Sprint, Clearwire Sued Over WiMax Patents (Information Week)
A wireless software and service provider claims the companies are infringing on six patents, and a lawsuit could eventually halt the nationwide WiMax network rollout.
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Airspan Announces 700 MHz WiMAX Product Suite (cellular-news)
Airspan Networks has announced the release of a new 700 MHz WiMAX product suite targeted at rural markets in areas of the United States and around the world.
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Alvarion Awarded WiMAX Contract by Costa Rica (Top 10 Costa Rica)
Alvarion, the world’s leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it was awarded a $6 million contract by ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad), Costa Rica’s leading incumbent operator for telecommunications and electricity. Under the terms of the agreement Alvarion will implement a turnkey project to provide advanced broadband services, deploying…
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Motorola Envisions Video Driving LTE, WiMAX and Fiber-to-the-Home Growth in 2009 (Red Orbit )
Closes 2008 with significant advances in wired and wireless broadband demonstrations, deployments and devices SCHAUMBURG., Ill., Dec.
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MTN is African Mobile Operator of the Year (All Africa)
MTN Group has won the African Mobile Operator of the Year Award.
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VIVA aspires to control 10% of the Kuwaiti mobile market, offers new packages (Kuwait)
VIVA, a recently launched mobile operator in Kuwait, has set its aim to controling 10% of the Kuwaiti mobile market within one year of its launch. Najib Al-Awadhi, Chief Executive, VIVA, has reportedly said that the telco will continue to offer distinguished services such as contacts worth five dinars for the clients who have the [...]
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Orange launches iPhone in Jordan minus Arabic support
iPhone grows its area of existence to Jordan, where it launches exclusively with Orange Jordan. The iPhone will be available in three plans on a one-year contract basis, ranging from 30JD to 80JD per month (between $43 and $115), with the higher plans lowering the cost of the handset.
Jordan though being a predominant Arabic-speaking country, [...]
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Indian goverment plans to cut off 25Mn mobile phone lines (India)
The Indian government plans to cut off 25 million mobile phone in the country which according to the telecoms ministry are having fake IMEI numbers or none at all. The move is seen as a part of security purpose, especially after the Mumbai terror attack.
An official letter to phone providers said: “In the interest of [...]
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CRC to adopt lowered fees schedule by July’10 (Bulgaria)
The Bulgarian Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), takes up a new schedule to lower the fees levied by the mobile operators by 45% by July’10. Bulgarian mobile phone users pay an average of 0.19-0.25 leva a minute when calling from mobile to mobile and 0.29-0.32 leva a minute when calling from landlines to mobile, the highest [...]
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China Mobile ends November with a subscriber base of 450.18 mln (China)
China Mobile, world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, has reached a new heights in terms of subscribers. China Mobile has totalled its subscriber base to 450.18 mln at the end of November, adding 6.87 mln new subscribers.
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Vodafone Netherlands Implements KXEN Next Generation
Customer churn remains one of the biggest challenges for most mobile network operators, but with the help of KXEN next generation data mining technology, Vodafone Netherlands has managed to decrease its churn rate.
“KXEN has helped us decrease churn by as much as 12% annually in some customer segments. This is a huge impact and you [...]
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Mobile banking services to launch in May’09, MMA (Maldives)
Maldives Monetary Authority, MMA, has reportedly unvieled the plans to launch the mobile banking services in the country in May 2009. According to the MMA Deputy Governor Aishath Zahira, Work Bank has granted the required funding for the banking services. She said with the introduction of the services, the financial sector will experience favorable changes.
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China Unicom totals its subscriber base to 132.94Mn at November end (China)
China Unicom, the Chinese incumbent, has reportedly added 996,000 new subscribers in the month of November taking its subscriber base to a total of 132.94 mln at November end.
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DiGi plans to spend $86.51 million on 3G in 2009 (Malaysia)
DiGi, the Malaysian mobile service provider has revealed its plans to spend nearly $86.51 million on 3G services in 2009. “Our guidance for 2009’s capital expenditure is 1.1 billion ringgit to 1.3 billion ringgit, of which 30% will go to 3G networks,” DiGi chief executive Johan Dennelind reportedly said to the local media.
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Six interested in Romania WiMAX licences, leaders missing (Telecom News / Telekom Haberleri)
Six interested in Romania WiMAX licences, leaders missing Romania’s telecoms regulator the ANC says six firms have shown an interest in acquiring the two available 3.5GHz WiMAX wireless broadband licences. Asesoft International, Comcore Management, Cosmote Romania, Media Sat, RCS&RDS and Vodafone Romania are all in the running for the concessions, with final bids to be submitted by 5 February…
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Sprint, Clearwire Sued Over WiMAX Patent Claims (cellular-news)
Adaptix, a Texan WiMAX base station and mobile terminal vendor has launched legal action against Sprint Nextel and Clearwire for allegedly infringing six of its patents.
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Polish regulator grant E-GSM licence to P4 & Aero 2 (Poland)
Polish operators, P4 & Aero 2 have won licence to operate on the E-GSM frequency bands of 880.1 – 890.1 and 925.1 – 935.1 MHz, reports regulator. The licence is valid until 31 December 2023 and covers entire country. As per the terms of the licence, the operators will have to launch services within 24 [...]
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ZTE wins Smart PCS contract for CDMA equipment (China, USA)
Smart PCS has awarded contract to China’s ZTE Corporation for CDMA equipment. As per the contract, ZTE is to provide Smart PCS with all-IP CDMA 2000 EV-DO switching equipment, base stations, CDMA mobile handsets and data cards.
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Vodacom extends 3G HSDPA coverage beyond metros (South Africa)
Vodacom has expanded its 3G HSDPA coverage beyond the major metropolitan centres. Jongensfontein, Franskraalstrand, Citrusdal and Saronsberg were added to its network in December. Lamberts Bay and Veldrif will receive coverage in January.
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KTF to commence mobile banking service with 16 banks (South Korea)
KTF, Mobile carrier, said that it will launch a service that enables its subscribers to do the majority of their banking by cell phone. The service is named as “Ubi Touch,” facilitates subscribers to use their cell phones like debit cards at automated teller machines nationwide run by the 16 banks that have joined the [...]
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Mobile phone subscriber totals to 65.7Mn, four times more than fixed-line (Turkey)
The number of mobile phone subscribers were almost four-folds more than the main line subscribers in Turkey, the Information Technologies & Communication Agency, said. According to the statistics, landline subscribers totals to 17.6 million in Turkey in October 2008, wherein mobile phone users have reached the mark of 65.7 million in October. However, in 2007 [...]
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Global economic recession to crunch mobile phone market in 2009
The economic recession in the global market as a whole has affected people on a macro level as companies are cutting down on costs which have in turn led to job cuts or salary and pension cut. This credit crunch has affected the lives of people on a micro level also, as they are cutting [...]
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Alvarion to Create WiMax Zone RDKs for Emerging Markets – TMCnet (China 3G Telecom Market Report)
Alvarion to Create WiMax Zone RDKs for Emerging MarketsTMCnet – 8 minutes agoThough WiMax is a market leader in many emerging markets, during recession Alvarion will concentrate on maintaining maximum flexibility and prepare to take …
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UK Airline Tests SMS Service on London-Moscow Flights (cellular-news)
UK based airline, BMI has announced that it is to start trials of in-flight text messaging from mobile phones on flights between London and Moscow.
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Chinese telcos to spend $41 billion on 3G in next two years (China)
Chinese telcos will be spending about $41 billion in 3G technology in the coming next two years. According to the minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong, China will support the development of core microchips, terminals and testing equipment as it expands network coverage. 3G spending in 2009 is projected at $29.2 billion, with [...]
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Verizon Wireless prepaid plans bring a bunch of affordable choices this Christmas (USA)
Giving the gift of a prepaid wireless plan is a sized-just-right option for holiday shoppers. Verizon Wireless prepaid service offers customers a host of options including an extensive lineup of wireless phones that start at $39.99 and a range of plans that fit any budget and lifestyle.
All Verizon Wireless prepaid plans, Core, Plus and Power, [...]
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Hong Kong’s regulator recieves five bids for 4G licence
Hong Kong’ telcoms regulator has reportedly recieved five bids for the 4G licence in the country. Hutchison and PCCW have submitted a joint bid, says The Office of the Telecommunications Authority. Meanwhile the other four bidders were China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., CSL New World Mobility Ltd., City Telecom Ltd. and SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd.
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BlackBerry Curve 8900 on O2 UK
The Curve range of Blackberry smartphones has now expanded to include a new model which offers an even better screen resolution than the recently released Blackberry Storm, originally known as the Blackberry Javelin this new handset is the most sophisticated Blackberry Curve edition mobile phone to date.
Following on from the other 8-Series Blackberry phones such [...]
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MTS projects revenue between $1.90Bn to $1.98Bn for 2009 (Russia)
MTS, Russia’s largest mobile operator, expects a growth of 2% in the overall revenues, earning per share and cash flow in 2009. The Winnipeg-based telecom company further said that it looks forward for credit expansion and cost cutting somewhere between $35 million and $45 million “by optimizing certain key internal business processes and refocusing the [...]
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Telefonica looses 26,357 subscribers driven by NP (Mexico)
With the launch of number portability (NP) in Mexico, Telcel has reportedly won around 30,742 ported subscribers. Iusacell lost 27 ported clients. According to the statistics, Telefonica Mexico lost nearly 26,357 ported users in the same period, while Unefon lost some 4,442 ported users.
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