Alec Barton, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Developing Telecoms, spoke to Chris Fabian of UNICEF about some of the key challenges facing MNOs in emerging markets. The full interview can be read in our Special Report, Connected Citizens – Managing Crisis, available to download free of charge here.
Global cloud business communications provider Solgari has partnered London-based IT solutions provider Pensar to address the growing demand from financial institution and technology companies for cloud services across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Synchronoss Technologies is set to launch its personal cloud and network activation services solutions in Vietnam.
Anise Asia has selected Virtustream to power the next generation of its cloud platform.
China Telecom’s cloud branch CTCC will implement Nuage Networks’ SDN technology into its public cloud services for the Chinese market.
Cloud enabler Neostratus has signed a partnership agreement with Mauritian mobile operator Emtel to deliver numerous cloud-based services.
On the 16th and 17th of September, Informa’s 8th annual Managed Services World Congress (MSWC) took place. Chris Buist, a Director at Coleago Consulting, chaired both days of the event, and has shared his key takeaways from the congress for operators in developing countries.
NTT Group’s ICT branch NTT Comm has partnered with Filipino operator PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) which will bring NTT Comm’s enterprise-grade infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution to PLDT’s enterprise customers.
The Romanian and Slovakian units of Deutsche Telekom – Cosmote Romania and Slovak Telekom – have rolled out Jibe Mobile’s joyn service.
Leading Russian operator MTS has completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology.
Telecom service-layer innovator OpenCloud has been chosen by Vodafone Egypt to provide its Rhino service-layer to enable delivery of new services.
Telefónica Digital is deploying Funambol’s personal cloud solution across Telefónica operating units in Europe and Latin America, with the service already live in Brazil.
Cloud computing has revolutionised the IT space, offering companies of all sizes easy access to technology over their existing network and allowing many services to be offered on a ‘pay per use’ basis instead of requiring large capital investment.
Indonesian market leader Telkomsel has partnered with connected devices platform Jasper Wireless to deliver machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity to enterprises.
Türk Telekom has selected HP to transform its service portfolio to include competitive cloud-based IT services for its public and private customers.
Cable & Wireless Communications has been chosen to supply email services for Jamaica’s technology ministry.
The Russian operator and broadband provider Rostelecom has deployed the world’s largest operator content delivery network (CDN) using a solution developed and integrated by Ericsson.
Following successful launches in Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire, MTN has introduced its cloud services offering to Uganda.
T-Mobile Poland is introducing cloud services across the country using a software package provided by Comarch...
A new partnership between Croatian operator Vipnet and cloud enabler Neostratus will provide a range of cloud solutions for messaging, communication and collaboration to businesses across the country...
Cloud computing has been a major buzzword for many years, and a number of vendors are now beginning to roll out cloud-based offerings to the market...
Push Technology and Telefonica Digital are collaborating to offer the first global high performance cloud solution...
Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex. However, larger organisations have additional considerations to factor in such as compliance issues, which require information to be stored within the country, and security concerns...
Cloud has been much talked about but implementations have been slow to take off...
The fog is lifting and the future of Cloud Computing for telecom companies is bright. And nowhere is Cloud’s potential impact on driving telecom business more relevant than in Africa...
