cellular-news for Friday 7th April 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

Vodafone's Portugal Unit Launches 3.5G Services

Vodafone's Portuguese unit Thursday began the commercial rollout of its High Speed Packet Data Access service for portable computers. ...

Ericsson to demonstrate up to 28Mbit/s HSPA

Ericsson is performing the world's first (High Speed Packet Access) HSPA demonstration with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology during the CTIA Wireless 2006 show this week. The demo is based on Ericsson's commercial Radio Base Station. ...

NEC Wins 3G Contract

NEC has announced that its HSDPA upgrade is to be deployed in the 3G network of 3 Hong Kong. This contract has been awarded to NEC and its

3G partner Siemens following a successful field trial on 3 Hong Kong's UMTS network. During the field trial, NE... [[ Financial ]]

Vodafone Operations To Be Managed Through Three New Units

Vodafone Group, Thursday announced changes to its organisational structure whereby the operations will be managed through three new business units. ...

Norway's Telenor in talks on Kyivstar proposal with Russia's Altimo

An executive with Norwegian telecommunication company Telenor has met with the CEO of Russia's Altimo to discuss Telenor?s proposal that Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom acquire Ukraine's largest mobile operator Kyivstar, Telenor sai...

Millicom signs for 100% control of Telecel

European mobile holding company Millicom International Cellular has reached an agreement to acquire a 4% share in its Paraguayan mobile unit Telecel, Millicom said in a statement. ...

[[ Handsets ]]

Euroset buys 19 outlets in St Petersburg

Russia's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset has bought 19 outlets from St. Petersburg-based retailer Telecom Point, Euroset said in a corrected press release Thursday. ...

[[ Legal ]]

Movistar incurs order to pay US$1.3mn damages

An arbitration tribunal in Colombia has ordered mobile operator Movistar to pay service reseller Powercell damages of 3.09bn pesos (US$1.3mn) for breach of contract, according to Colombian press reports. ...

[[ Messaging ]]

Mobile E-Mail "Liberates" Professionals - Surprise Report

New research conducted by RONIN Corporation has shown that more than

70% of mobile professionals expect mobile email to 'liberate' them. Amid today's concerns of the continuing erosion of personal time, this research suggests that mobile email can ac... [[ Mobile Content ]]

Ad-funded Mobile Entertainment

According to a survey of members conducted by the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the mobile entertainment industry is overwhelmingly enthusiastic about introducing advertising as another revenue stream for mobile content, with mobile TV/video deem...

Opera Claims 2 Million Browser Users

Opera Software says that its new mobile Web browser, Opera Mini, has attracted two million users around the world since its launch just a few months ago. While every user does not browse every day, the daily number of Web pages surfed with Opera Mini...

[[ Network Contracts ]]

Nokia Wins Bangladeshi GSM Contract

Nokia has won a radio network contract from the Bangladesh GSM network, Warid Telecom. Deliveries have begun, and the network will be launched later this year. As part of the contract, which covers the key Dhaka administrative district, Nokia will su...

[[ Network Operators ]]

Disney Focuses On Parental Control In New Disney Mobile

Disney Mobile, a new service from Walt Disney Co. (DIS) that was unveiled Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless trade show, will focus on parental control and integrated entertainment, the company said. ...

Personal doubles investments in 2006

Argentine mobile operator Telecom Personal, owned by Telecom Argentina, plans to invest up to 500mn pesos (US$162mn) this year, nearly doubling that made in 2005, local press quoted the company's general director Guglielmo Noya as saying. ...

Ukraine's URS launched 40 base stations, has 635 as of April 1

Ukrainian mobile operator Ukrainian Radiosystems, or URS, has launched

40 base stations in January-March increasing the total number of its operating stations to 635 as of April 1, the company's General Director Sergei Mironov told reporters Thursday... [[ Offbeat ]]

Greek Lawmaker Panel Questions PM Aide, Executives On Wiretaps

ATHENS (AP) -- A Greek parliament committee questioned a top government aide and executives from telecom giants Vodafone and Ericsson, Thursday about a major wiretapping scandal that targeted Prime Minister Costas Caramanlis. ...

[[ Personnel ]]

PRESS: Source says Russia's MTS President Sidorov to leave soon

Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) may announce the resignation of its President Vasily Sidorov "very soon," a source in the company said, Biznes business daily reported Thursday. ...

[[ Regulatory ]]

Chile Antitrust Court Suspends Telefonica Moviles Auction

Chile's antitrust court temporarily suspended an auction of mobile spectrum by the Chilean unit of mobile telephony company Telefonica Moviles, the court said on its Web site Thursday. ...

[[ Reports ]]

American Mobile Data Usage Surges

Telephia reports that mobile data usage in the USA, such as text and multimedia messaging, mobile Web, and downloads, has reached the 50% adoption mark in Q4 2005, rising seven percentage points since the beginning of the year. The latest data from T...

[[ Statistics ]]

TIM: Mobile market to hit 100 million users this year

Brazil's second largest mobile operator TIM expects the country's mobile market to surge to 100 million users this year, up from the

86.2 million users reported by industry regulator Anatel at end-2005, local news service Agencia Estado reporte...

Uzbekistan's telecom revenue up 36.4% on year in Jan-Mar

Revenue from telecommunications services in Uzbekistan rose 36.4% on the year to 110.2 billion som in January-March, Uzbekistan's State IT and Telecommunications Agency said Thursday. ...