Cellular-News for Thursday 5th January 2006

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Embedded EV-DO Cards in Laptops the Cheapest - report

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iGillottResearch has published a report studying the total cost of ownership (TCO) models for wireless and mobile devices. Each TCO model focused on different types of deployments. The first modeled a wireless email implementation using new smartphon...

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Colombia Wireline Cos Face Consolidaton As Mobile Cos Fly

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Sales reported last year by Colombia's three mobile telephone operators surpassed for the first time revenues from fixed-line companies, a segment under increasing pressure to consolidate. ...

NTT DoCoMo: Considering Investing In Philippines PLDT

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Japan's NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it is considering investing in Philippine Long Distance Telephone in a move that would strengthen its position in the mobile phone market there. ...

Bouygues Telecom Pulls Out Of Tunisie Telecom Bidding

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Bouygues Telecom, the French telecommunications operator, Wednesday said it has pulled out of bidding for 35% of state-owned Tunisie Telecom. ...

Brazil's Wireless Co Shares Rise On Weak Christmas Sales

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Shares in Brazil's wireless phone operators rose strongly on the Sao Paulo stock exchange, or Bovespa, Wednesday, despite ideas that Christmas sales were much lower than expected. ...

Nokia Gets Antitrust Approval For Intellisync Buy

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Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Corp. received antitrust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission to buy Intellisync Corp. ...

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Nokia Launches 3 New Bluetooth Headsets

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Finland's Nokia said Wednesday it launches three Bluetooth headsets; the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-800, the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-900 and the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-200. ...

US Handsets Sales to Reach US$16 Billion - report

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Factory sales of consumer electronics will reach a new high of US$135.4 billion in 2006, according to the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) annual industry forecast. The 2006 projections,

2005 year-end figures and more are included in CEA's bi...

USA Online Sales of Handsets Double Previous Year

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If the start of the 2005 online holiday shopping season compared to last year is any indication, it should be a lucrative one for the wireless industry. The average carrier site conversion rate more than doubled versus 2004 during the same 10 day tim...

[[ Messaging ]]

Courts Send SMS Reminders to Criminals to Pay Fines

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Magistrates' courts across England and Wales could soon send SMS's to fine evaders demanding they pay up, after the initiative was successfully used in one region recently. Courts are also looking at sending automated reminders by text, email or phon...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Motorola Unveils New Radio Service For Cell Phones

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NEW YORK (AP)--Motorola, after nearly a year of vague pronouncements, unveiled Tuesday an ambitious music radio service for cell phones that also plays over car and home stereos. ...

Content and Transparency Drive Wireless Connectivity

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Wireless subscribers want to access advanced services and download content. It started with texting and ringtones, then songs. Now video is beginning to arrive. Where it will end, nobody knows, but one thing is certain... most consumers, except hardc...

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Azure Deploys Billing Platform in Pakistan

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Azure Solutions has announced that Telenor Pakistan has implemented it's interconnect billing solution to provide billing and rating for its LDI (Long Distance International) services. Telenor secured a licence to provide mobile and international int...

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Finish Operator Sees Shrinking GSM Subscriber Base

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Finland's Saunalahti has reported that its GSM subscriptions decreased slightly during the fourth quarter of 2005. During October-December, the number of GSM subscriptions decreased by approximately 5,000 and amounted to 478,973 at the end of Decembe...

[[ Technology ]]

Actix Wins Chinese CDMA Test Contract

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Actix says that it has reached agreement with China's ZTE for the support of ZTE's CDMA drive test tools. Under the five-year contract, ZTE customers worldwide will be able to use Actix software solutions to streamline the planning, roll-out, trouble...

First Single-Chip Mobile TV Solution Shipping

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Texas Instruments has announced that initial Hollywood DTV single-chip solutions for mobile phones are now being delivered to TI's customers who manufacture handsets worldwide. TI's Hollywood chips are the first in the industry to integrate the mobil...

Super-Sized SD memory Cards Due Shortly

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The SD Card Association (SDA) says that it expects to finalize specifications for a new, high-capacity SD Memory Card -- the SDHC Memory Card -- in early 2006. The new specification will expand SD card capacity beyond 2GB, to meet the memory-hungry r...

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