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At a time of unparalleled link-ups between East Africa and the rest of the world, SES is to offer its Astra2Connect satellite-based broadband platform for Internet connections to East and Central Africa...

Strolling through his local convenience store, editor Michael Schwartz saw the headline on the latest issue of the Economist: The power of mobile money. He is glad the Economist is summarising what Developing Telecoms has been saying for the last four years...

Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company (VMS) has chosen the NEC Pasolink ultra-compact microwave communications system to support the growth of its mobile backhaul solutions...

Carriers worldwide are seeing increasing bandwidth demand on submarine networks and many of these latter are reaching the limits of their current capacity. The Infinera submarine solution is claimed to offer submarine network operators a way to protect their investment in their subsea infrastructure while adding new capacity to the network. This review looks at the new solution and puts it in its global context...

Tariffs 72% cheaper, broadband adoption rising by 28% per annum compound, and only one African coastal state without cable access. These ambitious and inspiring predictions are made by Pyramid Research in its latest report Africa connects: undersea cables to drive an African broadband boom.

ZTE’s ZXR10 T8000 is claimed to be the first high-end router in China to use proprietary chip technology. In a frank statement of its ambition, ZTE has set itself a target of more than US$10 billion revenue in the next three years.

Network access specialist Zhone has been named as Preferred Access Provider by the Lebanese-government-owned operator Ogero, which is seeking to expand IP network services nationwide. Public WiFi access throughout Beirut and ADSL2+, EFM and VDSL2 nationwide are the target...

Congolese callers who are out of credit can still get through to their friends under a new service appropriately called Pay4Me. Operator MTN and customer management service Sicap have combined to market the product which runs on the same basis as a collect call basis...

Next year’s World Cup in South Africa will see ten stadia in use during the competition. Five of them will see deployment of Andrew’s indoor wireless system, the ION-M, which has been chosen by Vodacom, South Africa’s largest cellular operator...

A major bid to gain market share in China's emerging 3G phone market has been launched by China Telecom. Bottom line is a 3G handset retailing for US$73 - at a time when some China Telecom 3G handsets sell for US$438...

Designed to benefit local business and personal consumers by avoiding existing maritime links, the first terrestrial cable to directly connect China and India is now in service. Joint constructors are Reliance Globalcom and China Telecom...

Wavion's new category of Wi-Fi base station has led to a contract with Uralsvyazinform, the largest provider of telecoms services in the Urals region of Russia, to deploy broadband wireless access to the towns and cities of the Urals. Wavion will be delivering this project with ARD Satcom, local integrator...

Huawei has been selected by Grameenphone, a subsidiary of Telenor, to deploy solar-powered Base Transceiver Stations in Bangladesh...

Nokia's new mobile financial service Nokia Money will consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services...

Ugandan mobile carrier MTN has launched Voice SMS service across the country, based on Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, a vendor of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services. The MTN Voice SMS offering in Uganda is bolstered by additional features like Scheduling and Dynamic Group Voice SMS...

Subscribers to T-Mobile in the Czech Republic can expect to enjoy advanced 3G data and multimedia services thanks to a faster mobile broadband network. Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to build an advanced 3G mobile network...

A team of informatics and engineering specialists at City University London has received US$200,000 in funding from the UK Government’s UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) for a three-year project to develop new security measures for mobile banking...

Hunan's provincial government has announced that its local Unicom operation has launched 3G services. To encourage use, a 50% discount is available for all existing or potential Hunan Unicom subscribers...

Thuraya Telecommunications Company has launched what it describes as the world’s toughest satellite phone, namely the new Thuraya XT. Thuraya is also using the words most rugged and reliable phone in the market to reinforce the importance it is attaching to the launch...

Following the recent prolific deployment of cabling systems in the seas around East Africa, two highly-respected organisations, the Christian Science Monitor and the BBC, have been bringing their customers up-to-date. Michael Schwartz reviews the articles...

International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on its ILS Proton on behalf of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong...

Xiamen Hospital in China’s Fujian Province is using a wireless LAN system from Aruba Networks to improve patient care in mobile Electronic Medical Records, patient registration applications, Real-Time Location Tracking, and video surveillance...

Russian operator Synterra is to deploy ECI’s new XDM-3000 to accommodate growing customer demand for capacity-intensive carrier-class infrastructure solutions that can simultaneously handle both Ethernet and TDM-based services, fundamental to the ECI 1Net framework for optimal network transition...

Pakistan’s Universal Service Fund has chosen Balochistan and Southern Punjab as the targets for its latest initiative to bring telecoms to the country’s remote areas. Half a million Balochistanis will be helped by this new development...

Supported by Sky Perfect JSAT, KVH's newest mini-VSAT coverage area now supports broadband Internet and voice services for maritime and aeronautical applications...

Kenya has pioneered e-Learning in sub-Saharan Africa now that the Kenya Broadcast Corporation has launched digital content for use in schools. Doreen Apollos, writing on the Corporation’s website, introduces us to the development...

Issue 45 of Submarine Telecoms Forum contains an article by Dr Andrés J Fígoli Pacheco, a Senior Legal Counsel with Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been engaged in improving the legal framework protecting submarine cables in Latin America...

Statements by the CEOs of both Turkcell and Turk Telecom indicate that both believe that introducing 3G into Turkey will be achieved more cheaply by the two companies sharing the costs of infrastructure...

WiMAX provider Alvarion and Angolan operator Mundo Startel will be expanding the WiMAX facilities available in Angola as a result of the contract they have just signed...

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide Argentina’s Servicio Satelital with a SkyEdge II satellite communications network to enable broadband Internet connectivity at hundreds of sites nationwide. The sites will include schools, oil and gas firms and retail lottery locations...

ZTE Corporation is rolling out a state-of-the-art all-IP mobile phone and data network for a newcomer to Madagascar, mobile operator Madamobil...