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Indonesia’s largest mobile operator has deployed a portal which will allow any of its 90 million subscribers to create their own SMS-based applications...

Subscribers of one of the Caribbean’s leading service providers, United Telecommunications Services (UTS), are now able to access improved data services...

The Republic of Congo’s third largest telecommunications operator, Warid Congo SA, is launching Voice SMS services across its network. The offering is based on technology from Kirusa, a developer of mobile VAS...

An online survey conducted by social & market research firm Macroscope has revealed that, while a third of internet users in the Baltic States would be willing to pay for digital products that they are interested in, almost 70% would first try all possible ways of getting the product they are interested in for free...

New international IP and content distribution services will be enabled in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East following the announcement of a strategic long-term agreement between Middle East operator Saudi Telecom and Level 3 Communications...

One of Poland’s largest telecoms operators has launched a new video-on-demand service for its subscribers. INEA’s new Wypo?yczalnia Filmów service is running on the open converged Service Delivery Platform (cSDP) from SeaChange|eventIS, which also served as systems integrator on the project...

Kuwait’s largest mobile operator, Zain, will soon be able to offer its customers new and personalised services more rapidly. The operator has unified its customer data that was previously distributed across the network into a single database based on Nokia Siemens Networks’ One-NDS platform...

An upcoming Moroccan operator is rolling out a new platform with the aim of rewarding customer loyalty. Inwi has commissioned sicap to provide its Customer Retention Platform, a flexible, plug and play solution which rewards inwi subscribers for their mobile, fixed or Internet service loyalty...

América Móvil subscribers will soon be able to get advertisements tailored to their interests through their mobile devices. The leading mobile operator in Latin America is introducing an end-to-end mobile advertising solution provided by Ericsson. Ericsson will also manage the solution and interfaces with all players in the advertising eco-systems...

One of Ghana’s leading VAS providers is set to offer mobile voice content services to mobile operators in the West African country. Mobile Content.Com Ltd has partnered with VAS developer Kirusa for this new joint initiative...

One of India’s largest operators is preparing its new Online Application Store for launch. Idea Cellular, the third-largest mobile operator in terms of revenue, is set to provide its 84 million-plus subscribers with an application store based on Ericsson’s eStore solution...

Millions of Africans can access Facebook updates, news and chat using the first two-way SMS Facebook Chat service via any basic mobile phone. The new service, launched by ForgetMeNot Africa, is revolutionising communications on the continent by unifying two-way email, online chat and social networking without the need for an Internet connection...

Malaysia’s largest 3G operator has deployed a new SMS service aimed at providing a secure messaging solution to its wireless subscribers and enterprise customers...

Subscribers of Indosat, one of Indonesia’s largest telcos, will soon be able to enjoy new and innovative mobile applications following the launch of the operator’s Application Incubator Program, which will encourage and support the developer community to build differentiated mobile applications...

Two of the major Internet service providers in China will soon offer social network integration of Nokia’s Ovi Maps service, meaning that customers will be able to update their status to let their contacts know their whereabouts...

The Middle East’s first Cloud telecom operator, GO Telecom, has announced a partnership with CommuniGate Systems to offer a new telecommunications service, Go Terhal, in Saudi Arabia...

Wireless landline services provided throughout the Philippines by Bayan Telecommunications are to be resold under the Cordia WiLL brand as part of a new agreement between the operator and the CSP Cordia Corporation...

Panama’s América Móvil subsidiary, Claro Panama, has launched the operator’s mobile Instant Messaging (IM) service, Claro Messenger...

The newest version of QIP, one of Russia’s most widespread IM services, is now powered by Spirit DSP’s TeamSpirit 3.1 Voice and Video engine...

Mobile Instant Messaging continues its spread across Latin America, with Claro Perú becoming the fifth subsidiary of América Móvil to launch the Claro Messenger service...

Subscribers of Telenor Hungary will soon benefit from the automatic management of their device settings, making new mobile services instantly available...

A new partnership between mobile solutions provider Comviva and Airtel Bangladesh will provide messaging solutions across Bangladesh via Comviva’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, Short Message Service Centre and Bulk Messaging Gateway portfolio...

Cybercom has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China’s biggest wireless broadband service provider, CECT-Chinacomm...

Subscribers of Bharti Airtel in Ghana now have access to a new Voice SMS service, supplied by Kirusa...

Around 49 million subscribers to Claro Brazil, the Brazilian subsidiary of América Móvil, will now have access to a device-agnostic mobile IM solution, provided by Synchronica. Named Claro Messenger, the mobile IM service is powered by Synchronica’s hosted instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) platform...

The Hungarian operator Magyar Telekom (MT) is targeting the country’s SME market with packaged business services that it will deliver via OneAccess ONE100 multi-service access routers...

Three of India’s telecom circles will soon have access to high-quality mobile broadband, a new range of VAS and significantly improved voice services from Aircel...

The Egyptian operator Mobinil is now offering its subscribers interactive advertising tailored to their personal interests via Alcatel-Lucent’s Optism mobile marketing solution...

Orange Armenia has successfully modernised its network, providing high definition (HD) voice services on the whole network across Armenia, and delivering up to 14.4 megabits per second (Mbps) data speeds in main cities...

The mobile virtual network operator Effortel has successfully launched FreeM on behalf of Polish MVNO InMobile. FreeM is believed to be the first subscription free, advertising funded mobile service to provide consumers with free data access...

A new mobile browsing solution that fully supports Indic languages has been revealed by Bitstream. The new solution operates using the BOLT cloud computing browsing platform, and includes the BOLT mobile browser with Indic language user interfaces, the capability to perfectly render Indic text on a Web page, and the ability for end users to input Indic text into the browser...

Over 94 million people in Indonesia now have the opportunity to learn English through their mobile phones, as the archipelagic nation’s largest operator, PT Telkomsel, has agreed to distribute and support the Urban English Language Learning Program on its network...

Chinese firms ZTE and China Unicom are jointly launching a new online application service in Hong Kong. Entitled the “WoStore”, the service is a multi-device, multi-platform application store built by ZTE...