Nokia Siemens Networks| August 31, 2011 | Press Release
Under the two-year agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will modernize TeliaSonera Finland’s existing GSM and 3G networks, and roll out new LTE services. TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to commercially launch 4G services −...
Alcatel-Lucent | August 31, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, August 31, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has been selected by Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecommunications operator in Taiwan, to upgrade its network to address Taiwan’s exploding demand for high-bandwidth advanced mobile services.
Currently,...
Microsoft | August 22, 2011 | Press Release
REDMOND, Wash., and BEIJING — Aug. 22, 2011 — In a joint event in Beijing today, Microsoft Corp. and China’s leading domestic Linux operating system provider, China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), signed an agreement to jointly...
iTnews | August 22, 2011 | Juha Saarinen
Vodafone's New Zealand subsidiary has confirmed plans to move all international capacity to submarine cable contender Pacific Fibre, replacing current arrangements with rival Southern Cross by 2014.
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Alcatel-Lucent | August 23, 2011 | Press Release
Paris, August 23, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), a leading mobile operator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to...
Ericsson | August 4, 2011 | Press Release
Mobifone, one of Vietnam's leading mobile operators with 32 percent of the country's mobile communications market, has chosen an Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) solution for combined bandwidth and mobile broadband traffic optimization. Mobifone is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the...
Ericsson | August 1, 2011 | Press Release
Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd. (SSTL), which nationally operates telecom services under the MTS brand with over 12 million wireless subscribers, today extended its current managed services contract with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) in India. The extension adds four...
Nokia Siemens | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Cable Bahamas, the leading cable and broadband service provider in the Bahamas, will soon be the first in the islands to offer high-quality, attractively priced IP telephony service over cable networks. The company has selected Nokia...
iTnews | July 29, 2011 | Liz Tay
Westpac has established an in-house team of commerce, legal and finance experts to support its move toward shorter deals with a greater number of outsourcers.
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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...
iTnews | July 25, 2011 | James Hutchinson
The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform in Amcom data centres.
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Nokia Siemens | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP Multimedia Subsystem platform to offer new services
M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, a leading operator in Bavaria, Germany, is swapping its existing softswitch with a solution from Nokia Siemens Networks. The operator has selected Nokia...
Deutsche Telekom | July 22, 2011 | Press Release
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, operator of the T-Mobile network, and PTK Centertel, operator of the Orange network, signed an agreement today to share their radio access networks. The agreement covers management, planning, support, development and maintenance of...
Ericsson | July 21, 2011 | Press Release
Bharti Airtel, ("Airtel") a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa today announced a five year managed services agreement with Ericsson (NASDA!Q:ERIC) for its Africa operations. As per the agreement, Ericsson...
Alcatel-Lucent | July 19, 2011 | Press Release
Shanghai, July 19, 2011 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) today announced it will increase the efficiency and reach of China Unicom’s 3G network in over ten provinces to meet the rapidly rising demand for mobile broadband...
Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced the company has partnered with T-Mobile USA, Inc. to expand portions of the company’s 4G (HSPA+) mobile broadband network, making theoretical peak speeds up to 42 Mbps available to more than 170 million...
Washington Business Journal | July 8, 2011| Ben Fischer
The Washington Nationals say the Maryland company that installed the wireless network at Nationals Park owes the team nearly $500,000 from a failed advertising contract.
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Ericsson | July 13, 2011 | Press Release
Globacom, Africa's fastest growing telecommunications company, has announced plans to replace its legacy charging platform with Ericsson’s (NASDAQ: ERIC) market-leading Charging System.
This will allow Globacom to have flexible pricing and discounting plans, and offer rich features to...
Alcatel-Lucent | July 12, 2011 | Press Release
PARIS/hong kong, July 12, 2011 – New World Telecom, a leading telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong, has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) to prepare its optical network for the introduction of blazingly fast 100-G (gigabit)...
Ericsson | July 6, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Italy has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) as partner to manage the field operations of Vodafone’s fixed and mobile access and transmission networks, as well as for fixed core network nodes.
As part of the five...
Canon Global | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
TOKYO, July 11, 2011—Canon Inc. ("Canon"; President and COO: Tsuneji Uchida; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with MEDIAN Technologies S.A. ("MEDIAN Technologies"; Chairman and CEO:...
France Telecom - Orange | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
Samsung and Orange signed July 6th 2011 a European partnership agreement to provide an Orange content and services portal for Samsung Smart TVs.
The portal will be available in France in the coming weeks on...
Telia Sonera | July 7, 2011 | Press Release
TeliaSonera has signed the cooperation agreement with France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom to increase the quality of service and interoperability for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The agreement, which initially was signed by France Telecom-Orange...
Alcatel-Lucent | June 9, 2011 | Press Release
Moscow, June 9, 2011 -OJSC Mobile TeleSystems (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the leading telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the modernization of MTS transport infrastructure by deploying...