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 −...
Nokia Siemens Networks said it has struck a deal with Nordic-based operator TeliaSonera to “modernize” the carrier’s network in Finland.The two-year deal calls for NSN to update TeliaSonera’s existing GSM and 3G networks and bolster the equipment for the rollout of LTE services using...
VC Circle | August 26, 2011 | Anil Das
Tata Docomo, the GSM technology telecom JV between Tata Teleservices and Japan’s Docomo, has signed a partnership with media group Network 18 to provide breaking news alerts in the form of video clips.
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Greenpacket has been awarded a 2-year contract by Wateen Telecom, WiMAX operator in Pakistan, for the supply of Greenpacket’s modem, the UH350. Wateen Telecom is a venture of the Abu Dhabi Group, which also owns Warid Telecom, Pakistan’s mobile operator. Value undisclosedDialogic announced that...
Economic Times | August 26, 2011
NEW DELHI: Mobile phone service providers on the GSM platform added only 7.6 million subscribers in July, nearly half of 14.6 million added in February this year.
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It has been a competitive battle for the No. 2 position in Brazil’s mobile phone market. While Vivo has maintained its leadership position, the second position has been a long running dispute between Claro and TIM.
What was a slim lead for Claro in June,...
China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) completed the reporting of its first-half financial results for 2011, stating an increasing dependence on its mobile operations.The company, which is currently the second largest mobile operator in China, reported nearly $9.4 billion in total wireless revenues for the first...
Mexican carrier Telcel is preparing to launch LTE services in 2012. Currently, the America Movil-owned carrier is working on trials, with plans for a pilot project scheduled for the last quarter of the year. Deployment is likely to be in large cities, such as...
China Unicom Ltd. (CHU) said it added 2.126 million customers in July, pushing its total customer base to more than 183.7 million subscribers. The carrier remains the second largest operator in China, well behind China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) and its more than 616 million...
Chennai, India – 09 August 2011
Expands Chennai facility to meet local and global demand
India is one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world. With a remarkable GSM footprint, a rapidly growing 3G market and the expected rollout of TD-LTE, there is strong...
Reuters | August 4, 2011 | Georgina Prodhan
Nokia Siemens Networks has begun cutting 1,500 jobs from the 6,900 staff it acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's telecoms network unit in April, a spokesman said on Thursday.
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The Brazilian mobile market counted 217.3 million cellphones by the first half of the year, according to Telecommunications Nacional Agency (Anatel), which just released numbers that show a teledensiy of 111.6%. In June alone, 2.3 million mobile access lines were enabled.
Seventeen of 27 states had more than one mobile line per...
Brazilian carrier Vivo has launched its push-to-talk (PTT) service under the name "Vivo Direto." The service started on July 18 in Rio de Janeiro and one month before in Porto Alegre and Curitiba cities. Although similar to Nextel's offering, Vivo's PTT is based on...
Brazilian carrier Vivo has launched its push-to-talk (PTT) service under the name “Vivo Direto.” The service started on July 18 in Rio de Janeiro and one month before in Porto Alegre and Curitiba cities. Although similar to Nextel‘s offering, Vivo’s PTT is based on...
Economic Times | July 14, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: Tata Teleservices has demanded that the government 'immediately' award startup GSM airwaves in Delhi and 39 other districts across the country.
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Nokia Siemens Networks | July 8, 2011 | Press Release
Launches industry’s first M2M software suite for GSM
GSM subscriptions supporting Machine to Machine (M2M) applications are expected to reach 1 billion by 2015*. This increase in the use of GSM networks to support automated communication...
Speaking at the GSMA’s mobile payment conference in Singapore, Barba said it was important that the industry work together to make NFC take off, as a local ecosystem was mandatory when it came to stimulating usage.Interoperability was key said Barba adding that mobile operators...
Huawei releases Honeycomb tabletChinese vendor Huawei took the wraps off its mysterious HD MediaPad this week, giving CommunicAsia goers a hands on look at the 7-inch Android Honeycomb device, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Stay tuned to catch a more in...
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SINGAPORE – Nokia Siemens Networks says it has given its Liquid Radio architecture a boost by launching a higher power radio module for its Flexi Multiradio Base Station family at CommunicAsia.
In mobile networks, the radio module is the part of the base station that...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Despite having previously been late adopters of new mobile technologies, the United States has taken the lead...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Kore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has acquired Australian-based M2M provider Mach Communications Pty.Ltd. to grow its machine-to-machine business for multinational companies. Terms of the acquisition were not announced between the two privately held companies. Melbourne, Australia-based Mach is set to become Kore Wireless...
