OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following months of discrete negotiations about merging parts of their cellular operations, financial analysts have damned the proposed linkup between KPN and MmO2 as not providing the "magic solution" to KPN's deteriorating share price.Only days ago, broadsheet newspapers reported fresh talks between...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Following a request by MmO2 to possibly substitute Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) for third-generation (3G) services across large parts of Ireland, Vodafone, Ireland's largest mobile operator, has asked the industry regulator to allow it to delay the introduction of its...
The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated.Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable marriage of computers and mobile phones, and the current selection of high-end devices seems to...
LONDON-E-Plus and MmO2 have reportedly made bids to acquire MobilCom's third-generation (3G) assets in Germany, according to international press reports. The bids are reported to be less than 30 million euros (US$32.3 million) each.The MobilCom assets currently include 3,600 rented sites for antennas and...
HANNOVER, Germany-Nortel Networks issued separate announcements with two carriers, T-Mobile International and MmO2.T-Mobile selected the Brampton-Ontario-based vendor as a preferred supplier to deliver GPRS across it main markets in Europe, including Germany and the United Kingdom.Under the motto "O2 can do," wireless service provider...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having decided to abandon its third-generation (3G) plans and write down to zero its license and network investment, Germany's MobilCom is reported to be considering bids from KPN and MmO2 to acquire elements of the partially deployed infrastructure.The company is said to...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.- Bill Nguyen, the entrepreneur who sold Onebox.com (now Openwave Systems Inc.) to Phone.com for $850 million, is back at the head of wireless e-mail company Seven, just in time to see the company score European wireless giant Orange plc as a...
CANNES, France-United Kingdom-based mobile operator MmO2 plc said its is considering using EDGE technology on its U.K. network due to continued delays in the availability of W-CDMA technology, which the carrier recently reported it would not roll out until the second half of next...
CANNES, France-Although much of the industry's attention was on big-name carriers and equipment makers, wireless content providers also managed to make waves of their own during the 3GSM World Congress.Wireless technology company End2End said Vodafone Egypt will use its content platform to offer application...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The potential for more intimate cooperation between cell-phone operators MmO2 and T-Mobile seems likely following the announcement that MmO2 has extended a third-generation (3G) network sharing agreement with the German operator.Peter Erskine, MmO2's chief executive officer (CEO), said the network-sharing and roaming...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week's decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the latter half of 2004, other European mobile operators provided more details of their 3G launch plans this week.In the United...
LONDON-The U.K. mobile landscape looks set for change after the U.K. Competition Commission recommended in a report released today that the four U.K. mobile operators reduce their mobile termination charges by 15 percent before July 25 this year.MmO2 said it would delay its U.K....
LONDON-The U.K. mobile landscape looks set for change after the U.K. Competition Commission recommended in a report released today that the four U.K. mobile operators reduce their mobile termination charges by 15 percent before July 25 this year.MmO2 said it would delay its U.K....
LONDON-Vodafone Group has ended talks with MmO2 regarding its Dutch mobile subsidiary, according to international press reports. Deutsche Telekom is the only named company still considering the business, according to the reports.Vodafone reportedly ended the talks after closely examining the company's books. The unit...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Seemingly learning little from what drove short message service (SMS) into being such an unexpected revenue earner-network interconnection-U.K. cell-phone operators are only now focusing on the fact that users of multimedia message service (MMS) will demand the ability to send pictures to...
LONDON-MSN Mobile in the United Kingdom launched a new picture text messaging service through a partnership with FunMail Inc. and conVISUAL.The service will be available to subscribers of Orange UK, Vodafone UK, MmO2 and T-Mobile UK."We think FunMail is a great application that will...
LONDON-European carrier MmO2 and technology company Siemens announced they will partner to offer wireless enterprise products and services in the United Kingdom."Before taking this new partnership offering out to the marketplace we worked together to successfully implement a mobile field service application to several...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-According to international press reports, MmO2 is in talks with several operators, including Vodafone Group plc and T-Mobile International, for the sale of its Dutch subsidiary. The unit is reported to be worth around $210 million, although the price could increase with...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The frustration of trying to find a London taxi cab should shortly be greatly reduced, according to the makers of the vehicles, Manganese Bronze Holdings, who say they have reached agreements with Vodafone and MmO2 to introduce the Zingo taxi hailing service.The...
CARY, N.C.-Wireless software platform provider Pinpoint Networks Inc. announced it closed new venture funding with Intel Capital, which brings the company's total funding to $20 million since its founding in 1999."Our greatest accomplishment over the past 12 months has been a laser-like focus on...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about US$800 million in the...
In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said UMTS equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about $800 million in the third quarter of this...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As calls grow for the large-scale consolidation of European-based cell-phone operators, at the top of many financial analysts' list is U.K.-based MmO2. While the company recently announced better-than-expected first-half growth figures, the mobile operator is being increasingly viewed as not being able...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have already commenced a pricing war. Two of Europe's biggest operators, Orange and MmO2, which launched their service a few weeks...
