AfricaCom, Cape Town, 12 November 2009: - AIRCOM International, the leading independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, today announced it has been selected by Nokia Siemens Networks to provide mobile network planning consultancy, to help improve network quality for mobile operators in Nigeria and South Africa.

In South Africa, Nokia Siemens Networks selected AIRCOM to provide 2G network optimisation consultation services. These services included both pre- and post-analysis drive testing, capacity planning, site verification and frequency planning. AIRCOM’s expertise was also used to assist in the planning of more than 4,500 cell sites across South Africa in a limited time duration, whilst maintaining the necessary quality levels.

AfricaCom, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 November 2009: - AIRCOM International, the leading independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been selected by one of Africa’s premier  operators Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) to provide network performance, optimisation and management services for its multi-vendor network.

TNM has purchased ASSET, CONNECT and OPTIMA from AIRCOM’s  ENTERPRISE suite to replace tools from two different vendors. The products were selected for their ease of integration within a multi-vendor network and also for their use of a centralised database, meaning that valuable network performance data may be integrated and shared throughout the business.

Telmap once again proves its technological leadership in enhancing mobile location services

London, 11th November 2009: Telmap, the world leader in mobile location solutions, today announces the availability of two new patented technologies, which will improve the application design process for developers and search experience. The approval of these patents proves once again that Telmap is at the forefront of location related innovation.

The first patent exclusively makes native mobile operating systems’ functions accessible for mobile application developers. Native functions are those that are unique to a specific mobile operating system, such as Windows Mobile, Symbian, BREW, etc. Previously, developers using platform-independent programming languages were unable to embed native functions into their applications because access to the native functions was often not supported by the programming languages’ standard APIs.

Device line-up adds the new BlackBerry Bold 9700, BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones

BlackBerry Developer Conference, San Francisco, California: - November 11th 2009: Cellcrypt (www.cellcrypt.com), the leading provider of secure mobile voice calling, today announced that its Cellcrypt Mobile for BlackBerry® application is now available on the recently launched BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone and for the first time on the BlackBerry® Curve™ and BlackBerry® Pearl™ series of smartphones. Cellcrypt now brings secure voice calling to a wider range of BlackBerry smartphones across a broad range of price points.

The requirement for secure voice calling is now greater than ever. Recent media coverage of well-known individuals having their mobile phone security compromised, and of a hacker organisation’s detailed plans for cracking standard GSM cell phone call encryption, demonstrate an increasing need for organisations to ensure sensitive information remains secure.