Until recently smartphones were not common in emerging markets other than among international business travellers and wealthy urban elites. Things are now changing fast.
You can build your brand for years, investing in your network, value added services and advanced customer service tools. Then, one day, you realise a young upstart company is taking your subscriber base away from you with the promise of slashed prices.
Ruckus Wireless and Orange Poland have deployed Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi services in Warsaw.
Mobile billing and messaging solution provider txtNation now provides mPayments across all 3 Turkish operators - Turkcell, Avea and Vodafone.
Assurance and analytics solutions provider Teoco has been selected by Russia’s leading telecommunication service provider, Rostelecom, to deliver its proven Netrac network fault and performance management solution.
Fibre to the premises (FTTx) ultra-broadband access will soon be a reality for millions of subscribers in Indonesia following the announcement of plans for a national broadband infrastructure by Telkom Indonesia subsidiary Telkom Akses.
The Moscow Metro has deployed a new wireless broadband solution to deliver 90 Mbps per train across distances of up to 900 metres.
A new five-year agreement between Vodafone and Huawei will expand the operator group’s Single Radio Access Network (SingleRAN) for its “Project Spring” Phase 1 programme across the world.
A new collaboration agreement between Tata Communications and Turkcell Superonline will establish a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) node in Istanbul.
MTN has launched Mahindra Comviva’s Mobile Data Platform (MDP) in Congo Brazzaville.
Following on from its major rivals, China Unicom will become the last operator in the country to launch 4G services later this month.
A new partnership between VTC Intecom and rich communication service Voxox will launch a co-branded OTT app as part of the Voxox for Operators program.
With the appetite for smartphones growing all the time in emerging markets, the field could be shaken up by Mozilla’s announcement of a low-cost device aimed at these regions.
With 5.2 billion of the world’s 6.8 billion mobile subscribers in the developing world, handset manufacturers and developers such as Nokia, Ericsson, Facebook and Mozilla, are renewing their efforts to connect and cater to emerging market consumers.
Russian operator MegaFon has launched a commercial LTE Advanced network delivering speeds of up to 300Mb/s.
For the first time ever, mobile money users will be able to transfer cash across borders with currency conversion automatically included.
Armenian operator VivaCell-MTS has deployed a solution from Teclo Networks for enhanced mobile internet speeds.
Indonesian network operator TransIndonesia Network has selected Epsilon to provide interconnectivity solutions out of Singapore across Asia, Europe & the Americas.
Jinny Software has signed a multi-year agreement with CWI Caribbean (LIME) to provide messaging platforms across its operation.
Orange Slovakia has deployed Openet’s Policy and Charging Control (PCC) infrastructure to enable a major rollout of advanced shared data bundles.
Saudi Arabian market leader Mobily is launching a suite of Advanced Connectivity Services (ACS) in partnership with network specialist Ciena.
Ericsson has signed a five-year managed services agreement with MTN, a leading telecommunications company with presence in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East, for its Nigeria operations.
Mobile messaging and payments provider Infobip has enabled m-commerce direct mobile billing connections for its global network of merchants and retailers throughout the Russian market.
Bangladeshi mobile operator, Robi Axiata is increasing its capacity and introducing new use cases with Tango Telecom’s Policy Control solution.
Airtel Africa will deploy a range of value-added BICS services across seventeen countries to improve revenues from roaming, over and above their current roaming services.
Sequans Communications and Pinyon Technologies have collaborated to build a new LTE consumer device for the Indian market.
Telefónica Digital is deploying Funambol’s personal cloud solution across Telefónica operating units in Europe and Latin America, with the service already live in Brazil.
Nokia Solutions and Networks will provide its GSM-Railway (GSM-R) mobile infrastructure to cover a 440-kilometer section of Poland’s E-20 railway corridor.
Telefonica has extended the availability of its in-house M2M management system to three more Latin American countries.
Moldova’s national operator Moldtelecom has selected Astellia to audit the voice and data service quality of its 3G network and provide expert recommendations to improve the overall customer experience.
Chinese third-place operator China Telecom is planning an expansive 4G launch across 100 cities.
A new satellite service being launched by Gilat Satellite Networks and Thaicom aims to enhance broadband connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region.
Israeli provider Bezeq International has deployed the country’s first 100G optical network using ECI’s Apollo packet-optical transport system.
Colombian LTE newcomer Avantel has selected Nokia Solutions and Networks to supply the complete infrastructure for its LTE network.
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