MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it has signed a $32 million contract to expand the GSM network for Pakistan Telecom Mobile Ltd., otherwise called U-Fone.The project will be completed in May next year, according to Siemens. The second-largest Pakistani carrier caters to 1.3 million subscribers.The...
VIENNA, Austria-Telekom Austria submitted an offer to purchase a majority stake in Telekom Montenegro. The value of the offer was not disclosed. Telekom Montenegro is currently owned 51 percent by the Republic of Montenegro, with the remaining shares held by local private shareholders and...
NEW YORK-Swedish-based telecom carrier Tele2 gained two new licenses in Europe Wednesday, one through a government award and the other through an acquisition.In Croatia, Tele2 gained a GSM 1800 MHz and UMTS license through a consortium it is leading. Tele2 said it will start...
A few days after a technical glitch interrupted service for Cingular Wireless customers in Dallas and Houston, the carrier announced it has spent almost $100 million this year improving its coverage throughout Texas.The glitch blocked incoming calls for subscribers in Dallas and Houston for...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-European mobile operators should change their pricing strategies to kick start the lagging market for content, including ringtones, logos, games, music and videos, said a new report from Analysys Research titled "Making a Success of the Mobile Content Value Chain."According to the...
Preferred Voice Inc. notched its second carrier win with the announcement that it will provide ringback services for Oklahoma regional carrier Panhandle Telephone Cooperative.Ringbacks allow subscribers to choose music clips that callers hear instead of the traditional ring before a phone is answered. PVI...
Mobile-phone content application provider Linktone Ltd. said it is being sanctioned by carrier China Mobile for billing mistakes. Linktone said it is being penalized for inadvertently billing 27,000 WAP customers 72 cents for a service that should have been free. As a result, China...
Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock faltered again following the company's third-quarter results, with investors expecting a more bullish fourth-quarter outlook from the company. Some analysts, however, continued to remain relatively positive on the BlackBerry maker and its prospects despite the company's lower-than-expected forecasts and...
Vodafone Group plc customers in some European markets have access to full-length songs from four major music labels through a deal announced Tuesday.French digital music company Musiwave said it has secured mobile rights to full-length songs from EMI-Virgin, Sony, BMG and Warner. Currently, Vodafone's...
Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it purchased a $3 million stake in Linux developer MontaVista Software Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif.DoCoMo recently standardized on two operating system platforms for its mobile phones: Linux and Symbian. The carrier also offers a Linux- or Symbian-based...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless have come together to bring wireless PC card modems on SingTel Mobile's UMTS network in Singapore.The PC cards will allow the carrier to offer high-speed access to streaming video and audio, secure wireless access to e-mails...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse introduced its Comverse MMS Exchange, a central hub that allows multiple network operators to interconnect their multimedia messaging services.Operators currently must implement separate routing connections and interconnectivity agreements to provide seamless MMS services, said the company. MMS Exchange creates a central hub...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. unveiled an application that allows users to download movie quotes and soundtracks to their handsets.Subscribers of the company's Cricket service with Cricket Clicks-enabled phones can buy FlixTones, a ringtone application that includes songs and dialogue clips from movies. The...
Sprint PCS and Sybase Inc. said Tuesday they will expand their relationship to develop and market corporate wireless data applications. Under terms of the agreement, the carrier will use software developed by Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions to offer mobile communications to industries including financial...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless today said the company's corporate Web site has been improved to make it more accessible to customers with disabilities.The nation's No. 2 mobile-phone carrier said new enhancements-such as scalable text size, improved global navigation, accessible online forms, link and image descriptions...
Acquisition news continues its frantic pace with InPhonic Inc. and SmartServ Online Inc. both announcing purchases.First, Internet phone retailer InPhonic said it bought privately held A1 Wireless USA Inc., which also sells mobile phones over the Internet, for $20.9 million in cash and stock....
Sprint PCS launched two new content services Monday, continuing its lead in the advanced content arena.The carrier announced a radio-like service that will deliver short video clips and six channels of streaming audio to subscribers via their handsets.Music Choice Today, which is available to...
MOSCOW-I-mode mobile Internet service is coming to Russia and Eastern Europe under an agreement between Japanese i-mode creator NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Russia's largest wireless carrier Mobile TeleSystems. The carriers said Friday they have formed an exclusive strategic partnership under which MTS will launch...
Many in the industry peg iDEN handset vendor Motorola Inc. as a major winner following the merger between Sprint and Nextel Communications Inc. Motorola's position is enviable as the company also has managed to capitalize on the merger between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
ATLANTA-Sprint PCS affiliate AirGate PCS Inc., which announced last week a definitive agreement to be acquired by fellow affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc., reported financial results for the carrier's fourth fiscal quarter and year ended Sept. 30. The carrier said it added 9,296 subscribers during...
Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc.'s "merger of equals" announcement last week could have an unequal impact on each operator's respective affiliate partners. At one time those affiliates were integral to each carrier's expansion plans, but with the merger announcement, they could become hurdles....
WASHINGTON-Rather than simply depending on high-powered lawyers to do battle with the Federal Communications Commission or the California Public Utilities Commission or the City of Baltimore, the cell-phone industry soon will be looking for a few good men and women from its 173 million...
