Vodafone, Orange in Stand-Off for Deutsche Telekom's Spanish Unit
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Spain's number-two and number-three mobile operators, Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain, have been selected for the final round of bidding for Ya.com, the Spanish unit of Germany's incumbent Deutsche Telekom, according to the Spanish daily Expansion. The move would leave Spain's leading alternative telco, Jazztel, out of the ...
Virgin Media Mulls Business Unit Sale
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The United Kingdom's leading cable TV group, Virgin Media, is considering a sale of its business telecoms unit, according to a report in the Times newspaper. The company is currently evaluating how its corporate unit, NTL:Telewest Business, fits in the group's strategy. NTL:Telewest Business generated 168.8 million ...
Will Spam Jeopardize the Dream of Mobile Advertising?
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In the United States, about one in six mobile phone users report receiving unsolicited text messages on their phones from advertisers, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Although every major wireless carrier has spam filters and other methods to block spam, according to Ferris Research, U.S. subscribers will ...
Mobile TV's High Wire Act
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Without any history, a new industry is betting big that consumers are eager to watch mobile multicast TV. It's show time, folks. One of the biggest gambles in the wireless industry is under way with this year's launch of mobile multicast television in the United States. The table stakes are $800 million and rising ...
RIM's Corporate Call
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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM)'s BlackBerry devices can now act as your corporate voicemail inbox and can serve up email on the go. The Canadian vendor has introduced new software that allows its wireless devices to interface with the corporate PBX, letting users access and manage their office voicemail at any time and be ...
Comcast Gets the (Unified) Message
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Comcast Corp. has hooked up with a handful of software and Internet service partners to create SmartZone, a 'communications center' that will provide high-speed subscribers with direct access to their email and voice mail messages, as well as an instant message app and an integrated address book. Using a ...
U.K. Wireless Use Flip-Flops As Text Tops Talk
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Wireless subscribers in the U.K. are talking less and texting more, according to a new survey by J.D. Power and Associates - the first time in the decade the survey's been done that voice usage dropped. The news isn't good for U.K. wireless providers, which are seeing lower average revenue per user (ARPU) as a result. ...
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