EU Gets Roaming Charges Boost; Telefonica Drops Charges for Calls Received Abroad
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Telefonica's O2 and Movistar have become the first mobile operators to drop charges for incoming calls received across Europe. Global Insight Perspective Significance ...
BenQ German Mobile Phone Unit to Cut Nearly 2,000 Jobs
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MUNICH, Germany -- The German mobile phone unit of Taiwanese electronics company BenQ Corp. will shed nearly 2,000 jobs in a bid to salvage the business, an insolvency administrator said Thursday. BenQ Mobile filed for insolvency protection on Sept. 29 after its Taiwanese parent abandoned an attempt to turn around the ...
Wanted: Recruits For Emergency Communications Panel
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking nominations for membership on a new advisory panel for wireless-oriented emergency communications mandated by a port security bill signed into law by President George Bush last Friday. The regulator's upcoming formation of a Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory ...
Content Filtering Options Proliferate
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A variety of scenarios can and do happen with enough regularity that a new market segment's arisen to deal with them. Products are emerging in what's generally called the content monitoring and filtering arena to help IT pros ensure that in-house messaging won't have unpleasant or even catastrophic ...
Nokia, Ericsson Face Off
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As earnings week for the world's major mobile phone makers continues, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB -- whose cell phone joint-venture with Sony Corp., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications , reported surging sales of its mobile devices last week -- are expected to report strong results tomorrow. Consensus estimates ...
Ericsson Plugs Marconi Progress
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Ericsson AB says its acquired Marconi business has reached breakeven, that an order backlog is building, and that its fixed-line business is picking up, especially in Europe. That assessment came from Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg during a third-quarter earnings press conference Thursday morning. Ericsson's numbers -- ...
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