TOKYO-Two international carriers announced plans for a roaming agreement for Wi-Fi hot spots.Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. signed a public wireless local area network inter-roaming agreement with Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera AB. Starting Feb. 9 DoCoMo's Wi-Fi subscribers will be able to use the...
ESPOO, Finland-TeliaSonera Finland has conducted the world's first EDGE-W-CDMA packet data handover using equipment and terminals in a commercial network, according to Nokia Corp., which supplied the equipment.Nokia said the carrier's customers now have a seamless continuation of third-generation services while roaming between EDGE...
TeliaSonera may finally have found a buyer for Sonera Zed Ltd.The Finnish-Swedish operator announced that it has agreed to sell its wireless data portal to Wisdom Entertainment, a Spanish interactive media group, for $37 million. The acquisition, which is pending approval of the German...
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...
Autodesk Location Services and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of location-based traffic alert services for Verizon's vtext.com text-messaging portal. With the service, Verizon customers can log into www.vtext.com and set up specific routes for which to view traffic information and choose a time,...
BANGLADESHSiemens AG said it has signed a $41 million contract with state-owned carrier BTTB to set up a mobile network in the key districts of the country, including Dhaka, the capital city. The technology will be GSM/GPRS, according to Siemens. The German vendor said...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish wireless carrier TeliaSonera announced it launched a streaming music service from Sony Corp., following up on an agreement between the two companies first announced in March at the CeBit trade show.TeliaSonera said it will initially offer the service free, minus data transfer...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Nordic operator TeliaSonera said it will delist from the U.S. Nasdaq Stock Market due to low trading volumes.The company is also listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Exchanges. Only 0.3 percent of the company's traded volume in 2003 was on...
"What Simpay is all about is opening up the mobile Internet space beyond the carrier's branded portal," said Jim Wadsworth, Simpay's chief marketing officer.Described as a mobile-commerce company, Simpay's real purpose is to create a common billing mechanism for carriers and wireless content providers....
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in March:Ireland With Meteor for a core GPRS solution.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With First Cellular of Southern Illinois for MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With MetroPCS for MMS equipment.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIreland With Meteor...
LOS ANGELES-The Invest in Sweden Agency announced the U.S. and other countries can use Sweden's nationwide 3G wireless network to test 3G-related technologies, products and services. The agency is touting Sweden's 3G Test Market program as a way for international companies to prepare for...
HANNOVER, Germany-Sony Network Services Europe announced a deal with TeliaSonera Finland to offer a new streaming music service.Dubbed the Personal Media Assistant, the Sony application is designed for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system and allows users to listen to music streamed over...
SWEDEN-TeliaSonera Sweden has launched its nationwide Telia GO third-generation network.Telia GO will provide TeliaSonera customers with access to mobile Internet at broadband speeds and access to video calling on certain 3G handsets for a charge. In addition, the 3G network will feature a new...
SWEDEN-TeliaSonera Sweden has launched its nationwide Telia GO third-generation network.Telia GO will provide TeliaSonera customers with access to mobile Internet at broadband speeds and access to video calling on certain 3G handsets for a charge. In addition, the 3G network will feature a new...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will modernize and upgrade TeliaSonera's existing GSM/GPRS/EDGE Nokia network in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.According to the agreement, Nokia will supply its GSM, GPRS and EDGE system and provide installation and care services for the network upgrade,...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will modernize and upgrade TeliaSonera's existing GSM/GPRS/EDGE Nokia network in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.According to the agreement, Nokia will supply its GSM, GPRS and EDGE system and provide installation and care services for the network upgrade,...
SEATTLE-Wireless streaming-video company RealNetworks Inc. announced a series of new European customers the company said marks the beginning of the "hockey stick" in multimedia growth. The company also announced a major new licensing deal with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.As RealNetworks continues to expand its...
HELSINKI, Finland-Internet portal Yahoo! dropped its stake in TeliaSonera's Zed wireless data portal, but said it will continue to offer co-branded services with Zed across Europe.Yahoo! purchased a 15-percent equity interest in Sonera Zed Ltd. in 2002 with an option to acquire the remaining...
Internet portal Yahoo! dropped its stake in TeliaSonera's Zed wireless data portal, but said it will continue to offer co-branded services with Zed across Europe.Yahoo! purchased a 15-percent equity interest in Sonera Zed Ltd. in 2002 with an option to acquire the remaining interests....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Svenska UMTS-nat AB, jointly owned by TeliaSonera and Tele2, has agreed to purchase the fourth third-generation license in Sweden from Orange Sverige. Svenska already owns a UMTS license in Sweden, and TeliaSonera and Tele2 said the new license will not change...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Svenska UMTS-nat AB, jointly owned by TeliaSonera and Tele2, has agreed to purchase the fourth third-generation license in Sweden from Orange Sverige. Svenska already owns a UMTS license in Sweden, and TeliaSonera and Tele2said the new license will not change the...
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 both the Third Generation Partnership Project and 3GPP2, allows higher network capacity for CDMA...
HELSINKI, Finland-Several European groups said they have demonstrated the first vertical handover in commercial networks providing seamless switching among different network connections while an application was running. L.M. Ericsson, TeliaSonera Finland, Wi-Fi supplier Radionet and Helsinki University of Technology demonstrated the wireless local area...
