Orange and Vodafone are winners in the contest for the last two 3G licenses in Romania. At least that is how it now appears, in a story which has lessons for regulators and operators in emerging markets worldwide...
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The 2008 International Aid + Trade Event brings together the global humanitarian relief, aid and development community to share knowledge and experience, improve coordination and communication, increase the effectiveness of aid response and humanitarian relief and embrace the challenge of integrated aid and development...
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Talia, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet for North Africa and the Middle East, is launching its new 'Good Works' scheme at the 2008 International Aid + Trade conference in Geneva, Switzerland...
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This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...
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Moving to a VoIP paradigm presents real challenges for operators in the emerging markets. Developing Telecoms asked Yossi Ben Harosh, President & CEO, Telrad Networks, to outline some of the difficulties that can be expected - and to suggest the best way forward...
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Fibre-optics professionals should be simplifying the classification of fibre-optics, particularly in the face of competition from copper products...
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The imminent transfer of Algeria's telecoms services from state to private ownership is keenly anticipated. During the build-up to final roll-out revenues are expected to show substantial growth. The Arab Advisors Group has issued a report on this exciting issue...
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Many of the Western European operators appear inward-looking, almost unwilling to look into overseas markets even when the latter make up the real areas of growth in the context of current global telecoms...
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Subex, which specialises in OSS
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Developing Telecoms reported last month that Zain was on its way to creating a roaming-free market in Africa , with a dozen countries all enjoyi ng one single telecoms market. Since then, Zain has announced a single roaming-free market for its Middle East customers...
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SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As
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Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...
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Acision has announced that global SMS traffic was 30% higher over the 2008 New Year period when compared to the equivalent in 2007. People are obviously texting in the changes rather than ringing them in…
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Antenna Hungaria, T-Mobile Hungary, and Vodafone Hungary have all recently carried out trials for mobile television to DVB-H specifications...
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Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...
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JDSU has launched a short-range LAN OTDR to provide a testing combination of up to five wavelengths in both multi-mode and single-mode...
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Mobile payments could explode into a US$22 billion market within the next three years...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...
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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...
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Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan Passenger-dedicated Line...
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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...
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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...
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Cisco has announced its strategy to help service providers in Asia Pacific deliver an end-to-end Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solution...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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