Cellular-News for Wednesday 26th April 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

Georgia to auction 3rd generation mobile licenses on May 23

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Georgia's National Communications Commission plans to auction licenses for third generation (3G) mobile services on May 23, the commission said Tuesday. ...

3G Licenses for Macau
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The Macau government plans to license three 3G licenses this coming October. In a press conference, Tou Veng Keong, coordinator of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Development Office launched the tender document and set a six month d... [[ Financial ]]

Elisa 1Q Pretax Profit EUR39 Million Vs EUR39 Million

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STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones) Elisa Oyj, the finnish telecommunications operator, Tuesday reported net profit easing to EUR30 million in the first quarter from EUR33 million a year ago. . The group's earnings per share amounted to EUR0.18, down from EUR0.23 ...

TeliaSonera 1Q Net Up, Unveils Extra Dividend

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TeliaSonera, the Nordic region's largest telecommunications operator, Tuesday reported a 16% increase in first-quarter net profit and pledged an annual additional dividend payment. ...

Japan's KDDI Jan-Mar Group Net Profit Y32.6 Billion Vs Y46.5 Billion

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Japanese telecom carrier KDDI Corp. said Tuesday its net profit for the quarter ended March fell 30% on year, hurt by higher sales promotion costs and a special loss from writing down assets. ...

New AT&T Boosts Earnings By 63%

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AT&T Inc., formerly known as SBC Communications, posted a 63% increase in first-quarter profit Tuesday, helped by the acquisition of the old Ma Bell as well as strong growth in wireless and broadband services. ...

AMX in talks to buy Entel from Almendral

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Latin America's largest mobile operator America Mvil is in talks to buy Chile's second largest telco Entel from the Almendral holding group, Signals Consulting president Jose Otero told BNamericas. ...

VimpelCom says plans to borrow $700 mln in 2006

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Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom plans to borrow about U.S. $700 million in 2006, the company said in a statement Tuesday. ...

[[ Handsets ]]

Russian police destroy 50,000 Motorola handsets

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The Russian Interior Ministry started Tuesday destroying 50,000 Motorola C115 mobile handsets that were earlier seized from Russia's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset, Irina Zubarev, a spokeswoman with the ministry's K department, said Tuesday,...

Three New Phones Multimedia Computers from Nokia

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Nokia has unveiled a new range of Nokia N-series phones, which the company insists on referring to as "multimedia computers and experiences". The Nokia Nseries range is an example of the fastest growing product category in the mobile space: converged...

Asia-Pacific Region Overtakes EMEA in Smartphone Shipments

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The latest market estimates from Canalys show some major changes happening in the worldwide market for smart mobile devices (handhelds, wireless handhelds and smart phones), with new names appearing in the global top five. Despite a sequential fall i...

[[ Legal ]]

Siget probes operators over stolen cell phone activation claims

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El Salvador's telecommunications regulator Siget is investigating allegations that one of the country's five mobile operators is allowing customers to activate stolen cell phones, local daily La Prensa reported. ...

[[ Messaging ]]

China, Expecting 'BlackBerry,' Already Has 'Redberry'

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NEW YORK (AP)--The BlackBerry e-mail device is coming to China in the next few months. By then, thousands of Chinese may already be checking their e-mail on the new 'Redberry.' ...

UK Text Messaging Reaches Record Levels

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March 2006 goes on record as the month with the highest ever number of SMS's sent throughout the UK. Figures for March have topped the previous highest monthly total of 3.11 billion in December 2005, to deliver an extraordinary 3.19 billion messages ...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Unions Agree Mobile TV Royalty Payments

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Three Hollywood unions say that they have jointly secured an agreement regarding payments to actors who appear in video clips sent to mobile phones. The Directors Guild of America (DGA), Writers Guild of America, west (WGAw) and the Screen Actors Gui...

[[ Network Operators ]]

VimpelCom CEO Wants To Tempt Russians To 'Phone More

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Russia's second-largest mobile phone operator Vimpel Communications plans to increase revenue by encouraging customers to use the telephone more, Chief Executive Alexander Izosimov said Tuesday. ...

CTI plans US$262mn investment

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Argentine mobile operator CTI Mvil, a unit of Mexico's America Mvil, plans to invest US$262mn in 2006, local newspaper La Nacion quoted the company's regional CEO Carlos Zenteno as saying. ...

[[ Personnel ]]

Deputy telecoms minister fired amid accusations of corruption

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Bolivia's President Evo Morales has fired deputy telecoms minister Jorge Estrella Ayala following accusations that Estrella demanded a US$100,000 bribe from mobile operator Startel, according to local press reports. ...

Phone Employees Killed in Iraq

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Six employees of the Iraqi mobile phone network, MTC Atheer were shot dead yesterday, at Nakhib, 300 km west of the Shiite holy city of Karbala, reported Major Mahdi Saleh of Karbala's crime department. No further details have been provided. A total ...

[[ Regulatory ]]

OFCOM Provisionally Awards Spectrum Licences

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The U.K. Office of Communications, or OFCOM, said Tuesday that 12 companies have been provisionally awarded Wireless Telegraphy Licences for the 1781.7-1785MHz paired with 1876.7-1880MHz bands. ...

[[ Reports ]]

Distribution The Path to Success for Mobile Platform Suppliers

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The future business models for Service Platform Environments will be based on revenue sharing licence sales is history says Strand Consults. The market for Service Platform Environments is still in its infancy, but due to increasing competition thi...

[[ Statistics ]]

Statistics agency says Ukraine's mobile users up 10% in Jan-Mar

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The subscriber base of Ukrainian mobile operators amounted to 33.034 million people as of April 1, up 10.1% compared with December 31,

2005, Ukraine's State Statistics Committee said in a statement Tuesday. ...
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