LISBON, Portugal-Vodafone Portugal said it began a limited launch of its third-generation services, with access available only to a limited number of users in Lisbon and Oporto.Mostly Vodafone staff and selected business partners and customers will initially use the new service. The operator did...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it expanded its partner network agreement with Kuwait mobile operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. to include the Bahraini market.MTC-Vodafone launched services in Bahrain Dec. 28 after winning a GSM license in April. MTC-Vodafone Bahrain will start to introduce Vodafone's international services...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it will use search technology from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), which the companies said will allow users to search across an extensive portfolio of content and an index of worldwide WAP content using a hosted installation of FAST Data...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and ten Vodafone GSM networks beginning early next year.The inter-carrier and transatlantic service, which will be processed and converted...
TOKYO-Struggling Internet company America Online Inc. and Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced they dissolved their widely touted joint venture, once heralded as way to promote "fixed-mobile convergence."Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither company was immediately available for comment....
The past few years have forced mobile carriers to change tactics on many fronts. During the telecom boom, having a global presence seemed essential. But wireless carriers recently have been selling stakes in operations outside their core markets and honing in on their main...
Citing its stringent testing standards, Verizon Wireless has reportedly delayed the launch of its Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. supplied CDMA/GSM world phone until early next year after previously announcing plans to launch the device before the end of this year.The device is built to...
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced its newly launched Java.com Internet site will feature wireless Java games for Vodafone Live! subscribers. The effort is aimed at promoting Sun's wireless Java push, as well as Vodafone's Live! wireless data offering."We're delighted to have our consumer game...
As the holiday season approaches, the industry's mobile-phone players are working to gear up for a quarter most predict will be gangbusters.First up is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which announced it will sell its SGH-x426 through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone features a...
DUSSELDORF, Germany-Vodafone Germany began UMTS tests for business customers using data cards for PCs. The operator plans to launch commercial third-generation service next year.Vodafone said the participants of the trial include large corporate groups and tradesmen's businesses. The Vodafone Mobile Connect Card UMTS is...
WASHINGTON-Global giant Vodafone Group plc and U.S. mobile-phone operators are aggressively lobbying policy-makers to stay out of a controversy that already has rocked Europe and now is erupting in other regions over fees charged by wireless carriers to connect calls to their subscribers. The...
TOKYO-KDDI Corp. signed up more subscribers than its Japanese rivals during November, according to statistics from the Telecommunications Carriers Association in Japan. KDDI added 239,3000 cellular users compared with 63,800 new NTT DoCoMo Inc. customers and 35,500 Vodafone K.K. new subscribers. KDDI also outpaced...
TOKYO-Japanese ADSL high-speed Internet service provider Softbank applied for a license with the Japanese telecom regulator to test a third-generation mobile-phone technology, according to international press reports.The company applied for a license for a field trial of TD-CDMA technology. There are no commercial 3G...
LONDON-European carrier Orange plc announced it will offer wireless streaming-video services starting early next year through a new deal with PacketVideo Network Solutions, which was purchased by Alcatel Corp. only a few weeks ago.Orange said it will install PacketVideo's pvServer and pvAuthor products in...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it will acquire from Intracom S.A 51.25 million shares in Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Co. S.A., representing 9.433 percent of the outstanding shares of the Greek operator. Vodafone will pay $7.37 per share in cash, for a total purchase price of...
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...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it will acquire from Intracom S.A 51.25 million shares in Vodafone-Panafon Hellenic Telecommunications Co. S.A., representing 9.433 percent of the outstanding shares of the Greek operator. Vodafone will pay $7.37 per share in cash, for a total purchase price of...
European carrier Orange announced it will offer wireless streaming video services starting early next year through a new deal with PacketVideo Network Solutions, which was purchased by Alcatel only a few weeks ago.Orange said it will install PacketVideo's pvServer and pvAuthor products in its...
LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. said it received the lowest number of complaints in the latest customer satisfaction report from U.K. telecom regulator Oftel compared with the other five U.K. mobile operators.Virgin Mobile offers a mobile virtual network operator service in the United Kingdom.From April through...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it will increase its cash returns to investors by buying back $4.2 billion of its shares and increasing its dividend per share by 20 percent following strong financial results for the six months from April through September. The results are...
Two of the world's most notable mobile commerce startups, Network365 Ltd. and iPIN, announced today they will blend into a new player, Valista, a move company officials said will create a dominate payment provider covering more than 150 million subscribers.The ambitious combination could pave...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless technology company L.M. Ericsson announced a new music product through a partnership with Sony Music Germany that delivers bundled packages of artist pictures, ring tones, music clips, artist news, and music recommendations. Swisscom Mobile launched the service, dubbed M-USE, as part of...
MADRID, Spain-The Liberty Alliance said its Phase 2 specifications have been approved, rounding out the existing Liberty Federation Framework and the foundation for the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework. The Liberty Alliance also announced initial member implementation plans for the Phase 2 specifications, a...
The head of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile devices division, Juha Christensen, will leave the software giant to start his own company, which will focus on creating Web services for advanced wireless devices."We're sorry to see him go, but are thrilled that he will be working...
