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Top ten" in mobile phone sales in Telia stores in October
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SonyEricsson's W800i Walkman music mobile was one of the newcomers among the best-selling phones in Telia stores in October, entering the list directly in third place. As in September, first place was captured by Nokia....
Yet More Handsets from Nokia
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Nokia has extended its N series multimedia range to include three new devices: the Nokia N92 (the world's first mobile device with a built-in DVB-H receiver), the Nokia N71 and the Nokia N80. With these new devices consumers can wirelessly watch mobi...
Top 10 Global Wireless Predictions for 2006
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inCode has released its Top 10 Global Wireless Predictions for
2006. The Predictions identify key market changes for the coming year, including: fierce competition that will leave only five handset manufacturers standing, new business models enabled ...
French Operator Finds MMS Popular for Email Services
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Critical Path says that the French GSM network operator, SFR has reached 150,000 MMS Mail subscribers in just four months since the launch of the new consumer mobile email service this summer. Despite market research indicating that consumers want mo...
Indoor 3G Coverage Expansion
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Arqiva's Wireless Solutions group has been chosen by Hutchison 3G UK to utilise its 3G InBuilding antenna solution in three key retail locations. The ten-year deal with Capital Shopping Centres sees Eldon Square, the Victoria Centre and Lakeside bein...
Ericsson may help Russia's VimpelCom to buy URS
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Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom has worked out a scheme, under which Sweden's telecommunications equipment producer Ericsson would pay part of the sum necessary to purchase Ukrainian Radiosystems mobile operator (URS), Vedomosti b...
Thirteen Pre-qualify For Turkey's Telsim Sale
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The Turkish Saving Deposits Insurance Fund (TMSF) Wednesday said thirteen companies pre-qualified for the sale of GSM operator Telsim Mobil Telekomunikasyon (TMTKM.YY), the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported. ...
Nortel Reduces Third-quarter Loss
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Nortel Networks on Wednesday posted a narrower third-quarter loss as the Canadian vendor sold more wireless and next-generation networking gear. ...
UPDATE: Sprint Nextel To Join Forces With Cable Giants
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group of major cable companies said Wednesday they will offer wireless-phone service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in a broad-reaching technology deal that could open up a new front in the telecommunications wars. ...
Russia's Duma OKs 1st reading of bill seeking caller-pays principle
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Russia's lower house of parliament State Duma has approved Wednesday the first reading of a draft amendment to the law on communications seeking to introduce the Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle. ...
Ukrainian MVNO Privat: Mobile's user base up to 30,000
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The subscriber base of Ukrainian mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Privat:Mobile rose to about 30,000 people as of November 1 from about 15,000 people as of June 1, a spokesman for Ukraine's Privatbank told Prime-Tass on Wednesday. ...
Vodafone Not Involved In TDC Bid With Swisscom - Source
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Vodafone Group PLC, the U.K. mobile telecommunications company, isn't involved in a joint bid for Danish TDC AS with Swisscom SA, a source familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday. ...
UPDATE: O2 Drops After Deutsche Telekom Says It Won't Bid
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Shares of O2 PLC dropped as much as 6% in London Wednesday after Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG said it won't challenge Telefonica's $31.5 billion agreed cash offer for the British mobile operator. ...
Deutsche Telekom Says Won't Counterbid For 02 PLC
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Deutsche Telekom AG won't bid against Telefonica SA's takeover offer for U.K.-based mobile-telecommunications operator O2 PLC, news wire Reuters reported Wednesday, quoting Deutsche Telekom Finance Director Karl-Gerhard Eick. ...
Ericsson Signs 3G Pact Extension With Danish TDC Mobil
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Danish operator TDC Mobil, a unit of TDC A/S, has extended a contract it originally signed with Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson in 2002, the Swedish telecommunications equipment maker said Wednesday. ...
Ericsson To Supply Push E-Mail To Jordanian Operator
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Swedish telecommunications company Telefon AB LM Ericsson Wednesday said it has received a contract from Jordanian operator MobileCom to supply its push email solution, Ericsson Mobile Organizer. ...