu, little more than 100 miles from the epicentre of the quake...
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In support of the ITU's "Connect Africa" initiative, the global satellite communications sector plans to double the number of earth station terminals operating in the region by 2012, empowering more than 1 billion Africans located in under-served rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout the continent. To support this growth, more than 20 satellites will be brought into service to connect Africa during the next five years...
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A study examining the impact the SAT-3 fibre-optic submarine cable has had on telecommunications in four African countries has found that the potential of this major cable has not been properly exploited. Instead, ownership of the cable by telecoms incumbents in the countries researched has reinforced their market positions...
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Aircom International, a mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has won a contract with Vietnamese mobile network operator Vinaphone to provide RF network planning, design support and surveying activities for the expansion of Vinaphone's GSM 900 network...
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Messaging company Acision is outlining a five-step strategy to achieve increased messaging revenue. The company's predictions forecast doubled revenue in thee years time. Acision, the messaging company, has forecast mobile messaging revenues of US$165 billion globally by 2011, 200% higher than previous industry predictions...
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Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities...
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Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the contract by Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network in Libya...
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Telecoms facilities in China have not been exempt from the damage inflicted by the recent earthquake. Among the victims is Western China's economic powerhouse, Chengdu.
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Controversy has marked the relief efforts in Myanmar's recent cyclone tragedy. One encouraging sign is that ITU satellite terminals are restoring vital communications links. The International Telecommunication Union has deployed 100 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar on May 2 with devastating effect in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region...
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As ITU Telecom Africa wraps up in Egypt, the ITU segues seamlessly through World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on 17 May into 10 days of WSIS events, taking place in Geneva.
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Ashbury Satcom of South Africa has been appointed an official service provider for Stratos Global, the world’s largest distribution partner for the Inmarsat and Iridium satellite networks...
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Philippines based 3G Mobile Operator, CURE, has selected 3ple-Media's award winning Mercury multimedia platform as its core mobile multimedia platform...
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Leading mobile payments provider Mi-Pay has signed a contract with an East African operator to deliver a mobile money ecosystem to its subscribers in rural communities. Mi-Pay's technology will enable subscribers to benefit from international remittance services, as well as support a network of agents to support domestic payments via mobile...
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Qimonda, a manufacturer of memory chips and Centrosolar Group, a German solar company, have announced they are to jointly build, equip and operate a solar cell manufacturing plant...
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Living up to this reputation as a radical leader, Bolivian president Evo Morales has used the opportunity of May Day to announce that he will be nationalising Entel, his country's main telco. He also declared that he would take over four foreign-owned gas companies. Key to the decision is the fact that 50% of Entel's ownership is in the hands of Telecom Italia SpA. Negotiations whereby Entel would purchase Telecom Italia's share go back several months and have been complicated...
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In a joint statement seemingly intended to deflect previous criticism of Telecom World events, the ITU and the State of Geneva have promised improved facilities for participants at and visitors to next year's global ICT event, ITU Telecom World 2009...
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Delegates at the Russia & CIS Com congress in Moscow on 3-4 June 2008 will enjoy an opportunity to learn more about a sector undergoing major changes. For the Ukraine and Russia are currently a battleground for growing GSM and CDMA mobile operators...
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Figures for the first quarter of trading have been released by Zain. Subscriber numbers have now reached 45 million in the Middle Eastern and African regions (15 million higher than at this time in 2007), with net profits up 10% to US$270 million...
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Internet cafes have played their part in popularising the Net from the very start. In one country, Cameroon, it would appear that Internet cafe owners are worried that the mobile Net will threaten their market position...
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Slovenian operator Tusmobil has placed a contract with Nokia Siemens to supply 400 base stations and a mobile switching solution to enhance the operator's core network...
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Satcom specialist Newtec has now installed its Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS) multimedia concept at the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) facility in Algiers. It is intended to allow video and audio material to be shared over large geographical areas. ASBU's new MENOS networking capability is designed to support all of the transmission applications required by ABSU broadcaster-members...
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The Global VSAT Forum has issued a plea for its members to support the recent ITU initiative "Connect the World". The Forum believes that the initiative will bring the power of its private-sector members to bear in increasing the developing world's access to communications...
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Fintur Group, a mobile operator consortium operating widely in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, has chosen Subex Operations Support Systems to combat fraud. Integration of the new system will be carried out by Gantex...
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Cubans are now able to buy mobile phones. They can now use pre-paid systems to make both national and international calls. This is the first time that this has been possible in Cuba and reflects a limited programme of economic liberalisation which Raul Castro is authorising, not least in ending bans on electrical consumer goods...
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Claiming to offer higher-quality video encoding at lower prices, Media Excel have introduced a video encoding/transcoding hardware platform based on the Texas Instruments Da Vinci processor...
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Intensive competition from mobile phones and the problematic fixed-line market in China have led to a major consolidation in that country...
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Three organisations - South Africa's Education Department, Nokia, and the not-for profit Mindset Network - have launched M4Girls, an educational initiative based on Nokia 6300 mobiles aimed at raising maths standards among teenaged girl students in South Africa...
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East Africa is one of the most dynamic markets in Africa. Most countries in the region are experiencing high GDP growth and favourable market and regulatory conditions. Tanzania is one of the most attractive with 7% GDP growth, stable political conditions, dynamic operators and a low mobile penetration level...
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The Cuban government announced last week that it will allow the general public to purchase prepaid mobile phones - a privilege previously only afforded to key government officials and foreign workers. Despite the previous restrictions, some Cubans had managed to acquire mobile phones from foreigners. Nevertheless, usage has remained low. According to Analysis research, mobile penetration stood at only 1.8% at the end of 2007, up from 1.6% in the previous year...
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