Cellular-News for Wednesday 2nd November 2005

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Leather Clad 3G Phone
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Vodafone Japan has announced that later this week, it will commence nationwide sales of the Vodafone 703N 3G handset by NEC, which features a 'leather touch design' that gives the surface of the handset a soft, high-quality leather feel....

Israeli Firm Starts Production of Cameraphone Components

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Tower Semiconductor, an Israel based wafer foundry, and Biomorphic Microsystems, a supplier of innovative imaging solutions for the cell phone and PDA markets, have announced that Tower has begun manufacturing of Biomorphic 2.0 and 1.3-megapixel CMOS...

Econet Nigeria Wins Legal Battle

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The Federal High Court of Nigeria has ruled that it has the jurisdiction to appoint arbitrators in the ongoing dispute between shareholders of Vee Mobile, formerly Econet Wireless Nigeria. In making its ruling, the court dismissed an application brou...

The Motorola Phone that Kills Germs

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Motorola has announced the launch of the Motorola i870, a new mobile device that comes with an antimicrobial coating over the casing. The i870 blends a 1.3 megapixel camera with a video recorder, MP3 player and two-way radio. Additionally, the i870 i...

Mobile Games Developer Loses Boss

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I-play, the mobile games company, has unexpectedly announced that Brian Greasley has stepped down as CEO of the company. David Gosen, currently Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed acting Chief Executive with immediate effect....

Improving Customer Care in Azerbaijan

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Formula Telecom Solutions has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with BakCell, Azerbaijan's second-largest cellular network operator, to provide it with FTS' Leap CRM platform. Leap CRM will offer Bakcell a fully user-customizable solution for m...

HSDPA Billing Agreement Completed

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Convergent billing provider, Cerillion Technologies says that it has completed implementation of its mediation solution in support of Manx Telecom's new HSDPA network. Cerillion Mediator was implemented on time and to budget, and integrated with the ...

Nokia Completes UMA Voice and Data Calls

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As a significant milestone in its fixed-mobile convergence strategy, Nokia has completed both voice and data calls with Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology in a Nokia Solutions Experience Center in the United States....

Steady Rise in US Handset Sales

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According to The NPD Group, mobile phone sales to consumers in the USA reached 31.6 million units in the third quarter of 2005. This number represents solid incremental growth of 7% from the second quarter 2005 sales volume of 29.6 million units and ...

Ukrainian CDMA Operator sees 2005 investments in network at $10 mln

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U.S.-Ukrainian joint venture International Telecommunication Company, or ITC, plans to invest about U.S. $10 million in the development of its network this year, a spokesman with the company told Prime-Tass on Monday. ...

Shareholders of 7 units of VimpelCom OK merging with parent co

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The general meetings of shareholders of seven subsidiaries of Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom have approved merging into the parent company, VimpelCom said on Tuesday. ...

Belarus MDC active subscriber base up to 1.705 million

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The active subscriber base of Belarus? mobile phone operator Mobile Digital Communications, or MDC, rose 3.6% in October to 1.705 million people as of November 1, the company said Tuesday. ...

Lucent Tech Discovers $80 Million Accounting Error In Balance Sheet

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Lucent Technologies Inc. disclosed Tuesday that it became aware of an error reported in its fourth-quarter and fiscal year financials last week that will result in an $80 million increase in its pension liabilities and a corresponding reduction in sh...

Russia's MTS gets full control of Turkmen cell operator

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Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has purchased a 49% stake in U.S.-registered Turkmenistan mobile operator Barash Communications Technologies Inc. (BCTI) for U.S. $18.52 million, increasing its stake to 100%, MTS said Tuesd...

Virgin Mobile Expands Distribution Of Contract Offer

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Virgin Mobile Holdings PLC, the U.K. mobile telecom service provider, Tuesday said it has expanded the distribution of its fledgling contract offer to over 1,000 stores across the U.K. ...

Motorola Reaches Settlement In Zafirovski Lawsuit

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Motorola Inc. agreed to settle its lawsuit against a former executive it had accused of breaching a non-compete agreement. ...

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