Competing Technologies Vie for Mobile TV
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Mobile TV -- an off-the-shelf-acronym for all TV services that are beamed to hand-held devices -- is gathering pace once more as the much-anticipated 'killer application' for 3G infrastructure. Within 10 days this month, three different announcements involving technological enhancements to 3G highlighted the strong interest in the...
U.S. Government Plans to Provide Frequencies for WiMAX
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Michael Gallagher, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, has said that the U.S. government plans to open up frequencies for WiMAX. Gallagher told the Wireless Communications Association's Annual International Symposium and Expo that the government plans to auction off the 1,710 MHz and 2,110 MHz...
Alltel Profit Falls on Katrina Costs
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Telecommunications company Alltel Corp., which is shedding its traditional telephone business, said Friday its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent, due to costs related to Hurricane Katrina and other one-time expenses, many related to acquisitions and sales. The Little Rock-based company said for the quarter ended...
Swisscom chief resigns after disagreement with government over expansion plans
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ZURICH, Switzerland -- Swisscom AG said its Chief Executive Jens Alder quit Friday in the wake of the national telephonecarrier's battle with the government over the company's expansion plans. Alder's resignation takes effect immediately and he will be replaced by Carsten Schloter, chief executive of Swisscom's mobile phone business. ...
Private equity group takes control of 88 percent of telecom TDC
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Private equity firms bidding for TDC A/S said they controlled 88.2 percent of the Danish telecom's shares as the deadline expired Friday for their 76 billion kroner (US$12 billion) bid. The group, Nordic Telephone Co., extended the deadline on Jan. 12 after Denmark's biggest pension fund, ATP, said the offer was...
Google Says No to QOS Fees
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Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board) said Thursday it would not pay telephone or cable companies "QOS fees" in exchange for priority treatment on the operators' broadband networks. (See Net Neutrality Goes to Washington.) "Google is not discussing sharing of the costs of broadband networks with any carrier," writes Google spokesman...
Bill Targets Phone Record Fraud
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WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress want to make stealing wireless phone records an explicit crime and are adding fines and prison time as further deterrents. In a bi-partisan bill introduced yesterday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn.; and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., propose companies or individuals that access...
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