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GTS Poland has commissioned Comarch to provide its Convergent Billing tool in order to improve its billing process and facilitate the swift launch of new services...

Satellite broadband services are set to increase in South Africa following the announcement of an agreement between SES S.A and SkyVine, a South African ICT provider, under which SES will supply its ASTRA2Connect broadband platform...

GTA TeleGuam has stated that it will invest more than $2 million over the next few months to add capacity and expand coverage of its 3G wireless network...

In anticipation of the expected explosion in the variety and volumes of products incorporating embedded 3GPP wireless modules, the Global Certification Forum (GCF) has launched a streamlined certification process for new categories of connected device...

NYNEX Network Solutions, a satellite network operator headquartered in Germany, has announced that it has partnered with CETel (Central European Telecom Services) to expand its satellite IP network and introduce new broadband services on the NSS-12 satellite...

Subscribers of the Israeli broadband service provider Bezeq will soon have access to super fast Internet access at 200 megabit per second (Mbps) over existing copper cables...

 The Chinese vendor ZTE has announced a new tablet computer powered by the Android 2.1 operating system...

Einar Lindquist, CEO of Teligent Telecom, offers his views on the problem of incompleted calls, and how a good strategy can help network operators to maximise revenues and increase subscriber stickiness.

 A new service launching in Nigeria is bridging the country’s digital divide by providing customers with any SMS-capable mobile handset access to pay-as-you-go two-way mobile email and online chat...

O3b Networks announced today that the company has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Netcom Africa, a leading provider of satellite and wireless broadband solutions to provide low latency, high capacity broadband connectivity to ships and offshore platforms in Nigeria utilizing O3b’s Medium Earth Orbit technology...

Aito Technologies Oy, a provider of customer experience analytics, has announced a strategic partnership with Anritsu A/S, a global provider of testing, monitoring and management solutions for advanced and converged networks...

 Vodafone Ghana has outsourced the operation and management of 750 telecom towers to Eaton Towers on a ten-year contract...

Globacom Nigeria will expand its broadband access solutions portfolio with Ceragon’s advanced FibeAir IP-10 solution. The new solution, aimed at enterprise users, will facilitate backhauling voice and data services...

Organisations in this region should not miss out on this opportunity to implement Ipv6 technology. If they want to continue to grow their business and increase their online presence, they must now begin the migration process towards IPv6, says networking expert, Ali Ahmar, Regional Sales Manager, MENA, Brocade Communications...

Demand for Apple’s iPhone 4 has been greater than expected in China, where the newest iteration of the smartphone recently launched...

A new agreement between Voice Commerce and Alcatel-Lucent is set to provide new mobile money and payment options for mobile operators, with the two companies aiming to satisfy the burgeoning demand for these services in emerging markets...

A longstanding alliance between Bharti Airtel and IBM has been formalised into a ten year agreement which will focus on the African telecoms market...

General Cable Corporation has formed a joint venture with International Cable Industries LLC (ICI), a limited liability company organized in Oman...

Azur Congo Brazzaville, a subsidiary of group operator Bintel, has agreed a multimillion dollar contract with the billing & charging solutions provider Redknee as it prepares to launch services in the Republic of Congo...

Access to telecommunications services is increasingly viewed as a basic right, and consumers – particularly in the developed world - often take for granted the availability of these services without considering the ramifications...

China Mobile’s search engine will reportedly launch in 2011. The operator has entered into a joint venture with Xinhua to compete with market leaders Baidu and Google...

The Central Region of the Russian Federation has been named as the site of a new Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) to be built by Nokia Siemens Networks...

 Massive potential in the Chinese triple-play market has attracted the attention of CAMEO Communications and set-top box manufacturer Coship Electronics, who are looking to capitalise on the emerging popularity of triple-play...

Central Europe has witnessed its first LTE network launch – and it has skipped 3G entirely. Two Polish mobile network operators, Mobyland and Centernet, have formed a partnership that has launched a commercial LTE network on the 1800MHz band...

The Indian government’s security concerns over the country’s telecommunications networks have featured prominently in recent telecoms news, but what exactly are the implications of India’s proposed security measures? Is India right to be concerned about the possibility its networks being hijacked by foreign vendors or operators? Where do the roots of these concerns lie? And what can be done to resolve this issue?

A new push email service is being launched in Costa Rica by the country’s incumbent operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). The mass market service, branded Syncronizate, is based on Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway middleware, and will be used to add new push functionality to the existing ICE webmail service Acelera...

The Russian city of Kazan has become the newest beneficiary of LTE technology, having played host to the launch of what is believed to be Russia’s first LTE network...

Kuwait will soon witness the launch of new mobile broadband services from Zain, the country’s largest operator. The rollout will be enabled by the billing and charging software provider Redknee...

Chinese consumers will soon be able to purchase Android-powered handsets, with both Motorola and Sony Ericsson confirming that they will release new TD-SCDMA-based devices as exclusives for various Chinese operators...

Movistar Chile, a subsidiary of Telefonica, will soon be able to offer its subscribers higher peak data rates courtesy of a new, more efficient mobile broadband network...

Fixed broadband costs over five times more relative to average incomes in BRIC countries than in developed nations. In an interview with Developing Telecoms, Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the ITU, called on developing and emerging markets to lower the cost of broadband relative to monthly incomes in order to narrow the ‘broadband divide’...

Subscribers of China Mobile will soon be able to enjoy consumer BlackBerry services, as the world’s largest telecoms operator has partnered with manufacturer RIM to launch the services across China...

Haitian operator MultiLink S.A. has extended high-quality data services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) to a large number of subscribers across Haiti. With Nokia Siemens Networks’ microwave radio network, the Caribbean service provider has enhanced its network capacity and coverage...