THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—After much speculation about i-mode services in the European market, KPN Mobile said its German subsidiary E-Plus will begin offering the commercial mobile data service this week, followed by KPN Mobile's launch in the Netherlands in April.KPN said the European i-mode...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—After much speculation about i-mode services in the European market, KPN Mobile said its German subsidiary E-Plus will begin offering the commercial mobile data service this week, followed by KPN Mobile's launch in the Netherlands in April.KPN said the European i-mode...
AMSTERDAM—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus from U.S.-based BellSouth Corp. for about $1.06 billion in KPN stock, giving KPN full control of E-Plus.As part of the deal, KPN will pay a $416 million loan back...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—KPN Mobile, the financially troubled Dutch operator, will later this month start the first practical i-mode tests in Europe through its joint venture with Japan's NTT DoCoMo. The company said that some 60 national and international content sites would be made available...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo's wildly popular i-mode service.Telia's service, dubbed PocketMode, features an open interface for content providers, allowing them to offer their services directly to users instead of forming...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator's wireless LAN networks."With the Nokia WLAN ADSL Home Gateway we can provide our DSL offering to the increasing wireless communication market," said Jan Wildeboer, senior vice...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands—Heavily indebted KPN Mobile said Singapore Telecommunications Mobile will purchase KPN's 22.28-percent holding in Indonesia's Telkomsel for US$601 million. SingTel Mobile will also settle KPN Mobile's remaining technical service obligation to Telkomsel valued at US$25 million.Telkom, which holds the remaining 77.72...
TOKYO—Talks between Korea's SK Telecom and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have stalled without signs of moving forward, according to international press reports. The talks have been ongoing for more than a y ear and would involve DoCoMo taking a stake in SK Telecom of about...
NEW YORK—In its fourth debt deal of the year, NTT DoCoMo plans to pay off maturing short-term debt with a new issue of US$825 million in 10-year, yen-denominated bonds paying 1.49 percent interest.Including this new deal, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier has raised US$4 billion...
NEW YORK—In its fourth debt deal of the year NTT DoCoMo Inc., Tokyo, plans to pay off maturing short-term debt with a new issue of $825 million in of 10-year, yen-denominated bonds paying 1.49 percent interest.Including this new deal, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier has...
LONDON—Diederik Karsten, chief executive of KPN's mobile-phone division intends to leave the company next month, according to a report by The Financial Times.Board director Paul Smits, who recently stepped down as group chief executive will replace Karsten. As previously announced, Ad Scheepbouwer will replace...
AMSTERDAM—Dutch carrier KPN Telecom's chief executive Paul Smits stepped down early this week, most likely as a result of the company's failure to cut its $20.7 billion loan.The company reported losing about $906 million in its second quarter and said it plans to reduce...
HONG KONG-On the face of it, Hutchison Whampoa is a great success story. The company is among the leading international wireless operators and part of the giant Cheung Kong (Holdings), which in May announced after-tax profits of US$8 billion on a market capitalization of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Germany's E-Plus, KPN Mobile of the Netherlands and Belgium's KPN Orange have each reached agreements with NTT DoCoMo to adopt the Japanese operator's multimedia messaging protocol. This move is the first time that DoCoMo has licensed technology to foreign companies, as it...
TOKYO—104 Inc., a leading mobile Internet platform provider, along with CMG Wireless Data Solution, a business unit of CMG Group, will jointly provide a platform for mobile Internet content distribution. The firms announced the agreement on Aug. 15. Based on the deal, both firms...
TOKYO- NTT DoCoMo, in cooperation with KPN Mobile and E-Plus, is scheduled to launch i-mode-like services in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth quarter. Access, a Japanese provider of microbrowsers for non-PC devices including NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service, is also exploring the European...
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands-KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, is reportedly in talks with Belgian national telecommunications operator Belgacom regarding a merger. KPN is facing mounting pressure about its expanding debt load and reports that it is planning a rights issue.According to international press reports, KPN...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia, KPN Mobile and Interpay Nederland have successfully made a financial transaction on a mobile network based on WIM technology, a part of the WAP 1.2 specification.According to the companies, this real-time payment solution makes secure m-commerce possible. Users perform transactions with a...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-In a move that could further i-mode's push into Europe, Telecom Italia Mobile said it will jointly develop and introduce a new mobile Internet concept for the pan-European market with KPN Mobile and its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo.TIM said the joint venture...
TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology.In January, KDDI launched international roaming services in Canada in cooperation with Telus Mobility, a major Canadian carrier. Canada will become the fifth country...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo has been gearing up its global strategy, concluding one investment agreement after another. Since December 1999, it has invested in carriers in Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Britain.At the end of November 2000, DoCoMo announced another big deal with a U.S. carrier,...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-KPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgium operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for $443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership.France Telecom had to divest its KPN Orange ownership, which it acquired through its acquisition of Orange plc earlier this year, to...
NEW YORK-Following similar moves a few weeks earlier by Spain's Telefonica Moviles and Telekom Austria, Telenor ASA of Norway had to discount its initial public offering in order to get the deal sold Dec. 4.In a transaction lead managed by Goldman Sachs & Co.,...
