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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

SAUDI ARABIA Nokia 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in March: Ireland With Meteor for a core GPRS solution. Value: Undisclosed United States With First Cellular of Southern Illinois for MMS Proxy Relay, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …