TelecomDirect News Daily Update - January 26, 2006

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SMS-mania is Better Served By Bundles

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What would capture your attention: a printed advertising leaflet arriving through your letterbox that informs you of the week's offers at your local supermarket, or an alert SMS delivered to your mobile handset outlining the hottest deals, as you walk by the store? (Users would have already registered their willingness to receive such...

Cable Operators Team Up for Free Dutch VoIP Service

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Five major Dutch cable operators have announced plans to connect their internet telephony networks together to allow for free VoIP calls within their networks. Quoting the chief executive of Caiw Diensten, Sikko de Graaf, Reuters reported that the companies -- CaiW, Casema, Essent, Multikabel and UPC Netherlands -- plan to set up an...

T-Mobile USA's Customer Base Grows 25% in 2005

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T-Mobile USA is the latest U.S. mobile operator to report soaring subscriber growth levels in 2005. Over the course of the year, it added 4.4 million customers to reach 27.1 million. In the fourth quarter of 2005, the operator recorded 1.39 million net additions, up from 1.06 million the previous quarter. At the end of 2005, 88.6% of...

Telenor Brings Lawsuit Against VimpelCom

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Telenor, the holder of a 29.9% stake and 26.6% of voting shares in VimpelCom, has announced that it has launched three lawsuits against VimpelCom in Moscow (Russia). The first lawsuit seeks to invalidate the decision of VimpelCom's extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of shareholders to approve VimpelCom's acquisition of Ukrainian...

Study: Internet Expands Social Contacts

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NEW YORK -- Alone on the Internet? Hardly. The cyberworld expands people's social networks and even encourages people to talk by phone or meet others in person, a new study finds. The Pew Internet and American Life Project also finds that U.S. Internet users are more apt to get help on health care, financial and other decisions because...

AT&T Fourth-Quarter Income Beats Wall Street Expectations

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SAN ANTONIO -- AT&T Inc., the nation's largest telecommunications provider, said Thursday its fourth-quarter net income beat Wall Street expectations, reflecting growth in wireless, broadband and business services. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, AT&T said its net income totaled $1.66 billion, or 46 cents per share....

New Handset Ready to Cast

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Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom Personal Communications have launched a new handset specifically designed for Verizon's new V CAST music- and video-on-demand service. The new handset, the CDM8945 Music Phone, comes with beefed up memory - up to 256 MB - to store more 99-cent songs. The phone is capable of streaming mobile video and 3D...

Motorola Takes 3G Indoors

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Targeting enterprise users frustrated that their shiny new 3G phones don't get good coverage in the office, Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT - message board) has released a new, high-speed, indoor "access point" -- the AXPT. One of the little secrets of third-generation cellular wireless technology such as the High Speed Downlink Data Packet...

Hi-Speed Wi-Fi Standard Finally Gets The Nod

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The draft specification of the 802.11n standard for the new generation of Wi-Fi, which will provide speeds as as blazing as 600 Mb/s, finally won IEEE approval after more than a year of wrangling; although technically only a draft specification, with perhaps a year of work to final ratification, the rush to market began almost instantly,...

Profiles of Wireless-Only Voice Users: The "Cord Cutters"

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Wireless carriers, handset vendors, and application developers have built large businesses around several assumptions: Voice revenues will steadily deteriorate as voice becomes a commodity among wireless carriers Mobile applications such as music, video, and picture messaging will shore up those sagging revenues 3G networks...

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