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Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has enlisted the iBasis Premium Voice service for international calling. Core advantage of the contract is that MTS will gain worldwide voice termination via one single connection to the iBasis network...

Videophone roaming is a reality in China, now that China Unicom have teamed up with NTT DoCoMo. China Unicom has also joined 11 telcos to expand the roaming over an international context...

 

Eagle Mobile, which has just commenced mobile operations in Albania, has formed an agreement with Kirusa to offer Voice SMS to its Albanian subscribers. This is stated by the two partners to be the first-ever deployment of a Voice SMS solution in Europe...

India's state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is now offering WiMAX, making it the country's first operator to provide wireless internet...

A new solution developed by IBM, Novartis & Vodafone and in collaboration with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is set to use SMS technology as a lifesaving tool by improving the availability of anti-malarial drugs in remote areas in Tanzania...

The Mobile Entertainment Forum has expanded into Latin America with a launch in Brazil, a market forecast to achieve tremendous success in the infotainment sector. So far, 26 founding members of the MEF’s Latin American branch have been declared...

MTN Cameroon has announced the launch of MTN Virtual, which is aimed at orienting the economics of telephony towards those consumers in Cameroon who are at the base of the consumer hierarchy...

Video and streaming over 2G and 3G will soon be a possibility in India’s South Zone thanks to a recent contract drawn up between BSNL and Dilithium. Michael Schwartz profiles Dilithium and summarises its success...

More than 10 million subscribers in the MENA region are set to enjoy enhanced mobile and online content as a result of a deal between MTN and Indian-based IMImobile. Michael Schwartz summarises the deal and speaks to IMImobile Founder and CEO Vishwanath Alluri...

Ericsson and Zain have joined forces to combat poverty in the Amansie-West district of Ghana’s Ashanti region. Working with the Millennium Villages project, the telecom giants have deployed mobile communications services to six villages...

Jinny Software, a supplier of messaging and media platforms to mobile network operators, is trialling its VoiceSMS service with several Mobile Network Operators in countries across Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania and Burkino Faso...

Nokia-enabled devices in Hungary can now bring the Nokia Messaging email service to their owners. Nokia Messaging is described as an easy to set up and use push-email service whereby users cab mobilise ten personal email accounts on one device...

 Iskon.TV can offer its Croatian customers over 40 television channels, as well as VoD and Internet via television. Key to the new services is Appear TV’s SC2000 IP streamer...

Omani citizens have been activating Gemalto’s ePurse application in their current e-ID cards. Many government-oriented functions can be carried out in what Gemalto is claiming to be a world first...

Colibria, working with Acision, has enabled MTS, Russia’s largest operator, to connect its Chat Mobile Instant Messenger service with Megafon and Beeline. Over 82% of Russian subscribers now connected to Chat - a pan-Russian messaging community...

Customers of Zain will soon enjoy improved voice, data and multimedia services with the Middle East region’s first Long Term Evolution technology. The upgrade, by Nokia Siemens Networks, is described as a showcase for all Zain Group operations...

Econet Telecom Lesotho has launched ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser service across Lesotho, bringing mobile email services to rural and urban areas across the country and more than doubling the population’s access to email...

Under a contract with Netcom Africa centred on Nigeria, SES World Skies has aligned its Astra 2B and NSS-10 satellites to deliver services ranging from broadband and VoIP to digital TV...

From its base in Abuja, Nigeria, CellTrust of Africa has been set up by its US-based parent CellTrust to provide secure mobile applications to one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile markets...

 

Congolese callers who are out of credit can still get through to their friends under a new service appropriately called Pay4Me. Operator MTN and customer management service Sicap have combined to market the product which runs on the same basis as a collect call basis...

Next year’s World Cup in South Africa will see ten stadia in use during the competition. Five of them will see deployment of Andrew’s indoor wireless system, the ION-M, which has been chosen by Vodacom, South Africa’s largest cellular operator...

Ugandan mobile carrier MTN has launched Voice SMS service across the country, based on Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, a vendor of Voice SMS and developer of mobile value added services. The MTN Voice SMS offering in Uganda is bolstered by additional features like Scheduling and Dynamic Group Voice SMS...

Hunan's provincial government has announced that its local Unicom operation has launched 3G services. To encourage use, a 50% discount is available for all existing or potential Hunan Unicom subscribers...

Xiamen Hospital in China’s Fujian Province is using a wireless LAN system from Aruba Networks to improve patient care in mobile Electronic Medical Records, patient registration applications, Real-Time Location Tracking, and video surveillance...

Kenya has pioneered e-Learning in sub-Saharan Africa now that the Kenya Broadcast Corporation has launched digital content for use in schools. Doreen Apollos, writing on the Corporation’s website, introduces us to the development...

Wireless home networking vendor AirTies has been chosen by Smart Digivision to provide its Set-Top Boxes (STBs) as part of the latter's award-winning IPTV service MyWay...

América Móvil and Nokia will be bringing a top of the line messaging experience via multiple devices to customers in Latin America...

Armenian telecoms service provider Ucom has commissioned Ericsson to supply an end-to-end IPTV solution. Including an iPlex head-end from Tandberg Television, the IPTV service will allow access to the latest fibre-access technology via GPON...

A brand-new initiative to promote existing technology to empower the poor of Uganda has been launched by Grameen, Google and MTN Uganda. Five mobile-enabled applications will be made available to Uganda's poor and disadvantaged communities...

T-VIPS, which specialises in professional video management and distribution, and in the contribution and distribution of broadcast quality video signals, has provided a JPEG2000 IP-based contribution system for a live 3D broadcast of robotic surgical procedures...

Although initially to be rolled out in Nigeria's key cities, Alvarion's US$7 million contract to bring WiMAX to Nigeria will offer voice and high-bandwidth data services to thousands of residences and businesses...

Colibria has been selected by Telefonica International to launch mobile Instant Messaging services across its Latin American operator businesses, covering over 124 million subscribers in 13 territories. Initially live with Movistar Peru, Colibria will provide a complete end-to-end Movistar Messenger service with a rich set of messaging and presence features, and full integration with SMS...

In a proposed link to carry broadband along existing electricity lines, the Manila Electric Company and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co have established working parties to evaluate the financial and technical aspects of Broadband over Power Lines...