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Alcatel-Lucent and 1020 Placecast, the leading cross-platform location-based advertising solution provider has announced that they will jointly provide mobile service providers and brands with a unique, location-based service – hosted by Alcatel-Lucent - that delivers highly relevant messaging and advertising to mobile consumers who opt into the service. More

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PTCL establishes free PCOs for IDPs

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) in an effort to connect the displaced families from Swat with their loved ones and missing family members has established PCOs at five different relief camps. These PCO’s will provide free communication services to the IDP’s. Besides the company has also established medical teams and has donated medicines. PTCL doctors and paramedical staff will visit all the major relief camps on a rotation basis. More

Zain invests in Moroccan operator 'Wana'

Zain in a 50/50 partnership with Al Ajial Investment Fund Holding ("Al Ajial") has agreed to invest through a newly established joint venture "Zain Al Ajial" an amount of MAD 2.850 billion (USD 324 million) in return for 31% of Wana Corporate SA ("Wana"), the third mobile telecom operator in Morocco. More

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Alcatel-Lucent goes for mobile advertising

Alcatel-Lucent and 1020 Placecast, the leading cross-platform location-based advertising solution provider has announced that they will jointly provide mobile service providers and brands with a unique, location-based service – hosted by Alcatel-Lucent - that delivers highly relevant messaging and advertising to mobile consumers who opt into the service. More

Handset sales down, smartphones rise, says Gartner

Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 9.4 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year. "There were some signs of a recovery in markets such as North America and China, but overall sales in the first quarter of 2009 registered the biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction since Gartner began monitoring the market on a quarterly basis in 2001," More

Alcatel-Lucent and T-Systems agree on global framework

T-Systems and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they have concluded a global framework agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent is providing T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom with convergent communications solutions from its enterprise portfolio. This will make it even easier for T-Systems and the business customer branch of Deutsche Telekom, to supply their large enterprise customers (T-Systems) and business customers (DT), with proven IP solutions for voice and data networking. More

NSN wins Telenor Pakistan expansion contract

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has been awarded a frame contract to undertake Telenor Pakistan's network expansion over a period of five years. Telenor Pakistan, is further expanding its vast network and upgrading its infrastructure. This will enable the service provider to reach out to new subscribers, improve customer experience, and introduce additional feature-rich services quickly and cost effectively. More

Ericsson and Avea launch mobile broadband in Turkey

Turkish operator Avea will introduce high-speed mobile broadband services to its more than 12 million subscribers with the help of WCDMA/HSPA and mobile backhaul technology from Ericsson. The companies have signed a four-year contract for HSPA-enabled network. Ericsson will be one of the main suppliers and will integrate and deploy WCDMA/HSPA radio access and packet core networks, as well as a complete mobile-backhaul solution based on microwave transmission and optical transport. More

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