Cellular-News for Wednesday 1st February 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

Novatel Wireless Completes 3.6Mbps Data Call on PC Card Modem

Novatel Wireless says that it has developed the Merlin U870, a HSDPA PC Card Modem, to support the global rollout of HSDPA networks. Novatel Wireless and Siemens have successfully completed their first 3.6Mbps (megabits per second) data call, a wirel...

[[ Financial ]]

Ericsson 4Q Net Profit +52% On Strong Sales

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson, Tuesday said fourth-quarter net profit rose 52%, driven by higher sales in North America and emerging markets. ...

Ericsson CFO: Co Aims For Market Share Gain In EMEA

Swedish telecommuniactions equipment manufacturer, Ericsson sees opportunities for growing market shares in central Europe, Middle East, Africa and in western Europe, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Henrik Sundstroem said on the sidelines of a press con...

TIM Hellas Completes Purchase Of Q-Telecom

Greece's mobile telephony operator TIM Hellas Telecommunications, Tuesday said its wholly-owned unit, Helen GAC Telecommunications, has completed the acquisition of Q-Telecom, the country's fourth-largest mobile operator. ...

[[ Handsets ]]

IDC: 2005 mobile sales top 105 million units

Sales of mobile devices in Latin America are expected to have reached record levels in 2005, with shipments growing beyond 105 million units, a 33.7% increase from 2004, according to a new study from tech consultancy IDC. ...

Venko, Teikon to start up factory in Feb

Brazilian handset manufacturers Venko and Teikon expect to start producing mobile phones in February at a new factory in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, local newspapers reported. ...

Top ten in mobile phone sales in Telia stores in January

The Nokia 5140i captured first place in the first top ten list of

2006, while the No. 1 phone on the December list last year, the Samsung SGH-X640, slipped down to sixth place. Two newcomers have entered the January list since December - the Sony Eri... [[ Legal ]]

Visto Sues Nokia Partner Over Push Email Patents Claim

Visto Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Good Technology. The suit, which alleges that Good's products and services infringe on multiple patents held by Visto, was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of T...

[[ Messaging ]]

Dr Who To Read SMSs Over Landlines

The UK based landline service that enables people to send an SMS to a land phone and have it read out as an audio message has started to recruit celebrities to read out the messages. The first celebrity, who will be used for three months is Tom Baker...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Sonera seeks to build a mobile TV network

Sonera Mobile says that it has filed a licence application to build a nationwide mobile television network in Finland. The company will be ready to start constructing a network targeting at commercial operation in 2006. According to the plan set fort...

[[ MVNO ]]

EU Backs Spain Plan To Open Mobile Networks To MVNOs

The European Commission Tuesday endorsed a plan by Spanish national mobile phone regulators to grant mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, access to the networks of three Spanish operators. ...

[[ Network Operators ]]

DoCoMo To Close 2G Network

Japan's DoCoMo has announced that it aims to shut down its Personal Handyphone System (PHS) mobile phone service at the end of

2007. DoCoMo will announce the specific date for termination of the service after monitoring PHS usage trends of existing c...

CDMA Rollout Update

The CDMA Development Group (CDG)has announced that the number of CDMA2000 operators reached 143 at the end of the last year, and the technology is now deployed in 67 countries across six continents. Furthermore, the number of 1xEV-DO networks nearly do...

[[ Personnel ]]

Nokia Shuffles Finnish Workforce

Finnish mobile phone company Nokia, Tuesday said some 200 people at its network unit will need to be redeployed due to workforce balancing. ...

Vodafone Group: Deputy Group CEO Horn-Smith To Retire

Vodafone Group said Tuesday that Sir Julian Horn-Smith will be retiring from the board at the Annual General Meeting in July

2006. ... [[ Regulatory ]]

Regulator Orders Moviles To Pay Amena EUR40 Million -Source

Spain's telecommunications industry regulator CMT has told Telefonica Moviles it must pay EUR40 million to rival mobile operator Amena following a row over local fees, a person close to the situation said Tuesday. ...

FCC Orders Phone Cos. To Provide Certifications Within Week

The Federal Communications Commission ordered telecommunications companies to file by next Monday annual certifications that detail their operating procedures for complying with rules, including rules for safeguarding customer records. ...

Osiptel bets on small operators, wireless to up teledensity

Peruvian telecoms regulator Osiptel believes small operators and wireless technology are the answers to increasing the country's low teledensity, Osiptel general manager Jaime Cárdenas told BNamericas. ...

Hutchison to appeal license rejection

The Argentine unit of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications plans to appeal a communications ministry SeCom resolution denying it authorization to offer mobile services, local newspaper El Cronista reported. ...

[[ Reports ]]

Electronic Component Price Reductions Decelerate

Price reductions for electronic components slowed during the second half of 2005, as robust consumer demand drove up sales and reduced erosion, according to the latest reading from iSuppli Corp.?s Procurement Pricing Index. Average electronic compone...

[[ Statistics ]]

Russia's MegaFon says user base in Saratov Region up to 500,000

The subscriber base of Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon in the Saratov Region rose to 500,000 users as of now, from 260,000 users as of March 1, 2005, the company said Tuesday. ...

[[ Technology ]]

Nokia Open-Sources its Python Platform

Nokia says that it is to release the source code for its Python for S60 Platform software package to open-source software developers. The source code for Python for S60 Platform will be made available to the open-source software development community...

New System Used to Produce Comparative Study of Network Quality

Sensustech says that it has carried out an in depth, comparative review of the quality delivered by operators in Bristol, a major UK city. The survey covers the areas of greatest interest to subscribers: effective coverage, clarity of calls and relia...