Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 25 November 2008; 11383 views

Vodafone's African shopping trip shows no sign of abating in the face of the global financial crisis, according to Jeremy Green, Mobile Practice Leader at Ovum. Last week, the company announced that it had achieved its long-held ambition to take a controlling stake in Vodacom, the South African mobile operator in which it held a 50% share...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 November 2008; 9355 views

SeaChange International, which provides IPTV and Video-on-Demand (VoD) software, systems and services, will partner Turkey-based Argela, a provider of next-generation telecom solutions, to serve the growing global market for IPTV. Turk Telekom, one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies, is the first customer for the partnership. SeaChange is also providing systems integration and professional services...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 November 2008; 9779 views

New submarine cables being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring unprecedented connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 November 2008; 10158 views

Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN)'s vision of five billion people connected by 2015 involves smart connectivity, an innovative concept that will provide powerful solutions for heterogeneous networks...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 November 2008; 10708 views

Algeria's leading mobile operator Orascom Telecom Algeria has announced that Nokia Siemens Networks will be the provider of its Home Location Register solution...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 November 2008; 7756 views

Tata Communications has announced the launch of its TelePresence rooms available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 17 November 2008; 10216 views

Seven GSM mobile networks in as many countries in Africa are to be connected via a VSAT network to be installed by Globecomm Systems. The contract follows Atlantique Telecom's programme of consolidation of its African markets...

Details: Category: Service Management; 14 November 2008; 11297 views

Intec, a provider of both business and operations support systems, has announced a contract extension with Atlantique Telecom, one of the fastest growing GSM operators in West and Central Africa...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 November 2008; 10596 views

UAE telecom provider du is to become the first operator in the Middle East to deploy Corning SMF-28 ULL optical fibre. du's ambition is a 3G cellular and fibre-to-the-home domestic network with links to Saudi Arabia...

Details: Cisco; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 12 November 2008; 8106 views

Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco recently held a virtual meeting to inaugurate Cisco's first TelePresence system in Argentina. They used the opportunity to discuss the use of technology for health, education and economic development for greater social inclusion of citizens...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 11 November 2008; 10705 views

In a further move towards the consolidation of wireless network operators into fewer, globally recognised players, Vodafone announced today it has agreed to acquire an additional 15% stake in Vodacom from Telkom South Africa. The deal is costing Vodafone around US$2.25bn in cash and increases Vodafone's shareholding in Vodacom from 50% to 65%...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 November 2008; 11865 views

Integrated VAS solutions provider Bharti Telesoft and multinational MTN Group have announced an alliance aimed at delivering Multimedia Messaging Center, Short Message Service Center and Wireless Application Protocol Gateway solutions for all MTN Operations...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 November 2008; 8603 views

In line with its commitment to combat the sale and use of counterfeit and pirated products, Cisco announced this month that it will participate in the launch of a new set of guidelines to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 05 November 2008; 10112 views

The Western Union Company has created an alliance with Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Orascom and Western Union plan to work together to introduce mobile remittance services in select markets. The services aim to make low-principal, high-frequency remittances more convenient to the millions of consumers who send money every day...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 November 2008; 14039 views

Through its Wireless Reach initiative, Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm, has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to information and multimedia services...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10946 views

A few weeks ago Developing Telecoms publisher Alec Barton analysed the Latin American telecoms market. In this article editor Michael Schwartz extends the debate, looking at the countries that have been winning the contracts and asking whether Latin American markets are losing out in these momentous times for new markets. In this first section we look at some of the largest markets, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 03 November 2008; 10013 views

Continuing our analysis of the Latin American telecoms market, editor Michael Schwartz looks at some more of the countries that have been winning the contracts and asks if these countries are sharing in the growth. In the second section we look at some of the medium and smaller countries including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia...

Details: James Barton; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 03 November 2008; 13139 views

Representing a major step forward for renewable energy use in the Pakistani telecoms industry, Pakistani operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country's first solar powered Macro Base Station (M-BTS) site. The site uses a solar powered M-BTS from leading Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei Technologies...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 October 2008; 10099 views

Tanzanian carrier Six Telecoms has selected Telarix iXLink systems to conduct business with other carriers across the globe. The announcement comes not only within the context of growing interconnection business for Six Telecoms but also at the opening of the recent Capacity Africa conference...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 October 2008; 12453 views

Caribbean telecoms operators have enjoyed many successes in recent years, with the Dominican Republic boasting five million mobiles within a population of ten million. To support network expansion and coverage, local fixed/wireless operator Codetel has deployed Ceragon's FibeAir 3200T all-indoor wireless trunk solution...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 20 October 2008; 10835 views

The objectives of Connect Africa took a major step forward when the NetHope aid alliance joined the Global VSAT Forum, the African eDevelopment Resource Centre (AeRC) and iDirect in launching an advanced VSAT installation and maintenance training programme in Nairobi this week...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 October 2008; 8428 views

Triton Telecom is building a fibre network across the Caribbean from Florida to Puerto Rico and then to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It is the first in its region to use submarine cable based on a native 10G system and supporting up to 40G per channel. The network uses ECI's Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) and XDM portfolio...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 October 2008; 6157 views

Live Current Media, a media company built around content and commerce destinations, has announced that the outgoing President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Shri Sharad Pawar, has launched the BCCI's own website...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 October 2008; 10366 views

The Arab Advisors Group has been reviewing mobile use in Bahrain. Almost one in six citizens using a mobile feels the need to possess two or more mobiles - reflecting personal and business use...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 25 September 2008; 10979 views

Sify, a pioneer and leader in data telecom and Internet services in India is to migrate its infrastructure to a Next Generation IP Network in a first of its kind deal with Cisco. The network aims to set new standards for the data telecom services industry in India...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 9499 views

A study presented to the government of Chile has indicated that the country's broadband use is likely to grow exponentially if low- and medium-income groups can gain access to affordable high-speed connections...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 23 September 2008; 11230 views

Mobile subscribers in the eight new Asian markets will top one billion by 2012. Well over half the total will come from new subscribers in the next four years. Source of the prediction is Frost & Sullivan...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 September 2008; 10954 views

From a level of 22% in 2006, the percentage of Indian SMEs (companies with up to 999 employees) with a "mobile workforce," or employees who need to regularly travel on business for a minimum of four or five days in a month is now as high as 43%...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Mobile Finance; 16 September 2008; 10819 views

In many developing economies, more citizens own mobile phones than own traditional bank accounts. A new research report by Mercator Advisory Group stresses the lessons to be learnt from mobile money experiences in South Africa, the Philippines, and Kenya...

Details: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Service Management; 10 September 2008; 9325 views

Product Development Support for new services is the key to dynamic and successful growth of telecoms operators. CBOSS has announced a new service - Product Development Support - which allows telecom operators to enjoy fast time-to-market and exceptional efficiency for their new innovative services and marketing campaigns...

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 08 September 2008; 10111 views

Andicom, one of the longest established ICT congresses in Latin America and the leading communications event in Colombia is creating a digital city, U-City. U-City will offer visitors to the congress an interactive showroom of services, applications and solutions which aims to demonstrate how future digital cities and lifestyles can be created.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 September 2008; 8995 views

Radiográfica Costarricense, a telecom operator in Central America, has selected ECI’s XDM MSPP solutions. ECI was selected based on its capabilities to offer several key technologies on a single platform - SDH, Ethernet and WDM - in order to assist RACSA with its aggressive expansion efforts in Costa Rica.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 September 2008; 9522 views

Zain, a mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, has launched commercial services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has now joined Zain's One Network, claimed by Zain to be the world’s first borderless mobile service, offering over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries favourable rates, free of high roaming charges for cross-border communications...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 September 2008; 9325 views

India's Business Standard and Economic Times have both recently investigated claims by Intel that it can help provide India with WiMAX-enabled laptops for under US$400, if not for as little as US$300.

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