Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 December 2008; 10200 views

Mada, the Kuwaiti-based broadband wireless provider is expected to launch WiMAX services before the end of 2008, now that it and Motorola have started the roll-out of an end-to-end 802.16e-based WiMAX network...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 18 December 2008; 10165 views

In the light of recession, IDC has revised its forecast for IT growth in the EMEA region from 4.5% to 3%. Even after this revision EMEA compares favourably with the 1.2% growth IDC forecasts for Western Europe. There may also be “silver linings” to help growth...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 December 2008; 8613 views

Most areas of Libya have now witnessed the installation of portable satellite broadband terminals supplied by Thuraya. The deployment follows a deal earlier this year between Thuraya and Libya's General Post & Telecommunications Company...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 December 2008; 9980 views

Liberalisation in MENA will create opportunities and will entice new entrants into this market, according to Analysys Mason in a new report looking five years into the future. The award of a third 2G licence in Morocco typifies the region's good news...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 26 November 2008; 9621 views

Mobile subscriptions in the Middle East saw an increase of no less than 47% for the last year-on-year figures available. Informa Telecoms & Media will shine a spotlight on the region at a forthcoming event in Dubai...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 November 2008; 9389 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: Service Management; 19 November 2008; 10746 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: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 November 2008; 10650 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: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 November 2008; 8635 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; 10153 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: Trends & Forecasts; 02 October 2008; 10421 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: CBOSS Corporation; Category: Service Management; 10 September 2008; 9371 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: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 September 2008; 9551 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: Consumer Ecosystems; 05 August 2008; 11433 views

There has recently been confusion in Qatar as to whether VoIP calls are legal or not, so much so that the country's Supreme Council for Information and Communications Technology (ictQATAR) has had to issue a statement confirming that such calls are indeed legal.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 August 2008; 8360 views

Emircom is a fast-growing systems integrator headquartered in the Middle East. It has been licenced by Synchronica, a vendor of mobile email and synchronisation software, to exploit Synchronica's email software Mobile Gateway.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 August 2008; 9549 views

Using the European Space Agency's Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, telecom operators across Africa and the Middle East can now improve VoIP over satellite services.

Details: James Barton; Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 July 2008; 10949 views

Global management consultancy Arthur D. Little is set to integrate the staff of Affinitiv into its Middle East office. Zoran Vasiljev, founder and CEO of Affinitiv, will take on the role of company director as his leadership team and employees join Arthur D. Little's Middle East practice...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 18 July 2008; 10652 views

A new partnership between Forum Systems Inc. and Techlogix will provide SOA products to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 17 July 2008; 9097 views

Research and Markets has announced the addition of its report "Middle East - Telecoms, Mobile & Broadband in The Mediterranean & Levant Countries" to its stable. The annual report offers information on trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 15 July 2008; 9350 views

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 15 July 2008; 8969 views

With increasingly open mobile operator networks, the rise in mobile content and applications, and the influx of smartphones, the world is seeing a revolution in mobile adoption. Perhaps nowhere else are the potentials and pitfalls of this technology being seen more clearly than in the emerging markets of the Middle East...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 02 July 2008; 12989 views

Internet Business Solutions Group, the consulting arm of Cisco has entered into a partnership with the Moroccan government to boost economic development and accelerate digital transformation...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 10414 views

Redknee has announced the launch of Mobile Money Airtime Reseller which enables completely voucherless, pre-paid wireless airtime top-up. This addresses the needs of many high-growth / emerging market operators and subscribers...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 24 June 2008; 10464 views

The Arab Advisors Group publishes a yearly update on the rates of connectivity within the various Arab countries. this year broadband and fixed services have played their part alongside mobile in fueling substantial improvements in connectivity rates...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 11 June 2008; 11134 views

Aperto Networks has announced that Icosnet has deployed a WiMAX network using PacketMAX 5000 base stations and PacketMAX 100 subscriber units. There is a strong commercial aspect of the contract, whose customers will initially at least be businesses, banks and energy companies...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 12869 views

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the contract by Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network in Libya...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Blogs & Opinion; 20 May 2008; 10008 views

As ITU Telecom Africa wraps up in Egypt, the ITU segues seamlessly through World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on 17 May into 10 days of WSIS events, taking place in Geneva.

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 06 May 2008; 10039 views

Figures for the first quarter of trading have been released by Zain. Subscriber numbers have now reached 45 million in the Middle Eastern and African regions (15 million higher than at this time in 2007), with net profits up 10% to US$270 million...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 30 April 2008; 9884 views

Satcom specialist Newtec has now installed its Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS) multimedia concept at the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) facility in Algiers. It is intended to allow video and audio material to be shared over large geographical areas. ASBU's new MENOS networking capability is designed to support all of the transmission applications required by ABSU broadcaster-members...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 April 2008; 9700 views

Zain has achieved another first by bringing its groundbreaking borderless "One Network" mobile service to four countries in the Middle East. This service, which made telecom history when it was launched in Africa, today allows Zain's 14 million customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan and Sudan to be part of a pan Middle East mobile community, providing them the opportunity to communicate between these countries and be treated as local customers in terms of pricing, while using their home network service...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 April 2008; 13086 views

Etisalat, the leading telecommunications carrier and Internet Service Provider in UAE, has chosen the Kirusa Voice SMS solution for offering the Voice SMS service to their subscribers in the UAE. With the launch of this service, an Etisalat subscriber has the option of sending an SMS message in their own voice...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 29 March 2008; 8964 views

The ITU Regional Cyber-Security Forum recently ended with the adoption of the Doha Declaration on Cyber-Security. Recognising that cyber-security has global implications that need regional and international efforts as well as close collaboration between governments and industry, the Forum urges each country in the region to develop capabilities using a new ITU Cyber-Security Framework...

Details: Category: Trends & Forecasts; 29 March 2008; 10041 views

Liberalising telecoms in Saudi Arabia and conflict-torn Iraq will result in major growth markets for the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector. What is more, the Arabian Gulf ICT market is one of the fastest growing in the world, with Middle East telecoms and broadband Internet expected to generate US$70 billion in annual sales revenue by 2015. These are two claims by the organisers of Middle East Communications 2008...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 29 March 2008; 7599 views

After a series of major - and sometimes spectacular - failures in Internet services in the Middle East and Indian regions, FLAG Telecom (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) has undertaken the construction of a far stronger cable between Egypt and France...

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