Mobile operator billing for in-app purchases is now available to all 1.15 billion mobile phone subscribers in China...
The grey market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to branded products...
Pakistan Telecommunications, a leading operator in Pakistan affiliated with Etisalat, has expressed an interest in a merger with Warid Telecom.
Telefonica Moviles and Americatel Peru have won their bids for 4G spectrum licences in Peru, in auctions that raised US$257 million for the Latin American country’s government.
Kuwaiti operator Zain has blamed a fall in H1 profits on the devalued Sudanese currency. The falling value of the Sudanese pound was reportedly responsible for an $80 million drop in the operator’s net profit for the first half of 2013.
Choosing a technology partner provider for your voice, video and data traffic can be complex. This is particularly relevant in business competitive environments where delays, information loss and downtime are truly worst case scenario.
The first triple-play service offering in Angola is being launched by TVCABO...
Brazil’s largest operator, the Telefonica subsidiary Vivo, has selected Ceragon as its wireless backhaul partner for the next phase of its nationwide LTE network...
A new deal in India will facilitate mobile payments services for customers of the country’s largest private sector bank...
The future of network validation and optimisation is in the lab. Think about the plane industry: 100 years ago no one was using flight simulators to build and fly planes. Try for a minute to imagine the A380 being commercialised without going through intensive flight simulation. Would you board that plane?
Indonesian enterprise service provider Lintasarta has selected Adtran’s broadband platform for a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) service rollout which will reach most of the businesses in the country.
A significant infrastructure deal has been agreed in Tanzania between the national subsidiaries of independent telecom towers company Helios Towers Africa and operator Vodacom...
Etisalat is emerging as the forerunner in the race to acquire Vivendi’s stake in Maroc Telecom, with the French group confirming that the two parties have begun “exclusive negotiations”.
Only three regions—Latin America, Middle East, and Africa—will see a mobile internet service revenue double-digit CAGR between 2013 and 2018, according to ABI Research. This is underpinned by the strong per subscription data consumption increasing at CAGRs of 45-49%.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are one of the most widely used enterprise software solutions in the world, and in recent years vendors have developed scalable solutions for the mid-market as well as for Small to Medium Enterprise (SME), which have become known as ‘flavours’ of ERP. ERP solutions are undoubtedly powerful and include a host of features and functionality, and yet many organisations fail to leverage significant business value from their investment.
Tier one mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Sisteer has launched a new MVNO named Buzz Me on Malaysia’s U Mobile network...
Chinese number two China Unicom has confirmed a partnership to promote an OTT messaging app...
T-Mobile Poland is introducing cloud services across the country using a software package provided by Comarch...
An experimental cellular network has been successfully deployed in Southern Zambia by Range Networks...
India is one of the world's fastest-growing telecom markets, and the country holds immense opportunities for telecom equipment products...
A leading operator in Iraq is preparing to launch high-speed mobile broadband via a network expansion which will also improve coverage and call quality...
The cost of powering infrastructure is perhaps the biggest bugbear of every telecoms provider. Green energy is an attractive alternative as it provides huge savings on fuel – but the actual practicalities of installation and maintenance often deter operators.
The Nigerian government has revived its attempt to divest itself of Nitel, the state operator which once monopolised the Nigerian mobile market.
Telefonica is expanding a global contract for DSL network management that covers more than eight million customer lines globally.
The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) may prevent operators from sharing spectrum due to concerns that proceeds from the country’s upcoming spectrum auctions will fall short of targets.
The government of China is reportedly fast-tracking the 4G spectrum licensing process to make sure that it is complete by the end of the year...
Brazilian number four Oi has raised $1.1 billion following the sale of various assets...
It is well known that mobile networks are ‘leapfrogging’ established networks in emerging markets. Take-up of mobile voice and, more recently, mobile broadband quickly overtook that of fixed services among citizens of most emerging countries because of the added convenience, and lower deployment costs, of mobile networks.
The Philippines’ market leader PLDT has deployed solutions from network specialist Ciena across its global network footprint...
The two operators that won telecom licences in Myanmar have unveiled their pricing plans and deployment goals for the near-term future...
Virgin Mobile has steadily been establishing its footprint in the Middle East, with its most recent success an acquisition – as part of a consortium – of an international voice telephony licence in Oman....
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has made an official proposal to revoke the 4G licences acquired by privately-owned mobile operators and create a state-owned LTE network...
Gilat Satcom has revealed a raft of new fibre routes in coastal and landlocked Africa...
The market for enterprise M2M solutions is growing, supported by rapid global adoption of mobile broadband needed for wireless M2M applications...
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