Huawei Launches its Next-Gen Mobile Softswitch

Huawei Technologies announced its latest Mobile Softswitch Solution (MSS) with enhanced capabilities in network security, maintenance and operating expenses reduction. The platform is based on industry-standard blade technology and can scale to support up to 10 million subscribers. Compared with Huawei' s previous mobile softswitch, the new design reduces the physical space requirement by up to 70 percent and energy consumption by up to 75 percent. The system provides real-time monitoring and can automatically locate and recover from faults. compared...

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Ericsson and Zain Back U.N. Telecom Project in Nigeria

Ericsson and Zain have joined the Millennium Villages Project, which is run by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The project has deployed communications services to fight poverty in a largely rural area of Nigeria, pushing some of the poorest regions of the country towards achieving the nationally endorsed UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The installation of mobile technology is part of the Millennium Villages Project which is a community-based initiative...

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Limelight Acquires Kiptronic for Mobility and Monetization Expertise

Limelight Networks has acquired Kiptronic, a privately-held provider of dynamic solutions for device-optimized content delivery and monetization. Kiptronic's services enable content publishers to deliver content and dynamic advertisements tailored to the mobile or connected device without making changes to their existing publishing, hosting, trafficking, or reporting platforms. Kiptronic's web-based tools help advertisers dynamically detect and...

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Verizon Business Offers Emergency Response Mobile Communications Service

Verizon Business introduced a n new service for enterprise and government customers that uses specially equipped vehicles to deliver satellite links to Verizon's Global IP Network from anywhere in North America. The new Emergency Response Mobile Communications Service (ERMCS) aims to quickly restore critical communications in the event of a disaster. Each self-sufficient vehicle is equipped with wired VoIP telephones and wired and wireless Ethernet...

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Motorola Launches New EMEA Channel Program

Motorola introduced a new channel program focused on video solutions, as well as wireline and wireless broadband solutions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Motorola Home & Networks Mobility EMEA Channel Program will enable resellers and distributors to deliver differentiated solutions for a wide range of businesses including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), alternative carriers and regional service providers. It will use a selective...

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3G Rollouts in China Drive WCDMA and CDMA Growth

The worldwide mobile infrastructure market revenue contracted 9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2009 despite a record number of 3G base station shipments, according to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group. The GSM market experienced its largest year-over-year decline as Chinese mobile operators focused on 3G network deployments. "The three Chinese mobile operators plan to spend over $20 billion this year on rolling out the...

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Telecommunications Industry Association Predicts First Ever Decline in Overall ICT in 2009

For the first time in its 23 years of forecasting for the information and communications technology (ICT) industry, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is projecting a 3.1 percent decline in revenue for the overall global ICT market in 2009 due to global economic conditions. In the U.S., revenue will suffer a 5.5 percent decline in 2009. The TIA forecast is calling for continued weak conditions in 2010, with a modest 1.2 percent increase....

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Two Minute Video - Co-Creating the Wireless Revolution

Presented by Keith Higgins, Vice President, Marketing, Arice...

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