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Africa Telecom archives from April 2003
Top African mobile markets by subscribers.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 1, 2003
Tough start for tablet PC's in the Middle East. (Across the Region).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Sybase launches PowerBuilder 9.0 in the Middle East. (Across the Region).(application development software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Sybase Middle East has unveiled its PowerBuilder 9.0 rapid application development (RAD) tools in the Middle East. Designed to increase productivity, the solution supports XML, JSP, EJB, .Net and web services and also lays the groundwork for...
FLAG Telecom doubles capacity of key segments of the FLAG Europe-Asia cable system. (Across the Region).(FLAG Telecom Group Ltd.)
April 1, 2003... FLAG Telecom Group Limited announced a capacity expansion to key segments of its FEA cable system, which links the telecommunications markets of Western Europe and Japan through the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and China. This upgrade...
eKom Technologies offers a helping hand. (Across the Region).(information technology services)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Arabic smartphones coming soon. (Across the Region).(Microsoft Corp.'s iMate smartphones)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The first smartphones with Arabic language Internet tools will hit the regional market in May. This will be the first Arabic solution to reach the market from Microsoft's DIC headquarters. Its iMate smartphones will be available next month and...
Globecomm Systems launches SkyBorne content delivery platform with anchor customer in Africa. (Across the Region).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... HAUGlobecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced that the company has entered into a contract with a customer in Africa officially launching the SkyBorne content delivery plafform....
War affecting confidence in technology sector. (Across the Region).(Iraq War, Middle East)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
EMC leads in networked storage. (Across the Region).(Middle East)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
IT firms see no Mid East recovery. (Across the Region).(information technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... IT firms are not expecting an upturn in their business until the end of the year, and 10 percent believe the upturn will not come until the middle of 2004 or later. This is the result of a survey conducted by NettResults/Eurocom. But 54 percent...
ComGuard lays down the law. (Across the Region).(issues guidelines on computer system's protection against viruses )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... With IDC suggesting some 90% of companies have experienced a virus problem over the last year, many companies are obviously underestimating the importance of regularly updating their system's protection. To combat this state of affairs,...
HP keeps top market share. (Across the Region).(Hewlett-Packard Corp.'s product market share in Middle East)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... HP has continued to consolidate its position as the leading PC vendor in the Middle East according to recently released figures from International Data Corporation. Current market share across all of the product ranges across desktop, notebook...
Ericsson wins GSM expansion contract in Algeria. (Algeria).(with Algerie Telecom)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
France Telecom links Algeria to Spain. (Algeria).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Bahrain issues GSM shortlist. (Bahrain).(Global System for Mobile Communication )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
IIT offers support during middle east economic downturn. (Bahrain).(International Information Technology)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... With a global downturn taking its toll on the economy of Bahrain and the Middle East, and looking set to remain there for some time, International Information Technology (IIT) has launched an initiative aimed at risk-averse businesses seeking...
Batelco net profit climbs 9pc in 2002. (Bahrain).(Bahrain Telecommunications Co.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Aregon's global solution. (Bahrain).(e-procurement software offered to Arab Banking Corp.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Microsoft plans Bahrain, Qatar offices. (Bahrain).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Microsoft will shortly be opening offices in Bahrain and Qatar. The US software giant said there had been no pull back of regional staff during the war in Iraq, nor would there be now. But officials admitted that some new projects had been...
BSA commends Bahrain Ministry of information's IPR protection initiatives. (Bahrain).(intellectual property rights)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... BSA expressed its appreciation for the major efforts exerted by the Ministry in raising the legal awareness on the issue in all economic sectors in order to highlight the importance of implementing IPR in Bahrain. Bahrain is among the top few...
Telecom Egypt expands capacity with Nortel Networks. (Egypt).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Telecom Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a five-year frame agreement with Nortel Networks, estimated at approximately $60 million for expansion and modernization of the Republic's national...
Israel's Bezeq International to exchange global voice traffic with ITXC. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Bezeq International Ltd. (BI), Israel's leading telecommunications service provider, and ITXC Corp., one of the world's leading international voice carriers, announced that they are exchanging voice traffic to and from Israel over ITXC's global...
Major US Telco places FraudView order from ECtel. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Israel-based ECtel Ltd. announced that a major US telecommunications service provider is deploying a comprehensive integrated enterprise-wide FraudView solution within its local, long-distance, and wireless networks. ECtel's solution was chosen...
AudioCodes announces acquisition of UAS product group from Nortel Networks. (Israel).(Universal Audio Server)
April 1, 2003... Israel-based AudioCodes Ltd., a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and systems, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nortel Networks to acquire selected assets and serve as an exclusive supplier to Nortel...
VocalTec is number one provider of VoIP equipment in India. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... VocalTec Communications Ltd. announced that iLocus, a leading industry research group, has named VocalTec the leading provider of VoIP equipment in India in a recent study of the VoIP market. VocalTec leads in actual minutes of international...
Team Software announces adjusted final proration factor for TTI tender offer. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Israel-based Team Software Industries Ltd. announced that it has adjusted the final proration factor for its tender offer for 650,000 ordinary shares of TTI Team Telecom International Ltd.
The adjustment is necessary due to the exclusion of...
Artisoft and AudioCodes team for distributed voice over IP solution. (Israel).
April 1, 2003... Artisoft Inc., developer of the first software-based phone system, and AudioCodes Ltd., a provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and systems, announced a joint Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solution that provides an easy and economical way to...
Tdsoft announces the TdGATE MGLE - its V5.x Inverse VoIP Gateway. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Israel-based Tdsoft, a leading provider of Access Gateways and Concentrators, announced that its MGLE V5.x Inverse VoIP Gateway has successfully completed interoperability and passed strict verification tests. The MGLE provides full V5.l and...
ECI Telecom completes sale of InnoWave. (Israel).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... ECI Telecom announced that it has completed the transaction to sell most of the assets and liabilities of its wholly owned subsidiary, InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd., to Alvarion Ltd.
ECI announced the details of this agreement on...
Korean Telecommunications Technology Association adds RADCOM's MegaSIP to its VoIP test solution suite. (Israel).
April 1, 2003... RADCOM Ltd., a leading network test and quality management solutions provider, announced that the Korean Telecommunications Technology Association has selected RADCOM's MegaSIP Simulator, a carrier-grade solution that generates high-volume...
VocalTec and AudioCodes announce integrated next generation network solution to meet packet voice demand. (Israel).
April 1, 2003... VocalTec Communications Ltd. and AudioCodes Ltd. introduced an integrated end-to-end next generation network solution for packet voice services.
The VocalTec-AudioCodes solution addresses the rapidly growing needs of carriers for scalable...
SR Telecom announces agreement to acquire netro corporation. (Israel).
April 1, 2003... SR Telecom Inc., the global fixed wireless access solutions leader, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Netro Corporation, a provider of broadband, point-to-multipoint, fixed wireless access equipment. The...
Mobilink Kuwait, swapcom enter mobile value-added services partnership. (Kuwait).
April 1, 2003
Fransahank selects Alcatel for call center initiative. (Lebanon).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Liban telecom to be privatized and GSM Market to reawaken. (Lebanon).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The new telecom law in Lebanon, expected to be enacted by Parliament in 2003, will achieve the goals of separating regulation from operation. This law is planned to reform the telecom sector and will create a separate regulatory body and...
Nokia supplies moratel with TETRA network. (Morocco).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Finland's Nokia and Morocco Radio Telecom (Moratel) have signed a contract for a complete Nokia TETRA system using IP technology. TETRA will be the first professional digital mobile radio system in Morocco. Deliveries and implementation have...
Morocco's MediTelecom secured as viable operator. (Morocco).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Morocco's communications market is the first market in the region to undergo a very clear "fixed to mobile substitution" phenomenon. The voice services, fixed and mobile, still constitute the biggest share of the market with the mobile...
Ericsson and Nigeria's RelTel sign CDMA2000 1X. (Nigeria).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ericsson and Reliance Telecommunications Limited (RelTel) announced a CDMA2000 1X contract valued at US$145 million to deploy a nation-wide wireless network in Nigeria. Deployment is scheduled to begin immediately with an expected commercial...
Multi-Links, Nortel Networks launch Africa's first CDMA2000 1X wireless network. (Nigeria).
April 1, 2003... Nigeria-based Multi-Links Telecommunications Ltd. and Nortel Networks announced the commercial launch of Africa's first, next generation wireless network, which will position Multi-Links to reach more than 500,000 customers in Lagos, and will...
Monu-Tech expands in Saudi to serve mid-markets. (Saudi Arabia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Saudi-based software integrator MonU-Tech has announced plans to expand into the east of the Kingdom and into Bahrain. The company tripled its revenues last year, and now wants to take its services to a wider market across Saudi, particularly...
Saudi Telcom calls soar due to war. (Saudi Arabia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
KSA hard disk drive demand surges. (Saudi Arabia).(Western Digital Corporation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Western Digital Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of hard-disk drives, has announced that its annual product shipments to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia surpassed 500,000 units in 2002 and continue to perform above expectations. This...
Open mind to Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Arabia).(Mindware in Riyadh)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Mindware, a leading distributor of IT products to the reseller market has officially launched its Riyadh operating division, in order to increase the sales to its Saudi customers. Aklaniat, Mindware's Saudi based branch is set to specifically...
Saudi increases its IT spend. (Saudi Arabia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Saudi Arabia's drive into the knowledge economy looks set to continue as IT spending increased once more in 2002. According to IDC, investment in information technology grew by approximately 14%, as both government ministries and large...
Illegal trade speeds up Saudi mobiles. (Saudi Arabia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Illegal mobile phone connections are growing in the Saudi Eastern Province. More than 60 percent of pre-paid connections sold in Damman and Alkhobar are illegal, according to local sources. This illegal trade avoids the bureaucracy of Saudi...
Gitex Saudi Arabia signs up 500 firms. (Saudi Arabia).(IT trade show)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Gitex Saudi Arabia computer show will host more than 500 firms when its doors open on April 27. Its organizers said they had not received any cancellations due to the war, and did not expect any. This total of IT firms taking part is a...
Leading South African mining company chooses Convera for corporate-wide Intranet. (South Africa).
April 1, 2003... Convera announced that Kumba Resources, one of South Africa's leading mining companies, is using Convera's RetrievalWare search and categorization technology on its corporate Intranet to enable its 6,800 employees to more quickly and accurately...
Turkcell's revenues up 16 percent in 2002. (Turkey).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Turkcell recorded a 16 percent revenue increase in 2002 reaching $1.9 million compared to $1.7 million for full year 2001. The company added 3.5 million net new subscribers to its customer base last year, increasing Turkcell's number of...
Turkey's leading GSM cellphone manufacturer chooses ART's advanced speech recognition technology. (Turkey).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
70,000 to work in Tecom by 2006. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Within the next three years the Dubai technology and media free zone will expand to employ 70,000 people. Presently 14,000 work in Tecom, and this represents an increase on an earlier target of 50,000. Private sector real estate is making a...
Tecom flotation laws by July. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The legal framework for companies in the Dubai technology and media free zone which wish to list their shares on the Dubai Financial Market will be ready by July. Tecorn CEO Ahmed bin Byat said there would be a $500,000 minimum capital rule....
Tejari.com membership triples. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Dubai based Tejari.com has more than tripled its membership to 1,528 members in the year to end of March. The Middle East's leading e-marketplace reported a surge in purchase orders from 55 in Ql 2002 to 4,017 in the first quarter of this year....
BSA felicitates efforts of Dubai Police in the field of IPR law protection. (UAE).(Business Software Alliance intellectual property rights)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The remarkable efforts of the Dubai Police in the field Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and their strong commitment to provide a prefect and trusted business environment for both the public and private sector was recognised at a...
Etisalat reports six percent revenue rise in 2002. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
Oracle, Virgin, Mercator IT deal. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Virgin Atlantic Airways has selected Mercator, the Dubai-based IT division of the Emirates Group, to provide consulting services essential to its rollout of Oracle's E-Business Suite. The powerful Oracle suite of applications centralizes and...
Sendo sets up regional offfice in Dubai. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... International mobile phone manufacturer Sendo has opened its Middle East headquarters at the Dubai Airport Free Zone and launched its range of mobile phones. The company's business expansion in the region has been fuelled by sales of its S200...
Thuraya subscriber base hits 100,000. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has achieved 100,000 subscribers ahead of time while simultaneously witnessing a surge in traffic in Iraq and Kuwait following the US-led war. Although Thuraya does not have a service provider agreement...
Net payments up four-fold in UAE. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... As per Comtrust, Internet payments jumped by more than 400 percent last year in the UAE. This figure is expected to rocket this year as Visa introduced 3D Secure on April 1, which focuses on making transactions completely secure. The future of...
Thuraya, UAE Direct service. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Thuraya has announced the introduction of UAE Direct service for its UAE registered customers, both post paid and prepaid. This new service enables Thuraya customers whose numbers start with 88216888 to call any UAE telephone number from...
Etisalat, broadband for home cable. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
EIM promotes net business. (UAE).(Emirates Internet and Multimedia)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Etisalat subsidiary Emirates Internet and Multimedia has entered into a strategic partnership with the federation of the UAE chambers of commerce to increase the awareness among business of the benefits of the Internet. EIM will give a series...
Etisalat, US$845 million spending plan. (UAE).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003
First phase of UAE e-Government project underway. (UAE).(United Arab Emirates)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Finance and IBM Middle East have signed a contract for the implementation of the first phase of the federal e-government project. During the first phase of the project, IBM will be responsible for...