Reliance Communications’ Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe subsidiary is set to achieve its ambition of becoming the world’s largest IP network over submarine cabling. FLAG has awarded Fujitsu the contract which will double FLAG’s size and build four new cable systems across the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Uganda Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a contract to extend Uganda Telecom’s GSM/EDGE mobile network and deploy the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in Uganda, one of the first such deployments in the East Africa region.

Vladivostok-based New Telephone Company has upgraded its CBOSS solution to full convergence, implementing the company’s real-time service billing and control system CBOSSrtb...

Rural subscribers using Latvia’s copper-wire network are to enjoy the benefits of DSL broadband thanks to a contract placed with Alcatel-Lucent by Lattelcom, the consortium of the Latvian government and Telia Sonera.

Yeniseytelecom, the largest telecoms company in Krasnoyarsk Krai, has launched high-speed data services within its IMT-MC 450 network. Supporting the network upgrade was the Convergent Business Operations Support System (CBOSS)...

Voice SMS specialist Bubble Motion has been selected by Indian service provider Airtel to deploy Voice SMS over fixed line. The deployment will means that Airtel customers will be able to send Voice SMS messages to any mobile or fixed line customer.

Encouraging developments within the Gulf have formed the basis of several reports on Developing Telecoms but there must come a time when these Gulf markets enjoy total or almost total teledensity. Daniel Jones, Research Analyst with Analysis, believes that acquiring operators who are active outside the Gulf may present a convincing alternative route for Gulf operators...

Sistelindo, a local service provider for AT&T Global in Indonesia, has announced that it is working with Digitalk, an independent developer of multi-service voice switching platforms, to provide VoIP services throughout the country...

APC, the excellent newsletter from which we have on occasion quoted, has revealed that website bloggers have been suffering intimidation as a wave of environmental protests has been hitting Bulgaria...

The past few weeks have seen the emerging market community celebrate Sangonet’s twentieth anniversary, with Sangonet itself releasing its own special publication: “The Sangonet Story, 1987-2007 - twenty years of linking civil society through ICTs” which was launched at the annual Sangonet ICTs for civil society conference...

Real mobile market penetration rates may be less than two thirds conventional figures. This claim is made by the Arab Advisors Group following a recent survey in Jordan...

Alcatel-Lucent and telecoms provider Synterra, have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Russia 's first Universal WiMAX network...

Inner Mongolia Mobile has deployed a cost-saving solution to allow significantly increased GSM connectivity in remote villages without increasing costs...

"We need a Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa. We have to mobilise the world's human, financial and technical resources to support economic growth, employment and development across Africa... 

The first half of 2007 saw the launch of Nokia-Siemens Networks. Industry mergers such as this have become a feature of the telecoms scene in recent years. But although the merging companies are based in developed markets, the mergers are being driven by the need to drive down costs in order to compete in emerging markets...

The new Slovakian mobile network operator Telefonica O2 has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as the sole supplier of the mobile network it launched earlier this year...

Less than three months remain before the governments of the world meet at this year's World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) to decide whether to re-assign C-band for the terrestrial-wireless sector...

Satellite communications, when properly deployed, will always mean an improved global response to disasters. Now the ITU has forged a partnership with satellite-based ICO Global Communications and the Commonwealth Business Council to exploit satellite communications for exactly this purpose...

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is responding to the demand in cost-effective IP transit capacity in Africa. Its new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service is designed for the entire African continent...

The Middle Eastern mobile market presents greater revenue opportunities than markets in Europe when taking into account its size and spending power, according to a new report The Middle Eastern mobile market: trends and forecasts 2007-12, published by Analysys. Why? Read on...

Basing its claim on the fact that it now serves 50 million DSL customers worldwide, Huawei is promoting itself as the leader in IP DSLAM technology. This report explains how Huawei justifies its claim...

FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...

Huawei has successfully deployed the largest High Speed Packet Access network in the Middle East and North Africa region for Etisalat in UAE...

Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators will provide its messaging platforms to Cable & Wireless for networks in the Americas & Caribbean...