Cellular-News for Wednesday 11th January 2006

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[[ Financial ]]

Sprint: Integration Six To Nine Months Ahead Of Schedule

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The post-merger integration of Sprint PCS and Nextel Communications Inc. is running six to nine months ahead of schedule, said Gary Forsee, president and chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel Corp., the name of the merged company. ...

PKN Orlen CEO: To Sell Polkomtel If Needed For Invest

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Poland's PKN Orlen would sell its 19.6% stake in mobile operator Polkomtel if required to fund new acquisitions or investments in upstream oil production projects, Orlen Chief Executive Igor Chalupec said Tuesday. ...

Telefonica Plans To Restore Strong Financial Position

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Telefonica, the largest telecommunications company in Spain and Latin America, Tuesday said it's looking to re-establish a strong financial position, following a slew of acquisitions last year. ...

Russian telecom companies' revenue up 15% on year in Jan-Sep

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The revenue of Russian telecommunication companies rose 15% on the year to 428.4 billion rubles in January-September 2005, the Federal State Statistics Agency said Tuesday. ...

ANALYSIS: Uncertain future for Hondutel

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Honduras' state telecom company Hondutel is going to have to seek a strategic partner and compete in the internet and mobile telephony segments if it is to survive competition after losing its monopoly on the international long distance market on Dec...

Motorola sees Brazil as key export platform

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US manufacturer Motorola sees Brazil as a key export platform for mobile phones, local newspaper Estado de S.Paulo quoted Motorola country manager Enrique Ussher as saying . ...

Telefonica Says It Will Exit FreeMove Alliance

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Telefonica, the largest telecommunications company in Spain and Latin America, said Tuesday it will leave the FreeMove Alliance in accordance with conditions set by the European Union Commission's authorizing its acquisition of U.K. mobile operator O...

Ceragon Networks and Nokia Sign OEM Agreement

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Israel's Ceragon Networks has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Nokia. Under the agreement, Nokia will include Ceragon's high-capacity FibeAir family with its microwave radio product portfolio as Nokia PowerHopper Vario t...

[[ Handsets ]]

Russia's Euroset enters Kyrgyzstan, opens 5 outlets

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Russia's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset has opened its first five outlets in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, Euroset said in a press release Tuesday. ...

Brazilian mobile phone exports double in 2005

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Brazilian mobile phone exports almost doubled in 2005, according to data from the ministry of development, industry and foreign trade. ...

[[ Legal ]]

Nokia, Kyocera End Patent Dispute

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Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Oyj Tuesday said it has resolved its patent dispute with Kyocera Corp. by entering into a patent license agreement. ...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

ABC To Distribute BBC News Reports For Broadband, Wireless

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NEW YORK (AP)--The British Broadcasting Corp. will make about 40 video news clips available daily in the United States and Canada for Internet and cellphone subscribers through a deal with ABC News. ...

Verizon Wireless Answers Critics Of New Music Service

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NEW YORK (AP)--The first edition of a new music service from Verizon Wireless hampers a cell phone's ability to play MP3 songs acquired elsewhere, a handicap the company says is purely temporary and unrelated to larger battles over digital copyright ...

[[ Network Operators ]]

Outage Hits Sprint Nextel Network, Co. Says

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)--Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast USA were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Phoenix. ...

Outage Hits Sprint Nextel Network, Co. Says

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)--Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast USA were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Phoenix. ...

[[ Offbeat ]]

Lost a Cellphone - or the keys to a Ferrari ?

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Where would you find Ferrari car keys, a laptop, a false leg and a pairof edible knickers? Where else but the Travelodge lost property office. Following a 'lost and found' inventory check of its 290 hotels, Travelodge,a UK based hotel chain has announ...

[[ Personnel ]]

Vodafone Taps British Ambassador for New Job

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Vodafone Group has announced that Matthew Kirk has been appointed as the companys Director of External Relationships. In this new role he will lead Vodafone Group's public policy activities and represent the Company with Governments and key political...

[[ Regulatory ]]

EU OKs Telefonica To Buy UK's O2, With Conditions

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The European Commission Tuesday cleared Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica SA's plan to buy U.K. mobile operator O2 PLC, on condition Telefonica leave the FreeMove international roaming alliance. ...

Mobile liberalization most likely behind schedule in 2007

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Bureaucracy could hold up the proposed liberalization of Costa Rica's mobile phone market in 2007, according to a member of the team drawing up the liberalization bill, local daily Capital Financiero reported. ...

[[ Reports ]]

FMC Will Become the Star of Fixed-line Communication Market

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Analysys International has issued a report which concludes that FMC (Fixed- Mobile Convergence) will become the new star of the fixed-line communication industry, replacing Qbox. According to the research, FMC has obvious phase features. In the initi...

BlackBerry Loyalty Study Shows Opportunities for Competitors

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iGillottResearch has carried out a study detailing the loyalty of RIM BlackBerry users in North America. Fielded in November 2005, the basis for the study was a survey of 803 BlackBerry users in the US and Canada. The survey identified the type of Bl...

[[ Statistics ]]

MTS Belarus' subscriber base up to 2.11 mln people as of Jan 1

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The subscriber base of Belarusian-Russian joint venture Mobile TeleSystems, or MTS Belarus, increased 5.5% in December 2005 to 2.11 million subscribers as of January 1, a spokesperson with the company told Prime-Tass Tuesday. ...

Russia's MTS user base in Chuvash Republic up to 250,000

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The subscriber base of Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) in the Chuvash Republic increased to 250,000 people as of January 1 from 16,000 people as of January 1, 2006, MTS' branch in the republic said in a press release Tuesd...

[[ Technology ]]

DMB Offers Promise for Telecom and Broadcasting Operators

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As the border between broadcasting and telecommunications blurs, DMB will become a key part of global broadcasters' strategies for future business diversification, and will provide tactical momentum driven by bundling of services....

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