CANNES, France-Following through on its fourth-quarter promises, Openwave Systems Inc. announced a deal with Qualcomm Inc. to include Openwave's WAP browser on Qualcomm's MSM chips. "We are pleased to work with Openwave to provide an integrated client solution that addresses the rapid adoption of...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom Mobile said it has launched the first UMTS mobile phone with a 2-megapixel camera. The Sharp V902 UMTS mobile supports services such as live TV and video telephony.The phone also has autofocus and optical 2-times zoom, as well as digital 10-times zoom...
AALBORG, Denmark-Danish mobile data delivery company End2End announced that it will deliver content for Swisscom Mobile's third-generation streaming service. The carrier has been using End2End to deliver downloadable content for its Vodafone live! service, which launched in Switzerland last year. With the new agreement,...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom AG said it will not make an offer to merge with Telekom Austria and said talks regarding a possible merger between the companies have ended. Swisscom said the two incumbent telecom companies were in discussions about a possible merger."Both parties agree on...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom AG said it will not make an offer to merge with Telekom Austria and said talks regarding a possible merger between the companies have ended. Swisscom said Tuesday the two incumbent telecom companies were in discussions about a possible merger."Both parties agree...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in March:Ireland With Meteor for a core GPRS solution.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With First Cellular of Southern Illinois for MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With MetroPCS for MMS equipment.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIreland With Meteor...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Swiss mobile operator Swisscom Mobile AG named Portal Software Inc. a strategic supplier. Portal has been a billing software supplier to Swisscom since 2000."We already have Portal's solution running in four separate services at Swisscom Mobile," said Bernhard Schimmele, program manager for billing...
France Telecom said it has granted Qualcomm Inc. a worldwide license to its Turbo Code patents for both CDMA2000 and W-CDMA chipsets. The Turbo Code, which enjoy the supports of both the Third Generation Partnership Project and 3GPP2, allows higher network capacity for CDMA...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless technology company L.M. Ericsson announced a new music product through a partnership with Sony Music Germany that delivers bundled packages of artist pictures, ring tones, music clips, artist news, and music recommendations. Swisscom Mobile launched the service, dubbed M-USE, as part of...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia software development company Red Oxygen said Swisscom Mobile has launched its e-mail-to-short message service product to its 3.6 million subscribers in Switzerland.The Swiss carrier is now offering a customized version of Red Oxygen's product on its Web site that allows users of...
LONDON-Swisscom Mobile announced it will use several wireless network and service performance software solutions from Actix, including Actix' Infrastructure Verification Solution (IVS) for its GPRS networks, Actix' Rollout Verification Solution (RVS) for its UMTS network and Actix' Actix Radio Link Analysis Solution (RLAS) for...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following the acquisition in March of wireless local are network (WLAN) operators Megastream and Munich-based WLAN, fixed-line carrier Swisscom, which now has more than 800 WLAN access points, has linked with Nomadix to hasten the deployment of more 802.11b hot spots. In...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Despite economic slowing and sector saturation, profitability of some of Europe's savvy-and lucky-wireless operators is managing to improve across a desolate backdrop. Across the Continent, average revenue per user (ARPU) for most operators has been increasing at about 5 percent quarter on...
LONDON-Six European markets will soon have MSN Messenger, Microsoft's instant messaging service, on mobile phones via short message service. Operators in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey will offer the messaging service. The same operators also currently offer the MSN Hotmail e-mail...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Wireless equipment maker Ericsson said it will provide infrastructure for multimedia messaging services (MMS) to Swisscom Mobile, which will begin offering the service sometime this month."The introduction of MMS is an important step in the further development of mobile data communications," said Urs...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Some trends are beginning to emerge in the European multimedia messaging service (MMS) market following the launch of services by several operators. However, there is still a distinct split between those charging per message and operators adopting volume pricing models similar to those...
BERNE, Switzerland—Swisscom Mobile said it will begin offering multimedia messaging services on June 3, following MMS launches from Telecom Italia Mobile and Vodafone Telecel in Portugal last week.Swisscom Mobile will provide the service free during its launch phase until the end of September. Beginning...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Czech Republic's largest mobile operator, EuroTel, is back in the takeover sights of Cesky Telecom. This comes as the Czech government called off plans to sell its 51-percent shareholding in Cesky Telecom, which reported it is looking to restart discussions with...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—The Czech government launched a second round of a tender to acquire a majority stake in state-owned Cesky Telecom after receiving bids below its minimum-set price. The government wanted a 45-percent premium over the current market value, and bids for the 51-percent...
HELSINKI, Finland—TDC, the Danish telecom company that is currently the subject of attention from acquisitive Nordic neighbor Telia, is being linked as a "probable" contender to take over Cesky Telecom, which owns 51 percent of EuroTel Praha, the Czech Republic's fastest growing mobile operator.Deutsche...
After a year in which its global customer base increased from 53 million customers to a staggering 83 million customers, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc said it will turn its attention this year from rounding up more subscribers to making money off the ones it...
JAPANJapanese electronics giant Sony Corp. has decided to upgrade its cellular phone handset operations into a full division with emphasis on mobile computing products. Sony also wants to delve into broadband access.Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. has signed a CDMA patent licensing agreement with...
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for a high speed mobile data service on its GPRS commercial network.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for UMTS technology in the...
STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. and Swisscom announced they are concluding definitive agreements to allow Swisscom to license SmartServ's Web and wireless application technology.The technology will allow Swisscom to offer services such as wireless application development, systems integration and hosting."SmartServ will be among the first...
