CWTA Argues Against Subsidies in Spectrum Auction
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The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) has petitioned the Canadian government to limit the levels of subsidy and other benefits available to companies engaging in the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum auction, due to take place in 2008. The call for action (or rather inaction) was particularly scathing ...
Bluetooth Links Up With Rival Technology
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NEW YORK -- The consortium behind the Bluetooth wireless standard announced Tuesday that Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is contributing a technology that promises to bring the wireless connections to devices that are too small for regular Bluetooth chips. The technology, called Wibree, opens up the ...
Deutsche Telekom CEO: Sale of T-Mobile USA Would Be "Shortsighted" Move
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Deutsche Telekom AG's chief executive, Rene Obermann, said Tuesday that its U.S. cellular unit is a key part of the company's long-term strategy, dismissing suggestions it should be sold off. Obermann said that, despite a few calls by shareholders for T-Mobile USA to be sold, any decision to do so ...
German Union ver.di to Restart Talks With Deutsche Telekom
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Services union ver.di said Tuesday it would resume negotiations with Deutsche Telekom AG, a new effort to try and end five weeks of walkouts at Europe's biggest telecommunica- tions company. Union spokesman Lothar Schroeder said the union would meet with Deutsche Telekom on Wednesday to work on reaching ...
Ericsson signs $1 billion deal with China Mobile
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Ericsson has signed an agreement with China Mobile, valued at $1 billion, to expand the carriers GSM network. China's President Hu Jinato was at the contract signing in Stockholm, marking the first time a Chinese president has visited Sweden since the two countries began a diplomatic relationship in 1950. In a company statement, ...
Wireless Experts Push FCC For Open-Access E-Block Plan
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A new group of veteran wireless entrepreneurs -- the Wireless Founders Coalition for Innovation -- sent a letter last week to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to provide its 'real-world' perspective for why 'open access' requirements are critical for the proposed 700 MHz E Block (TelecomWeb news ...
Nokia's US Enterprise Headache
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Nokia Corp. may be the world's top handset maker, but there is one area where the Finnish giant has failed to make headway -- the U.S. enterprise market. Nokia has seen enterprise net sales in the first quarter of this year leap in almost every region except the U.S. The firm also reported North American device ...
Signs of Life at Newport
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VOIP equipment maker Newport Networks plc may have spent a long time on the ropes recently, but it looks like the session border controller (SBC) vendor isn't out for the count, after announcing new customers and a partnership in recent weeks. Newport today announced a deal with U.K. VOIP wholesale outfit nPlusOne, but its ...
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