Data centres and digital finance in Africa: the state of play
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Data centres and digital finance in Africa: the state of play
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- Category: Satellite Networks
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Advantech has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Advantech Satellite Networks Inc has been awarded a contract to provide a new VSAT satellite communications network for Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in
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- Category: Consumer Ecosystems
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The Cellular Operators’ Association of India has selected fastmobile and Jataayu to implement the GSM Association’s first personal IM rollout...
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...
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Mobile communication is revolutionising economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services, according to a new study by The Centre for Knowledge Societies commissioned by Nokia. The research identifies seven major service sectors - including transport, finance and healthcare - that could be radically transformed through mobile technologies...
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- Category: Consumer Ecosystems
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The Hajj is the world's largest annual religious pilgrimage: three million participants worldwide arrive in Mecca, a 10 km² area. Over five days this same area witnesses one of the highest mobile traffic densities in the world. Even Saudi Telecom Company, the biggest mobile operator in the Middle East, experiences unique and massive challenges...
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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The markets of Central Asia and the Caspian region vary massively in terms of the degree to which their revenue potential has been successfully addressed. What is more, while outsiders might think of the Asian former Soviet Republics as a homogenous bloc of distant and relatively unfamiliar territory - so often lumped together as 'the stans' - the differences between the take- up of cellular services across these states is striking.
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Latin Business Chronicle has just launched its Latin Technology Index, a review of how 17 countries in Central and South America are rising to the challenge of boosting penetration rates in PC, fixed and wireless telephony, Internet, and broadband Internet.
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Colombia's communications ministry Mincomunicaciones (MinCom) has assigned 55 departmental WiMAX licences for 3.5GHz spectrum...
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- Category: Satellite Networks
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ViaSat Inc will be supplying its LinkStar DVB-S2 satellite networking system to Unete Telecomunicaciones SA (Bolivia) to expand enterprise broadband services in Ecuador and the surrounding region...
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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Egypt's telecom market is fairly liberalised, declares the Arab Advisors Group. By December 2006, the regulator (NTRA) had issued more than 200 telecom licences, three cellular licences, two payphone licences, two prepaid calling card licences, four VSAT licences and four international GMPCS operators...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Motorola has signed a US$75 million GSM network expansion contract with Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-tel), one of Nigeria's mobile communications operators...
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- Category: Revenue & Billing
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Redknee Inc, which provides infrastructure software to monetise and personalise services and content for mobile users, has announced that Digicel Group has selected its CRM Solution to improve customer care and billing management in its newly acquired El Salvador operation...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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BSNL, India's largest telecom service provider will in the next few weeks deploy what it claims to be India's first certified WiMAX network...
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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ReCellular Inc has entered a two-year partnership with Vivo of Brazil to ensure safe, secure and environmentally friendly recycling of retired cell phones...
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- Category: Revenue & Billing
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Guaranteeing that suppliers are paid is a key factor in any contract, as PowerCom Namibia knows...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) believes it has gained a major advantage over its rivals by collaborating with Intel to create India's first wireless broadband system...
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- Category: Operators
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Vodafone is set to launch a £7bn plus offer for the Indian mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar as the company prepares to fight off rival bids for India's fourth largest telecoms carrier...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Mobile Telecommunications Company, is set to deliver high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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Arab Advisors Group has launched a new report which analyses the cellular tariffs for 42 cellular operators in 19 Arab countries.
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Iraq Telecommunications & Post Corporation (ITPC) has awarded Nortel a US$20 million contract to build a nationwide optical backbone...
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- Category: Consumer Ecosystems
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Mpathix Inc, a supplier of wireless messaging solutions, has announced that Wataniya Maldives has chosen to deploy Mpathix Mobile Email...
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Pakistan is to witness a major expansion of its 3G capacity as the result of a contract signed by Ericsson and Warid Telecom...
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- Category: Consumer Ecosystems
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Since this July mobile has come to more than 75% of the population of Ivory Coast, and more than 500,000 of the country's citizens have signed up for it...
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Developing-market observers are very often impressed with the way that Middle Eastern countries have shown the greatest enthusiasm for implementing telecoms technologies. One recent disappointment, however, concerns the termination of Skype telephony in the United Arab Emirates. Developing Telecoms attempts to set out the background to this action, and to find out the reasons for it.
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Nokia has won a contract to expand Wataniya Telecom's High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) radio and core network in Kuwait...
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- Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
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Pioneer Consulting has completed a study of market demand and supply in connection with the proposed West African Festoon System (WAFS)...
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Twenty million villagers in Bangladesh are set to gain access to the Internet thanks to a joint initiative from mobile operator GrameenPhone...
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Voxiva is developing a mobile phone application that will make it much easier for health authorities and governments to track and manage the spread of HIV/AIDS, Avian Flu and other diseases...
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- Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
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Angola's Savings and Credits Bank (BPC) is set to provide US$70 million for a new fibre-optic cable network which will connect Angola's coastal provinces...
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- Category: Consumer Ecosystems
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A growing customer database in
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- Category: Wireless Networks
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Nokia has implemented a complete GSM core network for Telefónica Móviles Perú...
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- Category: Trends & Forecasts
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Three influential organisations have come together in a pioneering experiment aimed at expanding the coverage available to mobile customers...
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Following his analysis of WiMAX technology development globally, Michael Schwartz looks at the potential for WiMAX in South Asia.
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