Posts Tagged ‘Telefonica’
Telefonica unveils LTE partners shortlist (Telecompaper)
(Telecompaper) Telefonica has selected six network equipment vendors for its LTE (4G) trial project across six countries in Europe and Latin America, namely ZTE, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks and NEC. The six-month trials will take place in Spain, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Argentina and marks the start of Telefonica’s LTE vendor selection process.
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Telefonica introduces ‘Personaliza’ mobile phone customisation service
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has introduced a new mobile phone customisation service dubbed as ‘Personaliza’ (’Personalize’). The service aims at ported or new subscribers and will be available from 13 July at a price of EUR 23 per design and terminal. The youth-targeted service will initially carry 25 customization designs for the Nokia 5310 Xpress Music and [...]
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Telefonica inks exclusive Palm Pre deal in Europe
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Telefonica, the Spanish telecom firm, has inked an exclusive agreement to sell Palm Pre, first in Spain, then in the U.K., Ireland and Germany when the device is launched in Europe in time for the winter holidays. “Europe continues to be an important region for Palm, and we’re proud to work with O2 and Movistar [...]
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Telefonica to sell Meditel stake, says Alierta (Spain, Morocco)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica will sell 32.18% stake in Moroccan GSM operator Medi Telecom (Meditel), the Chairman of the Spanish telecoms giant, Cesar Alierta, said. Alierta did not confirm whether a potential buyer had been found yet, but indicated that Telefonica was looking to take advantage of any potential opportunity for a sale, ‘in partnership’ with PT. [...]
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Telefonica Lat Am selects SpinVox to offer speech platform
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Telefonica Spain to launch iPhone 3G S on 19 June
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Weekly WiMax News Report #3 (Going Wimax)
Alvarion wins WiMax deal in Catalonia, Spain (Wimax News). Alvarion announced today it was selected by Iberbanda, Spain’s leading WiMAX carrier partially owned by Telefonica, to expand the current WiMAX network at 3.5GHz in Catalonia. The expansion results from a tender won by Iberbanda to supply WiMAX services to the Government of Catalonia. Juniper Research : [...]
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Alvarion wins WiMax deal in Catalonia, Spain (Wimax News )
Alvarion announced today it was selected by Iberbanda, Spain’s leading WiMAX carrier partially owned by Telefonica, to expand the current WiMAX network at 3.5GHz in Catalonia. The expansion results from a tender won by Iberbanda to supply WiMAX services to the Government of Catalonia. Catalonia is divided into four provinces : Barcelona, Tarragona, Lleida and Girona. As a result of this…
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Yes Telecom to enter German mobile market (Netherlands)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Dutch MVNO Yes Telecom has reportedly announced that it is planning to enter the German Mobile Market in summers of 2009. The mobile market of Germany is quite competitive with biggies like Vodafone and Telefonica. MVNO has to work extra hard to differentiate itself with more innovative offers.
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DoCoMo & Telefonica to introduce Windows Mobile handset by Toshiba (Japan)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Telefonica announced today that a Windows Mobile(R) handset model made by Toshiba Corporation will be introduced by both companies in their respective Japanese and Spanish markets in June to July as part of a plan for various joint undertakings by the two mobile operators.
The companies selected the full touch-panel model [...]
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Telefonica plans investment of EUR 800Mn in China Unicom
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica, the Spanish mobile operator, intends to make investment of additional EUR 800 million in China Unicom (Hong Kong), taking its total shareholding to 5.5% up from 4.21%.
Under the terms of the transaction, Telefonica will raise its stake in China Netcom Group Corp, which was merged into China Unicom last year, to 9.91% for [...]
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Mexico ends March with 79.4Mn subscribers, Telecel leads with 72.5% market share
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mexico ended March with a mobile subscriber base of 79.4 million, up 11.8% year on year. Telcel lead the market with a subscriber base of 57.53 million, a rise of 11.6%, whereas its market share stood stagnant at 72.5%.
Spain Telefonica’s Movistar brand posted a subscriber base of 15.52Mn, up by 17% taking its market [...]
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Telecom Italia says no “merger project” with Telefonica
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telecom Italia, the Italian mobile operator has said in a statement that there is no “merger project” between the operator and Telefonica Spain, denying the speculation made by a news report which said that two are planning a possible merger.
The paper said that Telecom Italia’s management is in talks with its two controlling stake [...]
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O2 & T-Mobile CR ink agreement to settle dispute over interconnection fees
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica O2 Czech republic has inked an agreement with T-Mobile Czech Republic to sort out their disputes over prices for mutual interconnection of telecommunication networks in 2001. As per the terms of agreement, Telefonica O2 will get nearly CZK 900 million (USD 45 million) from rival operator T-Mobile, with all court proceedings terminated. The [...]
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Telefonica bags 3 year voice & data contract from Sabeco (Spain)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has been awarded a three-year contract by Sabeco, retail group of Spain, an Auchan subsidiary to offer data communications and fixed and mobile voice services. Telefonica said it will optimise the communications infrastructure supporting Sabeco’s business applications, including store management, stock control and payment systems. Telefonica will deliver higher bandwidth, including the use [...]
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O2 Slovakia subscriber base totals 365,000 at March-end
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica O2 Slovakia reported that revenues have grown by almost 40% year-on-year in local currency in Q1. With the net addition of 40,000 in Q1′09, the subscriber base totaled to 365,000 at the end of March, up by 27.3% a year ago. This rise is attributed to 58.8 % year-on-year growth in contract subscribers [...]
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Telefonica to introduce Message Talk service
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica is planning to commercially bring its Message Talk service in 2009. This service is offered under the partnership of South Korean mobile operator KT Freetel (KTF) and the GSM Association (GSMA). The service groups text messages by sender as if it were a usual conversation, so the experience for the customer is close [...]
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Movistar Venenzuela offers Nokia 5800 XpressMusic free of charge for Club Movistar subscribers
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Movistar Venezuela has introduced Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset for VEF 2,549 or free of charge for Club Movistar subscribers with 370,000 loyalty points. Telefonica Venezuela Corporate Communications Director Douglas Ochoa stated that Movistar is the first operator to offer the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in Latin America starting with Venezuela.
The phone comes with all the [...]
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Telefonica & O2 to merge business activities (Germany)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica Deutschland and O2 Germany will fuse their business-to-business activities and the operation of their mobile communications and landline infrastructures under the common name of Telefonica O2 Germany.
CEO of Telefonica Deutschland, Johannes Pruchnow has been appointed as the managing director of the new business division. Andrea Folgueiras, CTO at Telefonica O2 Germany, will take [...]
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Telefonica brings Samsung Ultra Touch to Spain
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has brought the Samsung Ultra Touch slider phone to the Spanish Mobile Market. The Samsung Ultra Touch features a 2.8-inch Amoled touchscreen display and an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, as well as support for HSDPA, UMTS and EDGE/GPRS connectivity. The slider phone features a 2.4-inch TFT QVGA screen, and comes [...]
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Argentina rebuffs appeal by Telecom Italia
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The National Commission of Competition Defence (CNDC), the antitrust body of Argentina has rebuffed an appeal filed by Telecom Italia against the regulator’s decision to monitor control of the company, following the entry of Spanish operator Telefonica as a shareholder in the Italian operator.
CNDC reportedly considers that its initial decision “does not cause irreparable [...]
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America Movil & Telefonica to maintain investment plans in Ecuador for 2009
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Regardless of the global economic credit crunch, America Movil and Telefonica plan to maintain their investment plans in Ecuador for 2009. America Movil will make an investment of US$ 120 million throughout this year, via its Ecuadorian subsidiary Porta.
Alfredo Escobar, Porta’s President reportedly said that funds will mainly be used to boost technological innovation, [...]
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Telefonica price tags HTC Dream (Spain)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica will commercially launch the HTC Dream based on the Android operating system in Spain on 20 April. The price tag for the device is between EUR 0 and EUR 179 for ported subscribers and between EUR 0 and EUR 299 for new subscribers or Movistar prepay subscribers who switch to a postpaid plan. [...]
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CMT slashes mobile termination fees to EUR 0.07 (Spain)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: CMT, the Spanish telecoms regulator, has lowered the mobile termination fee to a common price of EUR 0.07 per minute for Telefonica Moviles Spain (Movistar), Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain effective from 16 April. The same price is also applicable to MVNOs using the networks of these operators. CMT’s ruling, for the recent entrant [...]
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Telefonica Spain & Nokia together launch Nokia Messaging
Femtocell News writes…
Nokia Spain and Telefonica Spain have signed an agreement to introduce the Nokia Messaging push email service in Spain. Telefonica Spain will be among the first operators to bring this solution to market, continuing its investment in the development of mobile internet in Spain.
Nokia Messaging simplifies the mobilization of email. This new solution allows the [...]
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Vodafone set to bid for HanseNet (UK, Germany)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone is reportedly set to bid for the German Internet provider, HanseNet. Vodafone will have to compete with Telefonica (TEF.MC), Spain’s largest telecoms operator, which also began due diligence on HanseNet, report further said. Bidders can submit nonbinding offers for HanseNet by 24th April.
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ericom deems mobile sharing deal for Meteor Mobile (Ireland)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: eircom, mobile operator of Ireland is in conversation with its competitors to ink a mobile sharing deal for its wireless arm Meteor Mobile. The announcement comes after a sharing agreement between Vodafone and O2 parent Telefonica which is designed to save the pair significant sums on rollout costs.
According to a report, eircom is looking [...]
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Vodafone & Telefonica in an infrastructure sharing deal (UK, Spain)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Group and Telefonica have inked an infrastructure sharing deal in Spain, the U.K., Germany and Ireland. The companies said the deal is expected to deliver cost savings of “hundreds of millions of pounds” for each of them over the next 10 years.
As per the deal, the firms will share existing network masts in [...]
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Telefonica intends to slash mobile tariffs by 50% for unemployed (Spain)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica, the Spanish mobile operator, is likely to slash mobile and fixed line tariffs by 50% in Spain for the subscribers who lose their jobs, with a monthly limit of Eur20.
“The change in the economic cycle is affecting our customers… and they are asking for (call plans) that allow them to predict what they [...]
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Telefonica Spain and Sermepa trial NFC payments
www.WirelessFederation.com – Telefonica Spain has joined hands with the Spanish R&D provider Sermepa to offer NFC based mobile payment trials in the nation. The users can avail this facility by using the Virtual Mobile Wallet application stored in their SIM cards. The users will then have to select the bank card they want to use [...]
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