OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having launched its revamped data services in an expensive blaze of publicity, Vodafone is now coming under the spotlight of City of London financial analysts as to the likelihood of meeting the target of 20 percent of the company's revenue being gained...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support.Skeptics are coming out of the wireless woodwork to question whether greenfield operators can survive...
PARIS-Alcatel said that Vodafone Telecel extended its contract for Alcatel's local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) for its customer base in Portugal.The 26 GHz network covers Lisbon, and the center and south of Portugal is already operational.
LONDON-Vivendi Universal is still convinced that Vodafone Group plc will come back with an improved offer for its stake in French operator Cegetel, after Vivendi rejected Vodafone's initial $6.6 billion cash offer, even though there are no indications that a new bid is in...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As many mobile operators around the world install and trial their multimedia message service (MMS) infrastructure, those that have launched services have already commenced a pricing war. Two of Europe's biggest operators, Orange and MmO2, which launched their service a few weeks...
HELSINKI, Finland and OSLO, Norway-Hutchison Whampoa and Investor-backed Hi3G, which will operate under the brand name "3," will join Swedish third-generation (3G) license holders seeking rollout extensions. Hi3G has confirmed its intention to ask Swedish telecom authority PTS for an extension of the deadline...
LONDON-As part of its plan to unify all of its international interests under one brand name, Vodafone Group plc is expected to rebrand J-Phone Corp. in Japan by the end of next year, according to a report in the Financial Times.J-Phone is currently fighting...
DUBLIN, Ireland-It appears that an agreement on site sharing between the three Irish third-generation (3G) license holders might have been reached only days after the first meeting of a working group established by the Irish industry regulator ODTR to develop a code of practice...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone has unveiled the latest stage in its data strategy. Vodafone Live is a menu of services accessible from camera phones, which will allow customers to receive and send picture messages, downloads games and ring tones, and send and receive voice and text...
TOKYO-KDDI and J-Phone continue to expand their subscriber bases of next-generation services.KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, announced that the number of subscribers for the carrier's third-generation (3G) services based on cdma2000 1x technology exceeded 3 million. KDDI is targeting to get 7...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-PTS, the Swedish telecom regulatory authority, has hinted it is prepared to organize a roundtable discussion with third-generation (3G) license holders that feel they are unable to meet agreed network rollout deadlines. The issue of sticking to deadlines has consistently topped the agenda...
LONDON-Attempting to continue its acquisition path, Vodafone Group plc announced an agreement to acquire British Telecommunications plc's and SBC Communications Inc.'s stakes in French company Cegetel for about $6.2 billion in cash.Cegetel owns 80 percent of French mobile operator SFR. The buy would give...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see the cell-phone operator offer a laptop, GPRS PCMCIA card and subscriber identity module (SIM) as a pre-configured bundled solution to...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Data optimization company Bytemobile scored another major customer win with its new deal with Orange UK, which will use the company's Macara optimization service node platform to enhance its GPRS services."At Orange, we are seeking the best performance and services for our...
PARIS-Vodafone Spain and Nortel Networks presented details of the rollout program for Vodafone's UMTS network in Spain. A Vodafone executive said network coverage has been deployed in 23 cities and 98 municipalities during the first half of this year.The companies said they have met...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Vodafone Omnitel have jointly completed what they describe as the world's first voice-over-Internet Protocol call using Nokia's mobile switching center server and media gateway."IT is a key element in the new core-network architecture that flexibly combines GSM and WCDMA networks-a...
OSLO, Norway-Europolitan Vodafone filed a formal request with PTS, the Swedish national telecom regulator, asking for an extra two years to meet its third-generation (3G) license conditions.The application coincided with a press conference where PTS turned down Orange's appeal to have its license deadline...
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United States-The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Vodafone Group publicly traded securities, charging Vodafone and certain of...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-The law firm of Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates L.L.P. filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Vodafone Group plc publicly traded securities charging Vodafone and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to break the stranglehold of the likes of Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson, Vodafone is preparing to launch a huge marketing campaign that will prominently feature handsets labelled with the company's brand name, and not those of handset manufacturers.The...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia said Vodafone Ireland has selected it as the sole supplier for its W-CDMA network. Nokia said deliveries will begin in October.The value of the agreement was not disclosed.
DUBLIN, Ireland-Mobile games aggregator nGame has been acquired by its U.S. partner Mforma. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company will become part of what its new owners claim will be the largest wireless content distributor in EuropeThe move coincides with a new report identifying mobile gaming...
TOKYO-The Japanese government on 18 September granted J-Phone, a Vodafone company in Japan, a license for third-generation (3G) commercial service. Based on the governmental approval, J-Phone will launch its nationwide 3G services on 29 December.NTT DoCoMo, the largest operator in Japan, launched 3G service...
