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Articles tagged with: Zain and Ericsson
Ericsson Wins $650 Million Outsourcing Deal in Iraq
zain Iraq has signed a 5-year network outsourcing agreement with Ericsson worth US$650 million. more
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Improving Mobile Phone Coverage Across Lake Victoria
Mobile phone coverage across Africa's Lake Victoria is to be expanded in a joint venture between zain, and Ericsson, in an initiative coordinated by the GSM Association. The coverage will comprise the area of the lake where 80 percent of fishing activities take place, allowing communication and SMS exchange to and from phones. This enhancement will fuel economic and social development of the lakeside communities and potentially reduce the number of fishing-related deaths each year. more
Related Tags: lake-victoria, gsm-association, security, life, value-added-services, solar, africa, emergency, Uganda
Mobile Phone Towers to Monitor African Weather
A new partnership has been announced that will place weather monitoring stations on up to 5,000 mobile phone towers operated by zain, and other mobile networks, across the African continent. The initiative is being backed by the Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. more
Related Tags: weather, , lake-victoria, towers, security, united-nations, africa, target, cell-phone, farming, geneva
Ericsson CEO - Economic growth to come from telecoms investments
Ericsson President and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg said today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that 2008 was a year of establishing mobile broadband, and that investments in telecom infrastructure can drive growth across societies. more
Related Tags: ict, mobile-broadband, carl-henric-svanberg, play, wave, barcelona
Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village
As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson and operator, zain have built a green-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability. more
Related Tags: sim-card, sim, solar-power, roaming, itu, wind, villages, health, solar, africa, emergency, Kenya
Ericsson to Expand Zain Madagascar network
Ericsson has signed a contract with the zain Group to expand the core network and the GSM radio access network for zain Madagascar. The expansion of zain Madagascar's network, which has been operational since 2005, is centered upon deploying Ericsson's Packet Core Network, including both SGSN and GGSN nodes, and Ericsson's Mobile Softswitch Solution. more
Related Tags: core-network, radio-access-network, mobile-softswitch, gsm, zain-group, packet-core, ggsn, sgsn, africa, softswitch, Madagascar
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