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SINGAPORE-Following their European counterparts, seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators inked a deal to form a regional alliance, called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate through a Singapore-incorporated company, Bridge Mobile Pte …

SINGAPORE-Following their European counterparts, seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators signed an agreement to form a regional mobile alliance, called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate through a Singapore-incorporated company, Bridge Mobile …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Payments software company Valista and systems integrator Utiba announced their new product, Valista TopupPlus Streetseller. The product allows small denominations of top-ups to be purchased for prepaid use from …

Following are mobile contracts for December 2003: Alcatel Canada. With Telus Mobility for a cross-Canada communications backbone infrastructure. Value: Undisclosed China. With China Unicom for multiple expansion contracts. Value: $40 …

Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in November: Philippines. With Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) for GSM/GPRS and EDGE equipment, including radio base stations and mobile switching equipment. Value: $100 million …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a deal to supply EDGE equipment for Global Telecom in the Philippines. Global Telecom will deploy the services in Metro Manila. The actual …

BONN, Germany-Deutsche Telekom said it will sell its 24.8-percent stake in Filipino mobile operator Globe Telecom to Ayala Corp. and Singapore Telecom International for $472 million. Ayala currently holds 32.7 …

MANILA, The Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest mobile operator in the Philippines, launched multimedia messaging service interconnection with more than 30 MMS operators around the world and a new Java-based subscriber …

HELSINKI, Finland-Globe Telecom awarded a $35 million GSM network expansion deal to Nokia to deliver solutions for Globe’s network expansion in the Philippines. Deliveries of Base Station Subsystems and Network …

MANILA, The Philippines-Ayala-owned Globe Telecom announced it posted a consolidated net income of 6.84 billion Philippine pesos (US$129 million) in 2002, 59-percent higher than the 4.3 billion pesos (US$81.1 million) …

MANILA, The Philippines-Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications (Digitel) has already short-listed two prospective companies, Alcatel and Ericsson, to undertake the next phase of the company’s cellular mobile telephone system network in the …

MANILA, The Philippines-Mobile-phone operator Smart Communications is targeting at least 11 million subscribers by year-end, according to company legal and carriers division head Rogelio Quevedo. He also said the company, …

MANILA, The Philippines-Mobile operator Globe Telecom introduced this week the Philippines’ first mobile video messaging, allowing subscribers to record, save and play back video clips, up to a maximum of …

SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., which has embarked on a regional expansion of its mobile subsidiary, said it increased its wireless subscribers by 64 percent in 2002 compared with the year before. …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) plans to invest 6 billion Philippine pesos (US$113 million) next year for its nationwide wireless telephone network in its bid to become …

MANILA, The Philippines—Ayala-owned Globe Telecom has entered an agreement with Norwegian supplier Colibria for the development of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) messaging application that allows subscribers to send …

MANILA, The Philippines-While Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are now offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), such issues as interconnection, standards of interoperability and rates have to be tackled, according to …

Several analyst firms have highlighted Asian carriers-and not the highly watched Japanese operators-as being in the best positions to capitalize on the current mobile industry dynamics. While Europe, Japan and …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Ayala group, one of the Philippines’ biggest conglomerates, plans to limit capital spending for mobile-phone subsidiary Globe Telecom to US$500 million for the next two years, as …

MANILA, The Philippines-While Filipino cell-phone subscribers are projected to reach 20 million during the next seven years, use will be the growth driver of the Philippine cellular industry, according to …

MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine telecom watchdog National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has granted Globe Telecom and Smart Communications permanent licenses to operate their respective businesses for the next 25 years. NTC stated …

MANILA, The Philippines-International telecommunications giant AT&T is considering telecommunications companies like Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT), Smart Communications and Ayala-owned Globe Telecom as partners for its US$300 million network expansion …

MANILA, The Philippines-The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to affirm a Court of Appeals decision allowing it to proceed with the implementation of a …

MELBOURNE, Australia-With both business and consumers’ interest in using mobile data growing, Optus and SingTel have launched a worldwide search for “killer” mobile applications that will revolutionize the mobile industry. …

LONDON—CMG Wireless Data Solutions said it won an 8.5 million euro (US$7.82 million) contract with the Philippines’ Globe Telecom for the expansion of its short messaging service (SMS) capacity to …