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Huawei set to open new R&D facility in Japan

22nd Jul 2013

1 minute

Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is to open a new Research and Development facility in Yokohama, Japan.

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Acsys: How to lock out fuel thieves

15th Jul 2013

11 minutes

Military-grade access control solution also integrates access logs with job ticketing to verify maintenance job ticket completion

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Invendis: How RMS adds value to multi-tenant towers

20th May 2013

11 minutes

Invendis enables separate energy bills for each tenant, resolves SLA disputes, reduces manpower costs and gives management visibility into tower performance

General

Is bandwidth a tradable commodity?

17th Jan 2013

13 minutes

Epsilon's decision to reintroduce a bandwidth trading platform after widespread failures in the market over a decade ago has again brought about the age-old question: is bandwidth a tradable commodity?

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Bharti Airtel launches Indian network operations centre with ‘world’s largest video wall’

10th Dec 2012

1 minute

Bharti Airtel has launched a network operations centre in Manesar near Gurgaon, India, with what it claims is the world’s largest video wall.

Features

The US mobile backhaul revolution

16th Oct 2012

14 minutes

The advent of LTE fourth-generation mobile networks has triggered a revolution in mobile backhaul facilities. Gary Kim investigates the key technologies and players behind this latest trend in the US market.

Asia Pacific

EU stalls investigation into Huawei and ZTE

20th Sep 2012

2 minutes

The European Union (EU) has held up a controversial trade case against equipment vendors Huawei and ZTE investigating whether the two had received illegal subsidies from the Chinese government.

Africa

Nic Rudnick, Liquid Telecom: The man who broke Zimbabwe's monopoly

18th Jun 2012

8 minutes

Fighting stringent African monopolies as a telecoms lawyer was just the first step for Nic Rudnick, CEO at Liquid Telecom. He explains to Kavit Majithia about his passionate commitment to bringing connectivity to the masses across Africa in the face of restrictive regulatory environments.

General

MobiFone partners with NSN for network capacity upgrade

29th May 2012

2 minutes

Vietnamese operator VMS MobiFone has struck an infrastructure partnership deal with vendor Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its packet core network.

General

Digicel acquires Comcel

4th Apr 2012

2 minutes

Pan Caribbean operator Digicel has acquired Haitian mobile operator Comcel which operates under the Voilà brand, from Trilogy International Partners.

General

What is vectoring technology?

1st Mar 2012

4 minutes

Vectoring technology has emerged as a means of increasing broadband speeds without investing in an extensive fibre roll-out.