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Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 14 April 2009; 10388 views

Envivio Inc, which provides IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has sold its Convergence Series video head-end to Türk Telekom's local IPTV project...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 14 April 2009; 9307 views

cVidya Networks, which specialises in enhancing telecom data integrity, revenue assurance and dealer management systems, has announced that Antel, Uruguay's state-owned telecoms service provider, has signed an agreement for implementation of cVidya's MoneyMap suite solution throughout its operation in Uruguay...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 31 March 2009; 9401 views

Thuraya's drive in the emerging markets has been rewarded with the launch of Public Calling Offices in Zambia and Cameroon. Both countries are set to benefit from a versatile business tool oriented towards small entrepreneurs...

Details: Category: Service Management; 27 March 2009; 8923 views

Syniverse has been selected by the India Department of Telecommunications to implement mobile number portability in the country. Number portability, clearing house and centralised database solutions will be Syniverse's responsibility for the next ten years...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 March 2009; 9377 views

Nokia Siemens Networks is set to expand O2's delivery of mobile services to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A three-year contract will see NSN as sole supplier of 2G and optionally 3G to Prague and Brno...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 March 2009; 10730 views

On2 Technologies, which specialises in video compression solutions, has licensed its VP7 video codec to 21ViaNet (China). Founded in 1996, 21ViaNet is a carrier-neutral Internet Data Centre (IDC) service provider in China...

Details: Category: Service Management; 20 March 2009; 8893 views

A newcomer to WiMAX in Pakistan, wi-tribe Pakistan Ltd, has commissioned solutions from Oracle Communications to enhance its efficiency...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 20 March 2009; 12779 views

Zap is the new service from Zain which the operator claims will become a comprehensive and accessible African mobile banking service. Zap is aimed at 100 million people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda...

Details: Category: Service Management; 19 March 2009; 12352 views

EDGE services in West Africa marketed under the title Moov by Atlantique Telecom will be improved by network planning tools to be supplied by Aircom International...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 19 March 2009; 11921 views

NSN will provide a GSM network expansion and upgrade to EDGE to provide Bakcell with enhanced quality and coverage in Azerbaijan...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 18 March 2009; 11282 views

MTN Syria's 2G and 3G networks coverage and capacity are set for enhancement as a result of a contract placed with Aircom International...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 March 2009; 9546 views

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland is now giving students non-stop Internet freedom with a new Meru WLAN. Meru saw off competition from five companies, notably in eliminating breaks in service and coverage being encountered on campus...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 17 March 2009; 8555 views

Ditech Networks voice-quality technology has been deployed throughout Qtel's mobile network in Qatar. The aim is to that Qtel, will consistently deliver excellent mobile calls, regardless of where a call is made or which device is used...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 17 March 2009; 16001 views

Unitel SA will be rolling out Comverse's Voice HUB to drive revenues from Visual Voicemail and unanswered phone calls from a current customer database of 4.5 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 March 2009; 13235 views

Visafone Communications Limited, a wholly owned Nigerian telecoms company, has launched Voice SMS across Nigeria. The Voice SMS solution has been sourced from Kirusa, a provider of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 16 March 2009; 9568 views

Value-added services will play a greater part in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America as a result of a partnership between Bharti Telesoft and Sofrecom...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 13 March 2009; 12090 views

Cellular coverage in the dense and capacity-strained central business district of Jakarta is set to improve thanks to a new contract for outdoor DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) announced by Indonesia's leading cellular distribution company, P.T. Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP)...

Details: Category: Service Management; 12 March 2009; 8884 views

Cometa Mobile, the Indonesian mobile content provider and aggregator, has outsourced the running of a dedicated Cometa games portal for Indonesian mobile operators to End2End...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 12 March 2009; 7697 views

Bharti Telesoft, which provides integrated Value-Added Services to mobile operators in emerging markets, has been invited to be a founding member of the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Working Group by the GSMA, as a result of its work in the development and deployment of mobile banking solutions in emerging markets worldwide...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 March 2009; 9456 views

Bharti Telesoft has formed a partnership with Grand Technology, a telecom solution provider in the Middle East, notably in Yemen, for their Data Services Hub...

Details: Category: Service Management; 10 March 2009; 7716 views

Vodafone Essar has fully outsourced its mobile games portal to End2End, a European provider of managed service solutions for mobile content retailing...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 09 March 2009; 7873 views

CGAP, the global microfinance centre has been releasing new research and data to encourage telecom operators, financial institutions and governments to see the business potential in expanding access to financial services for poor people in developing markets. The current economic climate makes the need for widespread availability of safe alternatives to cash even more pressing...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 06 March 2009; 9453 views

Scartel, Russia's first provider of high-speed wireless Internet, is now offering access under the Yota brand, powered by Cisco's latest mobility technologies. Yota's network provides service within the Sadovoye Ring in Moscow and at the Vassilyevsky Island and Petrogradsky District in St Petersburg. The network will provide a platform for high-speed, 4G mobile services that will help make "on-the-move" broadband access available to more people...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 05 March 2009; 12344 views

After expanding its radio and core mobile network by using Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) equipment, Africell is to deploy NSN's state-of-the art 3GPP mobile softswitching solution...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 March 2009; 8778 views

Yahoo! has announced the launch of a new mobile service to be known, not surprisingly, as Yahoo! Mobile. Available initially only for Apple iPhones and top end handsets from other makers including Windows Mobile smartphones, the service will be of interest in emerging markets where the Yahoo! brand still has significant traction...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 March 2009; 9249 views

Following an agreement with Chuan Wei (Cambodia) Co Ltd, Alcatel-Lucent will be providing Cambodia with a nation-wide WiMAX Rev-e (802.16e-2005 standard) wireless broadband network, the first in the country. The service should launch in mid 2009...

Details: Category: Service Management; 02 March 2009; 8456 views

NEC Corporation has concluded its full-turnkey supply contract with Croatian fixed telecom operators Optima Telekom to deliver, install and provide after-sales services for approximately 40 Pasolink Neo systems...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 02 March 2009; 7667 views

During 2008, Datatronics has supplied, integrated, and deployed more than 170 signaling nodes with NewNet CT's Distributed7 signalling platform in Latin America to manage pre- and postpaid services...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 27 February 2009; 8689 views

Transmode, a leading Scandinavian provider of optical networking solutions and NEC Corporation have announced global a partnership agreement...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 27 February 2009; 7143 views

Alec Barton, Publisher of Developing Telecoms, gives a personal view of his visit to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Please do not supply him with any paper press releases. And go green - this is the example the emerging markets can show the developed markets...

Details: Category: Service Management; 27 February 2009; 7701 views

TOT, Thailand's largest telecommunications company, has chosen 3Com solutions to provide the network communications infrastructure at the Bangkok Government Centre, a brand new mega-project of the Thai government...

Details: Category: Service Management; 26 February 2009; 9321 views

Independent network planning and optimisation consultancy Aircom International has announced a contract with Croatian mobile operator Vipnet to supply its Optima Performance Management solutions across both the Core and Radio Access networks...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 February 2009; 12821 views

Indonesia's Telkomsel will enable a growing number of its 3G/HSDPA customers to enjoy the best quality unblocked data access as a result of its commissioning Nokia Siemens Networks' Direct Tunnel, which reduces transmission link requirements...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 February 2009; 9294 views

As the mobile industry gathers in Barcelona to set out its roadmap, Ovum analysts provide their opinion of the most interesting announcements made in the frst 48 hours...