Global wireless solutions group Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) is promoting what is believed to be the world's first corrugated aluminium transmission line and the lightest RF transmission cable currently on the market.

Mexico is proving to be one of the world's most difficult markets to expose to competition, due primarily to opposition from Mexico 's key fixed-line operator Telmex (Telefonos de Mexico).

Just a few days ago four Norwegians, one Swede and one Peruvian reached their destination of Tahiti on Tangaroa, a replica of explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft...

Mobile Streams, a worldwide mobile content company, has been selected by Movistar Chile as exclusive provider for its white-brand polyphonic ringtones offering...

Intersputnik Holding, a subsidiary of the Intersputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, has won a tender to design, build and put into operation satellite earth stations for the Golden Telecom satellite network within the Russian Federation...

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key sources of finance have indicated that they will support this project...

The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief.

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

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

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...

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deplo yi ng.

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...

Nokia and Siemens will be merging the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a single company to be known as Nokia Siemens Networks. This review spells out the strengths and opportunities of the new company, as Nokia and Siemens visualise them, and goes on to report on other key developments from Nokia...

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between Nepad's ICT advisers and several countries involved with EASSy but which had a different economic model for running the project...

On 21 June Romania's president of the General Inspectorate for Communications and IT (IGCTI), Marius Catalin Marinescu, announced the start of a beauty contest, the competitive process for the last two 3G licences in Romania bringing the number of 3G networks in the country to four).