All Tech News

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 12 August 2009; 9723 views

MTI Wireless Edge’s new production facility in India is mass producing IP67 Outdoor Omni Directional antennas priced from under US$10...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 11 August 2009; 8563 views

Emerging markets will soon have a new supplier of broadband Internet. France Telecom's former head of mobile business, Indian-born Sanjiv Ahuja, has formed a new company called Augere for just this purpose...

Details: Category: Service Management; 05 August 2009; 9136 views

Tango Telecom, which provides advanced messaging, real-time charging and policy control solutions, has won contracts to deploy its advanced iAX SMS technology with Zain's Ghana and Madagascar mobile networks...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 August 2009; 9363 views

Wireless home networking vendor AirTies has been chosen by Smart Digivision to provide its Set-Top Boxes (STBs) as part of the latter's award-winning IPTV service MyWay...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 31 July 2009; 8346 views

Low-density telephony with an Internet option will become more widespread across Africa thanks to two contracts signed by ViaSat and satellite operator RascomStar-Qaf. Valued at US$53 million, the VSAT terminals in the contract are due for delivery between this year and 2011...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 30 July 2009; 8035 views

Serbia Broadband (SBB) will be expanding its Total TV platform via new multi-year contracts signed with Eutelsat Communications for two transponders at its 16 degrees video neighbourhood...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 July 2009; 9819 views

América Móvil and Nokia will be bringing a top of the line messaging experience via multiple devices to customers in Latin America...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 28 July 2009; 9592 views

Digital security specialist Gemalto will be supplying its Dexxis Instant Issuance solution to InterSwitch in order to accelerate chip migration in Nigeria...

Details: Category: Service Management; 27 July 2009; 7668 views

A consortium involving Alcatel-Lucent and Thales has been selected by the municipalities of Wuhan and Guangzhou in China to provide turnkey signaling solutions for metro projects...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 14 July 2009; 9322 views

Offering an ultra-compact microwave communications system, NEC's Pasolink has been selected by Turkey's Avea to support the growth of mobile backhaul solutions. The contract comes on the eve of the launch of 3G in Turkey next month...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 14 July 2009; 13393 views

Taking just ten months, Vodafone Essar has rolled out a series of networks in seven of India's regions. The company was acting for its existing infrastructure partner, Nokia Siemens Networks...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 13 July 2009; 10995 views

Armenian telecoms service provider Ucom has commissioned Ericsson to supply an end-to-end IPTV solution. Including an iPlex head-end from Tandberg Television, the IPTV service will allow access to the latest fibre-access technology via GPON...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 July 2009; 10183 views

Leading Azerbaijani service provider AZERFON, operating under the Nar Mobile brand, has contracted CBOSS to supply and implement its new roaming subsystem, CBOSSnrtrde, with the aim of tackling roaming fraud...

Details: James Barton; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 09 July 2009; 7302 views

Corning Incorporated has sold more than 30 million kilometres of LEAF optical fibre since introducing the product in 1998, making LEAF fibre the most widely deployed non-zero dispersion-shifted fibre in the world...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 July 2009; 7274 views

Tadiran Telecom's IP business telephony and communications solutions have again been chosen again as part of the Beijing Subway's expansion plan. Beijing is planning to build the world's biggest subway by 2015, spending over US$7.6 billion in track transport development this year alone...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 July 2009; 12852 views

A brand-new initiative to promote existing technology to empower the poor of Uganda has been launched by Grameen, Google and MTN Uganda. Five mobile-enabled applications will be made available to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 July 2009; 7940 views

T-VIPS, which specialises in professional video management and distribution, and in the contribution and distribution of broadcast quality video signals, has provided a JPEG2000 IP-based contribution system for a live 3D broadcast of robotic surgical procedures...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 06 July 2009; 9566 views

Comverse has been commissioned by Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, to supply its ONE billing and active customer management solution...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 06 July 2009; 13704 views

Citizens in the most remote regions of Papua New Guinea can expect to enjoy the benefits of broadband satellite, now that government-owned Telikom PNG has commissioned Gilat Satellite to build a network for the country's outlying areas...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 July 2009; 9815 views

Although initially to be rolled out in Nigeria's key cities, Alvarion's US$7 million contract to bring WiMAX to Nigeria will offer voice and high-bandwidth data services to thousands of residences and businesses...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 01 July 2009; 9423 views

ECI Telecom has won a contract from Togo Telecom, that country's incumbent fixed-line operator, to deliver an end-to-end turnkey solution for a new high-speed IP network in the country...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 01 July 2009; 8412 views

Great economic and social momentum have been kick-started by mobile money initiatives, according to reports from the Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona. The GSMA, the industry's standard-bearer, has announced that the first three applications to the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund have been approved...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2009; 8157 views

Colibria has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile Instant Messaging services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end Movistar Messenger service with a rich set of messaging and presence features, and full integration with SMS...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2009; 9503 views

In a proposed link to carry broadband along existing electricity lines, the Manila Electric Company and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co have established working parties to evaluate the financial and technical aspects of Broadband over Power Lines...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 29 June 2009; 8785 views

The Mobile Payments in Latin America is still relatively under developed. However, it has the potential to grow rapidly and offers a significant prospective market for mobile operators, financial services, governments, retailers and end users. But without increased collaboration between the major stakeholders the market could take much longer to develop...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 12623 views

Mobile money specialist Emmanuel Okoegwale takes a look at some of the major players on the Mobile Money sector in Africa and elsewhere. This article was first posted as a blog on ZDNet in May 2009 when it covered eight companies. It is now expanded with addition of three further providers. Other organisations wishing to be included are invited to submit profiles to Developing Telecoms...

Details: Emmanuel Okoegwale; Category: Mobile Finance; 25 June 2009; 10781 views

Telcos in Nigeria are taking the battle to the next frontier in coming months: Mobile Money. Not to be left out of this race are banks and independent providers which had seen the clearly untapped potential. No one wants to be left behind in the evolving ecosystems...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 6973 views

In an attempt to target over 650 million Chinese mobile users, GyPSii is introducing Java platform compatibility. Both Chinese and English will be supported...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 7390 views

Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 24 June 2009; 7733 views

Perhaps reflecting a thaw in the frosty relations between Mainland China and Taiwan, the largest fixed-line operators from each country - Chunghwa Telecom and China Telecom - are set to spend nearly US$15 million on an undersea link...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 8933 views

As a part of our coverage on mobile banking, we are publishing a summary of a review from Financial Insights called Mobile Banking and Beyond. Increased convergence in the Asia-Pacific Internet and mobile banking channels is expected in the next 12 months...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 23 June 2009; 10435 views

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the National Payment System Bill, which is intended to safeguard public savings as mobile banking gains a hold in the country. The last three years have seen a staggering 150% rise in the number of banked Kenyans. Michael Schwartz summarises...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 22 June 2009; 11740 views

The GSMA's Mobile Money Summit is timely in the light of several recent developments, all of which bring home the empowerment that mobile money can bring to those called the "unbanked"...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 June 2009; 9999 views

Ceragon Networks, which provides high-capacity, LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions, today announced that Codetel, a fixed/mobile operator in the Dominican Republic is expanding its communications network using Ceragon equipment...