Cellular-News for Tuesday 11th October 2005

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Alcatel Wins Cambodian GSM Contract

Alcatel has signed a US$8.8 million contract to expand and upgrade the GSM network of Cambodia's CamGSM. With this agreement Alcatel becomes CamGSM's sole supplier of radio network solutions. Alcatel will also extend the...

Cingular Wireless Corrects Subscriber Count Reports

Cingular Wireless says that it has corrected the number of customers it reported at the end of the second quarter of 2005 from 51.596 million to 51.442 million. This change has no impact on the company's previous financi...

Specialist Phone Insurance Overpriced - report

Just under 2,000 mobile phones are stolen in the UK every day making it important for customers to consider insurance. But the British Insurance Brokers' Association warns that mobile phone insurance policies can prove e...

Italy Getting Digital TV on Mobiles

Mediaset and Italy's TIM have reached an agreement that will become the basis for a commercial launch of digital terrestrial TV on mobile phones using DVBH (Digital Video Broadcast Handheld) technology....

New Smartphone from SonyEricsson

Sony Ericsson is launching an upgraded smartphone, the P990 - which will be the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform. This flagship UMTS smartph...

Use SMS to Boil Water

The tea seller, PG Tips has teamed up with Orange UK to develop a PG Tips branded kettle - that can be switched on by sending it an SMS. Inspired by loveable inventors Wallace & Gromit, PG Tips, best known for the innova...

FOCUS: Russia mulls fighting mobile handset thieves

Russia is facing a rising problem of mobile handsets theft. In 2004, the Moscow police officially registered over 7,000 mobile handset thefts. However, analysts consider that the real number of stolen mobile handsets is ...

Belarus MDC mobile subscriber base up 4.1% in September

The subscriber base of Belarus mobile phone operator Mobile Digital Connection (MDC) increased 4.1% on the month in September to 1.645 million users, the company said Tuesday. ...

Ukraine's Jeans mobile subscriber base up to 5 mln users Sep 30

The subscriber base of Ukraine's Jeans rose 74% since the beginning of the year to 5 million users as of September 30, Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) said in a press release. ...

Russia's Euroset to cooperate in MVNO project with MTT

Russia's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset has concluded an agreement with Multiregional Transit Telecom (MTT) on cooperation in the development of Euroset's mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) project, an MTT...

TeliaSonera says holders to invest $60 mln in Moldova's Moldcell in 5 yrs

Shareholders of Moldova's mobile service operator Moldcell plan to invest U.S. $60 million in the company within five years, Anders Igel, CEO of TeliaSonera, Moldcell's key shareholder, said Wednesday. ...

Belarus' BeST to buy $234 mln equipment from Alcatel Shanghai

Belarus state-controlled mobile operator Belarus Telecommunications Network, or BeST, has signed an agreement with China's Alcatel Shanghai Bell to purchase the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment for U...

Russia's VimpelCom to launch tariff with free cell phone in Dec

Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom plans to launch a tariff with a free mobile handset included in the price of the subscription fee, the company said in a press release Thursday. ...

Russia's VimpelCom user base in Far East hits 1 million people

The subscriber base of Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom in the country's Far East Federal District has exceeded 1 million people, the company said on Thursday. ...

Russian court freezes SMARTS' shares once again

Russia's regional court in St. Petersburg has frozen 100% of the shares of Russian regional mobile operator SMARTS, Kommersant business daily reported Friday, citing Gennady Kiryushin, the company's general director. ...

Finland's Elcoteq opens telecom equip plant in Russia

Russia's ZAO Elcoteq, a subsidiary of Finland's electronics manufacturing company Elcoteq Network Corporation, opened a telecommunications equipment plant in St. Petersburg on Friday, Elcoteq's CEO Antti Piippo said at...

Hong Kong Hutchison Whampoa Says 3G Subscribers Surpass 10 Million

Jones)- Ports-to-telecommunications conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. said Monday its third-generation mobile phone subscribers surpassed 10 million worldwide. ...

Hong Kong Hutchison Telecom Plans US$1 Billion Loan - Sources

Jones)- Hong Kong-listed telecom operator Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. (HTX) is planning to launch a US$1 billion syndicated loan this week to finance expansion in India, Indonesia and Vietnam, people ...

EUROPE MARKETS: Telecom Equipment Shares Climb In Europe

s) -- Telecom equipment shares gave European markets a lift Monday amid reports that Ericsson is near a deal to buy smaller rival Marconi and on optimism from the chief executive of Nokia, the world's leading mobile-hand...

Dobson Communications Puts 3Q Net Subscriber Base Down 24,100

Dow Jones)- Dobson Communications Corp. (DCEL) expects to report a net subscriber reduction of about 24,100 for the third quarter, compared with a net addition of 1,200 in the year-earlier period, and the company announc...

PRESS: Russia's VimpelCom may start ops in 9 Far East regions

Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom may get frequencies for operation in GSM 900 frequencies in nine regions in the Far East Federal District, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday, citing a letter fro...

CWA Members On Strike At Sprint In Four States

Jones)- Nearly 1,000 Communications Workers of America members working at Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) went on strike early Monday protesting the company's calls for benefits cuts in contract negotiations for workers at its ...

MegaFon says ups base stations in Moscow to 1,500 units

Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon has increased the number of base stations in the Moscow License Area (MLA) to 1,500 units as of now from 1,000 units as of January 1, the company's General Director Sergei...

Nextel Partners Responds To Sprint Nextel Lawsuit

ones)- The dispute between Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. (NXTP) got uglier Monday as Nextel Partners fired back a response to Sprint's legal action. ...

AC&M says Russia's mobile user base up to 111.74 mln on Sep 30

The number of mobile phone service subscribers in Russia increased to

111.74 million people as of September 30 from 107.33 million people as of August 31, Advanced Communications & Media (AC&M) said in a report released ...

Russia's SMARTS launches EDGE technology in test mode

Russian regional mobile operator SMARTS has launched Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology in test mode, the company said Monday. ...

America Movil Launches New Claro Trademark In Peru

Mexican wireless communications provider America Movil SA (AMX) launched its new Claro mobile-phone trademark in Peru on Monday. ...