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Somalian subscribers have finally gained the benefits of one code and one rate for the whole of their country. Somafone will expand its seamless mobile network with Tecore hosted managed services...

Botswana Telecommunications Company has chosen Ceragon’s solutions to upgrade its nationwide wireless backbone, as well as the backhaul network of its cellular subsidiary BeMobile. This deployment will enable BTC to support rapid subscriber growth and meet its service expansion plans...

 Iskon.TV can offer its Croatian customers over 40 television channels, as well as VoD and Internet via television. Key to the new services is Appear TV’s SC2000 IP streamer...

Arab Bank Jordan is enhancing the quality of its support for mobile messaging operations by introducing Derdack’s message master software. Enterprise-wide deployment has been rolled out across Jordan, UAE, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Morocco...

Arthur Noonan, Sales Manager (EMEA) at Omnix Software, presents us with a clear insight into the  varied and sometimes outright physical safety and security threats facing mobile operators around the world...

Wataniya Palestine has launched its new mobile network in the Palestine territories, despite the fact that the spectrum allocation agreed for the network has not been fully released by Israel...

Nokia has released the Nokia 6788, its first device for TD-SCDMA - China's domestic 3G standard - in Beijing. The Nokia 6788 is the result of close collaboration between Nokia and the world's largest mobile phone operator, China Mobile...

Alvarion has won Safaricom’s contract for the initial phase of a US$12 million+ new infrastructure project to connect Kenya with high-speed broadband using 802.16e WiMAX and Kenya’s new maritime fibre-optic cable...

Cisco and Openet are providing their services to Turkcell to ensure flexible charging for Turkcell’s General Packet Radio Service mobile data network. The solution has been deployed to ensure scalability as data use grows...

Omani citizens have been activating Gemalto’s ePurse application in their current e-ID cards. Many government-oriented functions can be carried out in what Gemalto is claiming to be a world first...

Belarus mobile operator BeST, a closed joint-stock company which operates under the Life:) brand, has signed an agreement with Ukraine based billing systems developer Telesens LLC to deploy their interconnect billing and settlement system throughout Belarus...

Colibria, working with Acision, has enabled MTS, Russia’s largest operator, to connect its Chat Mobile Instant Messenger service with Megafon and Beeline. Over 82% of Russian subscribers now connected to Chat - a pan-Russian messaging community...

Customers of Zain will soon enjoy improved voice, data and multimedia services with the Middle East region’s first Long Term Evolution technology. The upgrade, by Nokia Siemens Networks, is described as a showcase for all Zain Group operations...

Econet Telecom Lesotho has launched ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser service across Lesotho, bringing mobile email services to rural and urban areas across the country and more than doubling the population’s access to email...

Intending to aid device management and synchronisation,  Funambol has brought out what it believes to be the world's first open-source 4G mobile cloud platform for device management and synchronisation. The platform confirms to the relevant Open Mobile Alliance standards....

Telespazio Brasil has chosen Gilat to construct its 1,200-site broadband satellite communications network. Intended to serve major financial institutions, the network will assist Sicredi Bank in both connectivity and backup...

Starhome, a provider of roaming services for mobile network operators, has announced that TelCell St. Maarten, the mobile services division of the St. Maarten Group of Telephone Companies, has increased its customers’ roaming minutes by more than 47,000 per month since implementing Starhome solutions several months ago...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected as Unitech Wireless’ exclusive pan-Indian network supplier for high speed data services, ie, a complete GPRS package from implementation to after-care...

Zain Bahrain subscribers are set to enjoy richer and more advanced telecom services under the region’s first Long Term Evolution contract. Nokia Siemens Networks will modernise Zain’s network and charging system...

From its base in Abuja, Nigeria, CellTrust of Africa has been set up by its US-based parent CellTrust to provide secure mobile applications to one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile markets...

VNL has announced the first commercial deployment of its award-winning zero-opex solar-powered GSM system. The system is designed to help mobile operators build sustainable – and profitable – networks in remote rural areas where ARPUs are less than $2 a month...

 The ITU/IMPACT partnership against cybercrime took the opportunity of ITU Telecom World 2009 to showcase one of the world’s most advanced systems to combat global cyberattacks...

ITU and Nokia Siemens Networks have formed a partnership to provide expertise and equipment at no charge to expand rural and remote connectivity. The agreement, announced at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva, is targeted at the almost three billion people living in rural areas with little or no current access to communications infrastructure. As a first step villages in island countries of the Pacific region will be connected...

A wireless service provider (who cannot at present be named) with 30 million subscribers in South-East Asia has signed an agreement with Synchronica to be supplied with the mobile and email synchronisation products Mobile Gateway and Mobile Backup...

East African company Jamii Telecommunications is enabling global carriers to deliver services to and from East Africa with Veraz Networks’ softswitch solution. JTL now no longer has to rely on other local providers...

 Cambridge Broadband Networks has won the contract to supply Saudi Arabia’s Mobily with its VectaStar point-to-multipoint, microwave backhaul platform. The platform is expected to play a significant part in Mobily’s ambitious infrastructure plans...

The GSMA is one step closer to achieving its goal of financial security for 20 million unbanked by 2012: four operators have received grants under the Mobile Money for the Unbanked scheme...

Residents and businesses on St Lucia can sign up for a new fixed-line service from Karib Cable. The company has been active on St Lucia for around eighteen months and has broken a monopoly previously held by Cable and Wireless...