BBC News | July 28, 2011
South Korea has blamed Chinese hackers for stealing data from 35 million accounts on a popular social network.
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Comfone | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Bern, Switzerland, 27 July 2011 - The Comfone Board of Directors has announced the appointment of the company's former Senior Vice President EMEA Business Operations, Peter Rippstein, to the post of Comfone's Executive Vice President Global Sales...
Vodafone | July 29, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Spain has been awarded a total of 60 MHz (2x30 MHz) of new spectrum in the Spanish government’s auction, enabling the Company to provide its customers with enhanced mobile internet services across the country, including in...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announces that the Board of Verizon Wireless has approved the payment of a $10 billion (£6.1 billion) dividend. As a 45% shareholder in Verizon Wireless, Vodafone’s share of the dividend will be $4.5 billion (£2.8...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Turkey today announced that it has agreed terms with the Koç Group to acquire Koç.net1 for a cash consideration of TRY30 million (£11 million2). Koç.net provides fixed voice and data services to enterprise customers and will...
Vodafone | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announced the world’s first designated prepay phone specifically designed to put the Facebook experience into the heart of the handset, allowing people to easily share and connect with their friends when they’re on the move.
The...
Orange | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
7.0% increase in customer numbers on a comparable basis, led by a 23% rise in mobile services in Africa and the Middle East, with total Group customers of 217.3 million at 30 June 2011
consolidated revenues rose 0.3%...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Orange and Google today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers. This agreement marks an important step forward that will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Benoit Scheen, currently Chief Executive Officer of Mobistar in Belgium, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Europe (excluding France) of France Telecom-Orange as from 1 September 2011. In this role, he will be directly responsible for...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Marc Blanchet has been named Director of Enterprise France, effective 1 October 2011. His mission will be to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and sell convergent and IT offers on markets under his responsibility.
The Enterprise France Department...
VimpelCom | August 1, 2011 | Press Release
Amsterdam (August 1, 2011) – VimpelCom Ltd. (“VimpelCom” or the “Company”) (NYSE: VIP) today published its 2010 Annual Report. The report is available at http://vimpelcom.com/ir/financials/reports.wbp
Shareholders may request a hard copy of the 2010 Annual Report free of...
Bloomberg | August 1, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) plans to reduce administrative employees at its headquarters as Europe’s largest phone company tries to improve profitability.
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XY Mobile | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
The Red Herring selection committee has chosen XY Mobile, as an exceptional candidate to become a 2011 Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist.
Vientiane, Laos PDR, 27 July, 2011: The Laos company, XY Mobile, who provides affordable mobile...
XY Mobile | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
The Red Herring selection committee has chosen XY Mobile, as an exceptional candidate to become a 2011 Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist.
Vientiane, Laos PDR, 27 July, 2011: The Laos company, XY Mobile, who provides affordable mobile...
Bloomberg | July 31, 2011
China Mobile Ltd. (941) will cut international roaming fees charged for 38 countries and regions by as much as 80 percent starting tomorrow, Caijing said today on its website, citing a company announcement.
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Verizon Wireless (VZ) is now the second major carrier in line for integration with American Express Co.'s (AXP) burgeoning digital commerce platform Serve.Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) snagged the first carrier deal with American Express two weeks ago. It will also be the flagship carrier...
The growth of smartphones is indeed an international phenomenon as highlighted by Japan's largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM) reporting a surge in net profits it attributed to the device segment.NTT DoCoMo said that profits jumped nearly 12% year-over-year during its first fiscal quarter...
Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last quarter, after recording $80 million in profits a year ago. Motorola shipped 11.1 million devices total, including 4.4 million smartphones...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Orange and Google announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange's SMS platform to bring Google's services to African customers. This agreement will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet market in Africa. Through the development of SMS-based services that operate on all mobile...
Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) said it could see incremental revenue from LightSquared as part of its multi-year Network Vision plan signed with Sprint Nextel Corp. The deal establishes uniform rates for deploying sites rather than negotiating tower contracts on a site-by-site basis, and...
After months of rumors, LightSquared’s plans to speed up its proposed network deployment seem to have found some solid ground as the company has announced a 15-year, “spectrum hosting and network sharing” agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S)The deal calls for Sprint Nextel to...
