HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish company Comptel Corp. said it won a global contract with Telefonica Moviles for Comptel's mediation and provisioning software. Under the agreement, Comptel's technology will be available to all companies in the Telefonica group.The value of the contract was not disclosed.Juan Perales, director...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. signed an agreement to sell its stake in Brazilian cellular provider BSE, also known as BCP Nordeste, to America Movil subsidiary Telecom Americas for an undisclosed amount. The sale is expected to close during the second quarter.BellSouth said it will continue to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has begun deployments of a Brazilian cdma2000 1x contract it signed in June 2001 with BrasilCel, the joint venture between Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Portugal in Brazil. The network equipment implementation should be completed in February.The Brazilian operator,...
MADRID, Spain-The Brazilian joint venture of Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom has acquired Tele Centro Oeste (TCO), which operates in the capital city of Brasilia and the midwestern and northern regions of the country.The transaction will be completed in three stages, the first of...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Telefonica Moviles Espana, a subsidiary of the Telefonica Moviles Group, will sell Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail device starting in the next few months, a move that will make the carrier the first to offer the BlackBerry in Spain."With this agreement...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Jarbas Valente, Anatel's superintendent of private services, said he was surprised by the auction results for the surplus licenses in bands D and E for personal communications services. Anatel collected $262.2 million in the auction, or 31.31 percent more than the established...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Orange SA has requested from the Swedish telecom regulator a three-year extension for building out its third-generation network in Sweden. Sweden's 3G license conditions include having an operational network by the end of 2003.Orange would like to delay its rollout until the end...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, and TORONTO-In the aftermath of their quarterly earnings report, the stocks of both Nortel Corp. and Ericsson AB plummeted, highlighting the struggles of the major players in the telecom equipment space.Nortel Networks, which has wobbled during the past year with downgrades to...
LONDON-Wireless platform provider Cash-U scored another major win through a new resale deal with Ericsson.Under the agreement, Ericsson will resell Cash-U's wireless application platform to its carrier customers. Cash-U's platform provides management capabilities for carriers to offer entertainment applications based on SMS, WAP, Java...
HELSINKI, Finland—Carriers and vendors across the world continue to refine and define their strategies for offering multimedia messaging services, which many in the industry hope will open the way for significant wireless data revenues.News on the front continues to come in massive waves, with...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The Polish telecom regulator, URTiP, has conceded that the three operators that purchased third-generation (3G) licenses will not be held to the contractual launch date due to the technical problems being experienced by equipment developers.The operators, Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa (PTC), Polkomtel and...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Performance Technologies Inc. announced Telefonica Moviles Espana will use its GSM Roaming Platform to provide GSM roaming to some other Telefonica Mobiles affiliates.The Performance Technologies GSM Roaming Platform allows large carriers, like Telefonica Moviles Espana, to act as roaming brokers and to offer...
MADRID—Telefonica Moviles SA selected Nortel Networks to supply radio access equipment for its UMTS rollouts in Germany and Spain in a contract valued at about $250 million over three years.Nortel said it will provide $230 million in funding for the contract."We will work closely...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—Wireless data provider GTRAN Wireless Inc. announced it has deployed its new DotSurfer 1x data card solution in several Latin American countries. The card gives mobile device users access to the Internet, e-mail and other multimedia applications. It has been shipped to...
NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems Ltd. announced it is conducting a trial of its Wireless Multimedia Platform for handheld devices over Spanish wireless carrier Telefonica Moviles Espana's network.The trial, over the carrier's GPRS network, is aimed at demonstrating the ability of broadcasting rich media content over...
SAO PAULO, Brazil—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to partner with Telefonica S.A. work on third-generation telephony projects, according to Brazil newspapers.The papers cited NTT DoCoMo Brazil's technical director Eikichi Suzuki as saying DoCoMo also wants to keep its seven-percent stake in Telefonica Celular,...
MADRID—Telefonica Moviles S.A. announced that due to the terrorist events of September 11 and their effect on international capital markets, it plans to cancel the public exchange offer announced February 27.The exchange offer called for Telefonica Moviles to acquire the shares representing up to...
STOCKHOLM—Ericsson said it intends to claim 20 percent of the CDMA market by 2004, even as it identified five carriers as its major customer focus. The carriers include Vodafone Group plc of the United Kingdom, France Telecom SA, Deutsche Telekom AG, Telefonica SA of...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Nokia agreed to cooperate in developing applications for value-added services for Telefonica Moviles clients in business and consumer segments. The companies will set up a services creation center in Madrid with the latest technologies and infrastructures to test new applications.In...
Hewlett-Packard Co., Telefonica Moviles, Ericsson Espana and the Generalitat of Catalonia in Spain announced a joint venture company, called Tempos 21, which will develop and market mobile applications and e-services. The company will focus on mobile phone-related products for current and future network technology,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola said it completed the sale of its investments in four cellular companies in northern Mexico to Telefonica S.A. for more than $1.8 billion in Telefonica shares. The sale was first announced last October.Motorola said the four companies, which began service in 1990,...
The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be a major catalyst for the worldwide uptake of the mobile Internet."We view the creation...
As European telecom companies pant under spectrum's debt burden and fret over possible third-generation rewards, a market research firm thinks the future is worthy of the torture."Mobile operators will share in a mobile voice and data market of $1.5 trillion-with cumulative 3G revenues exceeding...
FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany's mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country's six Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license holders to share parts of their new 3G networks. The ruling will certainly ease the cost...
