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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...

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...

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...

DigiLinea, a VoIP infrastructure and service provider to the US Hispanic and Latin American markets, has announced that KDDI will use the DigiLinea US Hispanic/Latin American VoIP Enabler Platform to provide its clients worldwide with the availability of local DIDs from over 100 cities across Latin America as well as high-quality low-cost direct termination region-wide...

Digitalk is set to announce more services in the Caribbean. Key to the expansion is Caribbean operator MIO's selection of Digitalk's Multi-Service Platform to deploy a range of wireless value-added services...

Ten million subscribers to Indonesian mobile operator PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk (XL) are now set to enjoy mobile video technology. Source of the technological empowerment is a partnership of IP Unity Glenayre, Dilithium, Polycom, locally based PT Asia Quattro Net and Inphosoft...

Bogart and Bacall? Great combinations are nothing new in films. But what about - wait for it - a Bollywood film now showing at your local mobile? Yes, 3GSM at Barcelona rolled out the red carpet as the world's largest film industry premiered the concept of Bollywood films downloaded onto a mobile device. No autographs, no Oscar but DT offers you royal box coverage...

Russia's Vimpelcom Group, which includes cellular companies in both Russia and surrounding countries, has seen consumer demand for new SMS-based services grow dramatically over the last year. Reflecting this growth, Vimpelcom has selected LogicaCMG to support what is a rapid uptake of SMS-based applications under the LogicaCMG Beeline brand...

The SMS Forum has just announced it is to disband. The Forum believes it has successfully achieved its objective of introducing universal standards for SMS, and so further work from the Forum is no longer required.

Nokia has started offering the smart2go mapping and navigation platform as a free download, which will allow millions of people to use map coverage offered via their mobile devices...

Telecom Serbia has selected the Comverse SMS Personal and SMS Router both to add SMS personalisations and to broaden SMS service options...

Should Auld acquaintance be forgot? Not according to the record numbers of SMS sent this New Year. Thousands of miles, different time zones and even the seas and oceans proved no barrier for friends, family and loved ones this most recent New Year...

China Telecom has signed a contract where UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end system will be installed in a new commercial IPTV network in China's Shanxi Province...

The Cellular Operators’ Association of India has selected fastmobile and Jataayu to implement the GSM Association’s first personal IM rollout...

SDC, a technology provider for Digital Rights Management in music, is to power a landmark full-track mobile music download service in China...

GTS Datanet has chosen Thomson Cirpack VoIP switching platforms for the launch of its new double play and IP Centrex services...

The Hajj is the world's largest annual religious pilgrimage: three million participants worldwide arrive in Mecca, a 10 km² area. Over five days this same area witnesses one of the highest mobile traffic densities in the world. Even Saudi Telecom Company, the biggest mobile operator in the Middle East, experiences unique and massive challenges...

Mpathix Inc, a supplier of wireless messaging solutions, has announced that Wataniya Maldives has chosen to deploy Mpathix Mobile Email...

Since this July mobile has come to more than 75% of the population of Ivory Coast, and more than 500,000 of the country's citizens have signed up for it...

Developing-market observers are very often impressed with the way that Middle Eastern countries have shown the greatest enthusiasm for implementing telecoms technologies. One recent disappointment, however, concerns the termination of Skype telephony in the United Arab Emirates. Developing Telecoms attempts to set out the background to this action, and to find out the reasons for it.

JDSU has added a new IPTV transport stream monitoring capability to its QT-600 Ethernet and triple-play probe...

Twenty million villagers in Bangladesh are set to gain access to the Internet thanks to a joint initiative from mobile operator GrameenPhone...

Voxiva is developing a mobile phone application that will make it much easier for health authorities and governments to track and manage the spread of HIV/AIDS, Avian Flu and other diseases...

A growing customer database in Latin America is expected to enjoy VoIP solutions thanks to an expansion in activity in the region by deltathree...

As commercial support for WiMAX strengthens one is entitled to ask questions about the long term future of the technology. We consider the pro and cons of WiMAX.

Nokia has developed an HSDPA connectivity module for notebook computers, which it claims will expand mobility by bringing wireless wide-area connectivity to notebook users...

Radio Frequency Systems,  has just completed a television broadcast project in Tanzania that will  bring free-to-air television to more than 90% of the population that has access to electricity...

Mobile TV services will be rolled out in Vietnam by the end of this year...

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

Mobile Streams, a worldwide mobile content company, has been selected by Movistar Chile as exclusive provider for its white-brand polyphonic ringtones offering...

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

On June 6 Orange  Romania launched 3G services in Bucharest and Timisoara using UMTS technology...

Two 20-year-old British inventors aim to cure Internet boredom by creating a virtual button has attracted supporters in more than 120 countries since its launch less than two months ago...