Cellular-News: Tuesday 6th June 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

HSDPA Trials in Malaysia

Malaysia's Time dotCom says that it has commenced a 3G pilot trial, following its success in the recent 3G spectrum award. The primary objective of the trial is to test the performance of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) - a next generation ...

Chinese Ministry Orders 3G Test Platform

Tektronix says that China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), a division of The Ministry of Information Industry (MII), has chosen it as a supplier for the 3G network environment testing. CATR has specified that Tektronix' K1297-G20 protoco...

3G Billing Deployment for Intec The BSS/OSS software vendor, Intec and Huawei say they have successfully implemented Intec's Mediation solution for Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless ("APBW"), a CDMA 2000 operator in Taiwan, within three months. Established in November 2001, APBW won ... [[ Financial ]]

PRESS: Sistema bids for 90% in Armenia's ArmenTel

Major Russian holding AFK Sistema has filed a bid to participate in the tender of a 90% stake in Armenian fixed-line and mobile operator ArmenTel, Sistema's Chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov said, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday. ...

Telenor inks swap agreement with ING on 3.5% in Russia's VimpelCom

Norwegian telecommunication company Telenor has signed a swap agreement with the London branch of ING Bank N.V. under which Telenor will receive exposure to 3.52% of voting shares in Russia?s second largest mobile operator VimpelCom, Telenor said in ...

[[ Legal ]]

Supreme Court Turns Away Cingular Appeal On Arbitration

The US Supreme Court Monday turned away the chance to decide whether class-action termination fee lawsuits filed against AT&T's Cingular Wireless unit in California can be forced into arbitration. ...

Alltel Sued Over Mobile TV Patents

Speedus has announced that its unit CellularVision Technology & Telecommunications filed lawsuits on June 2 against the USA network operator, Alltel. The suits address technologies now used by Alltel to transmit television to wireless users over cell...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Strong Customer Support for Mobile TV

A new report from Portio Research, the result of an extensive survey of European mobile phone users in early 2006, gives a resounding 'thumbs up' for Mobile TV. Significantly over 50% of those interviewed were interested in Mobile TV and were prepare...

US Consumers Keen on Advanced Mobile Services - report

Mobile subscribers in the United States are ready to catch up with their global peers -- including closing the gap on the world's most advanced users in Korea and China -- in the adoption of new cellular innovations that make mobile devices sing, play ...

[[ Network Operators ]]

NTT DoCoMo Eyes Phone-Wallet Market In Hong Kong

NTT DoCoMo is planning to enter the electronic payment market in Hong Kong when it brings its i-mode service to the city at the end of this year. ...

Claro reorganizes structure to provide strategic continuity

Brazilian mobile operator Claro has consolidated its operational structure to provide strategic continuity, Claro said in a statement. ...

[[ Regulatory ]]

FOCUS: Russian operators seek compensation on CPP launch

The introduction of the Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle in Russia next month will result in free incoming calls for mobile users, however, at the same time, it might also bring a hike in tariffs for outgoing calls as mobile operators seek to make ...

Ukraine's regulator refuses to give CDMA-450 license to Ukrtelecom

Ukraine's National Commission for Communications Regulation (NKRS) has refused to provide state-owned fixed-line monopoly Ukrtelecom with a license for operation in CDMA-450 standard, a spokesperson with the regulator told Prime-Tass Monday. ...