HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings that will allow Sonera to increase its stake in the GSM businesses of the group.Cukurova Group holds 39.69 percent of Fintur, Sonera has a 35.31-percent stake and...
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera said it reached a deal with other shareholders of the Dutch holding company Fintur Holdings B.V. that will allow Sonera to increase its stake in the GSM businesses of the group.Cukurova Group holds 39.69 percent of Fintur, Sonera has a 35.31-percent stake...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Southeast Asian operators are predicted to face unprecedented growth in data traffic during the coming years. Operators in the region have witnessed a surge in data traffic through short message service (SMS) traffic, followed by General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offerings in recent...
WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States—NextWave Telecom and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately US$1 million in telecommunications assets, including transmission equipment and office space and supplies, from Teligent to NextWave. Both companies are...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—NextWave Telecom Inc. and bankrupt fixed wireless company Teligent were given approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to transfer approximately $1 million in telecommunications assets, including transmission equipment and office space and supplies, from Teligent to NextWave. Both companies are having their...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. and its regional subsidiaries Tokai and Kansai said they will expand their respective FOMA next-generation mobile service areas in early March, with subsidiaries Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu launching FOMA services in major areas of their respective markets by...
SAN DIEGO, United States—PacketVideo is targeting carriers with pv3 Mobilemedia system, a new multimedia delivery system that includes encoding, transmission and decoding products that enable delivery of high-quality audio and visual content and applications to mobile devices over current networks.Currently in trials with carriers,...
BERLIN—The mobile division of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, has forcefully indicated that it plans to be the first to launch third-generation (3G) services in Germany. The company announced plans to deploy high-speed mobile data services in 20 German cities by the end of this year,...
TOKYO—J-Phone, the third-largest mobile carrier in Japan, announced it will launch a new e-mail service with motion pictures. According to J-Phone, which is now a Vodafone Group company, using the service, J-Phone users can send e-mail including up to five seconds of motion pictures...
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for delivering multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless' Express Network data service as a test platform.The company said the trial consisted of the transmission of...
HELSINKI, Finland—Sonera, the Helsinki-based telecom company, has abandoned its fixed monthly connection charge for its consumer General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering in a move designed to increase use of the service.Under Sonera's new policy, all subscribers to Sonera's GSM service in Finland can...
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for the delivery of multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless' Express Network data service as a test platform.The company said the trial consisted of the...
TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry pager, announced a major alliance with Motorola and Nextel Communications to develop a combined e-mail, pager and telephone device for the U.S. market later this year. The Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based RIM did not disclose...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Following the postponement until May of the personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses auction, Uruguay has added the possibility of a plebiscite to decide on the privatization of 40 percent of the state-owned cellular operator Ancel. The sale had been...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The development of the pan-Russian Megafon project of St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding has prompted a series of acquisitions, as the initially "virtual" project reported 1 million clients in only one-half year of operation.Megafon is the only Russian operator that possesses GSM licenses...
TOKYO—Kyocera, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Hanaro Telecom, a leading carrier in Korea, reached an agreement regarding the next-generation high-speed mobile data business, Kyocera announced on 22 January. Based on the agreement, Hanaro plans to launch a high-speed mobile Internet service in...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it may not sign up the 150,000 subscribers to its third-generation (3G) network by the end of March it predicted when it launched the service last October. However, the carrier remains confident it will have 1.5 million subscribers to its...
BUCHAREST, Romania—EuroTel Praha, the Czech GSM operator, announced that with the help of a movable base station connected to the EuroTel network, members of the Czech army can make mobile telephone calls from Kosovo."Our engineers are ready to create and build towers wherever they...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—DMC Stratex Networks announced an agreement with Spescom to distribute Stratex Networks' wireless broadband transmission equipment for the South African, Namibian, Mozambican and Lesotho markets."Apart from the immediate benefits to both existing and new customers that this partnership offers, both...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish service provider iobox launched Germany's first public wireless location arena network system at the Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel in Munich using equipment from Swedish vendor Service Factory.Iobox said it plans to establish additional WLAN hot spots in hotels, airports and conference halls...
TOKYO—DDI Pocket, Japan's largest PHS operator, is going to launch a 128 kilobits per second (kbps) data transmission service on 26 March, the carrier announced on 17 January.DDI Pocket, the PHS business unit of KDDI, is currently providing a 32 kbps data service with...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Cellular operator Smartcom PCS has launched its 2.5-generation (2.5G) service in the city of Santiago de Chile using 1XRTT technology. Thus, Smartcom PCS follows the path initiated by Entel PCS, which launched its 2.5G network over GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology...
TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network (WLAN) services.Using the OFDM system, operators will be able to provide high-speed data transmission...
