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Iridium tracks tsunami buoys for NOAA

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Editorial staff
Category: Humanitarian Comms
07 July 2006
13350 views
  • Global
  • Iridium

Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo yi ng.

Fast cars, Brazilian cellular - and the Rolling Stones?

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
07 July 2006
9846 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mobile
  • Entertainment

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

Wireless - transcending the digital divide

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Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, Senior Vice-President, Siemens Communications
Category: Wireless Networks
07 July 2006
13841 views
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • Digital Divide
  • Siemens
It seems only natural that we start our analysis of the Digital Divide with one of the giants of world telecoms. Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, a vice-president of Siemens Communications, explains the role of wireless technology - and makes some predictions.

Mobile development in Africa

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Gabriel Solomon, GSM Association
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 July 2006
12979 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • GSM
  • Health
  • Celtel
In the traditionally strident and forceful tones of the GSM Association, Gabriel Solomon, the Association's Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, reviews the part played to date by mobiles in bridging the digital divide. Gabriel Solomon then demonstrates that even greater growth can be achieved by removing regulations and restrictions. This upbeat commentary on the digital divide ends with a warning to impose a realistic price structure if emerging markets are going to develop to their full potential.

Nokia Siemens Networks - the implications

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Vendors
02 July 2006
12506 views
  • Service Providers
  • Global
  • Mergers
  • Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia...

India not enough - Bharti looks overseas

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
13782 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Vodafone
  • Bharti Airtel
  • SingTel

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Open access for EASSy agreed by all - what about Merali?

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
10570 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • EASSy
  • East Africa

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

Long hot summer for 3G in Romania - last two licences up for bidding

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Dr Nicolae Oacã
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 July 2006
14382 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Romania
  • licenses
  • Cosmote
  • Telemobil

On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).

Yes, there is hope for Africa's Net

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Nyasha Mutsekwa, Oracle
Category: Humanitarian Comms
02 July 2006
11143 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Oracle

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Cable & Wireless selects Nokia GSM for British Virgin Islands

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 June 2006
13038 views
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Nokia
  • GSM
  • Cable and Wireless
  • British Virgin Islands

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

Sony Ericsson K510i phone arrives in Middle East

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
21 June 2006
9456 views
  • Devices
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Sony Ericsson
  • Bluetooth

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

RFS demonstrates fast bit-rate 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
20 June 2006
10423 views
  • Global
  • Wireless
  • RFS

Radio Frequency Systems has recently demonstrated a remote radio head unit which the company claims to exhibit the fastest bit-rate of any 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution...

Morocco loyal to payphone for overseas calls

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
20 June 2006
9962 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Morocco
  • Payphones

GSM penetration in Morocco topped the 40% mark last year - and yet some 80% of GSM users are still using payphone services for national calls.

Nokia supports Omnitel in HSPDA launch

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
15 June 2006
9534 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G

Palanga in Lithuania is witnessing the launch of High Speed Data Packet Access services at the hands of the Baltic's largest telecoms company, Omnitel.

Third-time-lucky for MTN mobiles in Ghana

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Alec Barton
Category: Operators
15 June 2006
11190 views
  • Service Providers
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ghana
  • MTN

It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt...

 

Avea selects Schema to better its GSM Network

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
14 June 2006
14260 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Avea
  • Schema

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

AirMagnet introduces VoWLAN analysis tool

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
14 June 2006
8433 views
  • Global

Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool...

Orange Romania launches 3G - two more licences to come

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Nicolae Oaca
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
13 June 2006
14016 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • 3G
  • Orange
  • Romania
  • UMTS

On June 6 Orange  Romania launched 3G services in Bucharest and Timisoara using UMTS technology...

Sky Link pioneers Lucent's smallest CDMA450 base station

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 June 2006
13075 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • lucent
  • Sky Link

Sky Link, a telco established to develop a nationwide CDMA450 network in Russia, and Lucent have instigated a project to increase the capacity and coverage of Sky Link's network in Moscow and the Moscow region, and in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region...

BLAM hits the Net

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
08 June 2006
7381 views
  • Global
  • Websites

Two 20-year-old British inventors aim to cure Internet boredom by creating a virtual button has attracted supporters in more than 120 countries since its launch less than two months ago...

Cambodia 3G mobile ban astounds phone industry

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Esther McClaren, Phnom Penh Post
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 June 2006
15006 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • Cambodia
  • Hun Sen

Claiming that Cambodia's morality is not yet advanced enough to withstand the lures of pornographic videos on mobile telephones, Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 26 announced a 10-year ban on 3G technology. Esther McClaren, a writer with the Phnom Penh Post, the main English language newspaper in Cambodia, brings us up to date with reactions locally...

DRC and Sudan drive Africa cell growth

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
06 June 2006
12675 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Sudan
  • Wireless
  • Democratic Republic of Congo

Following identification as a potentially strong Internet market, Eastern and Central Africa have now been singled out as markets set for exceptional growth on cellular applications...

Cosmote Romania - a difficult way forward?

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Nicolae Oacã
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 June 2006
16582 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Romania
  • Cosmote
  • Greece

After more than two years of hesitating to make a decision, CosmoRom was taken over by Greece's Cosmote and commercially re-launched on December 6 2005 under the new brand name Cosmote Romania. Developing Telecoms welcomes its new Central and Eastern Europe analyst Dr Nicolae Oacã, who fills in the gaps in a complex market.

Mid-East spotlight

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Serene Zawaydeh & Andrawes Snobar, Arab Advisors
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 June 2006
10246 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Sudan
  • Jordan
Arab telecom operators served 85 million cellular subscribers and 30 million fixed telephony lines in 2005. The Middle East and North Africa is a rapidly expanding market, as detailed in a new report.

ADC and Andrew Corporation merge

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
04 June 2006
11282 views
  • Global
  • Mergers
  • ADC

ADC and Andrew Corporation, two companies well established in emerging markets, have announced that they are merging, creating a global player in wireline and wireless network infrastructure solutions. Developing Telecoms assesses the implications of the merger...

Listing for Romanian fixed telecoms likely this autumn

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 June 2006
12236 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Romania
  • Cosmote
  • RomTelecom

On May 3 this year the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) signed a contract with Credit Suisse First Boston to provide consultancy for the listing of the Romanian   State 's shares in fixed telephony operator RomTelecom...

ECOWAS confirms common telecom/IT market - starting next year

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
01 June 2006
12535 views
  • Regulation
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Liberalisation
  • ECOWAS

Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards their aim of integrating the economies of their region...

ICE chooses Lucent MPLS, IMS advanced solutions for Costa Rica

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
31 May 2006
11178 views
  • Latin America
  • VoIP
  • IMS
  • Costa Rica
  • VPN
  • lucent

New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in Costa Rica , to rapidly develop and launch capabilities such as VoIP and Virtual Private Networks.

Andrew completes Moscow Metro communications network

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
31 May 2006
10486 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • TETRA
  • metro

Transporting approximately 11 million passengers every day on the Moscow Metro is now claimed to be safer and more efficient with Andrew Corporation's completion of the first phase of a major communications network covering seven lines of the Russian capital's landmark 12-line system.

Liberia: tailoring the economy for growth

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Francis Nyepon
Category: Trends & Forecasts
31 May 2006
12160 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Economic Growth
  • Liberia

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in his article How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia? Francis Nyepon returns to Developing Telecoms, this time to recommend policies to his country's government which will create conditions for economic growth and success. Whilst this feature does not address the telecoms sector directly, it none the less provides a clear description of the background against which the sector must rebuild. Francis Nyepon is, of necessity, out-spoken.

C-vidya expands MoneyMap

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
31 May 2006
11758 views
  • Global
  • cVidya
  • MoneyMap

Revenue assurance specialist cVidya's new MoneyMap Suite R3.0 now provides full revenue assurance operations support, including rating and billing verification capabilities...

Kasapa expands in Ghana

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
31 May 2006
14846 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ghana
  • CDMA
  • Hutchison

Ghana 's only CDMA cellular network has been extended to Obuotabiri, adding voice mail to its range of value-added-services...

Lower taxes for higher revenues in Bangladesh?

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
26 May 2006
11195 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Bangladesh
  • GSM
  • Taxation
Governments in some developing countries may be working against their own interests by taxing and regulating the mobile industry as if it were supplying luxury goods rather than essential communications tools, according to two recent studies.

Digicell selects Roamware for travelling wireless customers

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
25 May 2006
12907 views
  • Latin America
  • Roaming
  • Caribbean
  • GSM
  • Digicell Group

Believed to be the Caribbean 's fastest-growing GSM operator, Digicell Group has implemented a new roaming solution...

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