Swiss Regulator Probes Mobile Interconnection Fees
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The Swiss competition watchdog has criticised the country's mobile operators for the high fees they charge other operators for connecting to their networks. The move will enable the telecoms regulator to probe the current situation and introduce price cuts in the mobile interconnection rates. Significance: The Swiss mobile market ...
Supreme Court Hears Antitrust Suit Against Bell Companies
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A case brought against the incumbent telecom operators in the United States went before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, reports Reuters. The class action lawsuit alleges that following Bell's break-up and the opening up of network exchanges to competitors in 1996, the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCS), in this particular ...
Mobile Operators Race to Embrace Retail Models
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The vision of becoming the main touchpoint for myriads of services begins with the hype around IMS and service delivery platforms (SDPs), as they establish a means for moving away from solely network operations to dynamic, retail-focused strategies where operators monetize content and become the applications and content providers of ...
Verizon Wireless to Feature YouTube Videos
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NEW YORK -- YouTube videos will be viewable on cell phones for the first time under a deal with Verizon Wireless, which will also allow users to upload videos shot with their camera phones. The partnership, to be announced today, marks the first big distribution deal for YouTube since the young video-sharing Web site was ...
Ericsson, Nokia Tapped For U.S. 3G Buildout
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Deutsche Telekom (DT) subsidiary T-Mobile USA gave Ericsson and Nokia the nod to provide the infrastructure for its planned $2.75 billion U.S. 3G rollout. The 3G rollout is a key part of T-Mobile's stated goal of expanding its current U.S. customer base of approximately 23 million to between 35 million and 40 million by 2015. ...
Alltel, Seven Give RAZR a Push
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Alltel Wireless has turned to Seven to enable delivery of real-time e-mail to its enterprise customers' BREW handsets, including the popular Motorola RAZR. At launch, Alltel is offering the Seven solution, dubbed Office Sync for BREW, on the Motorola RAZR V3c and the Kyocera Strobe K612B. The carrier plans to add support for ...
NeuStar Buys Followap for $139M
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IP peering and ENUM (electronic numbering) specialist NeuStar Inc.has bought British firm Followap Inc. for a cool $139 million in cash to improve its mobile messaging capabilities, particularly in Europe and Asia. Followap has developed technology that enables mobile operators to offer instant messaging (IM) and ...
OZ Locks Down $34M
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Canadian mobile messaging startup OZ Communications Inc. has grabbed $34 million in a second round of VC funding. While that may seem large, compared to many other wireless ventures, it's becoming more common in the mobile messaging space, where a recent spate of acquisitions and anticipation of major market growth have investors ...
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