Google mobile services are now "partially blocked" in mainland China, according to a China service availability Web site set up by the search engine giant.In the wake of Google's decision to redirect Google.cn traffic to the ...
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Swedish telecom giant Ericsson said Monday it had won contracts to provide equipment to two of China's largest operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, to the tune of 1.8 billion dollars (1.3 billion euros)....
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The nation's third largest wireless carrier has at least a year-and-a-half head start over its closest competitor, Verizon Wireless, when it comes to 4G. But to capitalize on that lead, the company has to win as many subscribers...
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Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar have started selling Apple’s iPhone 3GS in India. The Apple tie-up comes at a time when operators, such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, are banking on the auction of 3G wireless bandwidth,...
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The number of cellular M2M (machine-to-machine) connections will triple over the next five years, reaching more than 200 million in 2014, according to ABI Research.To address this growing market, one of the leading US ...
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Tellabs introduced a "Smart" GGSN based on its SmartCore 9100 Platform and designed for 3G and 4G networks.The Tellabs Smart GGSN adds intelligence and analytics to improve network control for mobile carriers....
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Hutchison Whampoa has reported an 14% drop in full-year revenues to HK$300.6 billion (US$38.7 billion) from a year ago, largely due to the poor performance of its ports and energy operations. However, net profits rose by...
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Brasil Telecom SA gained for the first time in nine days after JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised the Brazilian phone company taken over by Telemar Norte Leste SA to “overweight” from “neutral.”Brasil Telecom jumped ...
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France Telecom aims to double its revenues in emerging countries in the next five years, CEO Stephane Richard told the groups' top 500 managers, writes La Tribune. Richard has drawn up a five-point action plan reaffirming...
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Russian telecommunications holding company Sistema is looking into a bid to acquire Telekom Austria, according to Austrian newspaper Krone Zeitung, citing financial market sources. Sistema's main owner Vladimir...
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Ofcom, the UK communications regulator plans to order the mobile operators inthe UK to reduce charges for connecting calls from a rival network, a move that will save consumers approximately £1 billion.Currently a mobile..
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State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) has abandoned its bid to buy out Zambian telco Zamtel as BSNL too has backed out from the deal, a senior company executive said. MTNL and BSNL were to jointly bid ..
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India's leading telecom company Bharti Airtel will sign the final agreement Tuesday with Kuwait's Zain to buy its African assets, other than those in Morocco and Sudan, for $10.7 billion, reports a Kuwaiti newspaper....
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Telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson recently announced the signing of 2G/3G frame agreements with Chinese wireless operators China Mobile and China Unicom, aimed at the expansion of their networks...
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Alcatel-Lucent will support the closing of a USD 97 million credit facility extended to Russian and CIS mobile operator MTS. With a final maturity in January 2019, this credit facility is backed by the German Export Credit Agency,..
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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday said all the nine companies, which have submitted their applications to participate in the auction of 3G spectrum, have qualified for the bidding process.Nine telecom...
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The month of February, 2010 saw India scaling past the 600 million subscriber base mark for telecom services with wireless subscribers forming the major part with 563.73 million subscribers. The month of February....
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was reported to be sealing illegal mobile towers in various parts of New Delhi. In one district, as one mobile tower was sealed, 10 towers were removed by the mobile operators. In...
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Kuwait's Zain telecom and India's top mobile firm Bharti Airtel are expected to sign a 10.7 billion dollar deal for the sale of Zain's African assets on Tuesday, a Kuwaiti daily reported.Citing unnamed informed sources...
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Clearwire Communications, LLC, an operating subsidiary of Clearwire Corporation announced today the expansion of its sales operations for CLEAR's super fast mobile Internet service throughout greater Houston. The company ...
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Orange Jordan, an integrated telecom operator, has launched the first 3G+ networking service in the kingdom.The new network will preliminarily deliver services to select areas in Amman, Irbid and Zarqa and will gradually....
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Huawei, a provider of telecommunications network offerings, has won a HSPA+ network contract from SaskTel. The network will utilise Huawei's SingleRAN offering and fourth-generation base stations. Huawei said...
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Japanese operator Softbank Mobile plans to increase its network spending by 54 percent in the fiscal year to March 2011. The increase in capital spending is expected to help prepare its network for an anticipated surge in...
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India telecom tribunal TDSAT on Friday stayed the hike in spectrum charges for both GSM and CDMA mobile operators, a development that will hit the government's revenues. In an interim order, the Telecom Dispute Settlement...
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Opera has proven to be very successful with their 90% compression technology. Earlier in October they claimed to save a total of $8 billion in terms of bandwidth cost for Mobile Subscribers. The technology states that ...
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