Wireless Networks

Telecommunications in the rural areas of China 's Yunnan  Province are set for modernisation and improvement...

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

The new opportunities from a state-of-the-art factory in Brno in the Czech Republic make for exciting times at Andrew Corporation. Michael Schwartz has been speaking to Andrea Cassini, Andrew Corporation's President of EMEA Sales and Marketing...

Broadcast solutions group RFS is providing dual-channel mobile television service to the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong...

Golden Telecom, which provides integrated telecommunications and Internet services throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, is implementing its strategy of rolling-out global broadband access in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan...

Carriers, services providers and end users in Brazil are discovering the benefits of using licence-free radio frequencies through a relatively inexpensive wireless broadband solution...

It seems only natural that we start our analysis of the Digital Divide with one of the giants of world telecoms. Dr Klaus-D Kohrt, a vice-president of Siemens Communications, explains the role of wireless technology - and makes some predictions.

Cable & Wireless and Nokia will be expanding their existing global agreement to supply and deployment a GSM network in the British Virgin Islands...

Radio Frequency Systems has recently demonstrated a remote radio head unit which the company claims to exhibit the fastest bit-rate of any 'fibre-to-the-tower-top' solution...

Palanga in Lithuania is witnessing the launch of High Speed Data Packet Access services at the hands of the Baltic's largest telecoms company, Omnitel.

One of Turkey 's leading wireless operators, Avea, has chosen a network optimisation solution supplied by Schema and aimed at increasing network capacity and improving quality of service, writes Michael Schwartz.

Concilium Technologies has launched AirMagnet's Vo-Fi Analyser, a dedicated Voice-over-Wireless-LAN (Vo-WLAN) analysis tool...

Sky Link, a telco established to develop a nationwide CDMA450 network in Russia, and Lucent have instigated a project to increase the capacity and coverage of Sky Link's network in Moscow and the Moscow region, and in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region...

ADC and Andrew Corporation, two companies well established in emerging markets, have announced that they are merging, creating a global player in wireline and wireless network infrastructure solutions. Developing Telecoms assesses the implications of the merger...

New solution-featuring platforms from Lucent and several key Lucent partners will enable Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the sole telecommunications provider in Costa Rica , to rapidly develop and launch capabilities such as VoIP and Virtual Private Networks.

Transporting approximately 11 million passengers every day on the Moscow Metro is now claimed to be safer and more efficient with Andrew Corporation's completion of the first phase of a major communications network covering seven lines of the Russian capital's landmark 12-line system.

Golden Telecom, a Russia-based service provider, is using wireless mesh network technology from Nortel to build Moscow 's first wireless mesh network...

Reflecting The Philippines' increasing importance in Asia-Pacific communication, the country's second-largest mobile-phone service provider has now brought to the region its first built-in high-speed broadband component...

One of Latin America 's largest Next Generation Networks (NGN) is set for creation in Brazil...

Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the country's first High Speed Downlink Packet Access network...

Russian alternative telecoms operator Synterra has announced the commercial launch of what is believed to be the first WiMAX network in Moscow .

Motorola's NC800 Cellular Gateway will be introduced into Latin America through a distribution agreement with Brightstar, a distribution and supply chain solution provider serving the wireless industry...

Nokia has won a radio network contract from Warid Telecom for the company's green-field operations in Bangladesh...

Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited, one of Thailand's mobile phone service operators, has signed a deal with Nokia worth US$19 million to expand AIS's GSM network in the Northern, Central and Southern regions of Thailand...

Residents of Novokuznetsk in Siberia are to benefit from advanced network technology...

Philippines wireless service provider Smart Communications and Nokia have completed the first High Speed Data Packet Access (HSPDA) call in the country...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is inviting tenders to supply enough mobile equipment to roll out 63.5 million lines.

Schema, a specialist in network optimisation software, has released Mentor, which Schema believes to be the first wideband CDMA, EVDO and UMTS optimisation solution based on actual network usage...

Nokia and Ukrainian mobile services operator Astelit, which operates under the brand name life:), have extended their existing frame agreement for the supply of network equipment and services...

The Bolivian Power Company (COBEE, or Compañía Boliviana de Energía Eléctrica) has integrated its SCADA, PLC, data information and telephony transport services by deploying Optimux-XLE1 optical multi-plexers manufactured by RAD Data Communications...

Sky Link, the telecoms holding company established to develop a nationwide CDMA450 network in Russia , has selected Lucent to expand and upgrade Sky Link's network within ten new regions in Russia , thereby supporting additional services...

KazakhTelecom, Kazakhstan 's national carrier, along with Lucent and Winncom Technologies, will be deploying a new, Internet protocol (IP)-based next-generation network for KazakhTelecom in Astana, the nation's new capital. It will support advanced voice and data services for business and residential subscribers...

Lucent will be extending three existing frame agreements with Telekomunikacja Polska for the delivery of switching and broadband access equipment, as well as services to enhance TP's national broadband access network. The total value of the extensions amounts to US$36 million for 2006...