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To the Max? Orange has high hopes for African super app
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Spice Corporation, an Indian telecoms company, launched several products at the Mobile World Congress 2008. In particular, it claims to be marketing what it calls "The Peoples' Phone - probably the world's cheapest phone at under US$20 to the consumer"...
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GyPSii, the world's leading geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, has signed an agreement with Broadway Pvt. Ltd., to offer the full suite of GyPSii services to the world's second largest and fastest growing mobile market with 233 million mobile subscribers and growing at a monthly rate of over 8 million...
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Oracle today announced that IDEA Cellular Limited, a leading mobile operator in India and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, has selected Oracle's Siebel CRM to deliver a unique customer service experience to pre- and post-paid mobile subscribers across its entire operations in India...
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Millenicom, Turkey's largest calling card and call shop operator, has migrated its entire prepaid services portfolio onto the Digitalk Media Application Server (MAS), providing a full set of turnkey value-added features and applications on the multiservice platform.
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Vodafone Turkey, Turkey's second largest mobile operator, has successfully launched End2End's fully outsourced Content Retailing Solution replacing Vodafone Turkey's previous platform service...
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Galaxia Telecom International PLC, the telecom integrator and operator specializing in the innovation and deployment of wireless broadband technologies, has announced the listing of the company's shares on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the launch of its first mass market WiMAX network in Algeria...
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Kirusa, the world's leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services, has demonstrated the world's first exchange of Voice SMS messages between diverse carriers using different Voice SMS systems...
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Essel Group, India's largest entertaiment/media conglomerate, has turned to the expertise of U-Turn Media to break into the mobile portal market in Northern India. The Group will be working with wireless operator BSNL...
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Kuwait's private sector has experienced its highest ever net profits posting, thanks to mobile operator Zain...
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Talia, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet for North Africa and the Middle East, is launching its new 'Good Works' scheme at the 2008 International Aid + Trade conference in Geneva, Switzerland...
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This year will witness a national Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network throughout Algeria in what is believed to be Africa's first business strategy to incorporate FTTH...
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The imminent transfer of Algeria's telecoms services from state to private ownership is keenly anticipated. During the build-up to final roll-out revenues are expected to show substantial growth. The Arab Advisors Group has issued a report on this exciting issue...
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Many of the Western European operators appear inward-looking, almost unwilling to look into overseas markets even when the latter make up the real areas of growth in the context of current global telecoms...
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Developing Telecoms reported last month that Zain was on its way to creating a roaming-free market in Africa , with a dozen countries all enjoyi ng one single telecoms market. Since then, Zain has announced a single roaming-free market for its Middle East customers...
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SMS has taken hold in the Lebanese market. As
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Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...
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Bravo, a digital radio trunking operator based in Saudi Arabia has launched a new hybrid service...
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Eleven years ago Dr William Welty founded the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite System project. Swansat initially applied to the Ministry of Telecommunications of the Republic of Nauru so as to operate a group of space stations in W-Band...
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Nokia Siemens Networks has been awarded a pan-Indian contract by Bharti Airtel to deploy a single Interactive Voice Response platform across all 23 of the latter's telecoms circles...
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There is widespread shortage of high capacity connectivity in all segments of the African continent. A new consulting service based in Africa aims to address these issues...
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A new major survey of the Internet users in Saudi Arabia reports that 34.3% of Saudi internet users use WiFi hotspots...
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SWANSAT - the Super-Wide Area Network Satellite - first proposed as a satellite based service in 2003, aims to provide low cost voice and data services using a constellation of four high powered geosynchronous orbit (GSO) telecommunications satellites...
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Zain subsidiary Celtel International has announced the extension of its "One Network", the world's first borderless mobile network in Africa, to six more countries. The network now connects 400 million people across 12 countries...
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Airwide Solutions, which provides next-generation mobile messaging infrastructure and applications, has entered into an agreement with American Telecommunication Holdings to resell Airwide products throughout Latin America...
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Mobile music specialist Shazam and Egyptian telecom provider TA Telecom today announced an agreement which will see Shazam Music Discovery enable all TA Telecom customers discover and purchase new tracks as they are heard via mobile music recognition...
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India’s cellular operator Bharti Airtel has chosen technology from NDS for its new digital satellite platform...
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Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...
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ITU has deployed 25 satellite terminals to help restore vital communication links in the aftermath of severe floods that have affected the eastern and northern regions of Uganda...
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Subex Azure Ltd is meeting the challenges arising from Analysys Research’s report "Global Operator Attitudes to Revenue Management"...
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Nokia Siemens Networks has won a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s largest telecoms service provider, to deploy broadband access across 7,000 Indian villages...
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India’s telecoms industry is now confronting its biggest challenges, with major investments in OSS Systems. Georgia Hanias draws on her vast experience of the Indian telecoms market to explain how new technologies can help India progress towards becoming a key telecoms player worldwide...
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Thirty satellite terminals deployed by ITU have helped restore vital communication links in remote and underserved areas of Bangladesh, a country recently ravaged by floods...
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Nokia Siemens Networks has been named Cable & Wireless' preferred supplier of Release 4 and Intelligent Packet Core networks architecture. The announcement follows the awarding of a US$40 million contract for the modernisation of C&W's Caribbean networks.
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Telecomunicaciones Movilnet CA, a mobile operator in Venezuela, will expand its existing use of Comverse billing solutions by deploying Comverse's Real-Time Billing Solution and by leveraging its real-time marketing capabilities...
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