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Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 11 August 2008; 11290 views

Alcatel-Lucent has won a US$49 million contract right through 2011 by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to supply GSM/EDGE solutions to Vivatel, BTC’s GSM mobile subsidiary.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 08 August 2008; 21627 views

VNL, an Indian telecom equipment vendor, is claiming to have re-engineered GSM in order to help operators provide affordable mobile telephony to new customers in rural markets. The company is quoting energy requirements of 50W and 120W to operate, compared to 3,000W for a typical GSM base station...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 August 2008; 10660 views

Mobilink GSM of Pakistan will be deploying Tekelec TekMedia anti-spam firewall in order to establish better network control and to enhance customer experience.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 05 August 2008; 11469 views

There has recently been confusion in Qatar as to whether VoIP calls are legal or not, so much so that the country's Supreme Council for Information and Communications Technology (ictQATAR) has had to issue a statement confirming that such calls are indeed legal.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 04 August 2008; 8379 views

Emircom is a fast-growing systems integrator headquartered in the Middle East. It has been licenced by Synchronica, a vendor of mobile email and synchronisation software, to exploit Synchronica's email software Mobile Gateway.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 01 August 2008; 9052 views

The Grameen Foundation is well known for pioneering telephone networks in rural surroundings. Its latest scene will allow two organisations to spend US$10,000 on building up village phone systems.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 01 August 2008; 9577 views

Using the European Space Agency's Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, telecom operators across Africa and the Middle East can now improve VoIP over satellite services.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 01 August 2008; 9943 views

Nearly 70% of Angolans will now be able to receive satellite communications through a fibre-optic cable running the length of the Angolan coastline. WFN Strategies will supply Angola Telecom with telecoms, business and engineering support.

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Energy & Sustainability; 01 August 2008; 9439 views

The number of ICT users has trebled since the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. As a result of a call from the telecoms industry, the ITU is to set up a new group to establish standards for lower ICT emissions and how ICT itself can help reduce emissions in other sectors, eg, energy, transport and buildings.

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 28 July 2008; 11047 views

Four major telecoms providers operating in emerging markets have recently adopted HP's new charging technology to service up to 320 million subscribers. The system allows operators to offer customer-centric pricing models...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 25 July 2008; 9629 views

Synchronica, a provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, is offering Mobile Gateway, its mass-market push email infrastructure software in response to major mobile operators in Africa wishing to provide affordable 'BlackBerry like' services...

Details: James Barton; Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 July 2008; 8303 views

The Swedish mobile company Neonode, which develops touch screen technologies and designs mobile handsets, has integrated Chinese XT9 text input interface with phrase prediction in its pioneer multimedia touch screen phone, the Neonode N2...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 9880 views

Colibria, which provides new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and presence-enabled solutions, has launched its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Instant Messaging Server...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 July 2008; 8252 views

Sogeti, a member of Capgemini Group, has announced that it will open a global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 23 July 2008; 8816 views

Cornet-AM, an Internet services provider and part of the Comstar Group, has finished building the Republic of Armenia's first mobile WiMAX network...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 22 July 2008; 7812 views

JDSU has an all-in-one fibre-optic test kit, providing network technicians with a way to avoid one of the leading causes of network downtime: contaminated, or "dirty," fibre...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 22 July 2008; 8037 views

Upaid Systems has launched a new online service which allows Brazilian expatriates in the USA to top up the phones of their friends and family in Brazil. RechargeBrazil.com is the first website of its kind: a bilingual English/Brazilian-Portuguese service accessible via any internet connection. Long-distance phone recharge services have typically required credit to be purchased in a participating outlet...

Details: Category: Service Management; 21 July 2008; 10767 views

Clarity, a company specialising in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), will be extending its contract with Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines' largest network operators, to provide Unified OSS for the company's wireless business and its fixed line network subsidiary Innove Communications...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 21 July 2008; 10849 views

Redknee Solutions has sold its Turnkey Converged Billing Solution to Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, which is a government-owned communications service provider in Africa...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 July 2008; 9154 views

South African based mobile marketing company Multimedia Solutions has been purchased by Sovereign Wealth Corp., in a move that will allow the company to expand its operations internationally and reach high growth markets such as Brazil, India, and Asia...

Details: James Barton; Category: Revenue & Billing; 18 July 2008; 10664 views

A new partnership between Forum Systems Inc. and Techlogix will provide SOA products to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 16 July 2008; 8076 views

Commtouch, which specialises combating Internet fraud, has released its 2Q08 Email Threats Trend Report...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 16 July 2008; 11844 views

Shyam Telelink, the Indian subsidiary of Sistema, has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Service Management; 15 July 2008; 11355 views

At a meeting in New York with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, iQor President and CEO Vikas Kapoor announced the opening of iQor's third call centre in the Philippines, in this case creating 700 new jobs...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 15 July 2008; 9376 views

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) will soon become FTEH (Fiber to Every Home), and FTTO (Fiber to the Office) will also become FTEO (Fiber to Every Office) as standard for new construction in many developed countries by 2010...

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 10 July 2008; 9191 views

Tata Communications has announced the launch of its Telepresence services, the first ever offering to deliver both private and public Cisco TelePresence rooms to businesses across the world...

Details: James Barton; Category: Wireless Networks; 09 July 2008; 9868 views

High-speed wireless Internet is now a reality in Argentina's San Luis Province, as the result of collaboration by Wavion, La Punta University and Xiden Networking. This is a pioneering project which brings free, wide-area Internet to a region of Argentina...

Details: Category: Service Management; 08 July 2008; 7820 views

Redknee, which provides mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, has received approval from the US patent system for its Telecommunications Subscriber Profile Management System...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 08 July 2008; 13590 views

Sistema, the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, which manages fast-growing companies within the consumer services sector, has announced that its Indian telecoms subsidiary Shyam Telelink has selected three vendors to supply equipment for construction of CDMA 800 MHz mobile network in India...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 07 July 2008; 9754 views

Subex Ltd, which supplies Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), is working with one of its key partners, Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL), to implement its Nikira Fraud Management product at a leading mobile telecommunications service provider in Vietnam...

Details: Africa Correspondent; Category: Wireless Networks; 04 July 2008; 9616 views

Mobile telephone service providers look set to extend their turf battles to the rural areas, where the cost factor is the only lure for consumers...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 02 July 2008; 11115 views

Kenyan businesses are to get a new VSAT network to deliver high quality voice, broadband data and video services...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 01 July 2008; 9338 views

BPL, the leading Indian wireless operator, is to install Redknee's IPRC real-time rating and charging solution...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 01 July 2008; 8863 views

Leading Chinese vendor Huawei launched an array of new products at the recent Communicasia exhibition in Singapore including its latest HSPA USB stick, 3G phones and an HSDPA gateway...