Cellular-News for Wednesday 12th October 2005

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Alcatel Testing WiMAX in Norway
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Alcatel has signed an agreement with Norway's NextGenTel to conduct its first field-trial of WiMAX in Oslo and Bergen. Under the terms of this agreement, Alcatel will supply, install and support NexGenTel with its WiMAX ...

Roaming on CDMA and GSM Networks in Australia

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Australia's Telstra is launching a service that enables customers to roam between its CDMA and GSM networks while retaining the same phone number. Telstra's Head of CDMA, Ms Jenny Roche, said the new calling solution all...

Danish Switchboards

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Denmark's Sonofon has just launched a service that is says is designed to aid small businesses in dumping their landlines -- the Mobile Switchboard. The Mobile Switchboard lets several co-workers in the company share swit...

Pannon Launches Hungarian 3G Network

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Less than a year since the company was awarded its 3G license, Hungary's Pannon GSM has launched its commercial 3G network. Video calls will continue to be free until the end of this year as a continuation of the existin...

GSM Jumps Back to the 450 Frequency Band

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Nokia and Ericsson have both returned to the GSM450 market, announcing plans to start selling infrastructure in the 450Mhz band, currently dominated by CDMA450. The GSM vendors had originally planned to deploy GSM servic...

Fully Automatic HSDPA Optimization Solution

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Radioplan, the German automatic mobile network optimization (ACP) vendor, has announced that the latest version of their automatic cell planning solution features fully automatic HSDPA optimization functionality....

Anti-Virus for Microsoft Mobiles

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The anti-virus company, F-Secure has launched an anti-virus package for mobile phones running on Microsoft?s Windows Mobile operating system. Symbian Series 80 users will also get a new product called F-Secure Mobile Sec...

Trinidad & Tobago Braces for Intense Competition

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The opening of Trinidad and Tobago's telecommunications market represents one of the last Caribbean markets to open its sector to competition, leaving the Bahamas as the only other closed market in the region. The entran...

FOCUS: Russia mulls fighting mobile handset thieves

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Russian court freezes SMARTS' shares once again

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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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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

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

Nokia Launches Software Devt Products With Symbian

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Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK) Tuesday said it has launched two new software development products together with Symbian Plc (SYN.YY) in the U.K. ...

Vodafone Sweden Offers BlackBerry Services For 3 New Phones

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Telecommunications operator Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) Tuesday said its branch Vodafone Sweden is introducing its BlackBerry connection services to three new mobile phones. ...

Nokia, TeliaSonera Sees Explosive Mobile E-mail Growth

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Swedish telecommunications companies TeliaSonera AB (TLSN.SK) and Nokia Corp. (NOK) sees usage of e-mail in mobile phones growing rapidly in the coming year, despite current obstacles to growth. ...

Ukraine's UMC mobile subscriber base up to 10.916 mln Sep 30

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The total subscriber base of Ukraine's Mobile Communications, or UMC, Ukraine's largest mobile phone operator, rose 3.8% on the month to

10.916 million subscribers as of September 30, UMC said in a press release on i...
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