Vodafone Qatar has signed a QAR125 million (USD34.5 million) agreement with IT services provider MEEZA, a newly established joint venture part-owned by the cellco’s minority shareholder Qatar Foundation. MEEZA agreed to....
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The government of Colombia is preparing to award 15MHz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band to mobile operators Movistar and Comcel. Currently, the operators each have 40MHz of spectrum covering the 850MHz and 1900MHz....
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Russian mobile operator Mobile Telesystems (MTS) has announced the launch of its ninth and tenth 3G networks in Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk. MTS launched its first pan-regional Russian 3G network in St. Petersburg in May....
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DivX today announced certification of the Samsung Omnia, the newest handset in a growing series of DivX Certified(R) mobile products by Samsung. The Samsung Omnia is the first Windows Mobile-based DivX Certified phone on....
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According to a report, San Francisco Open Mobile Summit saw Google and Nokia gave a not-so-subtle brawl over each other's OS'. Google exec Rich Miner began by pointing at Symbian’s security flaws, which were vehemently....
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HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its latest handset, the HTC Touch HD™, an entertainment focused mobile handset that will transform how people experience multimedia....
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Mobile network operators in developed regions should prepare for a tenfold increase in wireless network traffic by 2015, as data traffic rapidly overtakes voice, according to the latest report entitled Wireless network traffic 2008–2015....
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According to Korean paper Yonhap, Samsung has proudly proclaimed that global sales of its high megapixel packing cameraphones have topped 10 million units this year. Nokia sold 10 million of the N95 alone when we compare....
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Y-Max Networks (YMN), a subsidiary of YTL Corporation (YTL), has announced a deal with hardware vendor Cisco to establish the formers core WiMAX network in Malaysia. The agreement will see Cisco build and integrate....
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Motorola is rolling out a trial WiMAX network for Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), the wholly owned broadband and internet subsidiary of dominant state-owned telco VNPT. The deployment follows the inking....
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has reported that its third-quarter net profit fell by 31% year-on-year, after being driven down by higher costs and inflation. The national PSTN operator said net income in the three months ended 30 September....
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Brazilian telecoms group Oi Participacoes (Telemar) said yesterday that it will soon have enough funds in place to complete its takeover of fellow operator Brasil Telecom (BrT), following its planned issuance of BRL2 billion (USD877.6 million) in....
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The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued preliminary results of an audit estimating that phone companies have been overpaid USD970.3 million in subsidies from the Universal....
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Israeli vendor Gilat Satellite Networks is to provide Mongolian VSAT operator Incomnet with a cellular backhaul solution to the latter’s satellite communications network in order to serve Mongolia's mobile operators. The solution....
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Nordic CDMA450 network operator, Nordisk Mobiltelefon (Ice) has filed for financial protection while it restructures its operations in Norway and Sweden. The move does affect its other networks in Poland or Denmark.The....
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Fitch Ratings has downgraded Greek mobile operator, WIND Hellas' Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'B-' (B minus) from 'B' on concerns about its leverage and future cashflow generation. The short-term rating is affirmed at....
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Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL), the 50:50 joint venture formed by Hutchison 3G UK (3UK) and T-Mobile UK to manage the integration of both operators' 3G radio access networks (RAN), has awarded Ericsson....
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Fitch Ratings has revised Norway-based telecommunications provider Telenor's Outlook to Negative from Stable. At the same time the agency has affirmed Telenor's Long-term Issuer Default (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at 'BBB+'....
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Deutsche Telekom AG said Friday it has secured employee approval for shutting many of its call centers in Germany after it agreed to close nine fewer facilities than originally planned.Deutsche Telekom said in August it wanted....
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New Jersey corrections officials have a new way of detecting certain contraband in prisons: cell phone-sniffing dogs. The Corrections Department's Canine Unit has trained several dogs to detect cell phones, even when they are turned....
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Turkey has awarded three 3G licenses to the incumbent operators following an auction to battle over the spectrum allocation. Turkcell won the largest block (A License) with a bid of €358 million ($462 million), followed by Vodafone....
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Genasys says that it has signed an agreement with the firm CellTrack for a LBS project in Pakistan. CellTrack will launch, from the first quarter of 2009, location based services (LBS) in Pakistan. CellTrack has signed agreements....
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Singaporean mobile operator StarHub has launched the Home Zone, a commercially-available 3G femtocell service. The 3G femtocell is a portable mobile access device that connects the user's 3G mobile phone directly to a....
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The Turkish Ministry of Finance announced that the Special Communication Tax on mobile internet service will be lowered from 25 percent to 5 percent. Also the tax on fixed internet will be lowered from 15 percent to 5 percent. In....
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Italian regulator Agcom has confirmed cuts in mobile termination rates in the period to 2011. The final decision, agreed earlier this month with the European Commission, will see Wind, Tim and Vodafone charge 5.3 cents in 2011. That's....
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