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40Gb/s DWDM goes commercial

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
14 November 2005
16102 views
  • Global
  • Huawei
  • DWDM
Huawei has announced the launch of its OptiX BWS 1600A/G 40 Gb/s DWDM solutions...

Marine messages beam brightly for Iridium

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
14 November 2005
16339 views
  • Satellite
  • Global
  • Corporate
  • Iridium
  • Marine

Iridium Satellite has reported a 30% jump in the number of its maritime industry subscribers since January this year...

APC acquires NetBotz, expands data monitor portfolio

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 November 2005
33436 views
  • Global
  • IP
  • APC
American Power Conversion has completed the acquisition of privately-held NetBotz, a provider of IP-based environmental and video monitoring solutions, for US$31 million in cash...

 

Caymanone selects Cerillion for turnkey billing

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
14 November 2005
9826 views
  • Latin America
  • Cerillion
  • Cayman Islands
  • Convergent Billing

Convergent billing specialist Cerillion Technologies will be supplying Caymanone with a complete CRM and billing solution for its local telecoms network in the Cayman Islands...

Brazil boosts 3G; Vivo signs Motorola mobile speed-up

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
04 November 2005
16282 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Vivo
  • Motorola
Vivo, South America's largest mobile telephone carrier, has commissioned Motorola to expand its CDMA network, including additional Motorola SoftSwitches, and expansion of its CDMA 3G EV-DO high-speed mobile service...

Payment not percentage: Motorola settles with Telsim

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 November 2005
14182 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Legal
  • Motorola

Motorola has settled its financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).

Oil lubricates Cameroon telecoms

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
04 November 2005
12438 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • Cameroon

Cameroon will soon enjoy the benefits of a telecoms spinal cord carried in a backbone stretching right down the country...

Chinese Telecoms Giant demands Protection at Home

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
04 November 2005
10310 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • ZTE

Michael Schwartz commented recently on an Indian Minister's opinion that priority should be given by Indian operators to local telecoms manufacturers. Now he analyses a leading Chinese telecom vendor's demand for protection in its home market...

China cell phone market increases to 377M users

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
31 October 2005
14677 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Subscribers
  • Mobile Phones

Cell phone ownership figures for China grow and grow. As of 30 September China boasted 377 million mobile phone subscribers, or a teledensity of 29%...

New Nokia Handsets aim for growth markets

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
31 October 2005
17626 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Handsets

Nokia has introduced a pair of CDMA handsets designed expressly for the world's fastest-growing regions...

Nera/Inmarsat begin beta testing of BGAN terminal

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
27 October 2005
12510 views
  • Global
  • Broadband
  • Inmarsat
  • BGAN
  • Nera Satcom
Nera Satcom AS is set to join Inmarsat in the beta testing of Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network service on the Nera WorldPro 1000 terminal...

Slovakia sees wireless world first

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
24 October 2005
11678 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Slovakia

Twenty cities in Slovakia, including parts of the capital city Bratislava, have become the first anywhere in the world to switch on Flash-ODM. The wireless broadband variant has been introduced into Slovakia by T-Mobile Slovakia and Siemens...

Wireless makes up half of Huawei's income; wireless subscribers top 140 million

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
24 October 2005
16333 views
  • Global
  • Huawei
  • Wireless

More than half of Huawei's revenue this year has come from its sales of wireless products. From being, in Huawei's words: "just a mere participant in the field of wireless" the company has now become a worldwide leader, deploying its products in more than 50 countries...

Huawei opens its first inTouch Lab Experience Centre

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Vendors
24 October 2005
16379 views
  • Global
  • Huawei
  • R&D

Aimed at encouraging global telecoms players to pool their ideas, Huawei’s inTouch Lab and Partnership Plan target fellow companies in the industry in order to create, on a joint basis, innovative services and applications for the future...

Cisco to invest US$1.1 billion in India

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
24 October 2005
17443 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • Cisco
  • Finance
Network equipment manufacturer Cisco is set to make its largest investment to date outside the United States.

E-Link Americas selects Nera SatLink for satellite broadband Internet

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
24 October 2005
14451 views
  • Satellite
  • Latin America
  • Caribbean
  • Nera

E-Link Americas, a not-for-profit corporation established to promote connectivity for social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean , has selected Nera to supply broadband satellite equipment...

Disaster management: Meshing for mission-critical operations

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Nikesh Patel - Motorola
Category: Humanitarian Comms
24 October 2005
17307 views
  • Global
  • Motorola
  • Disaster Management
Recent events have shown just how critical a part good communications play during disasters. Developing Telecoms welcomes Nikesh Patel, business manager for Motorola's Government and Enterprise Mobility Solutions (GEMS) sector. He explains how seamless mobile wireless broadband solutions optimise emergency response.

Voice answered email

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
17 October 2005
13990 views
  • Global
  • Messaging
  • Voicemail
  • Visto

Mobile-owning professionals can now answer emails by voice. This is the boast by Visto Corporation, which has launched Mobile Secure Voice specifically for professionals 'on the go.' The new capability results from Visto acquiring Trekmail, a provider of mixed-media messaging services...

Sony Ericsson Unveils 3G Smartphone

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
17 October 2005
11493 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • 3G
  • Handsets
  • Sony
Set to start shipping during Q1 2006, Sony Ericsson's 3G UMTS P990 smartphone is billed as the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform...

450 Mhz for low teledensity areas

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
17 October 2005
12944 views
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • GSM
  • Teledensity
  • 450MHz

Nokia is underlining its interest in GSM technology on the 450MHz frequency band. The company believes GSM450 frequency is a viable solution in providing affordable handsets and mobile voice-centred services to new growth areas with a low teledensity...

Globecomm Systems and Samacom Announce Middle East Service

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Alec Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
17 October 2005
14838 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Dubai
  • UAE
  • Globecomm
Using its teleport facility in Dubai, UAE, as a hub for operations, Samacom is linking with satellite communication services provider Globecomm to open up a new Middle East service operation...

Linksys/Skype Team up for Cordless Handset

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
17 October 2005
14517 views
  • Devices
  • Global
  • Cisco
  • Skype
  • VoIP
  • Handsets

Cisco's Linksys division is working with Skype, one of the leading global voice over Internet communications companies, to market a new cordless phone that is designed to take free Skype Internet phone calling off the computer and to put it into the hands of callers...

Nokia and China Putian Set up 3G Joint Venture

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Alec Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
17 October 2005
16436 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 3G
  • China
  • Nokia

Nokia and China Putian have recently signed an agreement to set up a joint venture in 2006 to focus on R&D, manufacturing and sales of 3G network solutions for TD-SCDMA and WCDMA technologies...

AT&T looks to 20% Growth in China, but India a Bigger Market

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
17 October 2005
17350 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Growth
  • Symphony
China's phenomenal growth in telecoms has long been praised but some of the early promise expected by investors in the 1990s does not seem to have materialised...

Nortel aids flood monitoring

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Alec Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
14 October 2005
10638 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Environment
  • Flooding
  • Nortel

Five major China water resource utilities are establishing critical, real-time flood control monitoring and drought relief systems to protect against the loss of life from the catastrophic floods that hit China each year during the annual rainy season.

Comverse MMSC and MDG for Vietnam

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 October 2005
13095 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Vietnam
  • Comverse
  • MMSC

Vietnam' s largest mobile operator, GPC, has selected Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Centre and Mobile Data Gateway to provide expanded multimedia and video messaging services...

Jataayu/Telenity Power Ukraine WAP/MMS

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 October 2005
11179 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Ukraine
  • life:)
  • Multimedia
  • WAP

Ukraine' s latest mobile network operator life:) has launched Mobile Internet access over WAP and Multimedia Messaging Services. Jataayu Software's WAP Gateway and Telenity's Canvas family of IP based products and applications are the power behind this commercial development...

Guizhou Court turns to Sybase efficiency boost

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Alec Barton
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
14 October 2005
10378 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China

Sybase Software (China) Co Ltd has recently deployed a Management Information System for the Supreme People's Court of China of Guizhou Province, China...

 

West Africa: A common ICT Market?

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
16688 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • ECOWAS
  • UEMOA
  • WATRA

Fifteen West African nations have today (7 October 2005) agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets...

Intec InterconnecT v7 boosts Indosat growth and profitability

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
11 October 2005
16208 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Intec
  • PT Indosat

Indonesia's second largest telecoms operator, PT Indosat, is looking to increase growth and profitability within its fixed and international business through its upgrade through its upgrade to Intec's InterconnecT v7...

Intec continues Nigerian expansion

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
11 October 2005
17399 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Intec
  • Medallion Communications
Medallion Communications, a newly launched interconnect clearing house for all telecommunications service providers in Nigeria, has commissioned Intec Telecom Systems to provide a combined interconnect transiting switch and interconnect settlement scheme under one platform...

VimpelCom chooses Intec real time charging and mediation

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Alec Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
11 October 2005
13397 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • VimpelCom
  • Beeline
  • Kazakhstan
  • Mediation
  • Intec
Vimpelcom has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Intec Telecom Systems for state of the art online and offline mediation across its mobile network...

To make or not to make - that is the Indian question

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
15157 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • DoT
  • Telecoms
  • BSNL
  • MTNL
  • Wipro
  • Reliance Infocomm
  • telecommunications
As India prepares for its largest ever expansion of telecoms the Indian Ministry of Telecommunications is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for equipment suppliers to manufacture equipment in India. Michael Schwartz assesses India's progress towards becoming a telecoms giant...

Venezuela fines/shuts Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
17561 views
  • Latin America
  • Ericsson
  • Nokia
  • Venezuela
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Siemens
Venezuela's tax agency Seniat declared last Wednesday that it had imposed fines and ordered the temporary closure of various foreign companies' offices in the country due to tax irregularities.

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