Filed under: Misc Apparently, law enforcement is seriously stepping into the 21st century. According to a report, police dep artments in Boston, Cincinnati and over 100 other communities have begun using a text message tip-line in the hopes that cellphone-savvy youngsters will alert them if they see a crime being [...]

Vodafone agreed to acquire a 70% stake in Ghana Telecommunications from the government of Ghana for $900 million.[...]

Mobile phone operator S-Fone announced yesterday that it has five million subscribers after five years of operation, reports VietNamNet Bridge. The operator is targeting a subscriber base of six million by the end of 2008, and it has announced a VND1.7 trillion (USD100 million) spending plan designed to install 700 [...]

International pre-paid MVNO Lycamobile has announced the launch of operations in Switzerland, adding to its businesses in The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Operating over the Orange Swizerland network, Lycamobile will specialise in offering low-cost international voice calls and SMS, a market which has seen it acquire over a [...]

By 31 March 2008 there were more than 3.49 million people signed up to one of the Netherlands’ mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), writes Telecompaper. The figure was up 4.7% on the 3.34 million figure reported at 30 September 2007, giving virtual operators 17.8% of the total number of SIM [...]

Caribbean wireless network operator Digicel Suriname has selected Ericsson's solar-powered site solution to provide network coverage in remote areas of the country. The solution is based on Ericsson's main remote GSM base station RBS 2111and has a smaller environmental footprint than a standard base station, consuming up to 50% less [...]