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Veraz Networks has announced an IMS over WiMAX deployment that is one of the first such commercial installations in the Americas. The company's ControlSwitch has been chosen by Onemax as an IMS core to offer wireless broadband applications...

Several recent stories reported by Developing Telecoms have revealed the rise in importance of ICT and telephony to Nigeria. One more example of this trend is UK-based Gateway Communications' purchase of GS Telecom. Gateway gains a foothold in Nigeria, not to mention greater subscriber numbers throughout Africa...

Nokia Siemens Networks has now introduced its new Village Connection, a solution aimed at providing affordable rural connectivity and coverage in new growth markets. Village Connection is based on an easy concept: build rural connectivity village by village, exploiting a franchise-based business model between operator and local village entrepreneur...

Jordan Telecom Group, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has acquired a majority stake in Lightspeed Communications, Bahrain 's first alternative fixed-line telecommunications operator...

The Polish telecoms market is highly deregulated. Internet and telephone lines, for example, can now be offered independently. Dialog Telecom is Poland 's first operator to offer independent Internet connection without the need to pay a telephone bill or line rental costs...

Kasenna Portal TV ushers in third generation IPTV Middleware - and gains number 2 spot for VOD server software...

Huawei and TransTeleCom are cooperating to supply a next-generation network to Russia which will reduce transmission costs, provide users with multimedia services and evolve towards an all IP environment for the country.

It may be wishful thinking now but a US$10 cell phone is definitely in the minds of researchers at Berkeley 's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

Set to run from this September, Wind Telecom's new wireless broadband network will offer high-speed broadband services to urban and rural customers across the Dominican Republic .

A group led by Bahrain Telecommunications Co., Hong Kong's PCCW and U.S. Verizon Communications have won initial approval to operate Saudi Arabia's new fixed-line phone network, Saudi regulators have announced...

Nortel and Microsoft are pooling their expertise to encourage unified communications among the world's businesses. New converged office innovations are set to benefit service providers and businesses alike...

Gaming has followed the recent spurt of economic growth now taking place in Macau . Wireless indoor solutions from RFS have helped make winners of the new casinos...

Siemens Networks has been commissioned by the Arabian mobile operator Qatar Telecom (Qtel) to operate its UMTS mobile network in the State of Qatar... 

Pune is the only Indian city currently enjoying IPTV. Calcutta may soon become the second, as BSNL-controlled Calcutta Telephones is now making the arrangements for nearly 1.4 million potential customers to subscribe to 2Mb bandwidth services...

CTIA Wireless 2007 gave Nokia the chance to explain its future convergence strategy. Centred on the four 'Cs' of Connectivity, Cost-savings, Creativity, and Culture, Nokia seeks to explain how its business mobility products, solutions, ecosystem and strategy will benefit millions of mobile professionals at work and in their personal lives.

Alternet Systems will be the new name for the company formed out of the merger between Alternet Systems and TekVoice. The primary brief for the company will be to acquire and develop wireless broadband networks in under-served countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, delivering voice, data and content services to customers in these regions...

Converged billing is expected to become greatly simplified for the Antigua Public Utilities Authority now that Redknee has been brought in to streamline APUA's billing system. Based on a turnkey contract APUA can now look forward to offering innovative rates and incentives...

Completing the hat-trick of PLDT / Smart contracts is the selection of Comverse as provider of a billing platform for a highly comprehensive range of fixed, mobile and convergent services...

Developing Telecoms has always been highly impressed by the rise and rise of telecoms in the Philippines. In that sense it came as no surprise to us to receive three recent reports relating to PLDT and demonstrating how advanced communications have become in this country. UTStarcom's winning bid to deploy a next-generation-network leads our coverage...

Our second report this week on the Philippines looks at the problems faced by the huge number of Filipinos based overseas as they try to keep in touch with their friends and families based in their home country. Filipinos based in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait can look forward to low-cost mobile communication resulting from Roamware's new contract with PLDT subsidiary Smart Communications...

TVA, the Brazilian pay TV company, has a business vision of delivering mobile broadband and hyper-connected communications to businesses and consumers alike. For this reason, TVA has commissioned Nortel to work on a WiMAX trial designed to exploit 4G to the maximum...

RCS & RDS, the Romanian fixed and greenfield mobile operator, has selected Nokia as its WCDMA 3G core and radio network supplier. The company looks forward to a quick entry into the Romanian 3G mobile market and, under the brand name Digi.Tel, to offer a wide range of services.

Several of Pakistan's regions, together with capital city Islamabad, are set to experience an expansion of their networks...

China Mobile's programme for attaining VoIP network migration in Shaanxi Province is now complete, thanks to softswitch solutions from Huawei. VoIP network migration has as its aim the optimisation of network structure, lower operating and maintenance costs, and an enriched end-user experience. The world's first-ever large-scale All-IP transformation is the result...

Rohde & Schwarz has been appointed RCT tester/developer for mobile WiMAX by the WiMAX Forum. The electronics company introduced its R&S TS8970 to a broad public for the first time at 3GSM Barcelona, after having previously presented it at various WiMAX conferences...