Cellular-News for Tuesday 7th March 2006

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[[ 3G ]]

Simple 3G Phones For Japan

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Japan's DoCoMo has announced that it has developed the third-generation (3G) FOMA SIMPURE series of basic and compact handsets for people who do not require highly sophisticated functions. The series has two models, SIMPURE L, supplied by LG Electron...

HSDPA Launched in Bulgaria

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Mobiltel, mobilkom austria group-member, has launched the first HSDPA network in Bulgaria. The company thereby joins the world's first five network operators offering their customers the new 3G technology. In September 2005, Mobiltel announced the te...

[[ Financial ]]

AT&T Deal Seeks Growth Through Cingular

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The prospects of fully owning the faster growing Cingular Wireless business and gaining access to BellSouth's lucrative southeast market may have been the catalyst for AT&T's US$67 billion acquisition of the Baby Bell. ...

Softbank Shares Rise On News May Buy Vodafone Japan Unit

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If Softbank strikes a deal with Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI would likely face stiffer competition. Softbank's Son is known for driving down prices in markets his firm enters. For example, Softbank initially stomached large losses when promoting its...

UPDATE: Research In Motion Surges After Settlement

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Research In Motion shares climbed as much as 14% Monday as investors cheered as the company's settlement in a patent-infringement suit that threatened to shut down the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail service. ...

ATP Sues NTC For Trying To Force Other TDC Holders To Sell

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Danish pension fund ATP Monday said it will take legal action against private-equity company Nordic Telephone Co., or NTC, for seeking to force minority shareholders in Danish telecommunications operator TDC to sell their shares. ...

Ministry: Sector needs US$19bn investment

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Colombia's telecoms sector will require investments of 43tn pesos (US$19.1bn) over the next 15 years if it is to grow into a tool that will allow other sectors to develop, communications minister Martha Pinto said in a statement. ...

Analysis: After BellSouth, Is Anyone Left?

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After a decade of dealmaking, the phone industry is running out of buyers and sellers. The latest deal, AT&T Inc.'s agreement on Sunday to buy BellSouth Corp. for $67 billion, would remove one of the few major targets left in the phone business. Bell...

[[ Handsets ]]

Just How Did Motorola Make the RAZR V3 So Thin?

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In its latest Insight on Ultra-Slim phones, Strategy Analytics uncovered the secrets of the Motorola RAZR V3, comparing the thickness of the majority of ultra-slim clamshell phones. The success of the RAZR, and the growing trend by other vendors to i...

Samsung Shows Off Windows Mobile Phone

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Samsung Electronics has shown off the world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone. Samsung was the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world's first 1.5GB HDD embe...

[[ Messaging ]]

Movistar agrees to interconnect SMS with Nextel

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Mexican mobile operator Movistar, owned by Spain's Telefonica Mviles, has agreed to interconnect its short messaging services (SMS) with trunking operator Nextel as ordered by Telecoms regulator Cofetel, local daily El Financiero reported. ...

Britain's Reality TV Craze Fuels Text Message Voting

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I'm a text voter, get me out of here! The reality TV craze sweeping the UK has reached the mobile industry, according to M:Metrics' latest figures. The measurement firm's January Benchmark Survey found that

21.8% of British mobile subscribers (8.9 mi...

Mobile365 Signs Premium SMS Deal in Taiwan

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Mobile 365 says that it has successfully obtained full Premium SMS (PSMS) connectivity with three mobile operators in Taiwan. The cross-operator PSMS connectivity not only enables Mobile 365 customers to reach over 23 million mobile subscribers in Ta...

[[ Mobile Content ]]

Mobile TV in China Ready to Take Off

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Still in their infancy, mobile TV services in China are ready to take flight, reports In-Stat. Mobile TV subscribers in China will grow to

94 million by 2009, the high-tech market research firm forecasts, with 2007 being the year that the services ga... [[ Network Operators ]]

Orange Launches Animal-Themed UK Tariff Structure

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Orange, the mobile telecommunications arm of France Telecom, Monday launched a new marketing campaign in the UK contract market that links customer behavior with animal characteristics. ...

[[ Offbeat ]]

Vodafone Branded Guitars ?

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Vodafone, as sponsor of the Rock in Rio - Lisbon Festival, is to install three countdown displays in the form of 'giant guitars' at a number of sites in Lisbon. The guitars, which will be installed starting this week on the 2nd Ring Road, at Pra?de...

[[ Regulatory ]]

Russian president signs caller pays principle bill into law

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill seeking to introduce the Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle effective July 1, the government's press service said on Saturday. ...

[[ Reports ]]

Explosive Growth Continues for India's Mobile-Phone Market

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How fast is India's mobile-phone market growing? So fast that Indian wireless carriers added approximately 4.7 million new subscribers in January alone, a new high mark for mobile-phone service growth in the nation, according to iSuppli Corp. So fast...

Industry Experts Predict Continued Growth in Mobile Technology

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Optimism reigned at yesterday's RBC Capital Markets' Mobility Evolution Conference in New York when institutional investors, wireless service and content providers, research analysts and wired/wireless advertisers predicted the past five years of 20 ...

[[ Statistics ]]

Indec: Mobile base grows 62.2% yoy

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Mobile operators in Argentina closed January 2006 with 22.7 million lines in service, up 62.2% compared to the 14.0 million subscribers recorded in January 2005, according to statistics bureau Indec. ...

Russia's SMARTS user base hits 3 million as of Monday

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The subscriber base of Russian regional mobile operator SMARTS hit 3 million users as of now, the company said in a press release Monday. ...

[[ Technology ]]

AT&T CEO: Merger To Speed Next-Gen Network Technology

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AT&T Inc.'s merger with BellSouth Corp. should speed the adoption of next-generation technology integrating wireless and wireline networks, according to AT&T Chief Executive Edward Whitacre. ...

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Part of today's opening message from these folks is worth repeating:

A spam-enabler speaks out:

You might not have received your newsletter yesterday. > Some of the text in the email triggered spam filters at some companies which > will have blocked the emails. > Sorry about that ! > To ensure that the newsletter arrives, please (do the gyrations and > contortions each day as explained in the opening statements.)

If you did not receieve this newsletter yesterday, it is _your_ fault. Its never the fault of the one-celled organism which dumped a load of trash and garbage all over, forcing ISPs and company sysadmins to scramble to make efforts to protect their systems. If the ISP or company sysadmin had been on his toes, _he_ would have done it correctly.

Whatever happened to the concept of blaming the problem on the person(s) who created the mess, and punishing them accordingly? I can remember the time, years ago, when we used to _expose_ (to sunlight) the guys who did that crap, giving their home phone numbers, their white-trash trailer park home addresses, their employment as telephone company 'marketing' reps [i.e. cold-calling guys in an office somewhere] their driver's records -- everything we could do to punish them and make them wish they had never heard of nor used computers.

Then the original spam-enablers came along -- with tears in their eyes, oh this is so sad -- telling us we could not invade the privacy of the erk-jays, that the erk-jays might choose to sue _us_ for denying them _their_ service, invading _their_ privacy, and the more noble of the spam-enablers would keep insisting (as they pouted!) we have no right to tell others how to use their computer sites, etc. How times have changed! Pardon me while I go vomit, and try to get rid of the latest chest pains I am feeling. PAT]

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