Cellular-News: Wednesday 31st May 2006

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[[ Financial ]]

NEWS SNAP: Vodafone To Give GBP3 Billion Extra To Holders

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Vodafone Group, Tuesday offered a GBP3 billion payback to shareholders and higher dividends as it unveiled a long-awaited strategy update. ...

Vodafone Happy With Current Verizon Wireless Stake -Sarin

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Vodafone Group is happy with its current stake in US mobile operator Verizon Wireless and isn't looking to sell it, Chief Executive Arun Sarin said Tuesday. ...

Vodafone Breakup Would Subordinated-optimize Assets - CEO Sarin

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A potential breakup of Vodafone Group would result in lower profitability across its different divisions, Chief Executive Arun Sarin said Tuesday. "If the company were to be split, that would sub-optimize its current assets," Sarin told a conference ...

3rd UPDATE: Vodafone To Give GBP3 Billion Extra To Holders
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Vodafone Group, Tuesday offered a GBP3 billion payback to shareholders and higher dividends as it unveiled a long-awaited strategy update. ...

CEO: Telefonica interested in purchasing PT's stake in Vivo

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Spain's Telefonica has confirmed that it is interested in obtaining full control of Brazil's largest mobile operator Vivo, purchasing the

50% held by Portugal Telecom, Telefonica's president Ceasar Alierta was reported as saying by inte...

Telenor asks VimpelCom to move deadline for Kyivstar deal until Jul 1

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Norwegian telecommunication company Telenor has asked Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom to move the deadline for completing negotiations on VimpelCom's purchase of Ukraine's largest mobile operator Kyivstar to July 1 from Wednesday, V...

[[ Handsets ]]

Telecom Italia Gets New Handsets Orders Worth EUR400 Million

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Telecom Italia said Tuesday it received orders for 2.5 million new handsets worth EUR400 million at a convention it held in Barcelona with its dealers. ...

Mobiles Are Workers Primary Phone - report

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A recent IDC survey has found that enterprise telecom managers believe

28% of their employees are using their mobile phone as their primary work phone. These employees are managing multiple messaging pools and are outside the reach of policy and secu...

Motorola RAZR Continues To Top Handset Sales Figures

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Wirefly, a USA based online cellphone retailer has released its list of the best-selling cell phones for Winter and Spring, calculated from January 1, 2006 through May 15, 2006. Both the silver and black RAZRs continued to dominate the list outsellin...

[[ Legal ]]

Kyivstar challenges regulator on antitrust case

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Ukraine's largest mobile operator Kyivstar has filed a lawsuit in the Kiev Arbitration Court against by Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee challenging an antitrust case initiated by the regulator, Alexander Voznyuk, the state commissioner of the commit...

Nokia Wins Counterfeit Lawsuit

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A USA Court has ruled in favour of Nokia over a counterfeit claim. Resulting from a civil action pursued by Nokia, United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez of the Southern District of Florida found Suplimet Corp. and Hermann Lozano in contempt o...

[[ Network Contracts ]]

Retain Your Office Extension Number While Roaming

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The roaming services provider, Starhome has announced that the KPN Mobile-owned European mobile communications provider Sympac has signed a contract with the company to make use of Starhome's turn-key solution 'Virtual Office Environment' - intended ...

[[ Network Operators ]]

Virgin Mobile Unveils Way To Earn Airtime With Ad Plans

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Virgin Mobile USA unveiled a service enabling its pre-paid customers to earn airtime minutes on their plan by interacting with advertisements. ...

VimpelCom wants to get 1.1 rbl/min for fixed-to-mobile calls

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Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom has suggested that mobile operators are paid 1.1 rubles per minute, excluding value-added tax (VAT), for fixed-to-mobile calls after the launch of Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle in the country, th...

Digitel plans US$250mn investment in 2006

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Venezuelan startup telecoms group Telvenco plans to invest US$250mn in its recently acquired mobile unit Digitel GSM with a view to expanding its market share, the holding company said in a statement. ...

[[ Offbeat ]]

Kazak Telecoms Ministry Tower Catches Fire

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Kazakhstan's tallest building, which houses the government ministry of industry, information and communications caught fire at the weekend. The building, known locally as "the cigarette lighter" was wreathed in smoke, while flames could be seen comin...

[[ Regulatory ]]

Two remain in bidding for 4th cellular license

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Two bidders remain in negotiations with the Jamaican government regarding plans to re-auction the country's fourth mobile phone license, which was confiscated from Cingular in 2005, The Jamaica Observer reported. ...

Review of Swiss GSM Licenses

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On behalf of Switzerland's Federal Communications Commission (ComCom), the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) has launched a public consultation on the renewal of the GSM licences of Swisscom Mobile, Orange Communications and TDC Switzerland....

[[ Reports ]]

Deployments and Adoption of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Accelerate

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The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has reported that 22 operators in 17 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have deployed or are building CDMA2000 1xEV-DO networks. Operators are seeing a significant demand for 1xEV-DO services, with t...

Next tech boom looming?

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The pursuit of digital convergence, and the resulting urge-to-merge, will likely deliver the next boom in the technology industry according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The report concludes that executives have learned from the last bubbl...

[[ Statistics ]]

IN BRIEF: Suptel: Mobile base grows 19% Jan-Apr

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Ecuadorian mobile operators closed April with 7.44 million subscribers, up nearly 19% compared to the 6.2 million users reported at end 2005, according to sector supervisor Suptel. ...

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