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[[ 3G ]]
China 3G License Delay Will Hamper Indus Devt-Research Co
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China shouldn't postpone issuing third-generation mobile phone licenses even if the Chinese 3G standard still has problems, a senior executive of a telecoms and technology research firm said Wednesday. ...
[[ Financial ]]
Telemar gives Ola the cold shoulder
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Brazil's largest telecommunications group, Telemar, snubbed Colombian mobile operator Colombia Móvil's (Ola) invitation to participate in a tender to become its strategic partner, Bogot paper La Republica reported. ...
[[ Mobile Content ]]
Mobile TV Viewers Spend Increases US$40 Per Month
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Mobile TV and video usage is growing slowly, but is attracting a higher proportion of the young adult and male demographic, reports Telephia. According to the research firm, 1.5% or roughly three million wireless subscribers in the U.S. streamed TV o...
[[ Network Contracts ]]
Ericsson Gets Order For Multimedia, Converges Services
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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson, Wednesday said it has received an order for its internet protocol multimedia subsystem from Optimus, a mobile operator within the Portugal's Sonaecom. ...
IN BRIEF: Emida provides prepaid billing support to Cingular
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US and Puerto Rico wireless operator Cingular has awarded US prepayment and value transfer platforms provider Emida a contract to support its prepaid debit/credit card programs, Emida said in a statement. ...
[[ Network Operators ]]
CDMA Connections Suspended in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) says that it has decided to seek legal redress on the Direction issued to SLT by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka with regard to installation charges for telephone services based on CDMA fixed wireless...
[[ Personnel ]]
Vodafone Chairmen Reach Jobs Other Chairmen Cannot Reach
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Vodafone's Chairman, Lord MacLaurin who is stepping down from the giant phone company in a few months, has been proposed to the Supervisory Board of the Brewery company, Heineken. The brewer cites Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth extensive expertise and e...
[[ Regulatory ]]
Movistar: Spectrum bidding rules sold well
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Mobile operator Movistar Chile, the local unit of Spain's Telefónica Móviles, is pleased with the demand for the forthcoming auction of excess spectrum it has in the 800MHz band, local newspaper Diario Financiero quoted general manager Oliver...
[[ Reports ]]
Wireless Operators Rapidly Building Next-Gen Networks
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Mobile operators will create their next generation networks using a range of wireless broadband and cellular technologies, including W-CDMA, WiFi, and WiMAX, says a new report by Infonetics Research. And they're moving fast. According to the study, t...
[[ Technology ]]
GUEST COLUMN: The thorny issue of satellite orbit 81ºW
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By Carlos Blanco, Market research director, Signals Telecom Consulting. Argentina belongs to an exclusive club of satellite operating nations in Latin America, alongside Brazil and Mexico, and this is a club Venezuela aims to join by launching an And...
Qualcomm Developing Mobile Base Stations
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UTStarcom has joined with Qualcomm to develop a mobile base station unit, based on UTStarcom's MovingMedia 2000 all-IP CDMA wireless core infrastructure technology, which provides the essential connectivity components. The QDBS is designed to provide...