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Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 April 2008; 10374 views

Three organisations - South Africa's Education Department, Nokia, and the not-for profit Mindset Network - have launched M4Girls, an educational initiative based on Nokia 6300 mobiles aimed at raising maths standards among teenaged girl students in South Africa...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 24 April 2008; 9718 views

Zain has achieved another first by bringing its groundbreaking borderless "One Network" mobile service to four countries in the Middle East. This service, which made telecom history when it was launched in Africa, today allows Zain's 14 million customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan and Sudan to be part of a pan Middle East mobile community, providing them the opportunity to communicate between these countries and be treated as local customers in terms of pricing, while using their home network service...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 April 2008; 13098 views

Etisalat, the leading telecommunications carrier and Internet Service Provider in UAE, has chosen the Kirusa Voice SMS solution for offering the Voice SMS service to their subscribers in the UAE. With the launch of this service, an Etisalat subscriber has the option of sending an SMS message in their own voice...

Details: Category: Service Management; 18 April 2008; 8620 views

MACH, the provider of business processes to optimise roaming profitability, today announced that I.C.E. (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) Costa Rica has moved from VeriSign to become a new MACH client...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 18 April 2008; 14457 views

Ufone, one of the leading mobile carriers in Pakistan, has launched the Awaz SMS service based upon the pioneering Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, the world's leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services...

Details: Category: Service Management; 18 April 2008; 8580 views

ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure, announced today that it has signed a cooperative frame agreement with CJSC Synterra, one of Russia's largest national telecommunications operators, for delivery of the XDM AE and BroadGate AE Multi-Service Transport Platform (MSTP) solutions to support the carrier's 60,000 km-long network, one of Russia's largest nationwide transport networks...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 18 April 2008; 10625 views

Altobridge has won a three-year, fully managed services contract with leading Mongolian mobile communications provider, MobiCom Corporation. The contract is for the provision of communications across rural Mongolia using Altobridge's unique GSM architecture, which enables operators to dramatically cut the costs of delivering communication services...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 18 April 2008; 12635 views

AIRCOM International, the leading independent mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been appointed by Malaysia's Packet One International, to provide planning support to its WiMAX network. Packet One has chosen AIRCOM's ASSET tool to help plan and optimise the network, prior to a full roll out later in the year, making it one of the first to commercially deploy one of the largest WiMAX networks on the 2.3Ghz spectrum in the world...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 06 April 2008; 8478 views

The FOA has created a new certification programme covering "Fiber Optic Network Design"...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 9805 views

GyPSii, the geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 April 2008; 9799 views

As projects continue in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Andrew Wireless Solutions is helping to ensure wireless coverage is well up to standard in Beijing Metro's six rail lines...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 03 April 2008; 7913 views

Veraz Networks recently announced the availability of its latest Network-adaptive Border Controller, the next generation of Session Border Controllers (SBC)...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 8131 views

Colibria, the leading new generation provider of mobile instant messaging (MIM) and Presence-enabled solutions, recently announced availability of its Colibria Lite client to support low cost Java based handset growth in emerging markets...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 03 April 2008; 8456 views

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Sonus Networks has announced the latest release of its industry-leading software. Sonus 7.1 which claims to deliver a new levels of IP-voice capability...

Details: Category: Service Management; 03 April 2008; 10118 views

China Unicom, one of the largest mobile carriers in the world, has deployed the marketing delivery platform from Pontis to enable them to plan and deliver marketing offers tailored to their customers' needs...

Details: Category: Energy & Sustainability; 03 April 2008; 7283 views

Better Energy Systems recently announced two new handheld solar power systems...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 29 March 2008; 8986 views

The ITU Regional Cyber-Security Forum recently ended with the adoption of the Doha Declaration on Cyber-Security. Recognising that cyber-security has global implications that need regional and international efforts as well as close collaboration between governments and industry, the Forum urges each country in the region to develop capabilities using a new ITU Cyber-Security Framework...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 29 March 2008; 9591 views

GyPSii, a geo-location and mobile social networking provider, has partnered with Dopod in China to provide location-based information and content features and services for use on mobile phones or via the Internet. The new services will be available to members of the Dopod Club...

Details: Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 29 March 2008; 7622 views

After a series of major - and sometimes spectacular - failures in Internet services in the Middle East and Indian regions, FLAG Telecom (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) has undertaken the construction of a far stronger cable between Egypt and France...

Details: Category: Service Management; 29 March 2008; 10734 views

XIUS-bcgi, which aims to delivering revenue-generating solutions to mobile operators and MVNOs worldwide, along with the Bahraini-based International Agencies Company Limited, have announced that Zain Bahrain has deployed XIUS-bcgi's InstaRoam product to provide roaming service for start-up mobile operators...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Wireless Networks; 21 March 2008; 8268 views

ECI Telecom has unveiled a new converged framework for next-generation products, solutions and services. The company claims its new ECI 1Net supports smooth transition to Next-Generation Networks...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 March 2008; 10203 views

Fast growing Synchronica has announced a worldwide agreement with Brightstar Corp for distribution of its award-winning mobile push email and synchronization technology Mobile Gateway. The company has also demonstrated its commitment to emerging markets by announcing it has raised an additional US$3.9 million to further fund its push into emerging markets...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 09 March 2008; 11378 views

Tata Communications leading provider of a new world of communications, announced today the expansion of its Global VPN service to China through an NNI agreement with China Enterprise Netcom Corporation Limited, a value-added telecommunication services and integrated IT solutions provider and subsidiary of CITIC...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 9053 views

Digit Wireless, Inc. has announced its Fastap technology has been certified under the Chinese text-entry standard GF 3006 2001 Standard Scheme of Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Input with Universal Keypad by China's State Language Commission...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 7712 views

Digit Wireless, Inc. was selected by the HeadStart 2008 Organization in India as one of 2008's leading innovators of mobile technology entering the Indian market. The HeadStart award recognizes Digit Wireless as a company pioneering interface innovation in mobility and communications with its cutting edge Fastap Hindi Language Platform...

Details: Category: Revenue & Billing; 07 March 2008; 7226 views

Starhome has exhibited its latest roaming solutions to provide users with greater transparency of roaming costs at the Mobile World Congress. The new releases of Roam in Control and Data Charge Advisor offer users the ability to receive real-time notification of roaming charges to monitor and control roaming costs and allow operators to comply with the latest EU legislation for outbound roamers to receive notification of roaming charges on arrival in a new country...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 07 March 2008; 9021 views

This week, Wayfinder's award winning navigation services are being launched in Chile through the mobile operator Movistar. This is Wayfinder's first entry into the South American market...

Details: Category: Service Management; 03 March 2008; 7927 views

Team Telecom International, which supplies Operations Support Systems to communications service providers, has signed a partnership agreement with TechnoServ A/S, a Russian company dedicated to system integration, IT services and creation of engineering facilities...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 7418 views

Spice Corporation, an Indian telecoms company, launched several products at the Mobile World Congress 2008. In particular, it claims to be marketing what it calls "The Peoples' Phone - probably the world's cheapest phone at under US$20 to the consumer"...

Details: Category: Devices & Platforms; 03 March 2008; 8817 views

Claiming that it will play a real part in bridging the Digital Divide, an alliance of hardware and software vendors took the opportunity of the Mobile World Congress to announce that they had joined up to develop the world's lowest-cost smart entry phone that can enable email and web-based messaging functions...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 26 February 2008; 10024 views

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will be delivering its largest-ever Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) agreement in a contract with Global Mediacom designed to being a mobile TV network to Indonesia...

Details: Category: Wireless Networks; 26 February 2008; 11625 views

North Korea, despite its reputation for being autocratic and backward, does boast an existing GSM network. It is centered around the capital city Pyongyang. In recent years but have been difficult to tell whether the number of mobile subscribers has increased or decreased but it is generally agreed that investment can only benefit the country...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 8579 views

GyPSii, the world's leading geo-location and social networking service provider for mobile phones and Internet devices, has signed an agreement with Broadway Pvt. Ltd., to offer the full suite of GyPSii services to the world's second largest and fastest growing mobile market with 233 million mobile subscribers and growing at a monthly rate of over 8 million...

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 22 February 2008; 9541 views

WIN plc, specialists in interactive mobile entertainment and information, and MagtiCom, with more than one million subscribers, the largest mobile operator in Georgia, together announced the launch of Magti Fun, a fully managed content service portal provided by WIN...