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Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia & US has today announced the launch of its Next-Generation Network known as the Multi-Service Platform in India...
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Anite, which specialises in testing technology for the wireless industry, today announced the launch of its Mobile WiMAX Host Tester, claimed to be the only Host Testing Solution (HTS) available in the market for Mobile Station Stack (MSS) developers and integrators...
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WFN Strategies has been contracted by Windward Telecom Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago to provide network planning and design services for the Trinidad Offshore Fibre Electronics (TOFFE) project. WFN Strategies will oversee the development of a network architecture which meets the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry operating in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as perform an initial cable route study...
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Saudi Telecommunications has successfully handled another year of the holy Hajj pilgrimage, a two-week-long event that welcomed millions of visitors. Well aware of the importance of reliable communications, STC partnered with Nokia Siemens Networks to provide voice and data services to Mecca's Hajj pilgrims...
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SES New Skies has announced that its NSS-9 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The NSS-9 spacecraft, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, will now be readied for launch onboard an Ariane 5 booster, scheduled for take off on February 12, 2009. The launch window for NSS-9 onboard Ariane 5 opens at 22:09 GMT time...
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IP networking solutions from Tadiran Telecom have been chosen by the Bank of Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) to provide an IP telephony network of 60 systems and sites throughout Vietnam...
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This year many companies GSMA's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be launching new products and services. Developing Telecoms provides a round-up.
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Boingo Wireless has added 10,904 China Telecom hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai; the locations are the first three of 18 provinces and three municipalities that will be added to the Boingo network. With the addition of these locations, Boingo members will enjoy broadband connections throughout the Yangtze Delta, including airports, hotels and cafés...
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India is growing rapidly in both mobile phone penetration and Internet usage, making it an ideal market for a "mobile email for all" solution. India's 12 wireless operators signed up a record 10.16 million new subscribers in March 2008, bringing the total customer base to 261.09 million, and making India the second largest wireless market in the world, overtaking the US with its 258 million subscribers. India is also now the third largest country in Asia when measured by the number of Internet users, with 60 million users...
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Zain Group, has successfully tendered to continue managing one of Lebanon's two mobile operations, MIC2 (Mobile Interim Company 2, which is branded as mtc touch) for an additional year...
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Did you know that 40% of the world's population does not have a bank account, and yet more than 60% have access to a mobile phone? Redknee and its operator customers would like to brief delegates to Mobile World Congress 2009 on how mobile money services are bridging the crucial gap, and how these services will change the industry and the way people bank in 2009...
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Veraz Networks, which specialises in Multimedia Generation Network application and control as well as in bandwidth optimisation products, has been commissioned by Bangla Trac Communications to deploy its I-Gate 4000 PRO high-density bandwidth optimisation system to interconnect sites in London, Hong Kong and Dhaka...
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Zain has launched a nationwide Voice SMS service on Kirusa platforms. All of Zain Kuwait's prepaid and postpaid subscribers can now send Voice SMS to mobile customers in Kuwait and to over a billion people across the globe. Kirusa is respected as a vendor of Voice SMS and a developer of mobile value added services...
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Barcelona has proved itself both a worthy and a worthwhile location for the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Developing Telecoms will be keeping readers in touch with news of this year's MWC just as soon it is released. In this initial report we profile five companies all set not just to be at MWC but also ready to introduce new products and services in Barcelona...
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Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Communications in Colombia have led to the signature of new agreements for services under the Compartel I, Compartel II and Telecentros projects which were awarded to Gilat's Colombian subsidiaries in 1999 and 2002...
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Under an agreement just signed with China Mobile, Alcatel-Lucent and Datang Mobile will provide their TD-SCDMA solution for 11 of the 28 cities covered by China Mobile's phase 2 network, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Changchun, Hefei, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Yinchuan and Urumqi...
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Tele Atlas, a provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and Location-Based Solutions (LBS), and Cadtech, a Moroccan company specialising in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and geolocalisation, have announced the first fully navigable digital databases of Morocco for personal navigation, wireless, Internet, automotive and enterprise navigation solutions companies worldwide...
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Digitel Mobile Philippines Inc (DMPI) is one of the three major wireless carriers in the Philippines. Operating under the brand-name Sun Cellular, DMPI offers GSM technology, including voice services, messaging services, outbound and inbound international roaming, and value-added services. In early 2008, Digitel began deploying a new network designed to carry 3G (HSPA) services. The operator chose Ceragon's FibeAir IP-MAX2 wireless Ethernet solution to construct an all-IP backhaul network...
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O3b Networks has been developing a new fibre-quality, satellite-based, global Internet backbone for telecoms operators and ISPs. It is now able to anounce that the largest ISP in Afghanistan, NEDA Telecommunications, will deploy O3b Networks' Quick Start service as part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement. The agreement will provide low-latency, fibre quality, Internet connectivity between Afghanistan and the global internet infrastructure...
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The first global standard offering an in-home, high-speed network capable of delivering room-to-room HDTV has been agreed by ITU. The standard, published under the G.hn banner, promises high quality multimedia over power, coaxial, phone and other home network wiring. It will give up to 20 times the throughput of existing wireless technologies and three times that of existing wired technologies...
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Intelsat has entered into a Joint Venture (JV) with a South African investor group led by Convergence Partners that will utilise project financing to build and launch a new satellite into the 33º East orbital location, thereby ideally positioned to serve the African continent...
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NCC is assuming the new role of a broadband wireless Web access provider, having launched a wi-fi network in Nizhny Novgorod enabled by an end-to-end CBOSS solution...
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Vodafone, Safaricom, and Western Union will be partnering to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer service between the UK and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers and within minutes...
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Latin Americans living in the USA are keen to adopt money transfer using the less traditional method of a mobile phone, according to a survey commissioned by Upaid, the leading mobile payments provider. Upaid commissioned Research Now to survey US citizens transferring money to countries across Latin America...
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Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will be implementing advanced digital railway communication systems for Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens (SNCFT, ie, Tunisian Railways). NSN will deploy its Global System for Mobile Communications for Railways (GSM-R), a digital communications solution that mobilises and unites digital communications for railways by carrying signaling and operational information directly to train operators, enabling faster speeds and greater traffic density.
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Dormant accounts costing thousands to administer? Inefficient data management? Subscriber details going back years and not knowing how to exploit the data? You could always speak to Stephan Ouaknine, CEO of Montreal-based Blueslice. Michael Schwartz did.
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Uganda Telecom, Uganda's leading telecommunications provider, has launched a user friendly Voice SMS service nationwide. With this launch, all prepaid and postpaid subscribers of Uganda Telecom can send Voice SMS to any mobile subscriber in Uganda for a fixed price of approximately US$0.08...
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Qatar Telecom has signed an agreement to implement a full network modernisation project that is intended to double mobile broadband speeds in Qatar. Strategic partner Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will modernise and optimise Qtel's pioneering nationwide 2G and 3G networks, providing a network infrastructure based on the company's "future-proof" solutions...
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Zain has launched commercial services in Ghana with the start of the first 3.5G network on the continent outside South Africa. Zain Ghana's network will offer its customers ultra high-speed Internet access and, for the first time in Ghana, the ability to make video-calls and use rich multimedia content including sending video clips, music and pictures at the touch of a button. Zain's 3.5G network will give Ghanaians a new lifestyle option...
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Motorola has announced the deployment of its first WiMAX trial network for Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), a member company of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), which is the largest ISP in Vietnam. The network allows VDC to test next-generation wireless broadband services in major cities of Vietnam...
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In partnership with Safaricom, ADC will be supplying its InterReach Fusion solutions to provide in-building wireless coverage at over 40 sites in Kenya, including the famous 14-storey Landmark Plaza in Nairobi...
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ITU has published its annual report, Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2008: Six Degrees of Sharing, detailing a set of regulatory strategies designed to lower the costs of network rollout...
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Mada, the Kuwaiti-based broadband wireless provider is expected to launch WiMAX services before the end of 2008, now that it and Motorola have started the roll-out of an end-to-end 802.16e-based WiMAX network...
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Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile Group Fujian have teamed up to provide an eCommerce platform that is intended to "promise an important link between rural consumers and urban businesses"...