Wireless Networks

As part of a major network expansion, UAE-based operator Etisalat is deploying a new backhauling solution for mobile data...

With the advent of LTE, the prices of spectrum licences are escalating – but the spectrum itself is finite, and increasingly hard to obtain. Meanwhile, older technologies that have largely fallen out of use are occupying other spectrum bands – but there is a common solution to these problems. DT editor James Barton spoke to Fabricio Martinez, Services Director at Aircom, about how spectrum re-farming can reduce operator expenditure while bringing new technologies to emerging markets.

The modernisation of Kazakhstan’s railway communication network has been completed...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Broadband provider Clearwire and mobile operator China Mobile have entered into a partnership which will focus on developing TD-LTE devices...

Like many emerging markets, Pakistan faces the challenge of connecting its rural population. In this interview Naeem Zamindar , the CEO of converged communications provider Wateen Telecom, warns that the rural market’s importance should not be underestimated...

Three Saudi operators have launched 4G/LTE services in the Middle Eastern kingdom – with each claiming that they are the first to do so in the MENA region...

The mobile networks of 12 Caribbean territories are to be modernised via a new core network and multi-standard radio base stations...

Customers of Latvia’s largest mobile operator can now enjoy ultra-fast broadband with speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) for accessing services, including reliable video streaming, real-time gaming, and movies-on-demand...

A high-speed wireless broadband network is launching in Nairobi, Kenya, in the city’s Junction Shopping Mall area...

New services based on femtocell technology are launching across the North-Western region of Russia...

One of Panama’s key operators is upgrading its mobile network to fourth generation technology (4G) in a bid to meet the country’s growing demand for mobile data...

Pakistan’s leading WiMAX operator has signed a contract for the provision of high-gain modems in order to capture the country’s underserved personal broadband market...

Iraq’s largest private telecoms firm is rolling out mobile voice, broadband and SMS services across remote communities in the Middle Eastern country...

One of Saudi Arabia’s largest operators is implementing a new mobile backhaul solution in response to a sharp increase in bandwidth requirements...

The Malaysian operator Maxis Berhad is overhauling its core transmission network with the deployment of a 100 gigabit per second (100G) optical coherent network solution, provided by Alcatel-Lucent...

DT editor James Barton recently spoke to Charles Green, CEO of Helios Towers Africa, about starting out providing infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially a hostile environment, the infrastructure market is undergoing massive growth, with more investment likely in the near future...

A leading Vietnamese operator has deployed a distributed antenna system to provide mobile services in Ho Chi Minh City...

A new joint venture has been created by two Polish operators as a means of sharing their radio access networks. PTK Centertel (owned by Orange) and PTC (T-Mobile) will each hold 50% of the new operation, NetWorkS!

A leading Filipino operator has is set to transition its international interconnects from circuit-switched to IP connections...

Latin America’s fastest broadband network is being launched by the Chilean market leader Entel. Based on HSPA Evolution technology from Ericsson, the network will allow peak data rates of 42Mbps...

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network...

TD-LTE (4G) trial networks are currently being tested in China by Nokia Siemens Networks for the market leader China Mobile...

A mobile number portability trial in China has seen disappointing results, with just 50,000 subscribers switching successfully between operators during the six-month pilot scheme...

A new TD-LTE service provider could be entering the Indian market before the end of the year...

Tower-free mobile network coverage is now being provided across Male, the capital city of the Maldives...

One of St. Petersburg’s leading Internet Service Providers has upgraded its network infrastructure and dramatically increased bandwidth by deploying a new multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-enabled architecture...

A Chinese operator is launching broadband wireless access services across ten Chinese markets in nine provinces, including Beijing...

One of the largest bottlenecks - and therefore biggest challenges - for communication service providers in emerging markets is backhaul capacity. Due to increased use of data services as well as more rapid uptake of voice services, many operators are discovering that they are rapidly approaching capacity limits which seemed practically unreachable just a few years ago...

The first 4G deployments in Mozambique and Uganda have been successfully completed with the launch of a new network by a mobile broadband and applications service provider...

Thirteen mobile networks operated by LIME, the Caribbean business of Cable & Wireless Communications, are to be upgraded to a fourth generation standard...

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation’s (CTO) has presented the  results of a Rural ICT Access Gap Study to the management of the Sierra Leone ICT regulator NATCOM and a number of key stakeholders, including the country’s mobile and fixed line operators...

With consumers increasingly expecting constant coverage and data-heavy services as standard, communications service providers are looking for innovative new ways of expanding the capacity of their networks. A new backhaul and access solution with its roots in military technology may provide the means of doing this. The implications for emerging markets are considerable...