Etisalat says that its network now offers the widest coverage in both 3G and 4G services.

The telco increased the number of base stations in the UAE to 6,000 by the end of last year, and expects to increase that to 7,500 by the end of this year. The network currently covers 99.8 percen t of the country, though the core of the future upgrades will be to boost indoor coverage.

In an exclusive interview with Comm., Bob Cai, Huawei VP of Wireless Network Marketing highlights the role being played by the technology provider in driving forward the mobile broadband success story and forecasts key developments that are set to define the further development of the industry in the coming years

Bob Cai is Huawei’s VP or Wireless Network Marketing

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Huawei has been awarded an IT outsourcing contract by Etisalat Nigeria, according to local news reports.

Under the arrangement, Huawei will be responsible for the operational management of Etisalat Nigeria’s IT services across technical infrastructure, application management and user support.

However, the business planning, architecture and governance shall still be retained by Etisalat Nigeria.

About 75 per cent of the current IT staff will be transferred to Huawei with comparable terms of employment and compensation.

Warid Telecom and Bank Alfalah Limited have launched a mobile financial service (MFS) by the name of ‘Mobile Paisa’.

The service is initially being launched with support for payments of utility bills and a money transfer facility.

Monet is the technology provider who partnered with Fundamo – a mobile platform provider, to utilise its technology and offer branchless banking solutions to banks in Pakistan.

Monet financial cloud solution has the capability to host multiple banks completely secure and independent from each other.

BlackBerry co-founder, Mike Lazaridis has sold more of his shares in the company, raising US$26 million according to a stock market filing.

That was also the last time he had to report a share sale, as his stake in the company has now been reduced to below five per cent, which is the threshold for having to report such matters.

The sale of the shares also quashes the last vestige of rumours that he might lead a takeover attempt for the company.

According to the stock market filing, he sold around 3.5 million shares in two separate transactions last week.