During the first week of January this year, the number of ADSL-based broadband Internet subscribers in the Czech   Republic reached 275,000, that is to say an increase of 175% over January 2005 - almost 3 fold growth.

Mexican communications company IUSAcom and New York-based Vistula Communications Service Inc have signed a deal to provide Voice Over Internet Protocol communications services...

Nokia network reseller CommTel Network Solutions Australia will establish a new market for Nokia, having signed an agreement to supply broadband DSL solutions and related services to Telecom Cook Islands Ltd...

North and South Korea' s first-ever telephone link, connecting the South with the North's Kaesong Industrial Complex, has led to South Korea lobbying for a massive expansion of the service...

Although GSM-based mobile phones have been accepted in North Korea for ten years in the Rajin-Sonbong economic area, North Korea has had a totally hostile attitude towards mobile technology...

AlanDick Group has announced an agreement with Redline Communications, a provider of standards-based broadband wireless equipment...

GlobeTel will be installing wireless networks in 30 Russian cities. The company will complete this provision of high-speed communications by the start of 2009 and will be acting on behalf of LLC Internafta in order to supply broadband, VoIP and several other services...

First the Soviets built a telephone system in Afghanistan. The Chinese did too. The two weren’t compatible.  Afghan Telecom is the company ordered to sort it all out. It is using expertise from Globecomm Systems.  Michael Schwartz learns more...

Siemens has predicted that in four years time global investment in Internet Protocol television (IPTV) could touch US$1 billion. Prime mover will be China which will account for 25% of world spend...

Nokia has announced three new Bluetooth headsets: the BH-800, the BH-900 and the BH-200 at the Consumer Electronics Fair, Las Vegas...

The mobile phone has become the device most people turn to in an emergency. Mobile networks experience huge increases in traffic immediately following a disaster and high-levels of demand continue for many days afterwards.

Afghan Telecom has announced that its new District Communications Network has recently gone live...

SES Global, the world's largest operator of satellites, is to buy New Skies Satellites for US$760 million...

Eurotel Praha has selected UK-based wireless network optimisation specialists Arieso to maximise performance of its new 3G network, which went live at the start of December...

After evaluating a number of sites in India , Nokia will locate its new Global Networks Solutions Centre in Chennai...

Sony Ericsson's J210 phone is a straightforward device for people whose primary communication style is voice and basic messaging and who have no need for a fully-featured mobile phone...

Philippines M1  and PLDT Singapore are entering into a strategic partnership to provide prepaid mobile services to the sizeable Filipino community in the region...

Turkey' s largest mobile communications operator, Turkcell, has selected Visto Corporation's Mobile with ConstantSync technology to deliver mass-market push mobile email services to a customer's wireless device of choice...

Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the first WCDMA 3G network in the Czech Republic...

Nokia is set to expand its mobile device production in Dongguan, China . The expansion will provide more capacity and flexibility to meet growing market demand worldwide, especially in China and the rest of Asia...

Nokia and Telefónica Móviles will be supplying a complete GSM system deal to Telefónica Móviles Colombia which includes GSM radio access and the MSC Server System (MSS)...

Global roaming specialist Roamware believes its new network solution will hand operators the missing link in the roaming world: its Prepaid Local Number service is claimed to give every operator the capability to provide enhanced roaming and home network services to visitors, both pay-as-you-go or prepaid...

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and Nokia have set up a Next Generation Network laboratory to develop and test end-to-end fixed-mobile convergence prior to commercial launch...

One of the largest network operators in Indonesia , Indosat, has chosen Nokia to expand its GSM network in Bali and Java...

GSM/GPRS services in Russia' s Povolzhie region are set for expansion now that Alcatel has signed a contract with one of Russia' s key mobile operators, SMARTS, the Middle Volga Inter-Regional Association of Radio-Telecommunication Systems.

Work on the East African Submarine System (EASSy) is likely to start early next year. The World Bank is willing to offer finance. After all, the Internet and mobile-based commerce can change people's lives. Michael Schwartz says lessons can be learnt from a predecessor.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has awarded Nokia a comprehensive GSM/EDGE and GPRS network expansion project in Northern India ...

Iridium is now providing the satellite data links for an e-mail solution serving the passengers and crew of MV Polar Star, an expedition cruise ship that specialises in excursions from Antarctica to the Arctic .

Cable and Wireless will be boosting the range of services its Caribbean bmobile customers will enjoy by integrating a messaging gateway which will enable access to more content services, will use more content providers, and will act at a more rapid pace...