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France Telecom Mulls Sale of Orange Netherlands

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France Telecom is reportedly planning to sell off its mobile and broadband businesses in the Netherlands in a deal that could fetch the French giant between 1 and 1.5 billion euro (US$1.3-2 billion). According to the financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad, five parties have already indicated an interest in snapping up the assets of the ...

KPN Confirms E-Plus' Outsourcing Deal With Alcatel-Lucent

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The Dutch telecoms group, KPN, has confirmed that it signed an outsourcing deal for construction, operation and maintenance of the network of its German unit, E-Plus, with the global equipment maker, Alcatel-Lucent. The network integrator will be managing several network business divisions of E-Plus. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

M2M Picks Up Steam

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From fleet management and point-of-sales terminals to telemedicine and vending machines, the upside of remotely controlling networks and devices via integrated cellular radios that exchange data with other machines is driving a wide array of companies into the M2M space. And why not? FocalPoint Group predicts that by 2008, M2M will ...

Nokia Announces Delay in U.S. Infringement Case Initiated by Chipmaker Qualcomm

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HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp. said Tuesday that a judge overseeing an investigation into alleged infringement of patents initiated by Qualcomm against Nokia has ordered a stay of the proceedings until further notice. The trial was scheduled to begin on March 5 at the United States International Trade Commission after the ITC ...

Vonage Says Verizon Suit Won't Kill It

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Vonage Holdings Corp. CEO Mike Snyder Monday released a statement saying that it isn't necessarily true that a patent fight with Verizon will spell the end of Vonage. Verizon filed suit against Vonage last June, claiming the VOIP provider has violated five patents covering technology that converts packet-based voice ...

Mobile Matters: 3GSM Snippets

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Hundreds of companies made thousands of news announcements, most of them dull, at this year's 3GSM wireless jamboree in Barcelona. There were, though, some things worth reporting, including news from some of the big names in mobile: Ericsson Buys Entrisphere Nokia Siemens Reveals Product Picks 3GSM: Mobile's...

The Five-Year Cellular-Modem Sales Plan

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Although shipments of cellular modems in 2006 were slightly below expectations, the momentum is building for this market to reach sales of 68 million units worth nearly $10 billion by 2012, a 47-percent compound annual growth rate. Says ABI Research principal analyst Dan Shey, The fundamental drivers for sales of modems are ...

Mobile Gaming Communities on the Rise

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Two new announcements, one from T-Mobile UK and another from Hovr, highlight the market power of mobile gaming. T-Mobile recently signed an agreement with Terraplay to run a new connected gaming community that provides T-Mobile with an operator-branded portal for access to games and billing. The service will use new, ...

Adoption of Managed Services Among Global Enterprises Set to Increase; Telephony Leads

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Managed Network Services (MNS) adoption will increase over the next two years among large, globally focused businesses, reports In-Stat. A survey by the high-tech market research firm of IT and network managers in companies of more than 1,000 employees shows that most globally focused firms currently perform ...

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