Cellular-News for Thursday 10th November 2005

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US Messaging Market Set for Rapid Growth - report
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Wireless 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, wireless data accounted for jus...

Verizon Wireless Stops Information Theft - Again

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Verizon Wireless has filed suit and obtained an immediate injunction against a Florida-based private investigative agency and its affiliates to stop their attempts to fraudulently obtain confidential information about Verizon Wireless customers. The ...

USA Networks Set Adult Content Control Rules

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The USA's Wireless Association, in partnership with leading carriers, has unveiled a set of voluntary guidelines to proactively provide tools and controls to manage wireless content offered by the carriers or available via Internet-enabled wireless d...

Five New Phones from Samsung

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Samsung is launching five new mobile phones for the European market. The average thickness of the newly unveiled phones are under

15mm and offer the latest multimedia features, such as music playback capability, megapixel camera and Bluetooth connect...

Wireless Operators Not Doing Enough to Sell Mobile Data

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Pyramid Research says that it estimates that 42% of the roughly 1.05bn new mobile subscribers over the next five years will come from the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. According to a recent study, 20% to 50% of mobile subscribers ...

Econet Granted Leave to Seek Arbitration in Legal Battle

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Nigeria's Econet Wireless has been granted court permission to launch two additional arbitration applications against two other shareholders in Vee Mobile Networks of Nigeria for their failure to buy and sell shares in the company without following l...

Record GSM Subscriber Additions in India

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India's COAI has again reported a record subscriber growth of more than 2 million subscribers during the month of October'05 ? the highest subscriber additions (2.11 million) since inception of service. The cumulative GSM subscriber base grew to 52....

New Billing Contract in the Cayman Islands

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Cerillion Technologies has announced a new contract to supply caymanone with a complete CRM and billing solution for their telecom network in the Cayman Islands. Cerillion will deliver a complete turnkey solution, implementing the Revenue Manager, CR...

FOCUS: Russian police raids fail to cut illegal handset imports

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[Premium] The raids against illegal imports of mobile handsets undertaken by the Russian police and the Federal Customs Service in August have failed to make the market transparent and cut illegal handset imports, industry representatives said adding that the ...

Ukraine's UMC mobile subscriber base up to 11.49 mln Oct 30

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The total subscriber base of Ukraine's Mobile Communications, or UMC, Ukraine'slargest mobile phone operator, rose 5.3% on the month to

11.490 million subscribers as of October 31, UMC said. ...

Caudwell Group Invites Offers For Caudwell Holdings

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Caudwell Group said Wednesday that it decided to invite offers for

100% of Caudwell Holdings Limited and has decided to delay any final decision in respect of the proposed sale of Caudwell Communications, the fixed line telephony business of the Caud...

INTERVIEW:Qualcomm President -Royalty Model Aids Competition

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[Premium] The licensing model at the heart of a European Union investigation into Qualcomm Inc.'s royalty payments stimulates rather than stifles competition in the mobile handset market, according to Steve Altman, the company's president. ...

Judge To Review RIM-NTP Settlement

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he ongoing patent dispute between Research In Motion Ltd. and NTP Inc. took another turn Wednesday, when a federal judge said he would review the disputed $450 million settlement between the companies. ...

China's Huawei also gets VimpelCom's offer on URS deal

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China's telecommunications equipment producer Huawei has received an offer from Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom, which would help the Russian mobile operator enter the Ukrainian market by purchasing Ukrainian Radiosystems mobile o...

Number of Mobile Users Almost Doubles in Uzbekistan This Year

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The number of mobile telecommunication subscribers almost doubled in Uzbekistan since January 1 to over 1 million users as of now, Uzbektelecom, Uzbekistan's national telecommunications company, said Wednesday. ...

Deutsche Telekom Swings To Profit, But Outlook Weighs

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Deutsche Telecom AG, Europe's largest phone company, said Wednesday it swung to a profit after adding large numbers of wireless customers in the U.S. ...

TeliaSonera Continues Integrating Mobile, IP Telephony

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Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera AB Wednesday said it continues with the initiatives in integrating fixed and mobile telephony and will now conduct a technical trial of the Unlicensed Mobile Access technology which permits the use of on...

Taiwan Chunghwa Telecom Lowers Call Costs

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Chunghwa Telecom Co. said Wednesday it will cut the fees it charges for mobile-to-fixed line services by an average of 7% effective Dec. 1, a move it doesn't expect to affect revenue much. ...

Ericsson, TeliaSonera In Joint Trial Of UMA

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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB LM Ericsson Wednesday said that together with Nordic operator TeliaSonera AB it will conduct a joint trial of Mobile@Home, Ericsson's solution for Unlicensed Mobile Access, or UMA, which permits t...

SK Telecom To Invest In Vietnam Wireless Joint Venture

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SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it plans to invest up to $280 million in a wireless joint venture that offers mobile services in Vietnam. ...

Swisscom Confirms Talks With Eircom

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Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom AG Wednesday confirmed it was in talks with Eircom Group PLC about a potential takeover. ...

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