Iridium Satellite has reported a 30% jump in the number of its maritime industry subscribers since January this year...

Convergent billing specialist Cerillion Technologies will be supplying Caymanone with a complete CRM and billing solution for its local telecoms network in the Cayman Islands...

Motorola has settled its financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).

Cameroon will soon enjoy the benefits of a telecoms spinal cord carried in a backbone stretching right down the country...

Michael Schwartz commented recently on an Indian Minister's opinion that priority should be given by Indian operators to local telecoms manufacturers. Now he analyses a leading Chinese telecom vendor's demand for protection in its home market...

Cell phone ownership figures for China grow and grow. As of 30 September China boasted 377 million mobile phone subscribers, or a teledensity of 29%...

Nokia has introduced a pair of CDMA handsets designed expressly for the world's fastest-growing regions...

Twenty cities in Slovakia, including parts of the capital city Bratislava, have become the first anywhere in the world to switch on Flash-ODM. The wireless broadband variant has been introduced into Slovakia by T-Mobile Slovakia and Siemens...

More than half of Huawei's revenue this year has come from its sales of wireless products. From being, in Huawei's words: "just a mere participant in the field of wireless" the company has now become a worldwide leader, deploying its products in more than 50 countries...

Aimed at encouraging global telecoms players to pool their ideas, Huawei’s inTouch Lab and Partnership Plan target fellow companies in the industry in order to create, on a joint basis, innovative services and applications for the future...

E-Link Americas, a not-for-profit corporation established to promote connectivity for social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean , has selected Nera to supply broadband satellite equipment...

Mobile-owning professionals can now answer emails by voice. This is the boast by Visto Corporation, which has launched Mobile Secure Voice specifically for professionals 'on the go.' The new capability results from Visto acquiring Trekmail, a provider of mixed-media messaging services...

Nokia is underlining its interest in GSM technology on the 450MHz frequency band. The company believes GSM450 frequency is a viable solution in providing affordable handsets and mobile voice-centred services to new growth areas with a low teledensity...

Cisco's Linksys division is working with Skype, one of the leading global voice over Internet communications companies, to market a new cordless phone that is designed to take free Skype Internet phone calling off the computer and to put it into the hands of callers...

Nokia and China Putian have recently signed an agreement to set up a joint venture in 2006 to focus on R&D, manufacturing and sales of 3G network solutions for TD-SCDMA and WCDMA technologies...

Five major China water resource utilities are establishing critical, real-time flood control monitoring and drought relief systems to protect against the loss of life from the catastrophic floods that hit China each year during the annual rainy season.

Vietnam' s largest mobile operator, GPC, has selected Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Centre and Mobile Data Gateway to provide expanded multimedia and video messaging services...

Ukraine' s latest mobile network operator life:) has launched Mobile Internet access over WAP and Multimedia Messaging Services. Jataayu Software's WAP Gateway and Telenity's Canvas family of IP based products and applications are the power behind this commercial development...

Sybase Software (China) Co Ltd has recently deployed a Management Information System for the Supreme People's Court of China of Guizhou Province, China...

Fifteen West African nations have today (7 October 2005) agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets...

Indonesia's second largest telecoms operator, PT Indosat, is looking to increase growth and profitability within its fixed and international business through its upgrade through its upgrade to Intec's InterconnecT v7...