Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS reported $2.9 billion in operating revenue for the first quarter of 2003, a 3.5-percent improvement compared with the $2.8 billion the carrier reported for the first quarter of 2002. Operating income increased 24 percent from $113 million last year to...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Argentine branch of Millicom International was transferred to local group Sociedad Comercial del Plata, which already owned 35 percent of the company. Although the amount of the transaction was not disclosed, Millicom Argentina has invested US$20 million in the operation since...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Content deals continue to funnel through the pipe, with a range of handset makers, carriers and content companies announcing deals in the area.First, application provider SmartServ Online Inc. said it scored a major deal with an unnamed global handset maker to include the...
OSLO, Norway-Norway's Reitan Group, a retail giant best known for its grocery chain and franchise holdings, made a bid for Sense Communications International, the country's largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).The bid of 3.50 Norwegian kroners (US$0.48) per share was assessed as fair by...
WARREN, New Jersey, United States-Virgin Mobile USA said it has added more than 350,000 net subscribers since it launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service on Sprint PCS' network in July and is currently reporting more than 2,000 net customer activations per day.The...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. said it has added more than 350,000 net subscribers since it launched its mobile virtual network operator service on Sprint PCS' network in July and is currently reporting more than 2,000 net customer activations per day.The company reported 245,000...
IRVINE, Calif.-Boost Mobile, the mobile virtual network operator for Nextel Communications Inc., announced it will partner with Go2 Directory Systems to offer location-based directory services to the youth market.The companies said they will offer services for users to search for local entertainment spots, attractions,...
LONDON-U.K. mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile reported its highest sales ever in last year's fourth quarter, bringing in 370,530 new subscribers during the quarter compared with 232,300 in the third quarter of last year.The company's total U.K. subscriber base stood at nearly 2.4...
TOKYO-Sony Communication Network (SCN), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, is going to launch PHS packet services and wireless local area network (WLAN) services in February, the firm announced. According to SCN, the Sony firm will launch a flat-rate PHS service as a mobile virtual...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-As expected, Tele2 has returned its third-generation license in Norway to the government. Tele2 plans to offer mobile virtual network operator services through an agreement with Telenor instead of building a 3G network in the country.The company said the MVNO agreement will offer...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Barely a week after its parent company British Telecommunications (BT) revealed plans to re-enter the U.K. consumer mobile market, there are indications that Ireland's number-two telecommunications provider Esat BT is considering a similar strategy.There have been rumors circulating in the Irish business community...
TOKYO-Fujitsu, a leading telecommunications vender in Japan, on 1 October launched mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) services based on PHS networks owned and run by DDI Pocket. Fujitsu's MVNO service, Mobile Plus, offers two programs-32 kilobits per second (kbps) service for 5,000 yen (US$40.65)...
DUBLIN, Ireland-A familiar name is back on the consumer mobile market in the United Kingdom with British Telecommunications' announcement that it is going to establish a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) with former subsidiary O2.The move comes less than a year after BT disposed...
LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. said it signed up 232,000 customers during the third quarter, giving the company more than 2 million customers at the end of September, which is less than three years after Virgin launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Secretary in Argentina authorized Millicom to rent the infrastructure network of existing cellular operators. This is the first time there has been a legal directive in place that allows for a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to operate in the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having operated as a fixed-line operator in Spain since early 2001, Sweden-based Tele2 has now obtained the necessary license agreements to become the country's first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The 20-year license enables Tele2 to interconnect traffic and roam across the...
HONG KONG-Shell Hong Kong and Sunday Communications, the six-largest mobile operator in Hong Kong, announced they will shut down their joint mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) venture Shell Mobile, effective 26 September. The service began just a few months ago.The company said the closure...
NEW YORK-Tele2 said it signed a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Connect Austria, allowing it to use Connect's network to provide an alternative mobile service."This MVNO will enable Tele2 to offer an attractively priced package of fixed and mobile services to our...
LONDON-MmO2 confirmed that it accepted a third-generation license in Ireland for $112.4 million.The "B" license includes minimum requirements of 33-percent demographic coverage by the end of June 2006 and 53 -percent coverage by the end of June 2008. A first payment of $43.8 million...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As operators in Scandinavia call for a relaxation of 3G license conditions or opt to share the cost of network deployment, the concept of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model has come back into sharp focus. New findings from the...
