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Oasis Music Content for Toshiba 3G Phone
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Toshiba Mobile Communications has announced an agreement to bring exclusive live and pre-recorded content from Oasis to its music mobile phone Toshiba 803. As part of this agreement Toshiba has been appointed exclusive mobile sponsor for Oasis live d...
T-Mobile Launches OFDM Broadband Service
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T-Mobile Slovakia has launched Europe's first commercial mobile broadband service using Flarion Technologies' FLASH-OFDM network technology. As of today, the service is available in selected areas of Bratislava, and in 19 other cities around Slovakia...
Two New Accessories from Sony Ericsson
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Sony Ericsson has launched two new accessories for its handsets, a speaker system and an FM radio adaptor. Sony Corporation and Sony Ericsson have announced a new jointly developed Home Audio System that enables owners of Sony Ericsson Walkman music ...
SonyEricsson Launch 3G Walkman Phone
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Sony Ericsson has launched its first 3G Walkman phone. The W900 follows the highly successful global market launch of the W800. Two previously announced Walkman phones are also about to launch, the W600 in the Americas and W550 in the rest of the wor...
New GSM Network for Chad
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Millicom International has announced the launch of GSM services in Chad under the Tigo brand. Millicom was awarded a 10 year license to operate a GSM 900 wireless telephony network in Chad in November
2004. Services have been launched in the capital ...
More Trials of In-Flight Phone Systems
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Connexion by Boeing says that it has recently concluded a week of demonstration flights in Europe that showed travelers how mobile telephony in flight can be provided safely and conveniently for passengers in flight....
Retailer says Russia's mobile handset sales at $4 billion Jan-Sep
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Mobile handset sales in Russia were at U.S. $4 billion in January-September, Russia's largest handset retail chain Euroset said in a report obtained by Prime-Tass on Monday. ...
Motorola Seen Posting Solid 3Q On Brisk Handset Sales
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Motorola Inc. (MOT) should meet, if not exceed, Wall Street's third-quarter earnings and revenue expectations on continued healthy sales of handsets. ...
Nortel Names Zafirovski New CEO
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Nortel Networks Corp. on Monday named Mike Zafirovski, the former No. 2 executive at Motorola Inc., as its new CEO amid a concerted effort by the maker of phone-networking gear to engineer a turnaround. ...
Euroset says Russia's mobile penetration at 40% as of Sep 30
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Mobile service penetration in Russia stood at about 40% as of September 30, the country's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset said in a statement Monday. The company based its estimation on the number of mobile handsets sold and did not provide a...
Vodafone European Data Roaming To Resume Monday Evening
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Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) Monday said its U.K. users will be able to resume access to data services when roaming in Europe from Monday evening, following a lengthy disruption. ...
Bouygues, Orange Begin Testing Mobile Television Service
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French mobile telecommunications operators Orange and Bouygues Telecom Monday began testing a new service that allows subscribers to watch broadcast television on a mobile handset. ...
Russia's MegaFon user base reaches 4 mln in Volga area
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The user base of Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon increased to 4 million subscribers in the Volga area as of now, the press service of MSS-Povolzhye said Monday. MSS-Povolzhye operates MegaFon's network in the Volga area. ...
Russia's MTS launches i-mode service in Pskov Region
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Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched its i-mode service in Russia's Pskov Region, MTS' Pskov unit said Monday. ...
Palm's Treo To License BlackBerry Technology
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Competitors Palm Inc., maker of the Treo smartphone, and Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry wireless device, on Monday agreed to let Treo use BlackBerry Connect's e-mail and communications technology. ...
Orange To Resolve London Connection Issues By Nov
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Orange, the mobile telecommunications arm of France Telecom SA, Monday said its U.K. customers won't be able to call some newly issued London fixed-line telephone numbers until a network issue is resolved by November. ...
Freescale Semiconductor Looks For Wireless To Improve
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (FSL) is hopeful that its wireless business will show improved results in the third quarter, Chief Executive Michel Mayer said Monday. ...
Infoquest Sells Q-Telecom Unit To Tim Hellas Holders
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Texas Pacific and Apax Partners agreed to pay EUR325 million in cash for the Q-Telecom unit. The two companies will also take on an Infoquest corporate bond valued at EUR25 million. ...
Hungary's MOL Switches To Vodafone As Mobile Service Provider
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Oil and gas company MOL Rt. (MOL.BU) has switched to the local unit of the U.K.'s Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) as its mobile services provider, the mobile company said Monday. ...
Ericsson To Expand GSM Network For Movistar In Argentina
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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson (ERICY) Monday said it has been selected by Movistar Argentina to expand its global system for mobile communication and transmission networks. ...
South Russia Cellular Relay Stations Blown Up - Officials
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NALCHIK, Russia (AP)--Unknown attackers on Monday blew up cellular relay stations of two rival companies in the southern Russian town of Yandar, in the republic of Ingushetia, officials said. No casualties were reported. ...
Sony Ericsson 3Q Profit Buoyed by New Products
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Sony Ericsson Monday said net profit advanced 16% in the third quarter as new product launches, including the Walkman music phone, helped the world's sixth-largest mobile phone maker gain market share. ...