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HSDPA Deployments Face Performance Roadblocks Indoors
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While the wireless world readies for broad scale deployment of HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access), 3G technology being deployed by GSM Operators ideally capable of up to 1 Mb per second data throughput, Spotwave Wireless asserts that a glaring...
Picture Service Added to iDEN Network
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The USA based, Sprint has announced the availability of Nextel Direct Send Picture, a service that allows Nextel subscribers with capable Nextel phones the ability to send and review a picture quickly and easily, all while on a Nextel Walkie-Talkie c...
Nigerian Operator Taps Consultants for Training Needs
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The most rapidly growing cell phone market in the world is on a continent where just having access to a plain old telephone is a rarity in many villages. Now, millions of people from farmers and fishermen to healthcare and factory workers are buying ...
Testing GSM in South Korea
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Spain's Centro de Tecnologde las Comunicaciones, (CETECOM) says that it has supplied MINT (Mobile Communications Integrated Tester) to TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association), the first GSM laboratory in Korea. This will allow TTA to offer...
Pantech Signs Indian CDMA Handset Contract
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South Korea's Pantech has signed a direct supplier agreement with India's Tata Teleservices (TTSL) to provide 300,000 CDMA handsets in India, starting with the compact, slim PA-711 phone, which will be sold under the Pantech brand. Pantech says that ...
Motorola Releases Three Findings from Outdoor HSDPA Trials
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Motorola has released three latest findings from its HSDPA trial results in Europe. The findings will help operators determine how to best deploy HSDPA and are taken from the first known global study which includes both multiple users and outdoor per...
New Boss for Egyptian Operator
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Egypt's GSM network operator, Mobinil has elected Mr. Iskander Naguib Shalaby as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Board says that it has reached this decision after the mutual agreement between the two major shareholders of Egyptia...
A Single-Chip, Quad-Band EDGE Transceiver
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Analog Devices has unveiled its single-chip radio transceiver for the EDGE cellular standard. Based on Analog Devices' award-winning direct conversion Othello radio architecture, the new Othello-E transceiver integrates virtually all the necessary co...
Ukraine's CDMA Operator subscriber base up to 24,000
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The subscriber base of Ukraine's CDMA operator Intertelecom, based in the Odessa Region, increased to 24,000 users as of November 1 from about 11,000 in October 2004, the company said Monday. ...
Russia's Sky Link, Japan's Kyocera to jointly promote CDMA450
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Russia's Sky Link mobile operator and Japan's Kyocera Corporation have signed a memorandum of intent aimed at developing and promoting IMT-MC-450 standard for mobile handsets on the Russian market, Sky Link's press office reported Monday. ...
PM says Kazakh govt to auction GSM 1800 frequency license 2006
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The Kazakh government plans to hold a tender for a GSM 1800 frequency license in 2006, Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov said at a joint meeting of the country's two houses of parliament Monday. ...
MVNOs Capture Nearly 10% Of New French Mobile Subscribers
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[Premium] The French telecom regulator said Monday that nearly 10% of all new mobile phone subscribers in the third quarter signed up with alternative carriers known as MVNOs. ...
Google, Yahoo Dial Into Cell Phone Business
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Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are rolling out new wireless services to provide features similar to computers on cell phones. ...
Ukraine's Kyivstar user base rises 6.8% on month as of Nov 1
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The subscriber base of Ukraine's mobile operator Kyivstar rose 6.8% on the month to 11.687 million users as of November 1, the company said Monday. ...
Polish TPSA Sees Centertel Unit As Market Leader By 2007
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Centertel, a mobile unit of telephone operator Telekomunikacja Polska SA, will be Poland's number one mobile phone operator by 2007, TPSA representatives said Monday. ...
Source says MTS' mobile license in Turkmenistan extended
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Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed a decree allowing the Telecommunications Ministry to extend the mobile license of Barash Communications Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (M...
Qualcomm Files Patent Infringement Suit Vs Nokia
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Qualcomm has filed a lawsuit against cell phone maker Nokia Corp. alleging the infringement of a dozen patents. ...
Disney Buys Mobile Games Developer
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LONDON (AP)--The Walt Disney Co. signaled its expansion in the European cell phone games market Monday, announcing the acquisition of German game developer and publisher Living Mobile. ...
Japans DoCoMo Invests in Mobile Music
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Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Monday it will buy a
42% stake in Tower Records Japan Inc. later this month to offer broader mobile phone services. ...
Ericsson, Mobtel Launch Mobile Softswitch In Serbia
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Telefon AB LM Ericsson said Monday it and operator Mobtel successfully launched Ericsson Mobile Softswich in Serbia. ...
Nokia, CSL Launch Video Sharing Service In Hong Kong
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Finnish mobile phone producer Nokia Oyj and Hong-Kong-based mobile operator Hong Kong CSL Ltd. Monday announced the commercial launch of Asia's first video-sharing service enabled by Nokia IP Multimedia Subsystem, or IMS, and systems integration serv...