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Intec plugs revenue leakage with CEMS

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
25 May 2006
8599 views
  • Global
  • Intec

Intec, which supplies BSS/OSS solutions to the global telecoms industry, has announced its new Centralized Error Management System (CEMS)...

Smart chooses Nortel for next-generation VoIP platform

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 May 2006
11230 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • VoIP
  • Wireless
  • Smart
  • Nortel

Wireless services provider Smart Communications has selected an international gateway solution from Nortel to provide next generation, carrier-grade wireless VoIP services to Philippines-based and international long distance customers...

Internet - a rival to Africa's mobile phone success?

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 May 2006
12063 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Internet

Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

Unisys wins Venezuelan outsourcing contract with Movilnet

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
23 May 2006
10564 views
  • Latin America
  • Venezuela
  • Call Centres
  • Movilnet

Unisys has begun work on a contract worth approximately US$21 million with Movilnet Telecommunications, the largest mobile network operator in Venezuela...

Nortel / Golden Telecom pioneer Moscow wireless mesh networks

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
22 May 2006
11814 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Nortel
  • Golden Telecom
  • mesh network

Golden Telecom, a Russia-based service provider, is using wireless mesh network technology from Nortel to build Moscow 's first wireless mesh network...

Unprecedented growth for high-speed mobile broadband

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 May 2006
14965 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • Argentina
  • Colombia
  • Peru
  • Uruguay
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Chile
  • Venezuela
  • Bolivia
  • HSDPA

The worldwide movement by operators to deploy high-speed mobile broadband services based on W-CDMA and High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standards is claimed by the GSM Association (GSMA) to be fuelling unprecedented economies of scale in the supply of equipment for carriers and handsets for consumers.

Telecentres in Brazil: training builds strength

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Luiz Antonio Carvalho, RITS
Category: Trends & Forecasts
22 May 2006
11947 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Training
  • Telecentres
Telecentres are a model for a community's ownership of information and communication technologies. They are a model which works and which is gaining strength, according to various successful experiences in Latin America.

Globe brings mobile broadband 3G to Asia-Pacific

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
14 May 2006
13465 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • Philippines
  • HSDPA

Reflecting The Philippines' increasing importance in Asia-Pacific communication, the country's second-largest mobile-phone service provider has now brought to the region its first built-in high-speed broadband component...

Marpless African network gains 55 PolarSat VSATs

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
14 May 2006
8624 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • VSATs
  • polarsat

A private African network is to benefit from the supply of 55 VSATs manufactured by PolarSat...

Mobile technology + cellphone customer = African success

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
14 May 2006
11618 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Emerging Markets
  • Statistics

Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let's be blunt about it. It may be a case of "Bad news alone sells newspapers" but on the whole there is little, rightly or wrongly, to be happy about. And then...

Intel: quicker education for next billion, Mexico targeted

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
14 May 2006
12007 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Education
  • Computing
  • Intel
  • PCs
Paul Otellini, Intel's President and CEO, used this month's World Congress on Information Technology (May 06) to stress Intel's commitment towards PCs as a tool for education in the developing markets...

Subex, Azure create world's largest revenue maximiser

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
14 May 2006
8547 views
  • Global
  • Subex
  • Mergers
  • Azure

Two companies, Subex Systems Limited, a telecom software product company, and Azure Solutions Limited, a telecoms revenue-assurance company, are to merge...

Telefonica completes Latin American acquisitions

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
14 May 2006
20605 views
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Telefonica
  • Acquisitions
  • Colombia

Two years of acquisitions in Latin America by Telefonica, Spain' s largest telephone company, have now come to an end.

Talk with text set to become mass market - Roamware

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 May 2006
8889 views
  • Global
  • Voice SMS
  • Roamware

Global roaming solutions specialist Roamware is combining SMS with voice communications to launch Voice SMS capability over mobile networks...

RFS brings out new jumper cable range

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Alec Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
14 May 2006
7801 views
  • Cable
  • Global
  • RFS

New jumper cable caps from Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) are claimed to offer improved RF connection between main feeders and antennas or system equipment...

Telecom trio forms Saudi strategic alliance

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
02 May 2006
8693 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • fibre optic
  • Saudi Arabia
Three major telecom companies active in Saudi Arabia have come together to form a strategic partnership...

Veraz, Transit combine for US$3million NGN

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
02 May 2006
10224 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • ngn

One of Latin America 's largest Next Generation Networks (NGN) is set for creation in Brazil...

China Netcom brings UTStarcom's RollingStream IPTV to North-east China

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
02 May 2006
9690 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • IPTV
  • UT STarcom

IPTV will soon be deployed by China Netcom in North-east China using UTStarcom's RollingStream technology...

Mobiles make up 85% of African subscribers

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Research & Markets
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 May 2006
10594 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Growth
  • Research and Markets

Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overviews. The overviews cover the role of various technologies such as broadband and convergence, the effects of regulation, the major players and how the African market has performed.

Vodafone shakes-up, goes for emerging markets

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Alec Barton
Category: Operators
02 May 2006
8520 views
  • Service Providers
  • Global
  • Vodafone
Spring-cleaning was one description of the changes that Vodafone is now implementing as it seeks further success. As those changes stretch to a focus on the emerging markets and also to reinforcing the important role convergence has to play in modern telecommunications, the term spring-cleaning is a considerable under-statement...

Intel invests US$300 million into Vietnamese ICT

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Alec Barton
Category: Investment
02 May 2006
11021 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • ICT
  • Intel

Intel's decision to invest US$300 million to build a semiconductor chip assembly and test manufacturing factory in Ho Chi Minh City is set to inspire a new wave of foreign investment in Vietnam' s information and communication technology sector...

Brazil to host Lucent IPTV R&D for Telefonica roll-out

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
02 May 2006
14666 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Telefonica
  • IPTV
  • lucent

Lucent and Telefonica have reached a strategic agreement under which Lucent will support Telefonica's IPTV service rollouts worldwide...

Nokia boosts Sichuan mobile infrastructure centre

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
02 May 2006
10171 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Nokia
  • IMS
  • Chengdu

Nokia is set to strengthen its R&D in China by expanding its Chengdu R&D centre...

Algeria pioneers Arab World WiMAX

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 May 2006
13260 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • WiMAX

WiMAX is now commercially available in Algeria , while several operators in many Arab countries have started testing the service.

Norway sounds alarm over new Thai telecom rules

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Alec Barton
Category: Regulation
02 May 2006
11705 views
  • Regulation
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Thailand
  • Telenor
  • Operators
  • DTAC
  • NTC

Norway has become concerned that draft rules to prevent foreign domination of Thai telecom operators could affect the rights and interests of foreign shareholders of Thai telecom firms...

Nokia powers Eurotel's Czech HSDPA network

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
02 May 2006
10397 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Czech Republic
  • HSDPA
  • Eurotel Praha

Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the country's first High Speed Downlink Packet Access network...

Vodafone partners BITE Group, welcomes Latvia to portfolio

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
02 May 2006
11882 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Vodafone
  • Latvia
  • BITE Group

Proof of Vodafone's new strategy towards emerging markets has come with the announcement that the company will be extending its Partner Network Agreement with the Baltic-based BITE Group...

Dr Young-Chu Cho of KTF joins GSMA board

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Alec Barton
Category: Regulation
02 May 2006
13489 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • GSMA

The President & CEO of South Korean mobile operator KTF, Dr Young-Chu Cho, has been elected to the board of the GSM Association (GSMA).

 

Arab Advisors survey of GSM in Morocco ready next month

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
02 May 2006
11864 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Morocco
  • GSM

The Arab Advisors Group is now completing its multi-client major survey of individual GSM users in Morocco .

China WILL let companies choose own 3G standard

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Alec Barton
Category: Regulation
25 April 2006
9824 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • China
  • TD-SCDMA

US Government sources are confident that their approaches to the Chinese Government to allow phone companies to choose their own standard for 3G operations in China have been successful...

Synterra launches Moscow WiMAX network

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
24 April 2006
10623 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • WiMAX
  • Synterra

Russian alternative telecoms operator Synterra has announced the commercial launch of what is believed to be the first WiMAX network in Moscow .

Motorola, Brightstar opens Latin America's gateway to 3G

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
24 April 2006
12023 views
  • Latin America
  • 3G
  • Motorola
  • Brightstar

Motorola's NC800 Cellular Gateway will be introduced into Latin America through a distribution agreement with Brightstar, a distribution and supply chain solution provider serving the wireless industry...

Nokia wins Warid radio network contract

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
24 April 2006
9240 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Warid Telecom
  • Nokia
  • Bangladesh

Nokia has won a radio network contract from Warid Telecom for the company's green-field operations in Bangladesh...

Chikka and fastmobile to develop Chikka Messenger for Globe Telecom

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 April 2006
16888 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Globe Telecom

Following Developing Telecoms' recent story Globe Telecom signs agreement for launch of fastmobile, fastmobile is to develop a downloadable, mobile-to-mobile version of the popular instant messaging application Chikka Messenger...

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