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Huawei snaps up Europe’s largest LTE deal

Huawei has been making strong progress in the first phase of LTE trials in Europe, with tests at TeliaSonera, Telenor and Vodafone Germany. Now it has converted the Telenor trial to a commercial deal, which sees the Norwegian cellco snubbing its incumbent suppliers Ericsson...

Reality Check: LTE and the Butterfly Effect

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.High in the Himalayas, if a butterfly beats its wings twice, rather than once, it could spark...

Sony Ericsson set to launch music offering: Service seen as competitor to Nokia’s package

Sony Ericsson finally unveiled its response to Nokia Corp.'s Comes With Music service.The company outlined PlayNow plus, a hardware-and-content offering that will bundle as many as 1,000 pre-loaded songs with the purchase of a phone. Buyers will be enrolled in a monthly all-you-can-eat subscription...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens Networks, Alvarion, BelAir and more

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--Serbia: Telenor Srbija chose Nokia Siemens Networks to supply its...

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Redline and more

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--Finland: Elisa has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks and L.M. Ericsson...

Sony Ericsson goes with Gracenote for mobile music

Sony Ericsson has tapped Gracenote to power a sideloading-enabled mobile music platform.The new platform includes features such as search and discovery, song identification and playlisting, and is designed to allow the easy transfer of tunes between home music libraries, online music stores and mobile...

Pay-Buy Mobile initiative gets underway with major backing

The mobile payment space continued to gain steam as Nokia Corp. and 10 network operators joined an effort by the GSM Association to allow consumers to pay with their phones at retail outlets.European and Asian network operators KPN, O2, Orange, SingTel, Vodafone Group plc...

After the handset, jacking ARPU

So you sell a jillion handsets into the next global hotspot. What's next? The true believers at the 3GSM conference last month, for instance, said that rapid penetration of under-served, emerging markets could actually spur economic development. With economic development comes rising personal incomes,...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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...

Emerging opportunities: Industry looks to Africa, Asia, South America for growth

BARCELONA, Spain-The show is in Spain, but last week's 3GSM World Congress was all about emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America.After rising by an average of 25 percent for the last three years, global handset growth will slow to a 13-percent clip...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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 Austria: Mobilkom Austria Group chose Alcatel-Lucent to...

3GSM keynoters: Opportunity lies in emerging markets

BARCELONA, Spain-The show is in Europe, but Wednesday afternoon's keynote address at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was all about emerging markets in Africa, Asia and South America.While handset penetration nears-and perhaps surpasses-100 percent in more advanced markets, carriers, content providers and phone...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless News.CellularFrance: Bouygues Telecom selected Nortel Networks as a supplier for its national high-speed mobile Internet and voice network. Nortel will provide HSDPA technology for the deployment...

AAA to offer mobile site through Volantis deal

SEATTLE—The Automobile Association of America selected Volantis Systems Ltd. to develop and deploy a mobile portal that will allow AAA members to access association information from any mobile device. The mobile portal is expected to go live in October with searchable information on hotels,...

Cingular joins OMTP

ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has become a member of the Open Mobile Terminal Platform, which makes recommendations to the handset industry on security, hardware, operating systems and browsers. Existing network operator members of OMTP include Vodafone Group plc, Orange SA, Hutchison 3G, KPN Mobile, SK...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...

Carlyle Group, France Telecom consider bid for Austrian operator

WASHINGTON, D.C.—France Telecom and the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, are reportedly in discussions to purchase Austrian operator One for more than $1.9 billion. Reuters reported the talks, citing a "source familiar with the matter" who added that any agreement is probably weeks...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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.Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless News.CellularBangladesh:...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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. CellularMalta: Nortel Networks said it is providing EDGE technology to...

Nokia, Telenor team for fixed-mobile convergence

ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. and Telenor R&D announced that after teaming up to develop converged services, they are now able to deliver Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem-based services over Nokia’s broadband platform, along with Voice over Internet calls between mobile and fixed Session Initiation Protocol clients....

Opera targets WAP browsers

Opera Software unveiled what it called a "WAP killer" last week, going global with its Web browser for Java-enabled mobile phones. Opera Mini uses a proxy server to format traditional Internet content for small screens-thereby bypassing the need for WAP technology and allowing users...

Opera releases Mini browser for cell phones

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software announced the worldwide release of its Web browser for Java-enabled mobile phones. Opera Mini, which can be downloaded free from the company's Web site, uses a proxy server to format traditional Internet content for small screens-thereby bypassing the need for WAP...

Volantis unveils m-commerce suite

SEATTLE-Mobile software developer Volantis Systems Ltd. launched a suite of applications for carriers, content providers and third parties looking to sell content to wireless users. The offerings include a mobile storefront and user interface, content management software, on-device media player and an application that...