Customer Self-Care: Sharpen Russian Mobile Operator Vimpelcom Withdraws Offer for Ukrainian Telecom
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MOSCOW -- Russia's second-largest mobile phone operator said Thursday it had withdrawn its offer to buy leading Ukrainian telecommunications company Kyivstar. The announcement by OAO Vimpel Communications is the latest chapter in a running dispute between Vimpelcom's two primary shareholders -- Norway's Telenor ASA and...
Verizon Wireless to Give SMS a Voice
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Verizon Wireless is among several carriers planning to launch services that let subscribers send text messages from wireless phones to landline phones. Sources at the company behind the technology, Telemessage Inc., say Verizon Wireless will use Telemessage's SMS product to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a...
Growing Pains in Off-Portal World
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Navigating the complex and fragmented wireless content ecosystem can be a challenge for any company. But for small application developers that typically lack manpower and wireless industry acumen, this can be an overwhelming task. In the early days of mobile content, many of the small developers gravitated toward content application...
Motorola Snaps up TTP
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Motorola signed a deal to acquire TTP Communications, a software developer for 3G applications. Motorola has agreed to pay $192 million in cash for the British entity. A Motorola wholly-owned subsidiary will acquire TTPCom under the terms of the deal, which will give Motorola access to TTPCom's AJAR mobile operating system. In February,...
Vonage Demands IPO Subscribers Pay Up
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Vonage's IPO disaster took a new twist as the company issued a statement that it is going to demand that those of its VoIP subscribers who bought into the IPO pay up and eat their losses. Meanwhile, Vonage shares continued the death spiral they started immediately after the $17 per share IPO, and had plunged to less than $12 at the close...
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