Cellular-News for Wednesday 25th January 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

3 UK Offers Users Cash Credit To Receive Calls, Texts
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3 UK, the mobile telecommunications company owned by Hutchison Whampoa, Tuesday unveiled a promotion that pays its users to receive calls and texts. ...

Ukraine's Ukrtelecom expects to get 29% of 3G market by 2010

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Ukraine's national fixed-line monopoly Ukrtelecom expects to control

29% of the Ukrainian third generation (3G) mobile services market by 2010, Igor Sirotenko, the company's deputy chairman of the board of directors, told an investment conference...

3G Test Calls Made at 900Mhz Band

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Nortel, Qualcomm and Orange have successfully completed UMTS and HSDPA calls in the 900 MHz band. W-CDMA in the 900 MHz band is a cost effective way to deliver nationwide high-speed wireless coverage. It achieves a 60 percent reduction in cell sites ...

[[ Financial ]]

Vodafone Doesn't Rule Out Verizon Wireless Sale

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Vodafone Group Chief Executive Arun Sarin Tuesday declined to rule out a sale of its 45% stake in U.S. mobile operator Verizon Wireless. ...

NEWS SNAP: Vodafone Outlook Unchanged Despite Europe Pressure

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Vodafone Group PLC, the world's largest mobile telecommunications company by revenue, Tuesday maintained its mid-term outlook despite an increase in competition in continental European markets. ...

NEWS WRAP: Lucent Posts 1Q Loss As Sales Decline

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NEW YORK (AP)--Lucent Technologies on Tuesday reported a $104 million loss for its fiscal first quarter, reflecting a large litigation charge and a 12% sales decline at the telecommunications equipment maker. ...

EARNINGS PREVIEW: Nokia 4Q Profit Seen Hit By Low-End Focus

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Nokia is expected to post a 1.9% drop in fourth-quarter net profit Thursday, with sales growth crimped by falling prices, a greater focus on lower-margin handsets and weakness in the networks division. ...

NEWS WRAP: Cingular Reports 4Q Profit On Subscriber Gains

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ATLANTA (AP)--Cingular Wireless, the USA's largest cell phone provider, swung to a profit in the fourth quarter on strong subscriber and revenue growth. ...

Lucent CEO Calls Weaker Year View A Temporary Setback

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Lucent Technologies Chief Executive Pat Russo said she considers the company's weaker revenue expectations for the year to be a short-term issue. ...

Cingular CFO: Average Revenue Per User Stabilizing

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As Cingular Wireless' customer turnover and subscriber growth trends improve, its average revenue per user appears to be stabilizing, according to Chief Financial Officer Pete Ritcher. ...

Analysts: Positive outlook for Iusacell following debt deal

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Financially troubled Mexican mobile operator Iuscaell reached a deal with creditors over the weekend to restructure its more than US$800mn in debt, the company said in a statement. ...

[[ Legal ]]

T-Mobile Sues Purported Cell Phone Record Brokers

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T-Mobile USA said it filed a lawsuit against online data brokers it believes are involved in illegally selling cell phone records of some of its customers. ...

Ukrainian court challenges Kyivstar's board, CEO nomination clause

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Ukraine's High Commercial Court ruled Tuesday that the charter clause on the nomination of members to the board of directors and the CEO of Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar should be revised. ...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Users Disappointed with Mobile TV - report

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Strategy Analytics has released a report which concludes that current generation Mobile TV services in Germany are failing to impress users due to poor network performance, lack of compelling content and inadequate devices. While T-Mobile's Handy TV ...

Opera Releases Java based Web Browser for All Phones

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The web browser developer, Opera Software has announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, the full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets. The launch follows the trials of Opera Mini in the Nordics ...

[[ Network Contracts ]]

GSM Coverage Improved for Winter Olympics

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In advance of the rush of tourists and spectators who will attend the XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy next month, Andrew Corporation has completed the first phase of a multi-operator cellular system within the host city's underground that wil...

Huawei Wins Portugese HSDPA Contract

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The Portuguese mobile operator Optimus and Huawei have came to an understanding to deploy a HSDPA network with significant size over Portugal mainland, Madeira and Azores. According to the timing plan, Optimus HSDPA network will be the first full-per...

[[ Network Operators ]]

Russia's Baikalvestcom to invest $80 mln in network this year

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Russian mobile operator Baikalvestcom plans to invest U.S. $80 million to expand its network in the Irkutsk Region this year, Vladimir Shapovalov, Baikalvestcom's general director, told reporters Tuesday. ...

ICE's TDMA/GSM migration suffers delay

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Plans by Costa Rican telecoms monopoly ICE to migrate its mobile telephony customers from TDMA technology to GSM have been put back, local daily Al Da reported. ...

Limited Resumption of Services in Nepal

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Following last week's shut down of all mobile phones in Nepal, the state run operator, Nepal Telecom has been given permission to restart services for contract customers. PrePay customers however remain disconnected from the network. The country's se...

[[ Offbeat ]]

Ban On Phones in Schools Advised

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The UK local government, Knowsley Council is advising all its schools to ban the use of mobile phones by pupils during the day. The authority's newly-approved policy guidelines recommend a total ban on mobiles in primary schools. And councillors have...

[[ Regulatory ]]

Ministry seeks to raise mobile quality requirements

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Colombia's communications ministry plans to ratchet up the current 3% maximum dropped call rate permissible for mobile operators to 0.5%, reported local daily La Republica. ...

Govt plans spectrum valuation to prepare for auction

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The Ecuadorian government plans to hire an investment bank to determine the value of the concessions and frequencies currently used by mobile operators Porta and Movistar, reported local daily La Hora. ...

VimpelCom: Russian regulator to hear its complaint Jan 30

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A commission of Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service, or FAS, is to consider January 30 a complaint filed by Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom against the State Radio Frequency Commission, VimpelCom said Tuesday. ...

[[ Reports ]]

Worldwide Wi-Fi Hotspots Hits the 100,000 Mark

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The number of worldwide Wi-Fi hotspots has surpassed the 100,000 milestone according to recent numbers released by JiWire.JiWire's "Top Ten" lists count the number of verified public hotspots in cities and countries around the world, serving as a dep...

[[ Statistics ]]

Vodafone Japan Mobile Phone Users Up Net 125,200 Oct-Dec

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The Japanese unit of UK mobile phone firm Vodafone Group said Tuesday it added a net 125,200 subscribers to its mobile phone service in the October-December quarter. ...

Users of CDMA-800 network in Ukraine up 93.34% on yr in 2005

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The number of subscribers of Ukraine's stationary mobile network CDMA-800 increased 93.34% on the year to 116,000 users in 2005, the Association of CDMA operators of Ukraine said Tuesday. ...

[[ Technology ]]

Single-Chip CMOS HSDPA / WEDGE RF Transceiver for 3G Handsets

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Sirific Wireless has introduced the mobile industry's first single-chip CMOS HSDPA / W-EDGE RF transceiver. The SW3200 RF transceiver supports transmit and receive operation in five WCDMA bands (I, II, III, IV and V), as well as all four EDGE, GPRS, ...

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