DUBLIN, Ireland-It appears that an agreement on site sharing between the three Irish third-generation (3G) license holders might have been reached only days after the first meeting of a working group established by the Irish industry regulator ODTR to develop a code of practice...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The Ireland business of European carrier MmO2 will use technology from location-services company Webraska to offer WAP-, Web- and text messaging-based location services, including applications to allow users to locate friends (on a permission-only basis), search for nearby movies and cinemas, search for...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The U.K.-based consumer magazine Which has called on prepaid cell-phone users to consider saving money by switching to yearly contracts with their mobile operators. The magazine claimed that pay-as-you-go users who spend more than 30 euro (US$29.58) a month could save money...
VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria, the largest Austrian mobile operator, has become one of the first European operators to deploy a UMTS network. About 25 percent of Austria, including most major urban areas, is covered in the initial launch.However, the operator is waiting for terminals before...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Seven Networks Inc., which offers carrier-based access to corporate information, cut 30 percent of its roughly 115 employees, a move the company said would help it better manage cash flow and help it focus on its current customers.Company spokeswoman Meredith Valt declined...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-If you believe the latest predictions from the handset manufacturers and market research firms, then mobile gaming is set to become a major business for mobile operators.Nokia is actively attempting to pull together the various technologies, content providers and operators to make...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union Commission ruled European wireless operators could share the cost of building out third-generation networks including the cost of base stations, antennas and radio-access networks. The move is expected to ease some financial pressure from operators who spent more than $100...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc has accepted the third-generation license it was offered in Ireland, after conducting a review. The operator made its initial $43.5 million payment for the $112 million "B" license.Last month, U.K.-based MmO2 also accepted a B license, and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. accepted...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Looking to gain market share in an increasingly saturated market has seen the Dutch arm of cell-phone operator MmO2 scrap all handset subsidies and cut mobile call charges by up to 50 percent. The company claimed it is the first European cell-phone...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The cell-phone operator MmO2 has launched a Java-based games service that will be offered free for this month to U.K. users before being launched in Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands from October. The O2 Games Arcade service is being offered to both...
ROME-The Open Mobile Alliance-a massive, overarching wireless standards group formed in June-released its first set of technical specifications for public review, covering the increasingly popular area of content downloading.In developing the specifications, OMA worked with other standards organizations from across the wireless spectrum, including...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Trying to divert criticism about its third-generation (3G) strategy away from itself, Vodafone said the shortage of fully capable 3G handsets will now mean the launch of its high-speed data network will slip from the second half of this year into 2003.Hutchison...
TORONTO-A price cut by one of Research In Motion Ltd.'s customers and new product announcements by rivals have prompted a brokerage firm to cut its revenue estimates for the Canadian firm. UBS Warburg LLC said in a research report that it reduced forecasts for...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.-ACE*COMM Corp. said it will provide TRW Inc. with engineering services, technical support and maintenance for the call event processing component of the Airwave wireless network, operated by mmO2 group's O2 Airwave Service, for serving police and other emergency services personnel in the...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it has acquired the business and assets of bankrupt TelesensKSCL Ltd. of Edinburgh, Scotland, a subsidiary of TelesensKSCL AG of Cologne, Germany.TelesensKSCL, which was a developer and licenser of billing systems for voice and data services to 19 million telecommunications customers...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The rebranding that is being implemented by some of the large European cell-phone operators as they push toward a worldwide identity seems to be failing, according to advertising executives. Two operators, T-Mobile and MmO2, have attracted the most criticism as they attempt...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In what would appear to be an industry first, U.K.-based cell-phone operator MmO2 has published tariffs for its third-generation (3G) service running in the Isle of Man. The company has been conducting pilot trials of 3G services on the island for some...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Peter Erskine, chief executive officer (CEO) of MmO2, stated that mobile data is essential to the growth of the cell-phone industry and claims that from 2005, it will account for more than 90 percent of total mobile revenue growth. To support this...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell-phone operators seem in no rush to sign General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming agreements with their counterparts over fears of technology mismatches. Given that GPRS services are targeted at corporate users, industry analysts are blaming this absence of cross-border roaming...
HELSINKI, Finland—Telfort, the Dutch subsidiary of U.K.-based MmO2, has entered a strategic agreement with Ericsson under which it will outsource all its mobile network operations in the Netherlands to the Swedish group.Both parties to the letter of intent expect to sign a final agreement...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Nortel executives have admitted that the US$1.1 billion contact awarded to it by MmO2 for 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) infrastructure this week was a much-needed boost to its somewhat battered morale (see related news under Europe News). Having named Nortel as...
GENEVA—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming exchanges (GRX) are rapidly emerging as a profitable new service niche in Europe and around the world, as mobile operators get serious about GPRS and struggle to come to grips with the complex roaming and billing issues surrounding...
NEW YORK—British wireless operator MmO2 launched two initiatives in a move to provide mobile data and products to customers in Western Europe.The carrier said it plans to build a seamless pan-European GPRS-based mobile data highway designed to support the development of multimedia services and...
LONDON—European carrier MmO2 signed separate contracts with Nokia and Nortel Networks to equip its 2.5- and third-generation (3G) networks in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Germany and Ireland.Each vendor said it will supply 30 percent of the operator's Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)...
