Wireless Networks

Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in Kuwait using Aperto state-of-the-art broadband wireless PacketWave gear...

Colombia's communications ministry Mincomunicaciones (MinCom) has assigned 55 departmental WiMAX licences for 3.5GHz spectrum...

Nokia has won a major GSM/GPRS/EDGE network expansion contract from leading Russian operator MegaFon that will see it deliver both radio and core equipment, thereby helping MegaFon deliver advanced mobile solutions to its subscriber base...

Mtel (formally known as Mobiltel EAD), the Bulgarian wireless operator, has selected and implemented Andrew Corporation's Odyssey cellular radio planning software system in order to replace a previous radio planning tool.

Motorola has signed a US$75 million GSM network expansion contract with Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-tel), one of Nigeria's mobile communications operators...

Huawei has announced the commercial introduction of its IP Multimedia Subsystem 3.0 solution aimed at providing an open architecture for the development of multimedia services...

BSNL, India's largest telecom service provider will in the next few weeks deploy what it claims to be India's first certified WiMAX network...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) believes it has gained a major advantage over its rivals by collaborating with Intel to create India's first wireless broadband system...

Alcatel-Lucent and Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau SARL are collaborating on a new IP service...

Nokia is currently supporting Polish mobile operator Polkomtel which is launching its commercial High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network in the Warsaw area...

Mobile Telecommunications Company, is set to deliver high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in Kuwait via Nortel optical solutions...

Shanghai Unicom, a branch of China Unicom, recently took the opportunity of a press conference to announce several new mobile services...

Texas Instruments is expanding its portfolio of WiMAX solutions with 2 new announcements in the WiMAX sector...

Iraq Telecommunications & Post Corporation (ITPC) has awarded Nortel a US$20 million contract to build a nationwide optical backbone...

Radio Frequency Systems will unveil its all-in-one rooftop antenna solution - the Optimizer Rooftop - at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona... 

Pakistan is to witness a major expansion of its 3G capacity as the result of a contract signed by Ericsson and Warid Telecom...

PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications  has selected Nokia to supply and manage a complete Service Delivery Platform solution as part of its GSM/WCDMA 3G rollout...

EVN Telecom (formerly known as Vietnam Power Telecom) has selected Lucent Technologies for its phase III CDMA 450 network expansion project.

Obstacles to sending or receiving SMS messages are likely to be substantially reduced thanks to a new hub-based interoperability scheme currently undergoing trials...

Nokia has won a contract to expand Wataniya Telecom's High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) radio and core network in Kuwait...

Golden Telecom has commissioned Nortel to provide a solution for launching a mobile WiMAX field trial in Moscow based on Nortel 4G technology.

Nokia has implemented a complete GSM core network for Telefónica Móviles Perú...

Lucent Technologies has signed a new contract with Eletropaulo Telecom, a telecom service provider forming part of AES Eletropaulo's electric energy distribution group and operating in the state of Sao Paulo .

Robert G Rogers is Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. In a forceful statement on the Digital Divide he identifies what for him is the crucial question - lack of infrastructure.

Indian Railways will use wireless railway communications technology from Nortel to help improve safety and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail arteries serving India' s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh...

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company has introduced further enhancements to its high-speed data product Thuraya DSL...

Globecomm Systems Inc, a provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has received a contract modification worth US$2.7million.

Teledata Networks, has announced an US$8milion contract to deliver its BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways (MSAGs) to Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan' s Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)...

Guatemala has a wireline tele-density of less than 30%. Michael Schwartz was briefed on the modernisation - and on the role of key contractor Teledata Networks - by Teledata Networks' new CEO Eran Ziv...

Colombia Movil, the country's third largest mobile operator, is to bring enhanced services to over 560,000 users across Colombia 's five biggest cities...

A Next Generation Network (NGN) with integrated multimedia platform for advanced IP-based applications is set to provide Moscow personal, mobile and secure multimedia services...

Part of the first stage of its interregional transport backbone network, Russian operator Golden Telecom is planning to extend secure, affordable voice and broadband Internet services across Russia.

Redback Networks Inc, a provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, has announced that its SmartEdge multi-service edge routers have been selected by True Corporation...