A project to make ICT available at all times for pupils in schools in the emerging markets has received a major boost...

Deployment of Lucent's SurePay solution will integrate Belize Telecommunications Limited's existing GSM, AMPS and wireline charging/billing systems into one platform...

Indian Railways will use wireless railway communications technology from Nortel to help improve safety and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail arteries serving India' s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh...

Globecomm Systems Inc, a provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has received a contract modification worth US$2.7million.

Teledata Networks, has announced an US$8milion contract to deliver its BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways (MSAGs) to Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan' s Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)...

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected an EMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut, Lebanon .

Guatemala has a wireline tele-density of less than 30%. Michael Schwartz was briefed on the modernisation - and on the role of key contractor Teledata Networks - by Teledata Networks' new CEO Eran Ziv...

Colombia Movil, the country's third largest mobile operator, is to bring enhanced services to over 560,000 users across Colombia 's five biggest cities...

Feedback is increasing sharply at Developing Telecoms - thank you to all concerned! This, following on from our on-going Digital Divide Special Focus, comes from the Head of Technical Standards at the Ministry of Communications in Abuja, Nigeria.  It argues that capacity building needs to be centred on schools.  Short and to the point, we couldn't agree more.

Benefiting from Nigeria's rapidly growing market, Reliance Telecommunications is expanding its footprint and retooling to take full advantage of a recently introduced unified licensing regime...

Brasil Telecom is set to expand its usage of Convergys' Infinys software to support its wireless, wireline, data, and Internet services.

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

A recent report on African satellite markets from the London based newsletter Balancing Act strikes a cautious chord on the building of the East African Submarine Cable System. Michael Schwartz reviews their findings...

Mexico is proving to be one of the world's most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico 's key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

Mobile Streams, a worldwide mobile content company, has been selected by Movistar Chile as exclusive provider for its white-brand polyphonic ringtones offering...

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...