Swisscom migrates to NetCracker’s Service Fulfillment platform
Telecom vendor NEC and its subsidiary NetCracker said they had recently helped telecom operator Swisscom complete the build out of ICT capabilities designed to help the carrier migrate its fixed, mobile, TV and broadband services to NetCracker’s Service...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody's shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for its connected car program,...
Carriers are courting startups more actively than ever as they seek new ways to innovate, differentiate, and disrupt, all while managing costs and network traffic more efficiently. AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint have all opened offices in Silicon Valley, and have committed top talent...
Swisscom | July 11, 2011 | Press Release
Winterthur Public Utilities and Swisscom to cooperate on fibre-optic expansion, providing Winterthur with super-fast Internet access in the years to come. Four optical fibres will be laid per household and business. Two will be for Swisscom, the...
Wi-Fi technology, which used to be the red-headed step child of wireless operators, is getting renewed interest from those operators as carriers look to offload traffic from their 3G networks onto Wi-Fi systems, a move welcome by Ruckus Wireless, a six-year-old private company that...
Sequans Communications reportedly has its eyes on an initial public offering in the United States to raise up to $80 million.The Paris-based chipset maker, which has backing from Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Motorola Inc. (MOT) Swisscom AG and several venture capital firms, has been seeking out...
Bell Labs launched an aggressive green campaign today, forming a consortium that aims to decrease the communication industry's energy use by a factor of 1,000. The initiative will entail demonstrating enablling technologies that ultimately require entirely new networks that focus on power efficiency from...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Altierre: The Galleon Group led a $22 million Series C funding round into San Jose, Calif.-based Altierre Corp., which...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Lehman Brothers adjusted its estimates on Leap Wireless to a loss of $1.14 from a loss of $1.09 for this year and a loss of...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Acuity: Navteq made an equity investment into Acuity Mobile Inc., a mobile location-based advertising delivery company based in Greenbelt,...
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--Slovenia: T-2 Slovenia has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to provide...
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. CellularGermany: E-Plus said it signed an agreement to oursource...
BERN, Switzerland—Swisscom Mobile subsidiary Sicap, which provides mobile applications and network products for GSM operators, said it acquired Swapcom in a deal Sicap said strengthens its position in the mobile device management, SMS/MMS Hub management and content management spaces. Swapcom, which has headquarters in...
NEW YORK—Ogo device vendor IXI Mobile Inc. said it is merging with Israel Technology Acquisition Corporation, the firms announced. IXI Mobile is expected to become a wholly owned subsidiary of ITAC when the deal closes, which is expected in the third quarter of this year....
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Swiss carrier Swisscom announced it will sell IXI Mobile Inc.'s Ogo messaging device. The carrier plans to sell the GPRS gadget-which features a QWERTY keyboard and no voice functions-for around $37 with a two-year service agreement. The deal is notable for IXI,...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Swiss carrier Swisscom announced it will sell IXI Mobile Inc.'s Ogo messaging device. The carrier plans to sell the GPRS gadget-which features a QWERTY keyboard and no voice functions-for around $37 with a two-year service agreement.The deal is notable for IXI, which...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported insight into the usage patterns of its Wi-Fi subscribers as well as several Wi-Fi roaming agreements, which the carrier said would triple the number of hot spots available to its Hotspot customers to more than 25,000 locations worldwide. T-Mobile...
WILMINGTON, Del.-Bluewin, the brand and Internet division of Swisscom Fixnet, has joined the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group's board of directors. The MAAWG is a group of companies working to eradicate spam, viruses and other forms of messaging abuse. The group is holding its next...
In the backdrop of everything innovative and exciting going on at the BREW conference in San Diego last week, there was one overriding idea that kept popping up in the newsroom: simple.As industry pursues its continuing mission of driving mobile data uptake in all...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom Mobile said it has reached the 4-million subscriber mark, which amounts to more than half the population of Switzerland. The company said roughly 4.5 million outgoing calls are made on its network each day, and 3.5 million incoming calls are received.
SAUDI ARABIANokia Corp. has signed an agreement with Aljawal, the GSM operator of Saudi Telecom Co., to supply the Nokia multimedia messaging service solution. Deliveries have already begun, and the service is expected to be launched nationwide during first half 2005, making it the...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-NMS Communications and LogicaCMG said Wednesday they're powering a new ringback tone service for Swisscom Mobile.The service allows users to purchase song clips that calling parties will hear instead of traditional rings. Subscribers can set ringback tones to change based on the caller...
LAGUNA NIGUEL-Over-the-air software developer Bitfone Corp. said it has been tapped by Swisscom Mobile to deliver customer care services to the carrier's high-end business users.Bitfone will provide OTA device diagnostics and configuration technology during a pilot project that will initially support two new high-end...
