BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Mobile-phone maker Sendo today announced it signed an agreement with Italian telecommunications operator Wind Telecomunnicazioni, which calls for Wind to sell Sendo's S200 phones through its retail outlets in Italy.This is up-start Sendo's fourth major carrier agreement.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Atlantic West, a joint venture owned 51 percent by Verizon Telecommunications and 49 percent by AT&T Corp., is reportedly selling its 49-percent stake in Czech mobile operator EuroTel Praha for about $1.5 billion to Cesky Telecom. The deal would give Cesky Telecom...
PARIS-Nokia Corp. said it signed a letter of intent to deliver its advanced third-generation network solution to French operator Groupe Cegetel, including infrastructure for radio access and core networks as well as multimedia offerings.The deliveries, scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of the...
MILAN, Italy-Control of Italy's largest telecom company, Telecom Italia, has changed hands, with Pirelli, an Italian tire and cable company, and Edizione, the holding company for the Italian Benetton family, buying a 23-percent stake in Olivetti for about $6.1 billion. Olivetti owns 55 percent...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola said it has signed a US$47 million deal with Morocco's leading operator Maroc Telecom to expand GSM network infrastructure in cities in northern and southern parts of the country.The deal will cover Marrakech and Agadir in the south and...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A year after initiating its operations outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA), Movicom BellSouth announced it has 200,000 new users in 10 cities of Argentina. Using its personal communications services (PCS) at 1900 MHz, the carrier is providing value-added services, such...
TOKYO—Hong Kong-based operator Hutchison Whampoa signed an agreement to allow NEC to supply its third-generation (3G) handsets.NEC will start delivery in the third quarter of this year to carriers in Italy, Australia, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom—Mobile phone maker Sendo announced it signed an agreement with Italian telecommunications operator Wind Telecomunnicazioni, which calls for Wind to sell Sendo's S200 phones through its retail outlets in Italy.This is up-start Sendo's fourth major carrier agreement.
WARSAW, Poland—The deadline for finalizing a deal between Polish company Elektrim and Vivendi Universal passed on 30 July, without final agreement on a cash-and-debt deal announced last month. The preliminary agreement stated Vivendi would pay US$600 million to take control of mobile operator Polska...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia—The Bosnia Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) said it cancelled a tender for a third GSM operator following criticism about the tender process from two bidders.Austria's Mobilkom and Croatia's Hrvatske Telekomunikacije sent separate letters expressing concern about the tender terms, according to international press...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—Atlantic West, a joint venture owned 51 percent by Verizon Telecommunications and 49 percent by AT&T, both of the United States, is reportedly selling its 49-percent stake in Czech mobile operator EuroTel Praha for about US$1.5 billion to Cesky Telecom. The deal...
MILAN, Italy—Control of Italy's largest telecom company Telecom Italia has changed hands, with Pirelli, an Italian tire and cable company, and Edizione, the holding company for the Italian Benetton family, buying a 23-percent stake in Olivetti for about US$6.1 billion. Olivetti owns 55 percent...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Slovenian mobile operator Mobitel announced the first Slovenian mobile payment service called Moneta. The system can be used for paying for contents on the Internet, as well as paying for services and products.Mobitel's subscribers register via their mobile telephone numbers and receive a...
TOKYO—Christopher Gent, chief executive of Vodafone Group, on 30 July said he is planning to integrate J-Phone Group's three operational companies by the end of this year, targeting the integrated company to be listed on a Japanese stock exchange market. Vodafone is the largest...
NEW DELHI, India—Bharti Cellular has won the maximum number of eight licenses in the bidding for fourth cellular licenses in 17 Indian telecom circles, or coverage areas. The Indian government will gain more than 16 billion rupees (US$340 million) as the total entry fee...
LONDON—African mobile operator Orascom Telecom announced it plans to invest US$500 million during the next five years in building its GSM infrastructure in Algeria, a report from the Egyptian news agency, APS, reveals.Cairo-based Orascom won Algeria's second GSM license on 11 July with a...
SEOUL, Korea—Samsung said Brazilian operator Telesp Celular recently chose Samsung as the best among its handset suppliers. The carrier assessed all its supplier companies, including handset manufacturers and advertising agencies, Samsung said.Telesp rated each supplier on such categories as delivery and product quality.Samsung has...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Consumers continue to shun mobile e-commerce because of a lack of confidence in their cell-phone operator to manage secure transactions, claimed a survey by a European security software developer. However, the company reported that users said they would feel more comfortable with...
If the issue is brain cancer, this new comer is hands-free. To those who fear the environmental nightmare of dumping them in landfills, well, it is disposable. You don't need to wait for your monthly bill because it's prepaid.Welcome to the Hop-On wireless cell...
Wireless carriers continued to stave off a weakening economy with second-quarter results mostly in line with analysts' expectations. Three of the six largest operators, including Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc., reported both customer additions and financial results showing little economic effect...
NEW YORK-The mission of Pure Matrix Inc., a Boulder, Colo., start-up, is to make mass customization of mobile data nice and easy so customers will use it more and place greater value on its delivery and the carriers that transmit it.A European wireless carrier...
While lawyers have spent the past four years wrangling over the fate of Nextwave Telecom Inc.'s 93 C- and F-block licenses, the wanna-be telecom company has been moving ahead with its plans to build out and launch its network. With the U.S. Court of...
PARIS-Wireless vendor Alcatel signed a $275 million contract with Telemar, the Brazilian fixed-line operator that recently bought a GSM license in Brazil, for a GSM 1800/GPRS network. The network will be deployed in Brazil's northern region, covering more than 70 cities in the states...
SAVANNAH, Ga.-H.O. Systems Inc., which offers next-generation billing solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced it has signed a long-term billing and customer care contract with wireless operator MetroPCS.MetroPCS said H.O. Systems' billing system, which features its speedSUITE solution and includes billing, customer care, point...
