A new comprehensive web security appliance has been unveiled by Blue Coat Systems. The ProxyOne appliance brings the same enterprise-class Web security used by 88% of the FORTUNE Global 500 to organisations that require a low-touch solution at a lower price point...
One of the Philippines’ largest network operators, Globe Telecom, will now be able to manage its network changes via a Network Operations Centre, guaranteeing data integrity and improving service assurance. The second phase of Globe Telecom’s NOC implementation has been completed by the solutions provider Clarity...
One of Panama’s largest telecommunications carriers, Telefónica Moviles Panama, S.A., has interconnected to iBasis’s network for the exchange of international fixed and mobile phone calls. The network spans more than 100 countries, delivering more than 24 billion minutes of voice traffic annually...
A new partnership between mobile solutions provider Comviva and Airtel Bangladesh will provide messaging solutions across Bangladesh via Comviva’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, Short Message Service Centre and Bulk Messaging Gateway portfolio...
The world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, has received permission from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to commence trials of TD-LTE technology in six cities across the country...
The world’s two fastest growing economies, India and China, will soon enjoy a direct underground terrestrial link offering seamless connectivity to customers transiting India or China to reach key global destinations...
A new solar power system designed specifically for the Indian telecom market has been launched by Eltek Valere, a provider of high efficiency power systems...
In response to increasing demand for wireless internet access, GTA TeleGuam has installed four new cellsites to boost wireless capacity in high-use areas across Guam...
The designer of China Mobile’s Ophone operating system is reportedly planning on bringing future versions more closely in line with Google’s Android, the platform on which Ophone is based...
India will soon witness the launch of a new device which purports to deliver fast broadband via 3G mobile infrastructure, even in areas with weak 3G signal...
Cybercom has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China’s biggest wireless broadband service provider, CECT-Chinacomm...
Subscribers of Bharti Airtel in Ghana now have access to a new Voice SMS service, supplied by Kirusa...
India’s second-biggest mobile operator, Reliance Communications, has begun operating its 3G networks. Operating under R-Com, it has switched on 3G services in Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh and Kolkata...
Haiti’s first mobile money service has been launched by Voilà and Unibank, following a successful nine month pilot which provided the international relief and development agency Mercy Corps with a secure, cost-effective method of distributing money across Haiti to support reconstruction efforts...
Around 49 million subscribers to Claro Brazil, the Brazilian subsidiary of América Móvil, will now have access to a device-agnostic mobile IM solution, provided by Synchronica. Named Claro Messenger, the mobile IM service is powered by Synchronica’s hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform...
The Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom (MT) is targeting the country’s SME market with packaged business services that it will deliver via OneAccess ONE100 multi-service access routers...
One of India’s major service providers, Vodafone Essar, has begun a strategic engagement with Wipro, an IT services company, which will see the latter supply its fixed-line telecom services for enterprise business customers...
A new independent tower company will begin operating in Ghana as a result of a joint venture between American Tower Corporation and MTN...
Three of India’s telecom circles will soon have access to high-quality mobile broadband, a new range of VAS and significantly improved voice services from Aircel...
Banglalink, a wholly owned subsidiary of Orascom Telecom and a leading operator in Bangladesh, has won the International Association of the Money Transfer Networks (IAMTN) “Best New Service” Award for Mobile Remittance services, powered by Comviva’s mobiquity mMoney. This is the first international remittance service available via the mobile phone in South Asia...
The Egyptian operator Mobinil is now offering its subscribers interactive advertising tailored to their personal interests via Alcatel-Lucent’s Optism mobile marketing solution...
Turkey’s market leading operator, Turkcell, has augmented its 3G networks, upgrading the HSPA architecture with dual-carrier HSPA+ technology. The dual-carrier technology can theoretically achieve peak speeds of 42Mb/s, which is double the speed of single channel HSPA+...
Orange Armenia has successfully modernised its network, providing high definition (HD) voice services on the whole network across Armenia, and delivering up to 14.4 megabits per second (Mbps) data speeds in main cities...
Vodafone Qatar has selected Alcatel-Lucent as its sole supplier in its expansion into the fixed broadband market. Already a major mobile operator, Vodafone Qatar plans to offer customers an integrated service, encompassing fixed and mobile...
Egypt’s largest mobile operator is aiming to improve its productivity and maximise return on assets by deploying Clarity’s Infrastructure Management solution...
A new solution designed for monitoring, optimising and troubleshooting 4G networks is now available from Astellia...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are of fundamental importance in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as in helping countries everywhere adapt to climate change and to deal with its sometimes catastrophic effects. This is the message of a report launched today by ITU and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) on Using ICTs in tackling climate change...
The mobile virtual network operator Effortel has successfully launched FreeM on behalf of Polish MVNO InMobile. FreeM is believed to be the first subscription free, advertising funded mobile service to provide consumers with free data access...
A new mobile browsing solution that fully supports Indic languages has been revealed by Bitstream. The new solution operates using the BOLT cloud computing browsing platform, and includes the BOLT mobile browser with Indic language user interfaces, the capability to perfectly render Indic text on a Web page, and the ability for end users to input Indic text into the browser...
Over 94 million people in Indonesia now have the opportunity to learn English through their mobile phones, as the archipelagic nation’s largest operator, PT Telkomsel, has agreed to distribute and support the Urban English Language Learning Program on its network...
The Slovenian operator Tusmobil d.o.o. is expanding its 3G network to provide peak rates of up to 21 megabits per second (Mbps) to customers, improving its coverage by migrating to an all-IP, HSPA+ network on the 900 MHz frequency band...
Indian state-owned operator BSNL has secured a government grant of US$524 million in order to deploy a WiMAX network across several rural regions that are not served by fixed broadband networks...
Arianespace has successfully launched Intelsat S.A.’s newest satellite, the Intelsat 17 (IS-17), from Kourou, French Guiana...
Russia’s increasing need for business communications capabilities has prompted VimpelCom to sign a capacity deal with SES World Skies in order to increase the volume of its services in Eastern Siberia and the Far East of Russia...