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[[ 3G ]]
Hong Kong SmarTone Launches 3G Upgrade
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17688.php
SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings said Tuesday it became the first
of Hong Kong's mobile operators to launch a third-generation wireless
technology upgrade, High Speed Downlink Packet Access. ...
ZTE banks on 3G, NGN products in 2006
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17691.php
Chinese telecoms equipment producer ZTE believes sales of 3G and NGN
products will drive revenue growth in Brazil this year, Angelo
Aere, ZTE's regional director for Sao Paulo told BNamericas. ...
3 UK Tests HSDPA Upgrade
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17704.php
NEC with its 3G partner, Siemens Communications have successfully run
the first live implementation of HSDPA on Hutchison 3G UK's network in
the UK. NEC supplied, installed and tested the HSDPA UTRAN
infrastructure (including RNC and Node B), but unl...
[[ Financial ]]
SK Telecom Denies Report Plans To Buy China Unicom Stake
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17685.php
South Korea's SK Telecom said Tuesday it isn't planning to buy a stake
in China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, as reported
in the Financial Times. ...
Carphone Warehouse Fiscal Year Underlying Earnings +36%
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17686.php
Carphone Warehouse Group, Tuesday reported a 36% jump in annual
underlying earnings with initial consumer demand for its recently
launched free broadband plan significantly ahead of expectations. ...
AT&T-BellSouth Faces Opposition From Sprint, Telcos, ACLU
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17695.php
AT&T's bid to acquire BellSouth ran into opposition from several
different parties late Monday - the American Civil Liberties Union, a
group of small telecommunications companies and Sprint Nextel. ...
[[ Handsets ]]
Sanyo: Y1 Billion Expense Due To Cellphone Software Defect
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17687.php
Japan's Sanyo Electric said Tuesday it will start repairing defective
software in mobile phone handsets it now supplies for KDDI's "au"
phone service, resulting in an expense of Y1 billion (US$8.9 million)
this fiscal year. ...
PRESS: Police seize 40,000 Nokia handsets in St Petersburg
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17689.php
Police in Russia's St. Petersburg on May 6 seized 40,000 mobile
handsets produced by Finland's Nokia that were illegally imported to
Russia, the police said, Kommersant business daily reported
Tuesday. ...
New Music Phone from BenQ Mobile
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17699.php
BenQ Mobile says that it is about to launch the BenQ-Siemens Q-fi
EF51, a music device with an integrated mobile phone. It is the very
first mobile phone within BenQ-Siemens Q-fi range of music-focused
devices. Q-fi products feature easy-to-use musi...
Nokia Handset Gets CDMA Certification
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17706.php
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and Nokia have jointly announced that
the CDMA Certification Forum (CCF) has certified the Nokia 2355
CDMA2000 1X phone for commercial availability. Nokia is the first
tier-one handset manufacturer to utilize the CCF ...
[[ Legal ]]
Motorola files lawsuit against Russia's RussGPS
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17690.php
U.S. telecommunications equipment producer Motorola has filed a
defamation lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court seeking U.S. $18
Comptel Corp. says that it has signed a contract with the Sudan based
Sudatel for the delivery of EventLink mediation solution and
InstantLink provisioning solution for Sudatel's new CDMA
network. Sudatel is currently deploying a new CDMA technology ...
Nokia Wins Hong Kong Switch Contract
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17702.php
Hong Kong operator CSL has chosen the Nokia MSC Server mobile
softswitch to expand its network capacity. Nokia will provide
installation, commissioning and technical support to CSL. Deliveries
will start in June 2006, and the system will be operation...
CDMA Upgrade for Uzbekistan
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17703.php
Huawei Technologies has announced that Perfectum Mobile, the largest
CDMA mobile operator in Uzbekistan, has officially launched the
CDMA2000 1X network deployed by Huawei in Uzbekistan. The network has
been running well and has witnessed a dramatic ...
[[ Network Operators ]]
FTE launches corporate services consolidation through Orange BS
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17692.php
Orange Business Services, the new brand under which France Telecom
gathers its corporate communications services, plans to consolidate
the presence the company previously had in the corporate sector when
operating as Equant, Orange BS Andean region m...
Movistar plans US$2.5mn investment to expand mobile services
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17693.php
Chilean operator Movistar Chile plans to invest US$2.5mn to expand
mobile services to isolated areas under its social program Puentes de
Comunicacin 2006-2010, general manager Oliver Flgel confirmed to
BNamericas. ...
Personal to invest US$12mn this year
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17694.php
Paraguayan mobile carrier Personal, a unit of Telecom Argentina, plans
to invest US$12mn this year, local newspaper ABC Color reported. ...
Russia's Sibirtelecom to launch pilot WiMAX in 3 cities this year
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17697.php
Russian regional telecommunications operator Sibirtelecom plans to
launch pilot WiMAX projects in the cities of Tomsk, Novosibirsk and
Irkutsk later this year, the company said in a statement Tuesday. ...
[[ Regulatory ]]
Over 75% of USA Covered By Phase II Wireless Enhanced 911
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17705.php
Over three-quarters of the USA's population now reside in areas where
wireless 911 service includes delivery of the caller's call back
number and location to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point
(PSAP), a capability known as enhanced 911 (E9...
[[ Reports ]]
Multifunctional Mobiles Make the World Go Round
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17698.php
Almost one in two people around the world now use their mobile device
as their main camera, over two thirds predict a music-enabled mobile
will replace their MP3 player and nearly half want to connect up their
mobile device with their home electronic...
Communications Equipment Industry Awaits Consolidation
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17701.php
Credit ratings will continue to improve for communications equipment
providers, characterized by stronger financial profiles and further
efforts at portfolio diversification, according to Fitch
Ratings. Operating profiles and capital structures have ...
AWS Auctions Set Off Backhaul Reshuffle
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17707.php
The planned August 2006 advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum
auctions in the USA will be accompanied by specific backhaul
challenges, according to industry experts at wireless solutions group,
Radio Frequency Systems (RFS). While the 'new' 1700 ...
[[ Statistics ]]
Kyivstar subscriber base up to 15.48 mln users Jun 1
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17696.php
The subscriber base of Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar rose 11.1%
since the beginning of the year to 15.479 million users as of June 1,
the company said in a press release Tuesday. ...
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