Turkey says no process started for privatisation of Turk Telecom
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Turkey’s privatisation body said that it has not started the process of selling a second tranche of state-owned shares in Turk Telekom. Turkey’s Privatisation Administration was reportedly planning to sell a 15 percent stake in Turk Telecom, which is also active in the internet service provider and mobile sectors, by the first quarter of [...]
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MegaFon likely to buy 5% shares in VimpelCom (Russia)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MegaFon, largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, is reportedly eyeing at the possibility of buying up to 5% of shares in rival cellco Vimpelcom on the stock market. According to the sources, the proposal was on the agenda of MegaFon’s board meeting on 1 July but no decision was made.
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Melita Mobile introduces cheapest mobile roaming rates in Malta
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:For the first time ever in Malta, Melita Mobile is introducing the cheapest mobile rates for roaming in EU countries after the Company decided to go one step further than mandatory EU regulations by setting its new roaming tariffs a year ahead of EU requirements and ahead of other local mobile operators.
Melita Mobile announced a [...]
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SFR reports strong 2Q subscriber growth (France)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:SFR (incl neuf Cegetel) Chief Executive Frank Esser, has reportedly said that the French group had a ‘strong’ second quarter in terms of subscriber additions for fixed and mobile services, and is ahead of its target for sales of the iPhone 3G. The CEO, further said, ‘We had a good momentum, a very strong second [...]
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Digicel launches new Caribbean plan for subscribers (British Virgin Islands)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Digicel BVI has announced Bigger, Better Savings for its subscribers which will allow for more FREE talk on its network. The subscribers signing up for the new caibbean plan will get all local Digicel to Digicel calls totally FREE, effective as of midnight tonight. The Caribbean Plan was introduced June 18th and is available to [...]
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NSN scales down WiMAX investment (All About Mobile Phone)
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) - currently planning a US0 million acquisition of rival Nortel’s CDMA and LTE access mobile assets - has become the latest major network infrastructure vendor to scale down its focus on WiMAX technology, according to Unstrung
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WiMax: Growth Back On Track (Product Reviews Net)
Since the recent economic meltdown growth of WiMAX deployment has really slowed, however experts are said to think that by the end of the year WiMax should take of again. WiMax is said to be growing mostly in developing nations such as Africa, the Middle East, India, Europe and Asia, and following the recent 16% drop [...]
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Vistream selects ZTE for network upgradation (Germany)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Vistream, the German MVNO has selected the mobile equipment vendor ZTE for the upgradation of its GSM and UMTS network so that it can further resell its services.
Vistream which is known as an MVNO enabler, purchases in voice and data wholesale from network partner E-Plus but offers white label MVNO services using its own infrastructure.
ZTE [...]
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Iran pulls back third mobile licence from Zain
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Iran has taken away the third mobile licence from the Kuwaiti mobile operator Zain and now plans to hold fresh tender for it.
According to local media report Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Soleimani said that Zain had not “fulfilled its obligations.”
Zain was awarded the licence in May after it was stripped by Iran from Etisalat for almost [...]
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LG aims #2 position by 2012, intends to make stronger moves in luxury mobile market
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:LG which is seeing a upward movement in its growth process and has reached the #3 position as a mobile handset manufacturer across the globe.
LG, according to President, Mobile Business, Ahn Seung-kwon, plans to become #2 cellphone maker in the world by 2012. Which means that it plans to overtake Samsung in the next 3 [...]
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TracFone launches $45 unlimited offer (USA)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:TracFone Wireless, the America Movil’s MVNO has introduced a new prepaid unlimited offering at per month that includes unlimited text messaging and 30 MB of data. The service is operational on Verizon’s network and available at participating Wal-Mart stores. The new offering looks like another major action in the battle for limitless wireless service.
The [...]
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Vodafone offers more talk time with knockout plans
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Vodafone Malta is offering larger bundles of minutes to its existing and new customers on the Knock Out plans.
Customers on the Lightweight Plan will get 200 minutes instead of the current 120 minutes. Middleweight Plan customers will get 400 minutes instead of the current 240 minutes and the Heavyweight plan customers will get 800 minutes [...]
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O2 UK wins exclusive rights for Palm Pre
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:The highly anticipated Palm Pre will be launched in UK next week, and will be sold exclusively by O2. O2 has managed to grab the exclusive rights for the handset for several other markets.
According to a media report, O2 fought for the GSM Pre with Orange, and eventually won as it promised Palm a higher [...]
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Red Mobile relaunches mobile services, aims 1Mn subscribers by 2009-end (Philippines)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Red Mobile, the prepaid mobile operator, has relaunched its service across the nation to the 40 million 2G handset users and aims to expand its subscriber base to 1 million by 2009-end.
“Out of 55 million mobile phone users, only 15% to 20% are with 3G handsets. So, by making it available on the 2G network, [...]
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HTC Hero receives FCC’s approval, will soon be seen in North American market
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:The newly launched HTC Hero seems to be coming to the North American markets, as it receives FCC’s approval. The handset is most likely to launch in USA and Canada. The handset receives approval with 850/1900 MHz 3G bands, which AT&T operates on.
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India to reach 500Mn telecom subscribers by 2010 - Economic Survey
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to the Indian Government, at the pace with which the Indian telecoms market is growing, the target of 500 million fixed and mobile phone connections by 2010 seems to be taking shape.
India’s Economic Survey for the year 2008-09, released ahead of the budget, unveiled strong growth in the telecom sector with the country [...]
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EU drops plans to levy new mobile phone taxes
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The European Commission has dropped its plans to levy new taxes on the mobile handsets, as the member nations voted against the proposal.
It was December’08, that EU Commission proposed the introduction of new taxes that will increase the price of navigation-enabled phones with 3.7%, and the price of mobile TV-enabled phones with 14%.
“We need [...]
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Sprint swaggers, promises to be first to release 3G Femtocell in US (Engadget)
While AT&T’s still claiming MicroCell will be out before the year’s up, Sprint ’s bringing out the big words by boasting to Unstrung it’ll be beating everyone to the market with its 3G femtocell solution. Company VP of device and technology development Mathew Oommen is pretty light on some of the finer details — like actual release date, hardware supplier, pricing scheme, and pretty much every…
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UPDATE 1-INTERVIEW-KDDI eyes WiMax investment as growth stalls (Reuters UK)
* KDDI president says may invest more in new WiMax venture
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Comcast’s WiMax Bundle Puts Pressure on AT&T and Verizon (MobileTechNews)
Strategy Analytics views Comcast’s recently announced “High-Speed 2go” service offering 4G mobile broadband and home Internet for a month as highly competitive as neither AT&T nor Verizon offer anything comparable.
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Report: WiMAX can Help Education (Wimax News )
According to a research report by Companies and Markets, titled WiMAX–The Educational Broadband Services Solution, WiMAX is destined to be the most effective wireless broadband technology for educational services enabling school districts to keep their 2.5 GHz licenses. The Obama administration will spend billions of dollars installing or upgrading existing wireless broadband services for public…
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Nokia Siemens will Pull Away from WiMAX (Wimax News )
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) plans to shift its focus from WiMAX services as it makes changes to its mobile development strategy with the planned 0 million acquisition of Nortel Networks Ltd. Instead, NSN has chosen to place Nortel’s CDMA and LTE access wireless assets at the forefront of its broadband initiative. According to Unstrung’s interview with Marc Rouanne, Head of Radio Access at…
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Wi-tribe launches wireless broadband service in Pakistan (RoboXpress)
Wi-tribe, a wireless internet provider backed by Qatar’s Qtel Group, has launched a wireless broadband service in Pakistan. The deployment, which uses WiMAX technology from Motorola, covers major cities of Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, and Rawalpindi. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, chairman of Qtel Group, said the launch, which is Wi-tribe’s biggest project to date, [...]
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WiMax Ready To Surge Again (Information Week)
Growth of the wide-area technology slowed in the economic meltdown, but analysts predict the deployment of WiMax equipment will take off again by year end.
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Sprint plans 3G femtocell before AT&T (Electronista)
Sprint this week staked its ground and claimed it would be the first US carrier to have a 3G femtocell. The company was already the first American firm to have any kind of femtocell in the Samsung Airave but now says to Unstrung that it should beat …
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Sprint gets ready to rock out with its 3G femtocell out (The Boy Genius Report)
Following AT&T’s recent and repeated claim that it is on schedule with a 3G femtocell solution to be released before the year is out, Sprint’s VP of device and technology development Mathew Oommen has officially thrown down the gauntlet: Just like Sprint was the first with 2G, we’ll definitely be the first in the 3G space [...]
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DoCoMo to launch mobile remittance service (Japan)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NTT DOCOMO, announced a new service that will enable an individual subscriber to use their DOCOMO mobile phone to easily and quickly remit money to another DOCOMO user, beginning on July 21.
Customers of DOCOMO's i-mode(TM) mobile Internet service on the FOMA(TM) 3G network will be able to remit up to 20,000 yen (about 208 [...]
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LG GT500 to launch exclusively on T-Mobile UK network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The LG GT500 is set to launch exclusively on T-Mobile UK network. The phone will be available for just £25 a month on a range of tariffs and should make this workhorse of a phone a highly desirable Pay Monthly option.
The LG GT500 is a HSDPA phone that comes with a host of top-spec [...]
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Gibtelecom’s roaming tariff cheaper than new EU roaming rates
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Gibraltar’s leading telecommunications provider Gibtelecom announced today that its current EU mobile roaming rates are lower than the new reduced Eurotariffs set by the European Commission with effect from 1 July 2009.
The European Commission has capped the price for making or receiving phone calls whilst travelling within the European Union on 1 July 2009. [...]
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Econet starts network deployment worth $200Mn (Zimbabwe)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has reportedly started employing mobile network equipment worth USD200 million through contracts with Ericsson of Sweden and China’s ZTE. The installation of base station and core network equipment is scheduled to be in July and December, with expansion and upgrades in northern parts of the country being carried out by Ericsson [...]
