IPX providers – The nucleus of VoWiFi roaming

Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) roaming is a complex undertaking, which requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders for it to become a reality. Challenges therefore not only come from its technical intricacies, but also from a multitude of commercial and quality aspects, as well as the coming together of a number of stakeholders.   Read more

The Lady Commanders

If you inspire others to dream more, learn more, From my point of view, if you are thinking like do more and become more, you are a leader… everyone else, you are definitely not thinking. Therefore, being different and always pushing I have met only a few of these natural leaders in the creative boundaries […]

The Five Asian Tigers

We are at a point in the history of the international carrier world where we need to ask ourselves the serious questions: Is there still a need for thousands or even hundreds of carriers in a world where high quality, fast paced innovation and continued pressure on price and margin is becoming the name of […]

Singapore Power Group’s (SP) Network Communications Arm, SPTel, Delivers Network Solutions And Strengthens Data Centre Corridor In Singapore

With extensive fibre networks running alongside power lines nationwide, SPTel is uniquely positioned to deliver added choice and partnership opportunities Singapore, GCCM – 30 May 2016 – SPTel, the network communications arm of the Singapore Power Group (SP), today announced OpticNet and SmartConnect – a suite of innovative, flexible solutions aimed at meeting evolving connectivity […]

MEF launches new programme to tackle fraud and grow mobile messaging market

25 companies sign-up to MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme Fraud costs the A2P messaging sector $2 billion in lost revenues annually 11 types of messaging fraud identified by cross-sector Working Group www.mobileecosystemforum.com www.futureofmessaging.com 17th May, London. Global mobile trade body Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) has today published the A2P Messaging Fraud Framework – the first […]

Telefonica eyes USD10bn swoop for AT&T’s LatAm pay-TV business

Spanish telecoms group Telefonica has expressed an interest in buying AT&T Inc’s pay-TV assets in Latin America, Reuters reports, citing a provisional value of USD10 billion. AT&T, which inherited satellite TV businesses in around a dozen markets across Latin America and the Caribbean via its USD48.5 billion takeover of US-based pay-TV giant DirecTV, has yet […]

Telecentras launches LTE in Vilnius

Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre (also known as Telecentras), which provides telecoms services under the MEZON brand name, has announced the commercial launch of 4G LTE services in the capital Vilnius. In September the state-owned company revealed it had contracted Chinese equipment vendor Huawei to migrate its existing WiMAX networks to a new LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) […]

South Africa’s telecoms committee to debate regulation of OTT services

South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services is planning to hold hearings to determine whether policy interventions are required to govern over-the-top (OTT) VoIP services – including Viber, WhatsApp and Skype – in the country, TechCentral reports. According to the committee, the hearing will consider the impact of OTT services on competition and […]