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Promoting cybersecurity
Battle for Internet integrity is underway

Vonage charts a new course
Having weathered problems, company shifts product strategy focus

Africa advances with wireless technology
Mobile telephony is a success story

ITU Telecom Africa 2008: Africa can benefit from handsets
Mobile broadband predicted as the way to ‘break’ the digital divide

XO turns to copper for national Ethernet access push
Twisted pair enables CLEC to fill in the fiber availability gap

ICTs in Africa: Digital divide to digital opportunity
Communications plays role in socio-economic development

ITU Africa 2008: African market holds long-term promise
Wireless looks like best bet for investors with long-range visions


A continent ready for change
Opportunities enormous; challenges daunting for African telecom
By Jim Barthold

The African continent offers daunting challenges for the telecommunications space but there’s an enormous opportunity for countries that do it right, said experts during an aptly named plenary session, “Africa’s Markets: challenges and opportunities.”

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Fanfare bridges the manual to automated testing gap

Enables vendors and service providers to perform agile testing

By Sean Buckley

Service providers and their network equipment suppliers (NEPs) face a couple of fundamental challenges today: how to differentiate their offerings while simultaneously scaling their services. Kingston Duffie, CTO and founder of Fanfare, talks with Editor in Chief Sean Buckley about how these industry segments need a new approach to Quality Assurance testing.


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