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Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 19 June 2009; 9709 views

BH Telecom end-users can enjoy new triple-play services enabled by NSN. Key to the project are NSN switching and broadband access solutions to optimise BH Telecom's legacy assets, as the company advances towards an all-IP network of the future...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 16 June 2009; 7516 views

ZTE has announced that it sold 10 million terminal units worldwide in 1Q09, representing an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 June 2009; 10101 views

High-end video streaming has arrived in China. China Telecom has selected NSN to achieve the launch, utilising the latter's 3G CDMA EVDO service...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 13646 views

TelicPhil has selected ECI Telecom for a DWDM network expansion. Utilising ECI's MSPP, the Philippines operator can expand its existing network to offer increased bandwidth capacity to deliver data and international voice services...

Details: Neeren Ramharakh; Category: Wireless Networks; 15 June 2009; 9810 views

Neeren Ramharakh, Vice-President, Sub-Saharan Africa at Cambridge Broadband Networks, discusses how African operators are delivering mobile broadband to regions where there is no fixed line infrastructure...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 10 June 2009; 7916 views

China Mobile has selected ST-Ericsson's company in China, T3G, as a major technology partner for the development of its high-end and low-cost handsets, based on the 3G standard TD-SCDMA. ST-Ericsson will also support four of its customers in order to commercialise their mobile phones during 2009-2010...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 June 2009; 10190 views

Comverse has announced that TELE2 Russia has selected its Multimedia Messaging Centre (MMSC) and Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) to optimise messaging and browsing for its more than ten million subscribers...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 09 June 2009; 9519 views

Our review of mobile money mentioned a project in Gabon where a key player was the Toronto-based Redknee. Michael Schwartz visited Redknee and met its Chief Technology Officer Bohdan Zabawskyj...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 June 2009; 8218 views

Aircraft featuring broadband for passengers will total nearly 800 by the end of 2009, according to analyst In-Stat. Reflecting apparently insatiable demand from passengers for broadband, revenues from this stream will exceed US$1 billion in three years...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 08 June 2009; 7901 views

Iridium is reporting that its new-generation global marine satellite communication system OpenPort has successfully completed sea trials on a number of different vessels, and worldwide commercial rollout is now underway...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 June 2009; 9513 views

Re-farming 2G spectrum will be key to enabling mobile broadband coverage outside major population centres. This is according to a new report from Analysys Mason, Prospects for UMTS900: status review and outlook...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 June 2009; 9333 views

Exploiting TD technology from China Mobile nationally, the Tibetan branch of China Mobile is bringing 3G to this remote land. People in the capital Lhasa will soon be able to enjoy video phone calls to 38 cities whether China Mobile, China Unicom or China Telecom. Roaming will also be available to those countries that are running 3G...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 02 June 2009; 10115 views

Mobile taxation continues to be a major issue impacting mobile penetration across East Africa. Despite widespread investment from the mobile operator community, fierce price competition and market liberalisation making mobile more accessible, subscriber take-up in the region continues to lag behind the rest of the world...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 02 June 2009; 9636 views

Nokia is bringing the Internet in emerging markets "closer to reality" with the announcement of three new mobile phones that open the door to information, entertainment, family and friends...

Details: Category: Service Management; 01 June 2009; 8146 views

Agilent Technologies has introduced the industry's "first comprehensive DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) protocol debug and validation test suite for digital designers developing computer and embedded memory applications...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 27 May 2009; 6054 views

Nigerian private telecoms operator, ZOOMmobile is upgrading its interconnect billing and settlements systems. The new system means the operator can process 25 million interconnect call detail records per hour in one of the world’s most complex interconnect markets...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 21 May 2009; 9877 views

Pakistani mobile operator Telenor Pakistan has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand and upgrade its network infrastructure. The five-year contract will have to take cognisance of low ARPU and persistent power shortages.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 20 May 2009; 10325 views

Radius Synergies, which provides in-building management solutions for buildings in India has commissioned Fibre-To-The-Home from Ericsson. A 3,000-unit complex in New Delhi is believed to be the first recipient of this technology which enables IPTV in high definition, VoD and 100Mb/s download...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Satellite Networks; 15 May 2009; 9618 views

O3b Networks is to help build the world's first ultra-low-latency, fibre-speed satellite network. One of the locations to be served will be the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where O3b will be partnered by Global Broadband Solution (GBS)...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 14 May 2009; 10326 views

A 3G network of 3,000 base-stations is set for construction by Huawei as part of Ukraine’s network development. Commissioner of the contract is life:), a local GMS operator whose services can be reached by almost the entire population of the Ukraine.

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 06 May 2009; 11378 views

DOXTV has chosen the end-to-end technology suite from NDS to bring Digital Video Records and Video-on-Demand to China for the first time. Stated intention of the two players is to bring content-plus-technology to allow China's pay-TV operators to transform the TV experience for audiences...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 05 May 2009; 12716 views

Rachel Chavula is based on Malawi's Mzuzu University Campus. She specialises in finding roles for the cantenna - a US$2.50 combination of tin-can, antenna and short wire. Singly or in tandem, the roles for this novel piece of equipment are fast expanding...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 04 May 2009; 7826 views

Boeing is set to construct a new satellite for Intelsat which will be active at 72° longitude over the Indian Ocean area. The satellite is designed to address the demands of high-growth service areas, more specifically C-band for Africa/Asia and Ku-band to bridge South-East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the African coast...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 May 2009; 9638 views

Etisalat and Nokia are collaborating to provide convenient payment options for accessing OVI Maps and N-Gage Mobile Gaming services in the UAE. Both are aiming to increase sales of advanced mobile Internet...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 01 May 2009; 7989 views

Nokia has introduced the third of its Near Field Communication devices, the 6216 classic. Using a SIM base for the first time, Nokia is enabling operators to build NFC services via the SIM card. The content services include images, weblinks, audio files, contact data secure payment and ticketing...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 30 April 2009; 10498 views

Hitachi Cable has announced the selection of its Apresia Ethernet switch series by Global Data Service Joint Stock Company (GDS). Headquartered in Hanoi), GDS is a joint venture data centre service company launched in Vietnam by NTT of Japan and its Vietnamese counterpart Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group...

Details: Tomslin Samme-Nlar; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 April 2009; 11640 views

Wananchi Group, a cable TV and broadband Internet services provider has contracted Kenyan based system integrator, Seven Seas Technologies to deploy an all digital TV service in Kenya, to be branded Zuku...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 27 April 2009; 9759 views

ForgetMeNot Africa, a specialist in unified messaging for telecommunications operators, has announced that it is launching its Message Optimiser service throughout Africa. MO allows carriers to immediately provide cost-effective comprehensive unified messaging services (email, Instant Messaging and SMS) without the end user requiring any Internet access, device upgrades or application downloads...

Details: Category: Service Management; 17 April 2009; 9377 views

Zain Nigeria, Zain Group's largest mobile network operator, has selected network signaling company Tekelec to help its migration to an all-IP network. The move will enable Zain Nigeria to offer its subscribers the multimedia applications typically associated with the more advanced IP network on its current network...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 17 April 2009; 9509 views

China Telecom is rolling out new services to prepaid customers in two provinces, Hubei and Sichuan, covering an additional 150 million people. The new services will include 3G and are delivered using HP's Internet Usage Manager (IUM)...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 17 April 2009; 7626 views

At the recent CTIA Wireless event in Las Vegas a key trend was the growth of innovative pricing and billing techniques. These can both raise mobile operator profits and subscriber satisfaction in the context of Next-Generation Networks...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 16 April 2009; 6651 views

International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, has successfully carried the W2A satellite to orbit on behalf of Eutelsat Communications of France via a ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 15 April 2009; 7364 views

Communications in Mecca's King Abdul Aziz Endowment have been vastly improved since Powerwave and its Saudi Arabian partner ACES were selected by Mobily Saudi Arabia to deploy the world's largest wireless coverage within the towers currently comprising the Endowment...