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Drive Your Car with a Cellphone
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You may recall that in the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, the British secret agent has a nifty Ericsson JB988 mobile phone that can be used to control a BMW car. Well, fact follows fiction and a patent has just been granted for exactly the sa...
T-Mobile Details HSDPA Launch Plans
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T-Mobile Austria say that it will be offering the first HSDPA-capable data card from this November. When the commercial start of HSDPA is launched at the CeBIT 2006 trade fair, customers will be able to search the Internet in downlink with data rates...
One Million Telia Customers Use Their Phones for More Than Calls
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Sweden's Telia has reported that in one year, usage of mobile data services has increased more than 300% among its subscribers. The number of Telia subscribers who can use mobile data services in Sweden has doubled in one year and now totals one mill...
Pakistan Earthquake: TSF runs Satellite Telecoms Centre for rescue efforts
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Staff from the aid charity, Telecoms Sans Frontieres (Telecoms Without Borders) arrived in Pakistan on October 9th, the day after the earthquake and installed a satellite Telecoms Centre for rescue teams near Muzaffarabad heliport where hundreds of i...
MMS Interoperability for Ukraine
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MMS interconnection has just been launched in Ukraine - with UMC, KyivStar, Ace&Base and Djuice all now permitting MMS's to be sent between each others networks...
Funding Improvement for Handset Distributor
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InfoSonics Corp., one of the largest distributors of wireless handsets in the United States and Latin America, has obtained a new credit facility of up to US$20 million. The new agreement replaces the prior bank line of up to US$15 million with a dif...
3G Wireless Will Reshape China's Telecom Landscape - report
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China's telecom services market will undergo dramatic changes over the next three years, once the national government awards licenses to offer licences -- changes that will include a short-term increase in capital spending and probable carrier consol...
Base Station inside a Clock
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AlanDick, the broadcast, cellular, radar, enterprise and communications infrastructure specialist, has developed a base station that looks like a village or shopping mall clock. Building on the success the company has enjoyed with its wide range of e...
ABI Examines WiBro: Is it Really Mobile WiMAX in Disguise?
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WiBro is a soon to be implemented mobile high-speed Wireless Internet access service for the South Korean market. Positioned between traditional wired broadband access and mobile phone data services, it could fill an important niche....
Russia's Dalsvyaz sees its 2005 mobile user base up to 170,000
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Dalsvyaz, a Russian fixed-line and mobile operator in the Far East Federal District, expects its subscriber base to rise to 170,000 people by the end of the year, the company's General Director Anton Alexeyev told Prime-Tass on Friday. ...
THE RATINGS GAME: Motorola Said Showing Signs Of Wireless Momentum
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[Premium] Shares of Motorola Inc. gained as much as 5.4% Friday, bolstered by a report saying the company got regulatory permission to market new wireless phones and by indications that it gained market share in the third quarter. ...
Sprint Nextel Board Approves New Deferred Compensation Plan
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Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) disclosed Friday that its board approved a new deferred compensation plan, to be effective Jan. 1, 2006. ...
KPN Unit E-Plus To Launch Turkish Mobile Brand In Germany
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Royal KPN NV's (KPN) German wireless arm, E-Plus, said Friday that it will launch a Turkish brand targeted at the 2.6 million Turks living in Germany. ...
FOCUS: Russia's Sistema under attack ahead of Svyazinvest auction
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As the auction for Russia's Svyazinvest holding draws nearer, the key bidder for the asset has come under attack by the latest weapon of choice -- the Russian court system. ...
SingTel's Optus Won't Comment On AAPT Speculation
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Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.'s (T48.SG)) Australian unit Optus on Friday declined to say whether it is in discussions to buy AAPT, an Australian unit of Telecom New Zealand (NZT). ...
Research In Motion, T-Mobile In Pact For Yahoo Mail Access
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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) and T-Mobile USA launched a new Blackberry model 7105t with an Internet e-mail service for Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) Mail users. ...