PALO ALTO, Calif.-Although the Latin American unified messaging market has developed more slowly than expected, potential still exists, especially in enterprise solutions, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan.The research group believes uptake of unified messaging in the region is slow due to...
BONN, Germany-The European operator alliance formed earlier this year to counter Vodafone Group plc's strong European presence announced its first products and services. The alliance, which includes Orange SA, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia Mobile and T-Mobile, said the first offerings will allow prepaid customers...
Telecom Italia Mobile has become the first European operator to publicly state its commitment to EDGE technology, according to international press reports. The reports said the largest Italian mobile operator will use EDGE in areas where it's not economically feasible to deploy W-CDMA third-generation...
ANKARA, Turkey-The shareholders of two Turkish operators, Aria and Aycell, have reached an initial agreement to merge the companies. The merger will leave three operators competing in Turkey.Aria is owned equally by Telecom Italia Mobile and Isbank and is the country's third-largest operator. Aycell...
ITALY-Emilio Gnutti, who was convicted of insider trading last year for exchanging privileged information in 1999 about transactions linked to publicly traded industrial holding company CMI, has been named chief executive of the private holding company that controls Telecom Italia SpA.Gnutti was sentenced to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to be almost an unseemly rush to protect their parochial businesses, five Asian operators—CSL of Hong Kong, Maxis of Malaysia, MobileOne (M1) of Singapore, Smart of the Philippines and Telstra of Australia—have formed the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), which...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In what is being seen as an ill-disguised attempt to combat the European coverage afforded by Vodafone, three of Europe's largest cell-phone operators have clubbed together to offer their business subscribers common services and a simplified tariff structure.The three operators, T-Mobile, Telef
MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia and parent Olivetti announced a plan to merge, in an attempt to simplify the group's complicated ownership. Olivetti will offer seven shares for each Telecom Italia share. Olivetti holds 55 percent of Telecom Italia, which owns wireless subsidiary Telecom Italia Mobile,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After having suffered a fall of 2 percent in incomes during 2002, Pyramid Research forecasts that this year will see an increase of 13 percent in the U.S. dollar income of the cellular operators in the principle 18 countries of Latin America,...
ROME-Telecom Italia began trials this week of a public Wi-Fi service operating at 2.4 GHz. Italy's largest fixed and mobile operator will trial the service in public locations in Rome and Milan in conjunction with Megabeam, Italy's first wireless Internet service provider.The wireless local...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The only company that participated in the auction for the three regional personal communications services (PCS) licenses-one of which is a national license-in Colombia was Colombia M
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Portal Software Inc. announced Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) has chosen Portal's Infranet convergent billing product as the billing solution for its wireless voice, data and content and to replace its legacy billing systems. TIM will also use the new TelcoOne customer relationship management...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Alvaro Uribe's Colombian government has decided to postpone the national-level auction of three regional personal communications services (PCS) licences until January and has added to the conditions of the contract, requiring the new operator to operate using 2.5-generation (2.5G) network infrastructure, so...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-After a year of successive postponements, the Regulatory Unit of the Uruguayan Communications Services (URSEC) announced that on 18 November, there will be an auction of personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses at 1800, 1900 and 2100 MHz. With this...
