Infrastructure

Rogers in $220m data and cloud deal

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Canadian operator spends $200m on buying six-month-old Blackiron Data from Primus Telecoms to expand data and cloud

Ooredoo launches Qatar’s first 4G

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The former Qtel plans to cover all Qatar’s towns and roads by end of 2014 with LTE service

Wind Italy to spend €1bn on Huawei 4G

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

VimpelCom’s Italian mobile operator Wind orders upgrade to LTE from Huawei as Telecom Italia opens discussions with Hutch

Ericsson to buy Microsoft’s IPTV unit

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft sells Mediaroom IPTV business to Ericsson but promises to focus on Xbox

GBI CEO Ahmed Mekky plans to expand fibre bridges from Gulf to rest of the world

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

GBI chief Ahmed Mekky has set up the first regionally owned subsea network serving the Gulf, now with an overland back-up into Europe, and is considering expansion into data centres and services, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray

MTS launches transport payment by NFC

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Novsoibirsk sees the region’s first SIM-based NFC payment system across public transport network

SK Telecom expands LTE roaming

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Globe Telecom of the Philippines and South Korean operator to launch LTE roaming in April

BBC talks to Huawei about LTE broadcasting

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Huawei in plan with UK broadcaster to use LTE to transmit television programmes to mobiles

Ericsson in SAP link for machine-to-machine

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

CEO Hans Vestberg announces Ericsson and SAP will offer M2M enterprise products and services to operators

Development of LTE promises more business opportunities for MLL Telecom

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Gary Marven, CEO of backhaul specialist MLL Telecom, believes that the expansion of 4G will deliver new business

View from the top: Medium earth orbit constellation brings low latency satellite backhaul for mobile operators

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Each new generation of cellular technology has achieved reduced latency, improving the user experience. However, satellite backhaul has eradicated those advances – until now. By John Finney of O3b Networks

KPN goes to ZTE for E-Plus expansion

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

ZTE to ‘take a more substantial role’ in LTE expansion of KPN’s German operation E-plus

NSN in Panasonic deal for DoCoMo LTE

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

NTT DoCoMo has commissioned Nokia Siemens Networks and Panasonic to work together on LTE Advanced and small cells