Archive for March, 2009
Will Skype on iPhone undermine the need for femtocells?
Femtocell News writes…
Skype launched an iPhone application today which lets you make
and receive Skype calls over WiFi (but not cellular). We have often
compared femtocells with UMA, which can also be used to send
cellular mobile phone calls over WiFi. Both femtocells and UMA must be
provided and managed by your mobile phone network…
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Gartner Report : India to Have 6.9 Million WiMAX Users by 2011 (Wimax News )
Femtocell News writes…
According to the predictions made by Gartner, a leading market research company, India will have 6.9 Million mobile and fixed WiMAX subscribers by the end of 2011, significantly higher from 35,200 in 2007. As mobile frequencies will not be available in the short term, Gartner does not expect mobile WiMAX rollouts to be available at larger scales before 2009, at the earliest. Therefore, most WiMAX…
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Sprint’s WiMax Plan for 2010 : Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington (Wimax News )
Femtocell News writes…
Sprint outlined its plan for WiMax services and equipment on Wednesday. Not surprisingly, Sprint’s plans to sell WiMax service lines up identically with Clearwire’s WiMax deployment schedule. ” Sprint continues to lead the wireless industry by harnessing the power of WiMax [...] The availability of Sprint 4G in more places this year and our aggressive expansion of Sprint 4G service demonstrates…
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Wimax coming in Rural Areas (Going Wimax)
Femtocell News writes…
Cutting-edge. Fast-paced. High-tech. No, these phrases are not describing a major metropolis. They are the terms that will be associated with the spacious grass fields and dusty dirt roads of rural America –with the help of WiMAX technology, that is. Recent developments in the WiMAX field have shown a great move toward the small towns and [...]
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Interview with Market Expert David Klein about Wimax (Going Wimax)
Femtocell News writes…
David Klein is the Executive Vice President of CENTRIS, a Los Angeles-based market research firm specializing in household use of voice, video, data, and electronic products and services. Mr. Klein has over twenty years of experience in research and planning, with a particular emphasis on media, the Internet and technology, and television and film. He [...]
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Research and Markets: Mobile Broadband Computing Services – Complement or Substitute for Fixed Broadband? (Business Wire)
Femtocell News writes…
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Clear Spot Portable WiMax Hotspot Makes You a Broadband God [Review] (Gizmodo)
Femtocell News writes…
Today Clearwire yanked the cloth off of its rumored Clear Spot portable WiMax-to-Wi-Fi hotspot, a shiny little battery-powered device that lets you bestow real 4G bandwidth upon anyone in Wi-Fi range. The $140 thing fits in your pocket, runs for four hours on a lithium-ion battery, connects up to 8 laptops via Wi-Fi, and works like a charm when you’re in a decent WiMax coverage area. (You still…
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O2 UK axes 160 jobs
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: O2 UK has planned 160 job cuts as part of a restructuring of its customer care operations. The company said it would re-skill employees for redeployment to other roles within the company where possible. A Spokesman reportedly said that the restructuring comes as the company’s core market has matured and the operator faces increased [...]
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Samsung Officially Debuts Mondi MID with Clear WiMAX, Destined to be Possibly Relevant (The Pulse of Mobile Tech)
Femtocell News writes…
Samsung has filled the void. Back in January Nokia pulled the plug on its N810 Internet Tablet, leaving Clearwire without a proper mobile Interent device for its fledgling Clear Mobile WiMAX network. Now Samsung has stepped up to the plate with the Mondi, a 4.3-inch touchscreen gadget that has a striking resemblance to Nokia’s ill-fated [...]
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Rohde & Schwarz and mimoOn to demonstrate 3GPP LTE femtocell testing capability at CTIA (Business Wire)
Femtocell News writes…
Duisburg, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At the upcoming CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas, Rohde & Schwarz will demonstrate LTE frequency division duplexing (FDD) testing capabilities based on the newest femtocell
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COAI asks TRAI to recalculate MTC (India)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: COAI, GSM operators’ association has asked TRAI to rework the mobile termination charges (MTC) as the regulator has not yet deemed key cost components like capex of operators while slashing the charges to 20 paise. Earlier, COAI had said as per the calculations based on international best practices, the three-year forward looking MTC was [...]
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Lebanon reframes distribution policy and prices for prepaid cellular cards to combat black market sales
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: As the April approaches, the distribution of prepaid cellular cards in Lebanon will be rearranged and new prices will be launched in order to restrain from the black market sales. Minister Jibran Bassil has announced the new distribution policy of prepaid cellular cards at a press conference.
Bassil said that the step taken will bring [...]
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Colombia m-banking subscriber base crosses the mark of 9Mn
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Since the launch of mobile banking system in Colombia, the m-banking subscribers have crossed the mark of 9 million. Colombia has made an addition of 11,000 new m-banking customers per month, a report reveals. This service enables subscribers to use their mobile phones to consult their bank account balance, make money transfers and bill [...]
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ViVo introduces ‘Treo Pro’ for its subscribers (Brazil)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: ViVo, mobile operator based in Brazil, is offering the Treo Pro smartphone by Palm to its subscribers. Treo Pro runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and includes e-mail, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities. Treo Pro features a high-resolution colour touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard with a removable battery that packs up to five [...]
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HTC Magic on Vodafone’s network from May 1 (UK)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: HTC Magic will be available on Vodafone network from May 1. The phone, which Vodafone will market as the HTC Magic Pioneer, will reportedly be the second Android-based phone to be released. The smartphone will be offered to its users with a $35 a month service plan.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given green [...]
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Tigo subscribers can now Google search via SMS (Ghana)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: Tigo, the Ghanian mobile operator, has introduced Google SMS Search, a service which allows mobile subscribers to search web by SMS. The mobile Subscribers will have to SMS their query to short code 46664 which represents GOOG on a phone keypad to search for news, sports, general information, word definitions, language translation and weather, [...]
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Econet Wireless launches mobile operations in Burundi
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: Econet Wireless has commenced its mobile operations in Burundi, as it connects its subscribers for a one-month network testing, which will take place in 16 provinces. According to Econet Burundi MD Darlington Mandivenga, during the first one month of testing, the subscribers will be connected to test the voice quality and network coverage. He [...]
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Hits Telecom ends 2008 with total assets of KWD145.6Mn (Kuwait)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Hits Telecom, a mobile operator based in Kuwait, has reported a KWD 1.7 million profit for its fiscal year 2008 on revenues of KWD 96.1 million. Chairman Sultan Bahbri, reportedly said, the company managed to perform well in its first year of operation, from September 2007 to 31 December 2008. The company ended 2008 [...]
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Etisalat launches iPhone 3G for Wasel prepaid subscribers (UAE)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: Reiterating its commitment to provide convenience, coverage and value to its customers, Etisalat announced the launch of iPhone 3G, 8MB and 16 MB devices for its Wasel customers in the UAE.
Starting Wednesday, 1st April, iPhone 3G device will be available for all Wasel customers, who will be able to buy the device off-the-shelf, and [...]
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TRC launches 3G licence tender (Jordan)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: Jordan’s telecoms regulator TRC has rescheduled the date to award the 3G licences. With the awarding of licence, TRC expects to bring 3G services to the nation before 2009-end. The regulator has set JOD 25 million as the minimum bid for a paired block. The last date for putting the bids is set as [...]
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Bintel deploys Redknee’s converged billing and mobile money solutions (Bahrain)
Femtocell News writes…
Redknee Solutions has announced that Bintel, a telecommunications service provider based in Bahrain and rolling out services in Africa, will deploy the company’s turnkey converged billing and mobile money solutions.
According to Redknee, its turnkey converged billing solution for prepaid and postpaid voice, data and messaging delivers a platform that extends beyond basic rating, charging and [...]
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Cox picks Huawei for CDMA Technology (USA)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: US cable provider Cox Communications has selected Huawei Technologies to provide its end to end CDMA technology and services. Cox will launch its 3G network utilising Huawei’s LTE-ready SingleRAN and 3900 Series base stations.
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LTA concludes licensing agreement with LoneStar (Liberia)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation,com/news: The re-licensing process of LoneStar Cell has been completed by the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA). This completion was a result of long-running and sometimes hostile discussion between the LTA and the country’s GSM operators over licensing standardisation in the country.
LTA has reportedly issued LoneStar with separate licences for GSM and Wimax. As per the [...]
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Zain Kenya issues 141 pink slips
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Zain Kenya has axed 141 employees as the firm realigns its business model across all operations in Africa with a view to improving its delivery of services to its customers.
Zain Africa CEO Chris Gabriel reportedly said that the affected employees are from sales, finance, technical, IT and customer service departments. The incumbent will implement [...]
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MTS Uzbekistan selects Polystar to supply Interconnect and Service Management Solution
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Polystar OSIX, a leading supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, today announced that MTS Uzbekistan, a daughter company of Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and the largest mobile operator in Uzbekistan and Central Asia, has selected Polystar for Interconnect, Network and Service Performance Management.
Under the terms of the agreement, MTS Uzbekistan will deploy Polystar Interconnect Peering Assurance, Network [...]
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Truphone launches ‘TruUnlimited’ tariff (UK)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Truphone has introduced TruUnlimited, a flat-rate calling plan. The calling plan offers unlimited calls to landlines in 38 countries for GBP 10 per month. Also, this enables subscribers to make calls to mobile phones in some destinations such as the USA, Canada, China and Hong Kong at no extra charge. Mobile subscribers can enjoy [...]
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MTN eyes 70% stake in Econet Wireless (South Africa, Kenya)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MTN, South Africa’s largest mobile operator, is eyeing the stake Kenyan incumbent Econet Wireless priced at $450 million. According to the sources, MTN wants Econet Wireless International’s (EWI) 70% stake in the Kenyan company, along with already laid out infrastructure and further rollout services.
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Hungary near 527,000 mobile internet subscribers in February
Femtocell News writes…
The three Hungarian mobile operators Pannon, T-Mobile and Vodafone had 526,775 mobile internet subscribers at the end of February, up from 508,000 in January, according to market regulator NHH. Mobile users sent some 769,427 GB of data in February, up from 761,000 GB in January, while average traffic per subscriber also increased to 1.77 GB. [...]
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ETC trials SMS notification for bill payment (Ethiopia)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:The Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC) is piloting the notification for postpaid subscribers about their phone bills via SMS.
ETC has allocated different time stamps for postpaid subscribers to pay their bills, as the seven days of grace period is given to make the payment or else the phone line is disconnected.
After the disconnection the phone can [...]
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Congstar introduces flat-rate tariff plans (Germany)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Congstar, the Deutsche Telekom’s discount brand, has introduced new tariff plans for its subscribers. Congstar’s 9 cents plan offers calls and SMS to fixed-line and mobile networks charged at EUR 0.09/minute, along with invoice billing.
The Congstar Kombi Flat tariff is priced at EUR 9.90/month for calls to German fixed lines and other Congstar subscribers whereas [...]
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