Last week Alcatel officially inaugurated its new IP Transformation Centre (IPTC) in Antwerp, the first of its type in Europe. Dr Nicolae Oaca took a break from covering the hectic 3G market in his native Romania to summarise developments.

Feedback is increasing sharply at Developing Telecoms - thank you to all concerned! This, following on from our on-going Digital Divide Special Focus, comes from the Head of Technical Standards at the Ministry of Communications in Abuja, Nigeria.  It argues that capacity building needs to be centred on schools.  Short and to the point, we couldn't agree more.

Mobile TV services will be rolled out in Vietnam by the end of this year...

A Next Generation Network (NGN) with integrated multimedia platform for advanced IP-based applications is set to provide Moscow personal, mobile and secure multimedia services...

Part of the first stage of its interregional transport backbone network, Russian operator Golden Telecom is planning to extend secure, affordable voice and broadband Internet services across Russia.

Redback Networks Inc, a provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, has announced that its SmartEdge multi-service edge routers have been selected by True Corporation...

Benefiting from Nigeria's rapidly growing market, Reliance Telecommunications is expanding its footprint and retooling to take full advantage of a recently introduced unified licensing regime...

Brasil Telecom is set to expand its usage of Convergys' Infinys software to support its wireless, wireline, data, and Internet services.

Mobile gambling revenues from the Asia-Pacific region are set to rise from US$966 million in 2006 to US$8.8 billion in 2011, according to a new report.

Nokia has won its first network deal with Bulgarian operator Vivatel...

Telecommunications in the rural areas of China 's Yunnan  Province are set for modernisation and improvement...

Nokia is unveiling three new mobile phones for the fashion-conscious, including what it believes to be the first 3G fashion phone. While we would never dream of publishing a press release without giving serious thought to moderating "purple prose" we feel that the write-up for the trio is so aesthetic and wallows in such a sensuous style that we have let this one through!

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

Croatia moved quickly when it deregulated its telecoms market. Key player Metronet Telekomunikacije dd was founded in May 2005 and has the advantage of deplo yi ng its own 100% fibre optic network infrastructure...

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

Following our report that Cambodia is delaying 3G because the Prime Minister's wife is upset about the possibility of immoral content being sent by 3G, we can report that the Iranian government is clamping down on that "decadent" institution called satellite television...

A recent report on African satellite markets from the London based newsletter Balancing Act strikes a cautious chord on the building of the East African Submarine Cable System. Michael Schwartz reviews their findings...

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...