The Wall Street Journal cited a report on Thursday regarding launch of Verizon Wireless’ first mobile handset with 4G network by 2011. It reported that the mobile devices will be having five times faster pace than broadband...
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Swedish mobile operator Telia is upgrading its mobile broadband base stations in central Stockholm to deliver speeds of 100 Mbps. The rest of its LTE base stations will undergo the upgrade process beginning this spring...
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T-Mobile announced that the webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick, the first HSPA+ device for the U.S., will be available beginning on Sunday, March 14. HSPA+ is interesting because it could enable 4G LTE-like speeds...
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Asian mobile operator group Axiata plans to offer up to 20 percent in its Indonesian subsidiary XL Axiata to institutional investors. Axiata owns 86.5 percent of XL Axiata. The exercise will be carried out via an international....
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China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Wednesday it was investing $5.8 billion in a Chinese bank as part of a plan to develop mobile phone banking and business services.Under the ...
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The roll-out in India of mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to delay beyond a March 31 deadline, because operators have not yet upgraded their infrastructure, the country's minister of state for communications...
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Vodafone Italia has made its first data connection using LTE at the Technology and Service Centre Creation lab in Milan using commercial equipment from Nokia Siemens Networks. Vodafone Italia has been conducting LTE...
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US communications holding company AT&T has activated a new cell site in Nelson county, Virginia, the company announced on Thursday. The new cell site reportedly expands wireless coverage on Route 29 between...
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German MVNO Radicens has launched a mobile data flatrate on the T-Mobile Germany network using its MoobiAir brand. The service complements MoobiAir's existing so-called mobile DSL service via O2 Germany's network....
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Mobile Operator Forecast on Egypt provides over 50 operational and financial metrics for Egypt's wireless market and is one of the best forecasts in the industry. We provide five-year forecasts at the operator level going...
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Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology is a continuing driving force behind wireless networks around the globe and according to the CDMA Development Group (CDG), there were 431 million CDMA subscribers...
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Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine...
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Singapore's SingTel says that it may offer financial assistance to India's Bharti Airtel in its attempt to buy Zain's African mobile networks, a senior SingTel executive has told . SingTel owns just under a third of the Indian...
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Huawei has overtaken Nokia Siemens Networks in the microwave equipment market, taking the third-place spot for the first time. Ericsson and NEC continued their battle over the top spot, with Ericsson eking ahead in 2009 ...
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Globecomm Systems, a provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure services, has acquired Carrier to Carrier Telecom (C2C) and the assets of Evolution Communication (Evocomm) from Carrier to Carrier...
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The Dutch mobile industry generated EUR 6.5 billion in service revenue for the full year 2009, up 0.9 percent from a year earlier. The growth rate slowed from an increase of 2.4 percent in 2008. According to  quarterly mobile...
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S Tel, a joint venture between Chennai-based Shiva Group and Bahrain Telecom, on Thursday told the Supreme Court that in view of the dwindling revenue and multiplicity of operators, the company has to rework its strategy ...
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Escalating the war of words over spectrum, Vodafone Essar has now alleged that Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices have already  launched third generation (3G) services and, therefore,should...
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US mobile network operator Verizon Wireless and consumer electronics company CASIO announced on Thursday that the water, dust and shock resistant CASIO G'zOne Brigade is available now.According to the company,
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Ciena(R) Corporation  , the network specialist, today announced that Sun Prairie Water & Light (SPW&L), a municipal utility company based in Sun Prairie, Wis., has deployed its Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery...
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Mobile networks may not be getting upgraded as fast as some subscribers would like, but carrier spending on infrastructure is expected to rebound slightly this year after falling in 2009.Revenue from sales of mobile radio and...
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The NFL has signed a four-year agreement with Verizon Wireless to show live games and highlights on mobile phones in a deal U.S. media reported was worth $720 million."We are looking forward to working with Verizon...
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Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive...
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As carriers start to see the results of field trials, and even commercial deployments, of LTE, the game of spinning the performance figures begins. We've already seen considerable dispute over the real world data rates ...
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After a rough two years, mobile operators will look to increase their capital expenditure on improving their networks in 2010. ABI Research expects mobile CAPEX to grow by more than 4% YoY in 2010, after contracting ...
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