Remote communities in the former French colony of Senegal can now use mobile phones as a result of the installation of Alcatel-Lucent’s 200th solar-powered cell site. The French equipment maker installed a GSM site, including the base station, microwave and other electrical components, is powered entirely by solar energy. The site now enables residents on [...]

A new study by IBM Institute for Business Value finds that corporations can gain a competitive advantage over rivals as well as develop new revenue streams by adopting corporate social responsibility practices. “A growing body of evidence asserts that corporations can do well by doing good,” the authors of the report, George Pohle and Jeff [...]

British Telecom has joined a growing number of the corporations who are building their own energy generating facilities to access renewable energy solutions and to establish energy security. In a deal structure common with corporate alternative energy deployments, BT will engage Solar Power Partners and EI Solutions, to construct and run the approximately 500 kW [...]

Telwares, a consultancy that helps Global 2000 corporations manage telecommunications spending, has announced a new initiative to help its customers manage the recycling of old handsets. Launched as part of Telwares’ Mobile Lifecycle Management solution, the new cell phone recycling service offers a secure and green way to dispose of old phones. “It is estimated [...]

On the eve of the 3rd anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, a group of leading companies, including the likes of Sony, Nokia and Nike, came together to sign their own accord to fight climate change. Presented by Sony chairman and CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, at the Climate Savers Summit 2008 organized by WWF and Sony, [...]

Taiwanese incumbent operator Chunghwa Telecom has signed the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) into its green data centre located in the city of Panchiao, southwest of Taipei. As part of the deal, Chunghwa will help the exchange construct a new online transaction servicing centre to stocks and futures transactions. The TSE facility is expected to be [...]

The Telenor Group has been ranked the best Mobile Telecom company in the world by the Sustainability Yearbook 2008. PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) invite the 2,500 largest companies based on the Dow Jones Global Index every year to participate in SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment. Telenor was awarded both titles for the Mobile Telecom [...]

Remember Malaysia’s multimedia corridor during the dotcom era? Well now the Malaysian government is taking the concept into the renewable energy space with the announcement of the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, announced in February that the government will spend an initial 5 billion ringgit (about US$1.5 billion) [...]

Comment by Tony Chan In preparation for an upcoming report on the impact of rising energy prices on the telecommunications industry, I could not help but notice the similarities between the two markets albeit inside a kind of time warp. When I first started to report on the telecommunications industry in Hong Kong, it was [...]

Severe power shortages in South Africa are threatening to disrupt telecommunications services in the country. Africa’s biggest economy is currently in a nationwide emergency as demand for electricity has outstripped supply and generation capacity. The country’s power utility, Eskom has had to implement load shedding measures that have resulted in widespread blackouts – even on [...]