Believed to be the Caribbean 's fastest-growing GSM operator, Digicell Group has implemented a new roaming solution...

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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