Cellular-News for Friday 28th October 2005

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Further Decline in the Handheld Market
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The worldwide market for handheld devices experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of

2005. According to IDC's Worldwide Handheld QView, device shipments decreased 16.9% year over year and fell 8.8% s...

Erm - a NOT "Safe for Work Message" about SMS and Bluetooth

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The Toy is a novel use for Bluetooth from a British company. ...

Brits to Spend Over US$7,000 on Ringtones Over 15 Years

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The British youth of today will spend on average US$7,765 on downloading ringtones to their mobile phones over the next 15 years, according to new research from Xingtone. A poll of over 1,000 people aged 10-25 years by Xingtone has dissected the ring...

WAP Browser Developer hits One Trillion Data Transactions

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Openwave Systems says that it's software solutions have now delivered over a trillion mobile data transactions to consumers. The mobile data market is experiencing dramatic growth with the increasing consumer uptake of services such as email, web bro...

Motorola and Intel Jointly Promote WiMAX

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Motorola and Intel have announced plans to collaboratively foster greater industry momentum for WiMAX and to advance the use of mobile WiMAX technology, based on the proposed IEEE 802.16e standard, for both fixed and wireless broadband applications. ...

USA Messaging Market Set For Rapid Growth

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Mobile messaging revenue in the USA increased by 106% in 2004 and is expected to continue to grow strongly over the next five years from its current low base, according to a new report published by Analysys. In 2004, mobile data accounted for just 4....

Intec Wins Brazilian Mediation Contract

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Intec, a provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), has announced that Brazilian telecom operator CTBC has selected its mediation platform, Inter-mediatE v5, for multi-service mediation of its fixed, mobile and long distance traff...

First 3G Handset from Chinese Vendor

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China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology, a handset application software and handset solution provider based in China, says that it has released its first 3G phone. The phone is available in Italy and features Qualcomm's 6250 chipset, with W...

Embedding Security into Handsets Would Boost Data Usage - report

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Bluefire Security Technologies has released findings from a survey of wireless device and network users suggesting that concerns about the security of mobile devices and data are common. Bluefire's Mobile Device and Network Security Survey confirmed ...

Telecom Italia Combined Fixed-Mobile Phone Launch In 06

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Telecom Italia SpA said Thursday it will launch its first combined fixed line-mobile handset in 2006 along with other new services. ...

Russia's Yeniseitelecom user base rises to 800,000

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The subscriber base of Russia's regional mobile operator Yeniseitelecom has increased since the beginning of the year to

800,000 users as of now, the company said in a press release Thursday. ...

Russia's MTS launches services in Jewish Autonomous District

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Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems, or MTS, has launched its services in the country's Jewish Autonomous District, MTS said in a press release on Thursday. ...

Swiss court freezes Turkey's Cukurova shares in Turkcell

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[Premium] The Arbitration court of the International Chamber of Commerce in Geneva has frozen the shares of Turkey's Cukurova Group in Turkey's leading mobile operator Turkcell, a source close to the hearings told Prime-Tass on Thursday. ...

Belarus' mobile subscriber base up to 3.6 mln Oct 1

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The aggregated subscriber base of Belarus' mobile operators has increased 48.4% since the beginning of the year to 3.605 million users as of October 1, Belarus' Communications Minister Vladimir Goncharenko said at a ministry meeting Thursday. ...

Verizon's Quarterly Profit Gains On Wireless, Data

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Verizon Communications reported Thursday third-quarter profit rose

4.1%, boosted by continued strong gains in wireless service and record additions of high-speed Internet customers. ...

Nextel Partners Earnings Jump On Tax Benefits, Wireless

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Nextel Partners Inc. said Thursday that third-quarter profit topped $400 million, as the company benefited from a large tax benefit and added a record number of new wireless-phone customers. ...

Russia's Parma Mobile subscriber base up to 70,000

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The subscriber base of Parma Mobile, which is based in Russia's Komi Republic and operates under the Indigo GSM brand name, rose to 70,000 users at the end of October, the company said in a press release Thursday without providing an exact date. ...

Nokia To Establish New Research Center With MIT

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Finnish mobile communications company Nokia Thursday said it has initiated a research collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. ...

SK Telecom CFO:Invest Talks With Indian Telecom Co End

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SK Telecom Co. held talks with a telecommunications company in India for a potential investment, but discussions were ended due to differences over terms, the South Korean company's Chief Financial Officer Sung Min Ha said Thursday. ...

EU Court Grants Orange Rights To Mobilix Trademark

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The European Court of First Instance Thursday granted Orange, the mobile telecommunication arm of France Telecom, the rights to the trademark Mobilix used by the company's former Danish operations. ...

Ericsson To Expand GSM Network In Ukraine For $45 Million

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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson Thursday said it has signed a $45 million contract with Ukrainian national mobile operator Astelit. ...

Ericsson To Supply Mobile Network In Slovakia

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Telefon AB LM Ericsson (ERICY) said Thursday mobile operator T-Mobile Slovensko AS (TMSV.YY), a mobile operator in Slovakia, has selected Ericsson as sole supplier of its 3G/WCDMA network. ...

France Telecom Trims 05 Revenue Growth Target

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France Telecom SA Thursday trimmed its revenue projection for 2005, just four months after publishing the target, as sales growth in the third quarter was dampened by weakness at the corporate networks business. ...

Alcatel 3Q Net Profit +36%, Cuts Operating Target

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Alcatel SA (ALA) Thursday said third-quarter net income rose 36%, but the company cut its full-year margin target slightly after every division posted a decline in operating profit in the latest period. ...

Telstra Could Buy Hutchison Telecom Australia - Citigroup

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Telstra Corp. could look to buy Hutchison Telecommunications Australia Ltd. to stem the impact of migration to lower-margin mobile services from its core fixed-line phone business, say analysts at Wall Street brokerage firm Citigroup. ...

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