China is a market which astounds observers with amazing regularity. On this occasion two sources of surprise are almost in competition. The first is that China has just completed a 4G trial in Shanghai and moved to full development - the surprise being that it has achieved this before rolling out 3G. The second surprise is that Chinese 3G has taken so long, as one of our own recent reports has noted...

Nokia has started offering the smart2go mapping and navigation platform as a free download, which will allow millions of people to use map coverage offered via their mobile devices...

Farming in the Huaral, a coastal valley in Peru, has always been a marginal operation, not least because the Huaral has a desert climate where it never rains. Any plan to improve the conditions of local farmers has to keep them informed of changing conditions. The Sistema de Información Agraria (SIA, Agrarian Information System), is a new decentralised structure create to collect and organise data using ICT technologies...

Telecom Serbia has selected the Comverse SMS Personal and SMS Router both to add SMS personalisations and to broaden SMS service options...

The incumbent international gateway monopoly business model is past its sell-by date; governments should liberalise this market immediately and all stakeholders will benefit. This forceful assertion is the conclusion of Tom Phillips, Chief Government & Regulatory Affairs Officer to the GSM Association.

Huawei's GSM-Railway end-to-end solutions are intended to comply with several highly respected standards in order to satisfy the demand for communications on high-speed railways. A recent inspection of Huawei's GSM-R laboratory in Shanghai revealed a test at speeds of 430 km/hour on the local Maglev rail system...

Should Auld acquaintance be forgot? Not according to the record numbers of SMS sent this New Year. Thousands of miles, different time zones and even the seas and oceans proved no barrier for friends, family and loved ones this most recent New Year...

The Sudanese telecoms market is increasingly becoming more competitive in both the fixed and cellular markets...

Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in Kuwait using Aperto state-of-the-art broadband wireless PacketWave gear...

The Cellular Operators’ Association of India has selected fastmobile and Jataayu to implement the GSM Association’s first personal IM rollout...

Comptel, an Operational Support System software vendor for convergent mediation, charging, provisioning and network inventory, is supplying Macau’s CTM with provisioning and mediation solutions to support 3G services...

Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...

Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...

GTS Datanet has chosen Thomson Cirpack VoIP switching platforms for the launch of its new double play and IP Centrex services...

Latin Business Chronicle has just launched its Latin Technology Index, a review of how 17 countries in Central and South America are rising to the challenge of boosting penetration rates in PC, fixed and wireless telephony, Internet, and broadband Internet.

Egypt's telecom market is fairly liberalised, declares the Arab Advisors Group. By December 2006, the regulator (NTRA) had issued more than 200 telecom licences, three cellular licences, two payphone licences, two prepaid calling card licences, four VSAT licences and four international GMPCS operators...

Mtel (formally known as Mobiltel EAD), the Bulgarian wireless operator, has selected and implemented Andrew Corporation's Odyssey cellular radio planning software system in order to replace a previous radio planning tool.

Is there a role for alternative energy sources in the mobile industry? Yes is the answer, according to Motorola, which recently announced that it had successfully completed a trial to demonstrate the feasibility of alternative power systems that can support remote GSM base stations.