The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Cellular Japan: L.M. Ericsson and Softbank Mobile Corp. signed...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
CARACAS, Venezuela-Mobile network operator Movistar launched a high-speed CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network that the carrier said covers 26 major Venezuelan cities.Movistar said the network supports broadband services such as movie trailers, digital images, songs and video games. Corporate users can also access virtual office...
Consolidation hit the European wireless market as Spanish telecommunications provider Telefonica said it plans to acquire U.K.-based 02 plc, and Swedish operator Telenor announced plans to acquire rival Vodafone Sweden. Telefonica said it reached an agreement to acquire 02 for approximately $31.3 billion in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Movistar Uruguay selected L.M. Ericsson as the sole supplier for its GSM and transmission network, according to the vendor. Under the agreement, Ericsson plans to supply a complete GSM network, including EDGE-ready GSM/GPRS 850 MHz radio access and core networks, as well as...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-MoviStar Puerto Rico has completed the initial deployment of Phase II E911 services via technology from Telecommunication Systems Inc. MoviStar is certified by the public-safety answering point in Puerto Rico as being live with Phase II E911.MoviStar Puerto Rico is managed by Telefonica...
MIRAMOR, Fla.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed three contracts worth several million dollars with major Latin American carriers, including Andinatel, Hondutel and MoviStar. MoviStar, however, is the only purely wireless contract. The Puerto Rican wireless operator picked Lucent to provide operations and maintenance...
Telefonica Moviles Espana launched a pre-commercial UMTS service in Spain for its corporate customers. The carrier will distribute UMTS PCMCIA cards to its enterprise clients, enabling them to access all UMTS Oficina MoviStar data services from laptops at speeds of up to 384 kilobits...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems will provide MoviStar Puerto Rico, a Puerto Rican wireless operator managed by Telefonica Moviles, with enhanced 911 Phase II services.TCS' Xypoint Location Platform and Hosted Position Determining Entity will provide the ability to determine a caller's precise location within seconds and...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) will provide MoviStar Puerto Rico, a Puerto Rican wireless operator managed by Telefonica Moviles, with enhanced 911 Phase II services.TCS' Xypoint Location Platform and Hosted Position Determining Entity will provide the ability to determine a caller's precise location within seconds...
MEXICO CITY-Nokia Corp. reported that Mexican wireless operator Telefonica Moviles Mexico has selected the infrastructure provider to supply at least 50 percent of the radio-access system and all of the packet data core equipment for the operator's recently launched GSM/GPRS-based MoviStar service.Under terms of...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Telefonica Moviles Espana, a subsidiary of the Telefonica Moviles Group, will sell Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail device starting in the next few months, a move that will make the carrier the first to offer the BlackBerry in Spain."With this agreement...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil—Cellular operator Telefonica Celular announced the commercial launch of its cdma2000 1x data and voice network in Brazil. The network, with equipment supplied by Lucent Technologies Inc., will initially service Telefonica customers in Rio de Janeiro, offering data transmission speeds of...
MADRID-Telefonica denied reports that a virus is getting into the mobile phones of its customers and sending rude messages about the company to phone screens.U.S. computer specialists reported a worm-type virus called "Timofonica" has hit customers of Telefonica's Movistar service. "Timo" means rip-off or...
SAN FRANCISCO-Act now! GSM carriers need to deploy wireless data today, speakers told Global System for Mobile communications operators at last week's GSM in North America conference here.Carriers need to get data applications into the hands of consumers before next-generation data-centric networks come along,...
United KingdomBulletIN.net Ltd., a TWS Inc. subsidiary, formed a strategic partnership with Project Telecom, a U.K. wireless service provider, that will allow users to transform their phones into handheld mobile offices, according to BulletIN.net. Project Telecom will market the service to its high-end corporate...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles, part of the Telefonica Group S.A., Madrid, Spain, announced it gained 822,487 new customers during the first quarter of this year, more than triple the net additions posted during the same period a year ago.The Spanish wireless carrier had 5.72 million...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a supply agreement from Sweden's Comviq to install a Digital Cellular System at 1800 MHz, which will be used to enhance coverage and capacity on Comviq's Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz network in Sweden. Motorola CIG...
