Press Releases

Telecom Italia Sparkle and Bharti Telesoft MOU Announce Joint Launch of a New Prepaid Roaming Hub Solution for Mobile Operators

Telecom Italia Sparkle and Bharti Telesoft today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly work on the commercial launch of a new Prepaid Roaming Hub value added solution for mobile operators globally. The Prepaid Roaming Hub solution enables prepaid roamers to recharge their accounts while roaming on a third party operator’s network. According to VisionGain the market for roaming recharges is estimated to reach 410 million recharges by 2011, generating US$2 billion in revenues. 

Cables&Wireless and Telecom Italia Sparkle partnership shines bright

Telecom Italia Sparkle and Cable&Wireless announced today they have entered an enhanced partnership agreement to drive, expand and support business presence in key growth areas.

IP Migration : Sparkle, founder and leading the pack

Eight major global carriers announce today at the Opening Plenary Session of International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2008, they are joining together and leveraging their communications’ expertise to propose a set of comprehensive recommendations on how to implement and foster the transition of International Voice interconnections to IP.

Telecom Italia Sparkle (TIS) to establish Representative Office in Hanoi, Vietnam

Within Telecom Italia Group, the "Bel Paese" telecommunications giant, worldwide operator with more than 30 Billion Euros annual revenues, TIS Sparkle is a full service International provider, offering a complete range of solutions : voice services, IP, bandwidth and data services for fixed and mobile operators, ISPs and multinational corporations.

IMEWE Submarine Cable Consortium awards contract for the project

A consortium of nine leading international telcos have signed the Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) and the Supply Contract for a high-capacity fiber-optic submarine cable system that stretches from Mumbai, India to Catania, Italy and Marseille France via Gulf and Middle East. IMEWE - India, Middle East, Western Europe - the three fibre pair, new generation submarine cable system shall have minimum design capacity of 3.84 terabits per second and cover a distance of approximately 13,000 kilometers.