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A new TD-LTE service provider could be entering the Indian market before the end of the year...

A new tuneable MIMO antenna designed for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments has been unveiled by the China Mobile Research Institute in partnership with SkyCross...

One of Croatia’s leading operators is upgrading its customer care processes with a new solution that provides its service agents with the information required to resolve customer issues instantly...

Tower-free mobile network coverage is now being provided across Male, the capital city of the Maldives...

Customers are the focus of MTS Russia’s latest deployment, with the operator introducing new solutions to improve the quality of customer- and resource-facing services across its network domains...

A new range of devices launching in India is aiming to provide smartphone-like capabilities for a far lower price than traditional smartphones. The OGO devices are now being offered by Bright Telecom’s Wynncom arm...

A leading VAS provider is ready to begin hiring for its African branch – and is reportedly aiming to provide jobs for at around 200 people...

With smartphones increasingly prevalent in developed markets, demand for the services they offer is rising in emerging markets too – but pricing can be prohibitively expensive. Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of messaging software firm Synchronica, believes it’s not specific devices that are coveted, but their functionality – and this is why feature phones are on the rise in emerging markets. Developing Telecoms editor James Barton caught up with Carsten Brinkschulte to discuss this trend...

Spanning 20 provinces, Afghanistan’s largest VSAT deployment has been implemented by the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) in partnership with broad-spectrum tech firm Insyndia...

A leading Afghan operator is improving its quality of service by implementing a new tool for multi-vendor network performance management...

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Asia will soon be able to provide their customers with self-care connectivity settings to surf the web, as well as substantially reducing the number of calls patched through to call centres...

One of St. Petersburg’s leading Internet Service Providers has upgraded its network infrastructure and dramatically increased bandwidth by deploying a new multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-enabled architecture...

The lack of consensus between telecoms and financial institutions, in terms of an equitable split of mobile payments revenues, decelerated the expansion of the mobile payments market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

A Chinese operator is launching broadband wireless access services across ten Chinese markets in nine provinces, including Beijing...

A new infrastructure service provider in Russia will soon begin offering cloud computing services to public and private customers...

Jordan’s only operator licensed to provide 3G+ services will soon begin offering Colour Ring Back Tone (CRBT) services, allowing subscribers to assign different ring back tones to different callers...

One of Latin America’s largest telecommunications companies, the Chilean firm VTR, is entering the mobile telephony market...

Rising demand for broadband services in South America has prompted the satellite service provider atrexx to add a new service platform to its product portfolio...

The demand for broadband services is growing steadily in the southern African markets. For this reason, major operators and ISPs are investing in undersea fibre as well as terrestrial fibre and other infrastructure...

Global satellite operator SES S.A. announced today that it has signed an agreement with YellowSat, a French start-up company that provides Internet connectivity to enterprises, governments and institutions in Africa...

The largest cellular provider in Malaysia is facilitating its next-generation infrastructure rollout with a new OSS platform...

One of the largest bottlenecks - and therefore biggest challenges - for communication service providers in emerging markets is backhaul capacity. Due to increased use of data services as well as more rapid uptake of voice services, many operators are discovering that they are rapidly approaching capacity limits which seemed practically unreachable just a few years ago...

Chilean mobile users are now able to top up their phones electronically with the launch of a new mobile wallet service...

The southeast Chinese cities of Xiamen and Nanping will soon enjoy higher quality networks and innovative new services following a managed services agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and Fujian Unicom...

The first 4G deployments in Mozambique and Uganda have been successfully completed with the launch of a new network by a mobile broadband and applications service provider...

Thirteen mobile networks operated by LIME, the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, are to be upgraded to a fourth generation standard...

Cloud-based services are increasingly being adopted by multinational corporations, with firms in the Asia-Pacific region expressing the greatest interest, according to a survey conducted by Ovum...

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation’s (CTO) has presented the  results of a Rural ICT Access Gap Study to the management of the Sierra Leone ICT regulator NATCOM and a number of key stakeholders, including the country’s mobile and fixed line operators...

One of Kuwait’s leading operators is implementing live monitoring, reporting and analytics software in order to improve its customer experience...

With consumers increasingly expecting constant coverage and data-heavy services as standard, communications service providers are looking for innovative new ways of expanding the capacity of their networks. A new backhaul and access solution with its roots in military technology may provide the means of doing this. The implications for emerging markets are considerable...

The Puerto Rican subsidiary of América Móvil, Claro Puerto Rico, has launched the mobile instant messaging service Claro Messenger, a carrier-owned and branded IM community...

One of the Philippines’ largest communication service providers is overhauling its provisioning processes with new OSS...