Air2Web announced a worldwide partnership agreement with SAS, which provides business analytics software and services. Together the companies plan to integrate Air2Web’s AirCARE platform with SAS’ capabilities to offer a solution that allows enterprises to use information about their customers to create personalized interactions...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-LucentChina: With China Mobile to deploy its IMS solution in Shanxi, Shandong and Gansu provinces to support enhanced communications services.Value: UndisclosedFrance: With Bouygues Telecom to provide its IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support increased smart...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-LucentChina: With China Mobile to deploy its IMS solution in Shanxi, Shandong and Gansu provinces to support enhanced communications services.Value: UndisclosedFrance: With Bouygues Telecom to provide its IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to support increased smart...
Gemalto said it has been chosen by KDDI in Japan to provide its User Identity Module cards and Trusted Service Management solution for an upcoming near-field communications program. The pilot program will run from May through December and allows users to experience various types...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--India: Idea Cellular has chosen L.M. Ericsson to supply a...
Following on the release of its PlaysForSure technology for digital music players, Microsoft Corp. announced a new platform for cellphones, dubbed PlayReady, that it said will enable simple access to a broad range of digital content including music, games, video, ringtones and photos. Microsoft...
The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless News.CellularFrance: Bouygues Telecom selected Nortel Networks as a supplier for its national high-speed mobile Internet and voice network. Nortel will provide HSDPA technology for the deployment...
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Caribbean mobile service provider Digicel Group plc said it raised $150 million through a corporate bond effort led by Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase. The bond was priced at a yield of 8.625 percent, and Digicel said it plans to use the capital...
A trio of French wireless operators was fined more than $625 million by French regulators for alleged market collusion and fixing market share. The French competitive authority, the Counseil de la Concurrence, said that the three operators-Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom-exchanged confidential information on...
PARIS-A trio of French wireless operators were fined more than $625 million by French regulators for alleged market collusion and fixing market share. The French competitive authority, the Counseil de la Concurrence, said that the three operators-Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom-exchanged confidential information on...
TOKYO-Eight wireless carriers that offer i-mode wireless Internet services based on NTT DoCoMo Inc. technology announced joint procurement for i-mode handsets. The carriers initially have procured Korean vendor LG Electronics Co. Ltd.'s L342i handset, which began reaching markets at the end of last month....
TOKYO-Eight wireless carriers that currently offer i-mode wireless Internet services based on NTT DoCoMo Inc. technology announced joint procurement for i-mode handsets. The carriers initially have procured Korean vendor LG Electronics Co. Ltd.'s L342i handset, which began reaching markets at the end of last...
LONDON-NEC Corp said it has received orders for its Mobile Internet Platform and mobile handsets for Russian wireless carrier Mobile TeleSystems' i-mode service. The value of the deal was not disclosed.MTS currently has 40 million subscribers and more than 35 percent market share. The...
PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its voice messaging services commercially available to enterprise and professional customers this month, Motorola said....
PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its voice messaging services commercially available to enterprise and professional customers this month, Motorola said....
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's leading wireless carrier said it will license i-mode technology from NTT DoCoMo Inc. in the Japanese carrier's ninth partnership for the wireless Internet technology.Telstra is licensing the i-mode brand, technology and patents. Financial details were not disclosed."Telstra will work with content partners...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's leading wireless carrier said it will license i-mode technology from NTT DoCoMo Inc. in the Japanese carrier's ninth partnership for the wireless Internet technology.Telstra is licensing the i-mode brand, technology and patents. Financial details were not disclosed."Telstra will work with content partners...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. has expanded its European i-mode reach to Greece with a partnership agreement with mobile operator Cosmote. DoCoMo is licensing Cosmote to launch i-mode services, the Japanese operator's highly successful mobile Internet service in Greece.Cosmote will offer its i-mode service on its...
Like '70s disco or roller skates, the wireless portal is now retro cool. Dude.In the heyday of the late 1990s, the wireless industry was awash with the wireless Internet and the possibilities therein. Wireless players from carriers on down to startups imagined opening Yahoo!-style...
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson flexed its muscles within and outside the 3GSM Congress with a series of announcements from interoperability testing to deals with carriers and content providers as well as a former semiconductor partner.The Swedish vendor signed a contract to supply UMTS gear to...
VANCOUVER-A global consortium of wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) and mobile operators have formed to implement a new authentication and payment platform that gives mobile-phone users access to high-speed hot spots.Users need only a mobile phone to use the system, according to Canadian WISP...
PARIS-French company Bouygues Group, which operates France's smallest mobile operator, announced plans to buy 16 percent of its telecom subsidiary from Germany utility Eon for $1.2 billion, increasing Bouygues' stake in Bouygues Telecom to between 80 and 83 percent from its current 67.1 percent.The...
PARIS-French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom was awarded a third-generation (3G) license by the French regulator for about US$610 million.Bouygues Telecom opted out of the first round of licensing in France, when France T
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, is going to grant full support to French operator Bouygues Telecom to launch i-mode-like service in France. Bouygues Telecom is going to launch i-mode like service in December.In the European market, E-Plus launched i-mode-like service in...
