Competition to Big Three in Russia's 3G Beauty Contest
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Russia's Federal Communications Agency has revealed that, to date, it has received five requests for the documentation necessary to participate in the beauty contest for the country's 3G licences, reports Prime-Tass. As expected, the three largest mobile operators-Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), VimpelCom, and MegaFon-have submitted ...
Vodafone and Orange Merge 3G Networks in United Kingdom in Cost-Saving Efforts
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The United Kingdom's mobile operators, Vodafone and Orange, propose to combine their 3G networks in an effort to cut costs. The companies have signed a non-binding deal, outlining the terms and conditions of sharing their respective 3G networks, while retaining control of their backbone networks, which connect mobile-phone masts with ...
So Long, Jack
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The AT&T phase-out of 6-year-old Cingular Wireless' brand began last month as AT&T started transitioning the Cingular brand to its own with a massive advertising and customer communications campaign targeting Cingular's Websites, retail stores, company buildings and vehicles. The announcement came swiftly, just a ...
Gmail Becomes More Widely Available
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s e-mail service is almost ready to accept all comers, nearly three years after the online search leader shook up the Internet by offering users an unprecedented amount of free storage and displaying ads based on the content of the correspondence. Effective Wednesday, the Mountain View-based ...
Femtocells Gear Up for 3GSM
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Femtocells, the micro mobile base stations that can provide in-building 3G coverage, are creating quite a buzz ahead of next week's 3GSM jamboree. NEC Corp. got serious about the technology this week, announcing partnership agreements with two femtocell specialists, UbiquiSys Ltd. and Tatara Systems Inc. ...
Netherlands Picks Nokia Managed Services
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In a first for the Finnish company, Nokia has won a managed services deal with T-Mobile Netherlands to cover its WCDMA 3G and GSM networks. Nokia will provide T-Mobile Netherlands with field operations and spare part management. Specifically, field operations will include preventive maintenance and incident management, while the ...
Polycom Acquires SpectraLink
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Creating a formidable competitor in the emerging market for unified communications, VOIP system provider Polycom Inc. said today it is acquiring SpectraLink Corp., the Boulder, Colo.- based manufacturer of wireless handsets for vertical markets, for $220 million. The $11.75-per-share price represents a 33 percent premium ...
Egyptian Telecom Mogul Grabs A Greek Treat
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Egyptian telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris and his Weather Investments is buying Greece's third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, TIM Hellas and Q-Telecom, from Apax Partners and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) for a total of $4.4 billion. The acquisition is said to be part of a move by Weather to become a major European telecom ...
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