Cellular-News for Thursday 19th January 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

Irish 3G Coverage Expands

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Ireland's Hutchison 3G says that it now has the widest 3G coverage in Ireland. 3 now has 72% of the population, and is well ahead of schedule with its network roll-out and is set to comfortably beat the regulatory requirement of having 85% population...

3G Will Become The Dominant Technology, But Not Until 2010
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While 2004 saw the widespread emergence of commercial 3G services in Europe, Forrester Research predicts that 3G will not become the dominant technology for mobile phones until 2010. GSM-only phones will fade out quickly within the next two years, an... [[ Financial ]]

Sony Ericsson 4Q Profit Buoyed By Walkman Phones

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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson Wednesday said fourth-quarter net profit nearly tripled from the same period a year earlier, as the launch of Walkman-branded music phones boosted sales. ...

Germanos To Sell Its 20% Stake In Uzbekistan's Unitel

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Mobile telephone retailer Germanos Wednesday said it has agreed to sell its 20% stake in Uzebekistan mobile operator Unitel to Russia's Vimpel Communications. Germanos said VimpelCom is buying 100% of Unitel for a total $200 million. ...

Russia's VimpelCom buys 2 mobile operators in Uzbekistan

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Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom has purchased two mobile operators in Uzbekistan, VimpelCom said in a press release Wednesday. ...

Orascom Chm: Weather Investments IPO Not Before 2Q 06

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Orascom Telecom founder and Chairman Naguib Sawiris said Wednesday that an initial public offering of Weather Investments "won't happen before the second quarter of 2006," according to Italian newswire MF-Dow Jones. ...

America Movil eyes market debut

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Mexican mobile giant America Movil is interested in entering the Costa Rican and Panamanian telecoms markets in the light of the Central American free trade agreement (Cafta), Spanish news service EFE reported. ...

[[ Handsets ]]

Sony Ericsson: Mobile Phone Market 780 Million Units In 2005

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Sony Ericsson estimates the global phone market reached 780 million units sold in 2005, Chief Executive Miles Flint said Wednesday on a conference call. ...

Motorola's RAZR Seen Sparking Solid 4Q Earnings

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Motorola should post solid fourth-quarter results Thursday as its trendy RAZR phones continues to propel sales in an already hot handset market. ...

China's ZTE wants to build mobile telephone plant in Belarus

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Chinese telecommunications equipment company Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Corporation (ZTE) plans to build a plant in Belarus to produce mobile telephones, Chinese Ambassador to Belarus Wu Hongbin told a news conference Wednesday. ...

Camera Phones Account for 87% of Mobile Phone Shipments in 2010

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InfoTrends projects that worldwide camera phone shipments will grow from 233 million units in 2004 to 903 million units in 2010. By 2010, camera phones are expected to account for 87% of all mobile phone handsets shipped. The primary drivers behind t...

SIM That Stores 1000 Phone Numbers

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Singapore's SingTel has launched a new 3G SIM card that allows customers to store up to 1,000 phone contacts. Most new phone models today can store up to 500 contacts. But a typical SIM card with 64 kilobytes of memory can store up to 250 phone conta...

[[ Legal ]]

FCC Probes Sale of Personal Phone Records

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The Federal Communications Commission has begun an investigation into the sale of personal phone records without the consent of customers amid reports that the records have been poached by a number of private data brokers. ...

[[ Messaging ]]

Costs of Switching Away From BlackBerry

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A report released today by J.Gold Associates analyses the cost of switching from one wireless email system to another, based on users' fears that the RIM BlackBerry service may be shut down. It finds that an organization with 1000 users would have to...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

BSkyB: Mobile TV Service Provides 5 Million Live Transmissions

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British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC's mobile television service tie-up with Vodafone Group PLC has supplied more than 5 million live-TV transmissions since its November launch, BSkyB Chief Executive James Murdoch said Wednesday. ...

Russian Mobile Content Market Slows in 2005, to Boom Again in 2006

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The Russian value added services (VAS) market slowed down in 2005 after growing on average by 176% annually in 2001-2004. While analysts believe that the failure of mobile content providers to meet user demand was the main reason for the slowdown in ...

Improved Mobile Networks to Increase Music Sales in Europe

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Advances in technology have enabled participants in the music industry to participate in a parallel market for audio equipment and thus create the mobile music markets. Innovations ranging from Sony's Walkman to the 'it' gadget of the hour - Apple's ...

Qpass Claims US$1 Billion of Mobile Content Sales

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The mobile content company, Qpass says that its digital commerce software solution has processed more than US$1 billion worth of premium content transactions, making Qpass the first company ever to achieve such a record. This value represents more th...

[[ Network Contracts ]]

Sprint Nextel To Switch Billing Platforms

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Convergys reaffirmed its 2006 earnings guidance after saying Sprint Nextel plans to end its billing relationship with the company. ...

Nokia To Deliver 3G Network To Smart Communications

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Finnish telecommunication equipment firm Nokia, Wednesday said it will deliver a third-generation WCDMA network, to Philippine wireless service provider Smart Communications Inc. ...

Siemens Gets Order For Cellular Networks In Indonesia

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German technology company Siemens AG, Wednesday said it has received an order from mobile phone operator PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications, or Hutchison Telecom Indonesia. ...

EDS Extends IT Services Pact With Sprint Nextel

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Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) reached a multi-year contract extension to continue to provide information technology services to communications company Sprint Nextel. ...

[[ Network Operators ]]

Movistar goes after lower classes with new plans

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Telefonica Moviles' unit Movistar is going after Colombia's lower socioeconomic strata with two new plans, local daily El Tiempo reported. ...

[[ Regulatory ]]

Subtel, FNE criticize Movistar program to return spectrum

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Chile's fair trade authority FNE and telecoms regulator Subtel have criticized the program put forward by mobile operator Movistar to return 25MHz of spectrum, local newspaper Diario Financiero reported. ...

[[ Reports ]]

IDC's 2006 Top 10 Telecommunications Predictions

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According to IDC's latest research and insights on the top 10 trends in the Asia/Pacific Telecommunications Industry, 2006 will be a year where several game-changing technologies and services will enter the marketplace and redefine the rules of the g...

[[ Statistics ]]

Source says Ukraine's URS subscriber base up to 260,000 Jan 1

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The subscriber base of Ukraine's mobile operator Ukrainian Radiosystems, or URS, rose to 260,000 people as of January 1 from

69,000 people as of January 1, 2005, a source in the company told Prime-Tass Tuesday. ...

Report: Mobile rates high, traffic less

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Brazilian mobile phone users are subject to higher rates than in comparable markets and therefore generate less traffic, local financial newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing an international study by US investment bank Merrill Lynch. ...

Everyone in Europe now has a mobile phone - or do they?

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At the end of last year, the western European mobile market hit a major milestone -- it officially became 100% penetrated. That should mean that everyone in the region, including every pensioner and new-born baby, has signed up to a mobile phone packa...

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