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 The South African mobile telecommunication market is one of the most developed and mature markets in Africa with a very high demand for mobile value added services. In order to meet this demand, the South African operator Cell C has selected MCTEL to deploy its device management platform on its network...

As regulators in Africa and the Middle East eliminate barriers in liberalized markets, VoIP opportunities emerge as lines are expected to more than triple from 2010 to 2015, growing at an outstanding CAGR of more than 28 percent, according to a new report from Pyramid Research...

 Claro Dominicana, the subsidiary of America Movil in the Dominican Republic, has launched a mobile email and synchronisation service based on Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway messaging infrastructure...

TD-LTE has taken another step towards commercial availability in India following a video call conducted on broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum at Nokia Siemens Networks’ Bengaluru R&D facility...

 A new service launching in Nigeria is bridging the country’s digital divide by providing customers with any SMS-capable mobile handset access to pay-as-you-go two-way mobile email and online chat...

China Mobile’s search engine will reportedly launch in 2011. The operator has entered into a joint venture with Xinhua to compete with market leaders Baidu and Google...

A new push email service is being launched in Costa Rica by the country’s incumbent operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). The mass market service, branded Syncronizate, is based on Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway middleware, and will be used to add new push functionality to the existing ICE webmail service Acelera...

Kuwait will soon witness the launch of new mobile broadband services from Zain, the country’s largest operator. The rollout will be enabled by the billing and charging software provider Redknee...

A new push email service has been launched in the Philippines by Smart Communications, the archipelago’s largest mobile operator...

The prohibitive costs of high-end smartphones, high-speed internet and additional memory have long stymied the development of mobile social networking in the developing world. A new service named MyXenzo aims to remedy this issue, claiming to offer a consistent user interface on 80% of handsets with even the most basic Internet access...

Subscribers of Movistar, Argentina’s largest mobile carrier, now have access to Windows Live Messenger Java, a new service which allows clients to use Windows Live Messenger through their mobile phones by downloading a Java-based client from Synchronica...

Telecom Personal, the mobile subsidiary of Telecom Argentina, has launched a new push email service that will allow consumer, prosumer and business subscribers access to push email and synchronisation services without the need to upgrade or replace their existing mobile handsets...

Over the last year, China has seen a rapid expansion in triple-play services, following the launch of a massive FTTH network by China Telecom. Shanghai Telecom – an operating unit of China Telecom which began a triple-play programme in June 2009 - is now preparing to launch HD IPTV services over this network...

Belize Telemedia, the only multi-play carrier in Belize, is preparing to launch the nation’s first joint voicemail system, which will be available to both wireline and mobile subscribers...

One of Poland’s largest independent telecoms operators, Telefonia DIALOG, will soon be able to offer its customers voice services via VoIP technology, and potentially numerous other services...

Prepaid.com, an online service for recharging the airtime of prepaid mobile phones, now allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to purchase minutes and other prepaid services for any of the more than 70 million Mexican prepaid mobile phone users...

In the aftermath of January’s devastating earthquake, texting traffic in Haiti has greatly increased. Now one of the country’s leading wireless providers, Voilà, has announced that it will upgrade its Business Support System solution and text messaging capabilities so as to better accommodate this increased volume of traffic...

Türk Telekom subsidiary TTNET, the leading broadband internet service provider in Turkey, has launched a new Web TV service across the country...

Vodafone Egypt’s 24.6 million subscribers are set to benefit from e-recharge services which will allow them to top-up their talk time with any value, anytime and anywhere...

Over 15 million mobile phone subscribers in Kenya – over a third of the country’s population - will now be able to access email and online chat regardless of the make and model of their mobile phone...

Shaka Mobile, which is providing the first prepaid mobile and Mobile Money Transfer service for African immigrants in the US, has signed an agreement with TransferTo to launch a cross-border top-up service.

Seldom in history has any invention offered so much to so many in such a short period of time. Mahuya Ghosh, Product Manager of Connectiva Systems, looks at the Mobile Miracle...

Steve Subar, CEO and President of OK Labs, believes that users should have just one platform to serve all their needs. Virtualisation makes that a reality...

To further develop its growth in key vertical markets across Saudi Arabia, Thuraya is aggressively expanding its commercial activities within the oil and gas, government and other sectors in partnership with its national service provider Farhan Commercial Company (FCC). The Saudi service provider has started a marketing campaign to roll out Thuraya’s IP solution and Thuraya XT, described as the world’s toughest satellite phone, in the Saudi Arabian market...

Mobile payment specialist Mobibucks has seen a significant increase in demand for its products in the last six months in the Middle East/ North Africa (MENA) region. Mobibucks offers “unique” payment and incentive products for making purchases using a mobile phone number...

A television audience of 200 million is enjoying high-quality broadcasts of sport, in particular, the Indian Premier League Twenty 20 (IPL T20) cricket tournament, thanks to high-definition content acquisition, contribution and distribution from Ericsson...

Maroc Telecom, the wireless and wireline telecom operator, has launched Mobi Cash, a fund-transfer system powered by Comviva, which provides mobile solutions beyond basic Value-Added Services...

Distimo and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) have issued a report on Apple’s App Store in Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The two organisations have concluded that the most popular applications are priced higher in the emerging markets than in the USA, where games are more popular...

Inside Contactless, a provider of open-standard contact-less chip technologies, has announced that its MicroPass 4003 contact-less intelligent payment processor is powering the MasterCard PayPass contact-less payment technology recently launched in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Synchronica has signed its largest contract to date for Mobile Gateway. The US$1.05 million Indonesian deal includes 300,000 devices over a one-year period...

Voice Short Message Service (VSMS) allows mobile users to send and receive eight-second voice messages or voice notes from their terminals whether via CDMA, GSM or any other technology by just making a standard voice call. Venezuela’s Equipos Telemo has just become the country’s first company to offer this facility...

Geos Communications, which provides solutions for those in the mobile sector, has acquired the Chinese mobile content retailer Duo Guo, which has been described as the only legitimate retail channel for downloading mobile media content in China.