Deutsche Telekom Slashes Prices to Stop Customer Flight
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The troubled German fixed-line incumbent announced price cuts of up to 30% and a number of new products at the latest International Consumer Electronics Show, in Berlin (Germany), in efforts to fend off rivals poaching its market share. At the same time, Deutsche Telekom recognises that cutting prices alone will not be ...
Vodafone to Launch Flexible Tariff Plan
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Vodafone UK is set to launch an ambitious marketing campaign today to promote a new flexible tariff plan, the Independent reports. The new flexible tariff is aimed at matching offers from its rivals and would be similar to T-Mobile's 'Flext' tariff plan. The new price plan will allow customers to add or remove services such ...
Nokia Buys German Navigation Software Firm Gate5 -- To Offer Mobile Map Functions
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HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp. said Thursday it will buy gate5, a German maker of navigation software, allowing the world's largest cell phone maker to offer maps on its mobile devices. Maps and navigation are natural elements to be offered in mobile devices but this area hasn't developed as fast as expected ...
Alcatel Boss Defends Terms of Lucent Tie-Up
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Alcatel SA chief executive Serge Tchuruk defended the terms of his company's planned US$13.4 billion (Euro 10.5 billion) tie-up with U.S. rival Lucent Technologies Inc., in an interview published yesterday by financial daily Les Echos. The proposed share swap is appropriate for a friendly merger of the kind unveiled by the two ...
Nokia Introduces Mobile Internet Device
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Nokia revealed details of its new Nokia N80 Internet Edition, which is designed to help drive adoption of the mobile Internet. The company also is preparing to open its fifth Flagship Store. The device offers wireless LAN (WLAN) connectivity, a browser, Internet calls, a 3-megapixel camera, and quad-band GSM W-CDMA. The N80 also ...
Verizon Caves In: Disputed DSL Surcharge Dropped
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Less than a week after BellSouth also backed down, Verizon Communications yesterday said it has pulled the plug on a controversial digital subscriber line (DSL) surcharge that sorely disappointed federal regulators and outraged consumer groups. The Verizon and BellSouth moves, undoubtedly made under pressure from an emerging ...
New Mobile-to-PC Worm Arrives
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Security software firm F-Secure Corp. has discovered a mobile-to-PC worm that it says could be a harbinger of things to come in the fast-moving world of wireless worms. The 'Mobler' worm, the firm posts, moves between the Symbian and Windows operating systems and vice versa. The worm creates code on the Symbian side that ...
Alcatel Snags Nortel 3G Unit
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Alcatel has agreed to buy Nortel Networks Ltd.'s UMTS (3G) access business and assets for $320 million, the two vendors announced this morning. The two companies have been in talks for some time, but the agreed price will surprise some industry observers. Analysts at French outfit Oddo Securities had put a price tag of ...
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