Articles by Richard Mumford, International Editor

At Alcatel’s new regional headquarters for the Middle East, located in the Smart Village in Cairo, Egypt, the company has launched a ‘Partnership Space’ so that it can work with local companies to help them accomplish multimedia service projects adapted to the needs of local users. Under the scope...

The Portuguese Ministry of Defence has awarded Indra with the contract to extend the country’s air surveillance network to the Madeira Islands, as well as its integration into the command and control line within NATO’s sphere. The contract, initially for €18 M, is for the implementation of a Lanza...

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), a major international, industry-wide consortium, has been announced, combining the technology and expertise of 27 major companies to recommend a unified approach to creating a global network centric environment. The NCOIC was created in response to customer requests that industry assume a...

Alcatel has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Great River Energy, a generation and transmission cooperative in Minnesota, to supply and install a microwave communications network covering multiple phases. Alcatel will replace and upgrade the company’s existing analogue microwave radios in order to provide better internal communications capability and allow...