Cellular-News: Monday 15th May 2006

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[[3G News]]

HSPA Networks to Dominate Mobile Infrastructure Revenue

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High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network deployments will garner over

60% of infrastructure revenue in 2012, according to a new report from Telecom Trend. The report says the infrastructure market will generate over $100 billion in revenue in 2012. "W... [[Financial News]]

O2 End March User Base 32.79 Million, +16% Or 699,000 On Year

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O2 Chairman & Chief Executive, Peter Erskine, said Friday that during the first quarter "The strong momentum in all O2's businesses has been maintained within the Telefonica Group. Across O2, now including the Czech Republic, we added 699,000 mobile ...

O2 CEO Sees Mobile Roaming Use Increasing This Summer

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UK mobile-telecommunications operator O2 said Friday it sees people increasing the use of mobile phones on holidays, as roaming charges decline. ...

Telefonica Profit Jumps 40% On O2, Cesky

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Telefonica, Europe third-largest telecommunications company, on Friday said quarterly profit jumped 40%, helped by the contribution of recent acquisitions O2 and Cesky Telecom. ...

Telecom net profit drops 99%

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Telecom Argentina closed the first quarter of 2006 with a net profit of 3mn pesos (US$984,898), down 99% compared to the 279mn-peso profit posted in the same period in 2005, the company said in a statement. ...

TEM: LatAm operations now represent 50% of total revenues

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Spain's Telefónica Móviles saw its Latin American revenues grow 35% in the first quarter compared to 1Q05, reaching 2.17bn euros (US$2.78bn), TEM said in a statement. ...

[[Handsets News]]

Motorola Sues Over Handset Copies

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Motorola says that it has reached agreement in a lawsuit filed against South Korean manufacturer KBT Mobile for infringements of patents, trademarks and designs for the Motorola RAZR mobile phone. With the settlement, KBT has agreed to discontinue al...

[[Legal News]]

Speedus Files Patent Suits Against Verizon Wireless

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Speedus Corp. on Friday said its unit, CellularVision Technology & Telecommunications L.P., has filed patent infringement suits against Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group. ...

[[Messaging News]]

BlackBerry's China Prospects Look Limited

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Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry handheld e-mail device, said Thursday that it would introduce its service in China through a partnership with China Mobile Communications Co. ...

[[Mobile Content News]]

Nokia Signs Commercial DVB-H Mobile TV Contract

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Finland's Digita and Nokia have signed the world's first commercial DVB-H mobile TV platform supply contract. Nokia will deliver to Digita its Nokia Broadcast Solution (MBS) 3.0, which is a service management solution for DVB-H services. The MBS 3.0 ...

Operators and Media Cos Fight Over Mobile Content Revenues

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Media and entertainment players are looking at ways to target the consumer in a more personal and direct way without losing their revenue share of the lucrative mobile entertainment market to the mobile operators says a new report from Informa Teleco...

[[Network Operators News]]

Nextel Launches Digital Trunking Services In Cancun

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The Mexican subsidiary of digital trunking operator NII Holdings has launched service in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, the company said in a press release. ...

[[Offbeat News]]

Qualcomm Donates CDMA Kit to Congo Hospital

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Qualcomm says that it has made a commitment to provide a cash donation and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO service and devices for the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and Research Center in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Palomar Pomerado Healt...

[[Regulatory News]]

UAE Urges US To Open Up Telecommunications Sector -Report

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The United Arab Emirates is urging the USA to open up its telecom sector to UAE companies, Gulf News newspaper reported Sunday quoting Sultan bin Saeed al-Mansouri, UAE minister of Governmental Sector Development. ...

[[Reports News]]

Global Wireless Growth Slowing - Free Report

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From a global perspective, wireless growth of total active subscribers increased 17% in 2005 compared to 35% in 2004, based on Fitch's Global Wireless Review special report. Fitch expects that the trend for slowing total subscriber growth will contin...

Telecom Equipment Sales Growing By Third for 2009

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Worldwide total telecom and datacom equipment revenue totaled US$107.9 billion in 2005 and will grow 33% to US$143.5 billion in 2009, according to a new market share and forecast report by Infonetics Research. Wireless broadband and mobile radio acce...

[[Statistics News]]

Ukraine's UMC mobile subscriber base up to 14.6 mln as of May 1

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The total subscriber base of Ukraine?s Mobile Communications (UMC), Ukraine?s second largest mobile phone operator, rose 1% in April to

14.6 million users as of May 1, the company said in a press release Friday. ... [[Technology News]]

EU expected to propose semiconductor plant

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European officials were expected to make a proposal Thursday to build a semiconductor plant in Brazil, local newspapers reported. ...

Nokia, Google Partnership Highlights WiFi Trend

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Google's expected partnership with Nokia for a WiFi device could be seen as a bet on the trend of more communities installing wireless Web connections. ...

New 65nm Mobile Phone Chip Works First Time

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Infineon Technologies has announced that the first cell phone chips equipped with its advanced 65-nm CMOS process technology are now available. The components functioned perfectly right from the start, as testing in Duisburg, Munich and Bangalore, In...

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