Motive, a provider of digital life management solutions for fixed and mobile broadband services and an Alcatel-Lucent company, has been selected by STC (Saudi Telecom Company), a telecommunications carrier in Saudi Arabia, to deliver its High Speed Internet ServiceView solution.

The solution offers a unified customer care environment aimed at providing end-to-end visibility and control of broadband services with automated problem analysis and resolution for STC’s network.

Additionally, Alcatel-Lucent will provide STC with a complete set of services encompassing installation, commissioning, project management and software customisation and integration.

Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom services provider headquartered in India, has launched its m-commerce service – ‘Mchek on Airtel’ on the voice platform. This service enables use of voice (IVR) for m-commerce transactions for all Airtel mobile customers. The customer has to call 543219 to access the service which is toll free.

The new service will enable Airtel customers to pay Airtel mobile and fixed-line bills, recharge the company’s pre-paid and digitalTV accounts, recharge Delhi-Gurgaon expressway toll tags, pay insurance premiums, buy gifts, tickets and shop using their mobile phones.

To avail this service, Airtel customers has to go through a one-time registration that will link the user’s credit card automatically to the Mchek on Airtel service. For all future transactions the user is required to only enter a six-digit MchekPIN on their registered mobile number to authorise the transaction.

The service provides an on-demand solution for mobile payments with a two-step authentication process, the MchekPIN and the Mobile Number.

America Movil and Nokia has signed an agreement to bring a “top-of-the-line messaging experience” in multiple devices to customers in Latin America.

Through this agreement, the Nokia Messaging solution will be available to America Movil customers in seven countries before the end of the year.

Through Nokia Messaging, America Movil customers will be able to aggregate and manage multiple e-mail accounts while on the move in a single application, Nokia said.

The two companies have agreed to launch Nokia Messaging first in five countries this summer with the Nokia E63, Nokia E71 Black, Nokia E72 and Nokia E75. These devices will include the licence for Nokia Messaging, which will be promoted in attractive data plans together with America Movil, the company added.