European mobile operator Orange S.A. said it will sell its 100-percent owned Danish subsidiary to Nordic operator TeliaSonera for $743 million in cash. The buy will add 605,000 mobile subscribers to TeliaSonera's Danish subsidiary and eliminate a competitor.TeliaSonera said the acquisition is expected to...
European mobile operator Orange S.A. said it will sell its 100-percent owned Danish subsidiary to Nordic operator TeliaSonera for $743 million in cash. The buy will add 605,000 mobile subscribers to TeliaSonera's Danish subsidiary and eliminate a competitor.TeliaSonera said the acquisition is expected to...
Nortel Networks Ltd. is in talks to divest most of its major operations, including factories and supply chains, to Flextronics Inc., a contract electronics manufacturer. If the talks materialize, it may lead to a major loss of up to 2,500 jobs."This proposed transaction would...
HELSINKI, Finland-The four mobile operators in Finland have jointly formed a new company to manage the mobile number portability (MNP) solution in the country. Swedish consultancy Northstream worked with the operators on the solution.The new company will begin operations this quarter to have MNP...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Reports from Finland suggest that mobile operator TeliaSonera, which this week has signed a number of interconnect agreements for multimedia messaging services (MMS) and announced plans to launch third-generation (3G) services early next year, is to sell its Finnish operation. The company is...
HELSINKI, Finland-DNA Finland, the Finnish regional telecom group, has displaced Virgin Mobile as the lead contender to acquire Telia Mobile's network operations in Finland. DNA is reported to have placed a bid worth US$102 million for Telia Mobile Finland (TMF). The offer is believed...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnet, the Helsinki-based umbrella association for 40 local telecom operators in Finland, has adopted an aggressive position to competing with rival operators Sonera and Elisa for mobile and fixed-line telephone customers. Elisa is the parent company of the network operator Radiolinja, the country's...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Sweden-based Telia Mobile said it signed a framework agreement with third-generation operator Hi3G for colocating masts. Hi3G is the Swedish 3G subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and is building a UMTS network in the Nordic country. Under the agreement, Telia Mobile will lease...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Testing and monitoring company NetTest said Telia Mobile Denmark ordered an expansion of its existing MasterQuest system to monitor General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services.Telia Mobile Denmark, which purchased its original system in December 2001 to monitor its voice and short message service...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Sweden's Telia Mobile announced that it transfered its Minicall paging service to Generic Mobile Systems, which will begin running the service. Telia said it is part of the operator's streamlining efforts.Customers will still be able to use Minicall in the future, Telia said....
OXFORD, United Kingdom—After announcing its wireless initiative last week, BT Group said it is aware of the security concerns surrounding wireless local area network (WLAN) services. The company admitted it intends to address the issue by providing virtual private network (VPN) tunnels to corporate...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia Mobile signed a national roaming agreement in Finland with Suomen 2G Oy, allowing Telia Mobile Finland's customers to use Suomen's national GSM network."This is an important step toward further establishing profitable mobile operations in Finland," said Erik Hallberg, acting head of Telia...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Ceragon Networks Ltd. has added a fixed wireless SONET/SDH system with a built-in add-drop-multiplexer for cellular metropolitan infrastructure networks to its FibeAir product family.According to Ceragon, SONET/SDH networking equipment can offer carriers advantages as cellular subscriber numbers increase and next-generation services are...
HELSINKI, Finland—Telia Mobile, the Nordic region's biggest mobile operator, is moving to strengthen its position through acquisitions. The company is soon expected to bid for Sonera's mobile telephone business in all Nordic and Baltic states, excluding Finland. Telia Mobile has a strong presence in...
ST. LOUIS, United States—Telia Mobile Denmark will use billing system provider Amdocs' Ensemble product for its convergent customer care and billing system, the companies announced.The billing platform combines voice, data and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services and allows Telia Mobile to support both...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to stimulate the use of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based services, Telia Mobile has become the first cell-phone operator to offer GPRS roaming throughout the Nordic countries. The company said its subscribers would be able to use the services...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands-KPN Mobile began tests of i-mode-like services with a small group of users on Dec. 20. The carrier said it will commercially launch the service in the second quarter of 2002. NEC will supply the first i-mode handsets to KPN users....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo's wildly popular i-mode service.Telia's service, dubbed PocketMode, features an open interface for content providers, allowing them to offer their services directly to users instead of forming...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish wireless carrier Telia Mobile announced it will offer a wireless Internet service much like NTT DoCoMo's wildly popular i-mode service.Telia's service, dubbed PocketMode, features an open interface for content providers, allowing them to offer their services directly to users instead of forming...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia launched Finland's first General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service, called Telia Mobile Online. The service provides a continuous connection tot he Internet and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services.Corporate customers can access the service for an e8.25 (US$7.5) entrance fee and a monthly...
AlcatelChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a national network.Value: US$157 millionChina. With Gansu Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and Ning Xia Mobile for GSM expansion contracts.Value: UndisclosedThailand. With CP Orange for a nationwide GSM 1800 MHz network.Value: US$332 millionDatangChina. With China Unicom for CDMA equipment for a...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a letter of intent to deliver a third-generation wideband Code Division Multiple Access Radio Access network and IP mobility core network for Telia Mobile throughout Finland."We are delighted to continue our role as sole supplier with the rollout of Telia...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Denmark awarded two new GSM 900 MHz licenses to Mobilix and Telia Denmark, the country's two incumbent operators that had only GSM 1800 MHz licenses.Telia said the GSM 900 MHz license enables it to build a mobile network with full national coverage in...
