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Reltelwireless selects Cerillion For Nigerian mediation solution

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Editorial staff
Category: Service Management
11 September 2006
11845 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Customer management
  • Cerillion
  • Mediation
  • Reliance

Benefiting from Nigeria's rapidly growing market, Reliance Telecommunications is expanding its footprint and retooling to take full advantage of a recently introduced unified licensing regime...

 

AT Consulting levers InStranet contact centre contract with VimpelCom

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Editorial staff
Category: Service Management
11 September 2006
11787 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • VimpelCom
  • Customer management
  • Call Centres
Using the help of Russian IT firm AT Consulting, the Chicago-based multi-channel knowledge applications company InStranet has won a contract with major Russian mobile phone giant VimpelCom-Communications...

Brasil Telecom Signs Convergys for five-year billing

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Editorial staff
Category: Service Management
11 September 2006
11238 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Convergys
  • Brasil Telecom

Brasil Telecom is set to expand its usage of Convergys' Infinys software to support its wireless, wireline, data, and Internet services.

Anti-liberalisers speak out in Uganda - and are silenced

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 September 2006
10511 views
  • Regulation
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Uganda
  • Liberalisation
Uganda's government is looking towards a more competitive telecoms environment. And yet the country's two telecoms providers seek to differ. Michael Schwartz looks at the background to this clash of opinion...

Asia-Pacific mobile gambling to soar nine-fold for 2011

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 September 2006
10873 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Gambling
  • Juniper Research
  • gaming

Mobile gambling revenues from the Asia-Pacific region are set to rise from US$966 million in 2006 to US$8.8 billion in 2011, according to a new report.

Nokia wins radio/core network deal with Bulgarian operator Vivatel

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 September 2006
10052 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Bulgaria
  • GSM

Nokia has won its first network deal with Bulgarian operator Vivatel...

Nokia expands Yunnan MCC GSM contract

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
11 September 2006
10821 views
  • Rural
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Nokia

Telecommunications in the rural areas of China 's Yunnan  Province are set for modernisation and improvement...

Style with substance: Nokia's L'Amour Collection

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
11 September 2006
13945 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Handsets

Nokia is unveiling three new mobile phones for the fashion-conscious, including what it believes to be the first 3G fashion phone. While we would never dream of publishing a press release without giving serious thought to moderating "purple prose" we feel that the write-up for the trio is so aesthetic and wallows in such a sensuous style that we have let this one through!

Iridium/Raytheon offer inter-operable communications from the start for disaster teams

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Humanitarian Comms
11 September 2006
12490 views
  • Global
  • Iridium
  • Disaster Management
Developing Telecoms publishes this release as a part of its comprehensive and long-standing coverage of the theme of disaster management. We do not mean any endorsement or criticism of the products or systems mentioned.

Lucent Technologies and TeleTech speed up Egyptian schools

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
11 September 2006
10930 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Education
  • Egypt
  • lucent

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

Croatia deregulates; Metronet opts for Convergys Infinys billing

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Editorial staff
Category: Revenue & Billing
05 September 2006
10447 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Croatia
  • Convergys

Croatia moved quickly when it deregulated its telecoms market. Key player Metronet Telekomunikacije dd was founded in May 2005 and has the advantage of deplo yi ng its own 100% fibre optic network infrastructure...

Governments still dominate Arab terrestrial TV

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 September 2006
8899 views
  • Regulation
  • Middle East North Africa

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Ericsson billion boosts Bharti expansion bid

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
04 September 2006
10524 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Ericsson
  • Bharti

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

Andrew builds in Czech Republic

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 August 2006
14883 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Manufacturing
  • Czech Republic
  • Antenna
The new opportunities from a state-of-the-art factory in Brno in the Czech Republic make for exciting times at Andrew Corporation. Michael Schwartz has been speaking to Andrea Cassini, Andrew Corporation's President of EMEA Sales and Marketing...

Iran cracks down on "decadent" satellite dishes

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2006
14183 views
  • Satellite
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Iran
  • TV

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

Unclear telecoms market for East Timor and Indonesia

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Paul Budde
Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2006
12093 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • East Timor
There can be few areas within the emerging markets to which Paul Budde has not applied his highly respected powers of analysis. Even East Timor, not yet a member of the ITU, can not escape his attention. Here Paul Budde summarises the contents of his new report: 2006 Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Asia report - Indonesia and Timor Leste.

Slow start for African fibre traffic despite EASSy

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
21 August 2006
11128 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nitel
  • EASSy

A recent report on African satellite markets from the London based newsletter Balancing Act strikes a cautious chord on the building of the East African Submarine Cable System. Michael Schwartz reviews their findings...

RFS Cellflex is Asia-Pacific's first corrugated aluminium transmission line

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
16 August 2006
9225 views
  • Cable
  • Asia-Pacific
  • RFS
  • Transmission
  • Aluminium

Global wireless solutions group Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) is promoting what is believed to be the world's first corrugated aluminium transmission line and the lightest RF transmission cable currently on the market.

Satellite Phones - the Ten Commandments

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
16 August 2006
10719 views
  • Global
  • Satellite Phones
  • survey
Alright, Charlton Heston didn't exactly bring these ten statements down from Mount Sinai but there are lots of myths and there is plenty of misinformation about satellite phones. This has inspired San Diego-based All Road Communications to produce this list of the 'Top ten things you need to know about satellite phones' to help educate and inform those who may need to rent or buy one in the near future...

Five into two for 3G licences! Romania's long hot 3G summer continues

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Nicolae Oaca
Category: Trends & Forecasts
16 August 2006
14844 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Romania
  • Cosmote
  • Telemobil
  • RCS RDS
On August 1, the deadline for buying competition documents, a press release from Romania's General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI, the entity dealing with the 3G contest) announced five contenders for the last two 3G licences in Romania, bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four. Taking into account this huge interest in the last two 3G licences in both the region and in Europe, the long hot summer is continuing for 3G in Romania.

Mexico opens up phone market - will Telmex suffer?

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
09 August 2006
13667 views
  • Regulation
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Telmex
  • Cable TV
  • Eduardo Perez Motta

Mexico is proving to be one of the world's most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico 's key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

Kon-Tiki replica completes Pacific crossing: uses Nera satellite terminal

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
09 August 2006
11486 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Nera Satcom

Just a few days ago four Norwegians, one Swede and one Peruvian reached their destination of Tahiti on Tangaroa, a replica of explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft...

Go west, young (Chinese) man

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 August 2006
10531 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Manufacturing
  • Chengdu
Western China is substantially under-populated compared to the rest of the country. In fact, on the map it doesn't look populated at all outside Chengdu. And yet, as Michael Schwartz explains, Chengdu is enjoying a real boom.

Alcatel wins EASSy contract

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
03 August 2006
10105 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EASSy
  • Cables
Following on almost immediately from our report about the financing of the East African Submarine Cable project (EASSy), Developing Telecoms can report that Alcatel of France has won the EASSy contract par excellence...

Kenya grants new gateway licences while Sierra Leone threatens cuts

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
03 August 2006
14719 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • GSMA
  • Safaricom
  • Sierra Leone
  • Gateway
  • Celtel
The Kenyan Government has announced its decision to grant international gateway licences to the country's two leading mobile operators...

Movistar Chile makes Mobile Streams sole content provider

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 August 2006
10739 views
  • Latin America
  • Chile
  • Movistar
  • Content

Mobile Streams, a worldwide mobile content company, has been selected by Movistar Chile as exclusive provider for its white-brand polyphonic ringtones offering...

Romania's mobile interconnection game

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Dr Nicolae Oaca
Category: Trends & Forecasts
29 July 2006
14897 views
  • Regulation
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Interconnection
  • Romania
  • Government
A press release dated 10 July from Romania's regulatory body (National Agency for Regulation in Communications - ANRC) stated that ANRC had informed Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania of its obligation to reduce interconnection tariffs by 11.3% over four stages between September 1, 2006 and January 1, 2009, writes Dr Nicolae Oaca.

Earth station contract from Golden Telecom awaits Intersputnik

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
26 July 2006
10517 views
  • Satellite
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Golden Telecom

Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, has won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite earth stations for the Golden Telecom satellite network within the Russian Federation...

EASSy cable wins key global finance

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
26 July 2006
9506 views
  • Cable
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Finance
  • EASSy

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

ITU, Thuraya step up communications role in disaster mitigation and relief

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
21 July 2006
11649 views
  • Global
  • ITU
  • UAE
  • Thuraya

The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief.

RFS provides Guangdong dual-channel mobile TV

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 July 2006
11081 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • RFS
  • Mobile TV

Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong...

Maroc Telecom offers Huawei IPTV

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
20 July 2006
17967 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Huawei
  • Maroc Telecom
  • Morocco
  • IPTV

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

Golden Telecom rolls out global broadband in Tatarstan

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 July 2006
9675 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Golden Telecom

Golden Telecom, which provides integrated telecommunications and Internet services throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, is implementing its strategy of rolling-out global broadband access in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan...

Convergence the key to ICT Growth says Indian Regulation boss

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Blogs & Opinion
15 July 2006
10640 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • ICT
  • Convergence
  • APT

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

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