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HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish wireless carrier Sonera Corp. hopes to be the first carrier to offer multimedia messaging services in the first half of next year through a deal with Nokia Corp. …

REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—The board of directors for privately held wireless Web site enabler 2Roam voted to shut down the company and sell off its assets. “We are working …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says Finnish transport and communications minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen has placed “the first inter-continental UMTS phone call’ to Finland. “This was the first of its kind between two …

HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish mobile giant Sonera announced it is retreating from two major wireless data areas—data transaction security and wireless Internet portals. Sonera said it will close down or sell its …

OSLO, Norway—Norway’s Telenor Mobile signed a final agreement to acquire 100 percent of Hungarian mobile-phone operator Pannon GSM for about US$905 million. Finland’s Sonera and the Netherlands’ KPN, two debt-laden …

LUXEMBOURG—Millicom International Cellular (MIC) confirmed it is in talks with Tele2 regarding the possible sale of MIC’s Russian cellular assets to Tele2. “It is no secret that our Scandinavian competitors …

HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as …

HELSINKI, Finland-For a market with a well-deserved reputation as the most dynamic and innovative of Europe’s telecom sectors, one could easily think that traditional Scandinavian confidence is in a state …

MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, will finally start operating in the capital in late November under the Megafon trademark. Besides Sonic Duo, the pan-Russian Megafon …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia and Finnish carrier Sonera have conducted their first wireless local area network (LAN) roaming based on GSM technology, according to Nokia. “Operators have made more than 20,000 roaming …

HELSINKI, Finland—China Mobile plans to launch an electronic directory service called Sonera Finder for its customers in Peking. Newpalm Information Technology and Sonera Info Communications delivered the service. Sonera Finder …

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HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera sold approximately 11.5 million shares of Deutsche Telekom (DT) for nearly US$170 million, saying it will use the proceeds to cut its net debt. Sonera originally received the …

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Sonera Zed Ltd., the wireless Internet arm of Finnish telecommunications company Sonera Corp., will add a unique mass messaging function to its Wireless Entertainment Network offering through a deal …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nordic telecom companies Sonera and Telia have met, in separate talks, with representatives of the government of Belarussia to discuss a possible participation in applying for the former Soviet-bloc …

BUCHAREST, Romania—The board of directors of Enitel AS, in consultation with the company’s debt committee, has decided to hand in a petition for bankruptcy for the Enitel ASA subsidiary. The …

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless data delivery solution provider Wireless Services Corp. and mobile software company FreeRein have entered a joint service agreement to commercially release new wireless data applications for worldwide carrier …

A U.S. federal appeals court rejected a Federal Communications Commission filing asking that it not be required to return personal communications services licenses to bankrupt carrier NextWave Telecom Inc. NextWave, …

MOSCOW—The St. Petersburg-based North-Western GSM and the Moscow-based Sonic Duo carrier, as well as six Russian regional operators merged into a new company, which would deal with the pan-Russian Megafon …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Broadband Mobile, a third-generation (3G) joint venture between Finland’s Sonera and Norway-based Enitel, has been closed down before it even started operations. The company, which paid more than …

Finland’s Sonera said it will “take immediate steps to liquidate” Broadband Mobile ASA in Norway, partly because Enitel ASA, its equal partner in the third-generation wireless joint venture, already has …

HELSINKI, Finland—The government of Iceland has set out a timetable for its sale of a 49-percent equity stake in state-run telecoms group Landssimi Islands, in an offering that values the …

MOSCOW—Sonic Duo, which has the third GSM license in Moscow, received the first frequencies shared by its major competitor Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). The news was followed by a change of …

OSLO, Norway-Telenor has acquired 100 percent of Pannon GSM in Hungary by acquiring the stakes held by KPN Telecom, Sonera and Tele Danmark Communications for a total $877 million. Telenor …

If GSM plus TDMA equals GAIT, some software providers want to ensure that the calculus makes sense. Last week, Schlumberger Sema and Sonera SmartTrust said they had received an order …