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Sony Ericsson Unveils 3G Smartphone

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
17 October 2005
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  • 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
12995 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
14870 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
14537 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
16485 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
17388 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
10678 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
13135 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
11213 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
10402 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
16737 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
16232 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
17430 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
13417 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
15198 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
17605 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.

Burmese mobile users allowed to SMS

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
15622 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • SMS
  • Myanmar
Burma's (Myanmar's) few mobile phone users are to be permitted use of SMS services for the very first time.

Bangladesh offers new GSM licence

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
21288 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Licensing
  • CDMA
  • Bangladesh
  • GSM
  • Tenders

Bangladesh is opening up its telecoms market by inviting open tenders for another GSM licence, for 15 years initially.

Jordan becomes Arab cellular market's most competitive player

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
11 October 2005
17939 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Jordan
  • Palestine
Jordan has overtaken Palestine as the most competitive Arab cellular market, the two followed closely by Algeria.

Nokia provide IP voice service in fixed and mobile networks

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Wireless Networks
06 October 2005
16413 views
  • Global
  • Nokia
  • Fixed-line
  • Convergence
  • IP

Using the opportunity of the Broadband World Forum in Madrid, Nokia has introduced a portfolio of solutions for operators and service providers concerned with the convergence of fixed and mobile networks...

Intec boosts billing in West Indies

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Alec Barton
Category: Service Management
06 October 2005
11798 views
  • Latin America
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Intec

Deregulation and its consequent competition have led Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago to order three Intec OSS/BSS products to increase efficiency and service quality...

Nokia, Telemar Oi trials fixed-mobile convergence solutions for Brazil

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
06 October 2005
17181 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Nokia
  • VoIP
  • Convergence
Nokia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Brazil's Telemar Oi. Trials are to begin of Nokia's fixed-mobile convergence solutions...

The birth of Broadband for a Mobile Planet

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Michael Schwartz
Category: Satellite Networks
06 October 2005
12537 views
  • Global
  • Inmarsat

Recent changes to Inmarsat's Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service has seen coverage offered by the satellite network increase by about a third from 99 to 150 countries. Best known until now in the Middle East and Africa, the newly enhanced service now extends to include most of Europe, Asia and Western Australia. The new service, now designated R-BGAN, includes a number of upgrades. Developing Telecoms takes a look at what's new.

Nokia signs first Connect eRefill solution in China

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
05 October 2005
16284 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • SMS
  • China
  • Nokia
Account top-up via SMS and balance transfer for subscribers to Jiangxi Mobile Telecommunication Co Ltd are now a reality thanks to a contract signed by Nokia to deliver its Connect eRefill solution to the Chinese mobile operator...

UAE sees first PoC service

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
05 October 2005
14557 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Etisalat
  • Nokia
  • UAE
  • PoC

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation has selected Nokia to supply the first Push to talk over Cellular network solution in the United Arab Emirates...

Hungary gains push to talk technology

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
05 October 2005
25588 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • T-Mobile
  • Hungary
T-Mobile has commercially launched Hungary's first push to talk service. It is available in T-Mobile Hungary's 2G and 3G networks and uses a Nokia solution...

Nokia unveils new-growth market mobile

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
03 October 2005
158270 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Handsets
Nokia is expanding its range of mobiles designed for new growth markets...

More phones, lower prices for Nokia

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Alec Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
03 October 2005
14793 views
  • Devices
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Nokia
  • Handsets
Earlier this summer, Nokia sold its one billionth phone. The customer is based in Nigeria and Nokia is quick to acknowledge the significance of this event...

Huawei patents top 8,000: ten every day

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Alec Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
03 October 2005
14848 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Huawei
  • Applications
  • Patents
China's State Intellectual Property Office has revealed that in the first half of 2005 Huawei posted 1,231 patent applications, making the company the most prolific in the country...

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