Cellular-News for Monday 19th September 2005

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Two Operators Sold To New Venture Blackfoot Communications of Missoula has sold its mobile wireless communications businesses to MTPCS. MTPCS, headquartered in Great Falls, will maintain a significant operations center in Montana, and has extensive plans ...

Cingular Wireless Eases 3G Activation for Consumers

Cingular Wireless says that it will use SmartTrust's Over-The-Air technology (OTA) to help simplify the 3G activation process for its customers when it launches its next generation wireless services later this year. The ...

EDGE for Iceland

Iceland Telecom says that it is planning to deploy EDGE technology over the next few months. Data transport via mobile telephones has increased steadily, and more and more people use Iceland Telecom's GPRS services. The ...

Worlds Largest WiMAX Trial

Marconi says that it has been selected to support the largest public WiMAX trial to date, providing WiMAX connectivity in Italy's Piedmont and Sicily regions. The selection was made by a working party that included repre ...

Mobile TV and Video Services Could Overload 3G Networks

Mobile TV and video services -- viewed by operators as a means to drive

3G take-up and increase average revenue per user (ARPU) -- could overwhelm 3G networks in the next two years, according to the new Sound Partners repo ...

SMS Used to Send Death Threats

Reporters Without Borders has condemned the death threats and intimidation targeted in the past few days and weeks against two journalists working in the northeastern Amazonian departments of Loreto and Ucayali, Julia Sa ...

Eurotel details WCDMA Launch Plans

The Czech republic based Eurotel Praha has announced its plans to launch its WCDMA/UMTS network. More than one year ahead of time the company will meet the commitment associated with the purchase of the UMTS network oper ...

Vodafone Plans to Outsource Dutch Network Management

Vodafone Netherlands and Ericsson Netherlands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to outsource parts of its network activities, namely the roll out, the running and the maintenance of the radio network of Vod ...

Providing Transport for 3G Wireless Network

White Rock Networks has announced that PPL Telcom has selected its Transport and Multi-service Optical Access products to provide backhaul capabilities to cell sites in the Northeast United States for one of the nation's ...

Mobile Music Downloads to reach $1.8 billion in Europe by 2010

According to a new report by the research provider, Generator, Europeans will spend US$640 million in 2010 downloading full-track songs to their mobile phones. With expenditure on real music ringtones forecast to be an a ...

Most Australians Are Still Clueless about 3G Mobile Technology

IDC's latest research into the Australian consumer mobile market reveals that, in light of the looming nationwide introduction of 3G services, the vast majority of Australians still have no clear idea about 3G mobile tec ...

Portuguese PrePay Usage Rises while Contracts Continue Falling

Portugal's telecoms regulator has reported that by the end of the second quarter of 2005 there were 10.7 million mobile telephone subscribers in the country, a growth in the total number of mobile subscribers of 0.7% on ...

Moves Towards Number Portability in Canada

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) has submitted its plans for wireless number portability to the Canadian government, following submissions to industry partners. The 64-page report, completed by ...

VoIP Subscriber Rush Spurs Equipment Boom

The ranks of residential Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) users are expected to explode during the next few years, causing market revenue for wireline VOIP equipment to more than triple between 2004 and 2010, iSuppli ...

A Military Use for 3G Networks

You can now get a portable 3G network in a box after 3Way Networks chose London's bi-annual DSEi (Defence Systems & Equipment International) trade fair for military types to launch of a hand-portable UMTS network capable ...

Vodafone Planning 15 New 3G handsets

Vodafone has announced an extensive range of phones to bring 3G services to the mass market. The range of phones will be marketed in the run up to Christmas and will be the best yet, offering smaller and lighter phones, ...

Lebanon's Investcom Mobile Co Plans IPOs In Dubai, London

Investcom said Saturday it intends to carry out two initial public offerings by listing shares on exchanges in Dubai and London. ...

New Zealand Watchdog To Probe Telecom Services For Extended Regulation

The Commerce Commission Friday said there are grounds to investigate several services of Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (NZT) to ascertain whether the period of regulation should be extended. ...

Samsung, Sprint Nextel In Wireless Broadband Equip Pact

Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE) said Friday it has signed an agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) of the U.S. to provide testing equipment for wireless broadband services. ...

FCC To Provide $211 Million For Telecom In Gulf Coast

The Federal Communications Commission will make available $211 million from the universal service subsidy fund to help restore communications in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursda ...

Deutsche Telekom Confirms Keeping T-Mobile USA Unit

Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) Friday confirmed it has decided to keep its U.S. wireless arm, T-Mobile USA Inc. ...

India's Space Agency:Boeing Ends Satellite Collaboration

BANGALORE, India (AP)--India's space agency said Friday that a subsidiary of Boeing Co. (BA) has canceled an agreement to help produce communication satellites. ...

New German Discount Mobile Operator Pressures Peers

FRANKFURT (AP)--New discount mobile operator Blau.de is challenging its rivals by offering significantly discounted rates on text messages and calls to German networks, according to an announcement on the compa ...

Rogers,Bell Cda In JV To Build Wireless Broadband Network

Rogers Communications Inc. (RG) and Bell Canada have agreed to build and manage a Canada-wide wireless broadband network and will jointly and equally fund the initial network deployment costs, estimated at C$200 million ...

Denmark To Remove Mobile Telecom Regulation In Access Market

Denmark's National IT and Telecom Agency Friday said regulation in the country's mobile access market can be removed, as competition is working well in the market. ...

Vodafone Not Involved In Afghan Mobile Licence Bid

Vodafone Group PLC (VOD), the U.K.-based mobile telecommunications company, Friday said it wasn't involved in bidding for a license to offer mobile telecoms services in Afghanistan. ...