Is MTN leaving SA?
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: No confirmation or denial has been given by mobile operator MTN regarding its plans to abandon SA in favor of Dubai, a location closer to its higher revenue earners.
It has been speculated that company plans to move its group operations out of the country and eventually delist from the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. It may leave the local business as a subsidiary of the company, or even up for sale.
MTN is already registered in the Middle Eastern country which is said to be the head office for its Middle East and North African operations.
Several MTN groups operation unit has been quietly moving its operations without making any local splash about the plans.
Comviva to provide SMS Router to Ezypt’s Mobinil
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comviva’s SMS Router has been selected by Egypt’s largest GSM operator Mobinil to enhance SMS traffic delivery across its network. With the help of a new class of message intelligence from SMS Router, Mobinil can optimize delivery, improve handling of high throughput requirements, efficient load share and integrate SMSCs.
Mobinil can hugely improve its message handling capacity as SMS Router will integrate all SMSCs across the network into one virtual SMS processing platform, thus reducing the burden on some SMSCs and exploit latent SMS processing power elsewhere.
35 mobile operators in the MENA region has been given solution by the Comviva and the solution now reaches over 500 million subscribers globally and 130 million subscribers across the Middle East and North Africa.
According to Sabri Amireh, VP, Middle East & North Africa, Comviva, the company is happy to work in partnership with one of the region’s most dynamic operators, Mobinil and also confident of adding value to Mobinil’s services in the Middle East region.
Motorola to showcase future of mobile communications at GSM 3G Middle East & Gulf Congress and Exhibition
As one of the primary innovators in communications technology, Motorola is enabling supporting growth in the booming Middle East telecoms market by enabling operators to offer a range of new services to customers. The company will showcase its latest infrastructure solutions and mobile devices as well as presenting a keynote speech and seminar on how new technologies are revolutionizing mobile communications in the region.
As one of the event’s largest exhibitors, Motorola will have a dedicated area to present its latest solutions for broadband communications, including MOTOwi4 wireless broadband solutions, Motorola AXPT – the high speed access point and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The stand will also include demonstrations of mobile solutions such a mobile TV and push-to-email.
Attendees will also be among the very first in the region to preview the latest Motorola handsets including the MOTOKRZR and MOTORIZR, successors to the best-selling MOTORAZR, as well a MOTOFONE in the low-end range.
said Noel Kirkaldy, Director of Wireless Broadband, Middle East and Africa, Motorola Networks & Enterprise.
Kirkaldy will present a keynote speech on the state of wireless broadband deployment in the region today and the benefits that these solutions are already bringing to operators in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.
Motorola will also present at the exhibition seminar theater to provide insight on how innovative new technologies and alternative power solutions can be used by operators to create unique services that meet the needs of the Middle East. The seminar will also discuss how the next generation of solutions and handsets will enable operators to offer tailored services to attract new mobile customers and connect the next billion mobile users.
GSM 3G Middle East & Gulf takes place at the Dubai International Convention Center on 11th and 12th September. Motorola will be exhibiting at stand number 96.
Source- http://www.ameinfo.com
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