Partner Communications chooses Cloudify and VMware to help accelerate NFV solutions
Cloudify and VMware recently announced they are working with Partner Communications, formerly known as Orange Israel, on a new approach to network functions virtualization (NFV). Partner Communications is working with the vendors to launch...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Austria: L.M. Ericsson said it has been chosen by Mobilkom...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it completed a trial of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology with Israeli wireless carrier Partner Communications Company Ltd. over its live cellular network in Tel Aviv. Partner is joining a limited number of cellular carriers around the world...
TURKEYTurkish carrier AVEA Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. selected Nokia to supply a commercial Push to Talk over Cellular solution. The deal also includes Nokia's Presence solution. The vendor will provide installation, commissioning and project management services, in addition to consulting work to integrate PoC to...
RA'ANANA, Israel-Israeli mobile communications operator Partner Communications Company Ltd., which operates under the Orange IL brand, launched Mobixell Networks' Media Adaptation and Optimization Solution on its network. Mobixell's Central Rich Media Service Central solution is a multimedia service center designed for mobile multimedia services,...
LONDON-Israeli wireless carrier Partner Communications Co. Ltd. will offer its customers the Merlin U530 PC modem card though a deal with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless. Partner expects to launch commercial UMTS third-generation services in Israel later this year."At the beginning of June,...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in November:Philippines. With Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) for GSM/GPRS and EDGE equipment, including radio base stations and mobile switching equipment.Value: $100 millionEricssonChina. With Guangxi Mobile Communications Co. to supply GSM network equipment in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Value: $56...
TEL AVIV-Partner Communications Co. Ltd. said it has signed a $93 million deal with Nortel Networks Ltd. to supply UMTS equipment for its networks.The carrier expects the network to increase voice and data capacity in such services as "person-to-person telephony that can change the...
HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli supplier Niragongo said Israeli operator Partner Communications launched Niragongo's Lava Smart Proxy for its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services.The new solution will mediate between the services, devices and the operator infrastructure, Niragongo said. The system provides a central point of control over...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Israeli mobile operator Partner Communications sent a statement to Israel's Croll committee requesting that it be allowed to offer a fixed-line service along with its cellular offering, allowing it to provide a basket of integrated fixed-line and cellular services."As the fixed-line company in...
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel-Israeli cellular operator Partner Communications announced the Ministry of Communications amended and extended its license, originally awarded in 1998, for an additional 14 years until 2022.This announcement replaces a previous announcement by the ministry in January regarding its intention to extend Partner's...
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel-Israel's Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation spectrum to the country's three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation spectrum in the 1800 MHz band to Partner Communications Co. and Cellcom. Israel is the first country in the Middle East to award 3G spectrum.Partner...
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel—Israel's Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation (3G) spectrum to the country's three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation (2G) spectrum in the 1800 MHz band to Partner Communications Co. and Cellcom. Israel is the first country in the Middle East to award...
Israel awards 3G, 2G spectrumROSH HAAYIN, Israel—Israel's Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation spectrum to the country's three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation spectrum in the 1800 MHz band to Partner Communications Co. and Cellcom. Israel is the first country in the Middle East...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Mobile communications are vital to Israel. The permanent tension, caused by terrorist attacks, compels everyone to be in constant communication. Despite its conflicts and small population, Israel has been able to excel in wireless communications.Similar to several other countries around the world,...
LONDON-The market for mobile services in the Middle East continues to show strong growth, with the ever-increasing number of new cellular operators barely keeping pace with growing customer numbers. An eventful first-quarter 2001 has seen new network expansion projects, a host of new value-added...
GENEVA-Despite a subdued initial public offering (IPO) that saw the company reap a modest US$9 per share-near the bottom end of an already hastily reduced US$8.7 to US$10 range-the future is looking good for Orange, the former U.K. operator that now forms the cornerstone...
Mobile satellite services will shortly be available across the Middle East via the Thuraya network. United Arab Emirates-based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications has announced the launch of its Thuraya-1 satellite. The turnkey mobile satellite communications system was provided by Boeing Satellite Systems as part of...
Alcatel.Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment.Value: US$32.8 millionKenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM network.Value: UndisclosedMorocco. With Maroc Telecom for mobile switching centers.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Portugal Telecom's TMN for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedQatar. With Q-Tel...
ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group's national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of Telcordia Technologies Inc., and Wayne...
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel-Hoping to continue its strong growth potential in the future, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., the only Global System for Mobile communications operator in Israel, formed a new company that will identify opportunities for investment and cooperation with start-ups with the potential to...
JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile phones or the nearest fixed-line phones. The proposed One Phone service requires government approval.The company said it hopes to reach...
TEL AVIV, Israel-In a country like Israel where the number of mobile phone lines surpasses fixed lines (2.9 million compared with 2.8 million), where there's intense competition among the three carriers and churn is high (sometimes 60 percent), and where price is less and...
