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Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 30 June 2008; 12320 views

Tanla, a leading provider of Telecom infrastructure headquartered in Hyderabad, India has announced its acquisition of Openbit, of Tampere, Finland for $US18.6 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11455 views

Baidu.com, the largest Chinese language internet search engine, is launching an instant messaging application with real-time video chat as it aims to hold on to its top spot...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 10430 views

Redknee has announced the launch of Mobile Money Airtime Reseller which enables completely voucherless, pre-paid wireless airtime top-up. This addresses the needs of many high-growth / emerging market operators and subscribers...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 30 June 2008; 11195 views

As industry convergence and triple play take root, the DSL Forum has decided on a new name and identity which it feels reflects its current role more accurately...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 26 June 2008; 8529 views

S1 Enterprise Corporation, a provider of software for financial and payment services and Clickatell have announced a partnership to provide an on-demand text-based banking service which will be available to companies in more than 200 countries...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 June 2008; 7951 views

Children around the world will more easily call for support, counselling and intervention, thanks to the new global child helpline number being advocated by the ITU...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 25 June 2008; 8646 views

SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 25 June 2008; 12395 views

The Millimeter Wave Division of ELVA-1 has announced another installation of its specially modified PPC-1000 Gb Ethernet mm-wave link for Czech ISP JHComp. Both residential and business customers will benefit from Internet and voice service improvements...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 June 2008; 9481 views

Despite significant advances to drive down capital costs for Mobile Network Operators, several key challenges still remain before the digital divide is able to be fully bridged. Transmission costs stand out as the No.1 barrier...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 17 June 2008; 9155 views

Vodacom Tanzania began trials of Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection solution to connect rural and suburban communities earlier this year, following a successful development by NSN in India...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 11 June 2008; 7960 views

For Orange Moldova, 2007 was a year of change - not only did the company, formerly known as SA Voxtel, adopt its new name, but it saw a massive boom in traffic, market share, penetration and multimedia. The changes required by this rebranding to Orange Moldova, as well as the this tremendous shift in the magnitude of business, were supported by CBOSS Corporation...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 10412 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. Key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Service Management; 11 June 2008; 6948 views

A major new service fulfillment contract to modernise Telecom Argentina's raft of services has been awarded to Subex and Accenture. key aims are the wider distribution of broadband, a much higher profile for IP services and rapidly-accessible Ethernet-based services...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 11 June 2008; 11159 views

Aperto Networks has announced that Icosnet has deployed a WiMAX network using PacketMAX 5000 base stations and PacketMAX 100 subscriber units. There is a strong commercial aspect of the contract, whose customers will initially at least be businesses, banks and energy companies...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 June 2008; 8357 views

Subex is unveiling what it calls a breakthrough in Telecommunications Operational Assurance with the debut deployment of its Revenue Operations Centre by Romtelecom, Romania's largest fixed-line provider...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 10 June 2008; 6871 views

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 10 June 2008; 7834 views

RadioFrame has just announced an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) base station product allowing network expansion in areas with reduced space and energy requirements...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 06 June 2008; 8444 views

Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has announced it will collaborate with Cisco to identify areas in which Cisco networking technologies and solutions can benefit the MIC's quest to accelerate the socio-economic development of Vietnam...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 26 May 2008; 9132 views

In support of the ITU's "Connect Africa" initiative, the global satellite communications sector plans to double the number of earth station terminals operating in the region by 2012, empowering more than 1 billion Africans located in under-served rural, suburban, and urban areas throughout the continent. To support this growth, more than 20 satellites will be brought into service to connect Africa during the next five years...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 26 May 2008; 26309 views

A study examining the impact the SAT-3 fibre-optic submarine cable has had on telecommunications in four African countries has found that the potential of this major cable has not been properly exploited. Instead, ownership of the cable by telecoms incumbents in the countries researched has reinforced their market positions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 May 2008; 16227 views

Aircom International, a mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has won a contract with Vietnamese mobile network operator Vinaphone to provide RF network planning, design support and surveying activities for the expansion of Vinaphone's GSM 900 network...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 20 May 2008; 9782 views

Messaging company Acision is outlining a five-step strategy to achieve increased messaging revenue. The company's predictions forecast doubled revenue in thee years time. Acision, the messaging company, has forecast mobile messaging revenues of US$165 billion globally by 2011, 200% higher than previous industry predictions...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 11637 views

Peru's Universal Service Fund is launching a campaign to bring broadband to the country's rural backwaters. Designed ultimately to be taken over by an operator, the campaign is intended to benefit 1.5 million Peruvians in more than 3,500 isolated localities...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 20 May 2008; 12901 views

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded the contract by Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network in Libya...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Service Management; 16 May 2008; 12053 views

Ashbury Satcom of South Africa has been appointed an official service provider for Stratos Global, the world’s largest distribution partner for the Inmarsat and Iridium satellite networks...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 08 May 2008; 8305 views

Philippines based 3G Mobile Operator, CURE, has selected 3ple-Media's award winning Mercury multimedia platform as its core mobile multimedia platform...

Details: Category: Mobile Finance; 08 May 2008; 9273 views

Leading mobile payments provider Mi-Pay has signed a contract with an East African operator to deliver a mobile money ecosystem to its subscribers in rural communities. Mi-Pay's technology will enable subscribers to benefit from international remittance services, as well as support a network of agents to support domestic payments via mobile...

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 08 May 2008; 8296 views

Qimonda, a manufacturer of memory chips and Centrosolar Group, a German solar company, have announced they are to jointly build, equip and operate a solar cell manufacturing plant...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 06 May 2008; 9166 views

In a joint statement seemingly intended to deflect previous criticism of Telecom World events, the ITU and the State of Geneva have promised improved facilities for participants at and visitors to next year's global ICT event, ITU Telecom World 2009...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 06 May 2008; 10906 views

Slovenian operator Tusmobil has placed a contract with Nokia Siemens to supply 400 base stations and a mobile switching solution to enhance the operator's core network...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 30 April 2008; 9907 views

Satcom specialist Newtec has now installed its Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS) multimedia concept at the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) facility in Algiers. It is intended to allow video and audio material to be shared over large geographical areas. ASBU's new MENOS networking capability is designed to support all of the transmission applications required by ABSU broadcaster-members...

Details: Category: Satellite Networks; 30 April 2008; 7526 views

The Global VSAT Forum has issued a plea for its members to support the recent ITU initiative "Connect the World". The Forum believes that the initiative will bring the power of its private-sector members to bear in increasing the developing world's access to communications...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 30 April 2008; 8994 views

Fintur Group, a mobile operator consortium operating widely in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, has chosen Subex Operations Support Systems to combat fraud. Integration of the new system will be carried out by Gantex...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 April 2008; 7620 views

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Claiming to offer higher-quality video encoding at lower prices, Media Excel have introduced a video encoding/transcoding hardware platform based on the Texas Instruments Da Vinci processor...