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The first 4G wireless broadband network in Trinidad and Tobago has been deployed by the majority state-owned operator Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT). The company was issued a temporary licence for the deployment of its fourth generation network in April...

Commuters on Kazakhstan’s busiest railway line, Almaty-Astana, can now enjoy high-speed mobile broadband and phone services on their journey thanks to a contract between satellite specialist SES World Skies and local telco Astel...

More than 3,500 rural sites on Peru will enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite communications thanks to a contract signed between Gilat and Telefonica del Peru. The contract is part of Telefonica Latinoamerica's initiative to deploy broadband services across the region...

Ruckus Wireless has launched its Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) solution: it is claimed by the company to be the world's first end-to-end Wi-Fi solution that “challenges” 3G, LTE and WiMAX models...

MTN Cameroon has announced the launch of MTN Virtual, which is aimed at orienting the economics of telephony towards those consumers in Cameroon who are at the base of the consumer hierarchy...

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by VMS MobiFone for its 3G network roll-out in South Vietnam. Over-competition and subsequent failing revenues are a motivating force behind VMS MobiFone’s decision...

Video and streaming over 2G and 3G will soon be a possibility in India’s South Zone thanks to a recent contract drawn up between BSNL and Dilithium. Michael Schwartz profiles Dilithium and summarises its success...

A collaboration between German satellite provider Satlynx and Middle East satellite operator Arabsat will provide the Central Bank of Iraq with a new, fully redundant satellite network that will provide the foundations of an extensive communications platform...

Confirming its plans to move into the smart phone industry, computer giant Dell has unveiled the Mini 3 and announced partnerships with two of the world’s largest mobile operators...

Telecel Globe’s subsidiaries have now been rebranded under the name leo. In Namibia, the operator, previously known as Cell One, has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to enable new services in a country offering major growth potential...

Entertainment is the core of Nokia’s latest mobile, the 5330 Mobile TV Edition. Designed via 3G technology to be an entertainment hub, the 5330 unites mobile broadcast TV, networking, gaming and music...

Ericsson and Zain have joined forces to combat poverty in the Amansie-West district of Ghana’s Ashanti region. Working with the Millennium Villages project, the telecom giants have deployed mobile communications services to six villages...

Jinny Software, a supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, is trialling its VoiceSMS service with several Mobile Network Operators in countries across Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania and Burkino Faso...

Nokia-enabled devices in Hungary can now bring the Nokia Messaging email service to their owners. Nokia Messaging is described as an easy to set up and use push-email service whereby users cab mobilise ten personal email accounts on one device...

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...