Archive for December, 2009
China Mobile Boosts Sales Commissions
TMC Net China Mobile, one of the Big Three integrated telecom operators in the country, is striving to court for users for its 3G high-speed mobile network by popularizing TD-SCDMA mobile phones in cooperation with mobile phone retailers across the country. Topics: CDMA, China Mobile, China Telecom, telecom, Nokia, handset, Ericsson, Beijing, TD-SCDMA, China Telecommunications
China Telecom Consolidating Departments
China Tech News, China Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced that it will merge its family customer department and individual customer department into a new public customer department, and will set up a new customer service department. Topics: China, China Telecom, telecom
New Customized Mobile Phones for Chinese E-commerce
China Tech News, China Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese business-to-business e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it will cooperate with Lenovo, China Telecom, and TCL to launch three types of customized e-commerce mobile phone products, which are expected to be put into the market around the New Year’s Day of 2010. Topics: [...]
LTE Network Being Developed in Taiwan
The China Post Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan’s largest phone operator, and Ericsson AB will cooperate to develop so-called Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, wireless phone technology, the two companies said in an e-mailed statement. Topics: wireless, Hong Kong, Ericsson, telecom, Google, Asia, Chunghwa, Taiwan, China, LTE
Taiwan Government Backs New Android Project
PC World The Taiwanese government on Thursday announced support for a new project based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, one of a number of moves by Taipei this year to support Android. Topics: Chunghwa, Android, Hong Kong, telecommunications, telecom, Google, Taiwan
RIM May Feel The “Android Effect”
ZDNet, Asia Growing number of smartphones using Android operating system, such as Motorola Droid, is expected to impact the BlackBerry maker’s quarterly report. Topics: Motorola, Smartphone, Asia, Android, telecom
New Zealand Telecom’s Financials Available
Scoop NZ – New Zealand Telecom New Zealand Limited today released its first set of audited regulatory financial statements for the financial year ending 30 June 2009. Under the Telecommunications Act Telecom must publish financial and other information about its retail, wholesale … Topics: New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, Telecom New Zealand, telecommunications
2degrees Announces 022 Customer Stats, Ports
National Business Review – New Zealand This morning, a 2degrees press release said it had 42,500 customers who had ported their phone number (that is, brought their Telecom 027 or Vodafone 021 number with them when they joined the new mobile carrier). Topics: 2degrees, carrier, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, Vodafone
Report: O2 Purchases Jajah for $200M
Reuters Israeli start-up Jajah, which allows users to make international phone calls via the Internet, will be sold to Telefonica’s (TEF.MC) mobile phone unit O2 this week, TheMarker financial news website said on Sunday. Topics: Middle East, phone, USA, Middle East News, Jajah, telecom, Israel, telecommunications
Government Broadband Bungling Has Left Lebanon in the Dark Ages
Daily Star – Lebanon The absence of a proper broadband network in Lebanon is affecting the flow of investments to the country according to Lebanese Information Technology (IT) professionals. Topics: telecommunications, Saudi Arabia, government, Middle East News, Middle East, Lebanon, broadband, Egypt, telecom
Outsmart Sold to VocalTec
TMCnet News VocalTec Communications, a global provider of multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Outsmart, a provider of telecommunications convergence solutions. Topics: telecom, voip, United States, VocalTec
AT&T Being Sued for $2 Billion
Am Law Litigation Daily The employment class action firm Sanford Wittels & Heisler won’t be invited to AT&T’s holiday party. Sanford Wittels already has a pending wage and hour case against one of the telecom’s subsidiaries, SNET, in Connecticut federal court. And on Wednesday, it filed two more cases against the company’s subsidiaries Topics: telecommunications, [...]
Lenovo Launches New 3G Ophone In China
China Tech News, China The O1, China’s first 3G Ophone, formally launched by Lenovo in Beijing this week. This mobile phone is a customized product for China Mobile and is currently only available in China Mobile’s business halls and its electronics mart partners. Topics: 3G, Lenovo, China, Ophone, Beijing
Google phone to contract T Mobile USA by Jan next year
Wireless Federation Google will enter into a contract with T Mobile USA to sell one of the versions of its own-branded cell phone, while the other will be unlocked version of the touch screen phone, allowing consumers to pick a carrier of their choice to provide wireless service. Topics: carrier, consumer, T-Mobile, USA, wireless
China Gets Femto Fever
Unstrung Huawei supplies femtocells to China Unicom as other vendors look to China to boost the femto market worldwide Topics: China, China Unicom, wireless
$850 million investment to be made by America Movil in Mexico
Wireless Federation $850 million investment is eyed by Latin America’s biggest mobile operator America Movil SAB in its domestic operations by 2010. Operating in the 18 countries of Americas, the Company had reported 194.3 million wireless subscribers at the end of September. Topics: countries, Latin America, Mexico, wireless
Analyzing the world’s 10 biggest handset makers in Q3
Fierce Wireless News The numbers are in, and it’s time to make sense of the data. ABI’s Michael Morgan checks out the world’s 10 largest branded cell phone makers in the third quarter of 2009, providing sales data as well as insight into their strategy and competitive position in the market. Topics: carrier, consumer, handset, [...]
AT&T supports spirit, not strict rules of net neutrality
Fierce Wireless News AT&T said that while it supports the principle of net neutrality, it does not think that strict, prescriptive new regulations are needed, especially for wireless broadband. Topics: broadband, consumer, FCC, Intel, regulation, regulations, Verizon, wireless
ATN creating new company to run former Alltel properties
Fierce Wireless News Atlantic-Tele Network, which agreed to pay Verizon Wireless $200 million to acquire some of the assets Verizon was required to divest as part of its acquisition of Alltel, has formed a new company to run the properties, and intends to hire more than 200 new workers. Topics: Georgia, Verizon, wireless
FCC digs into broadband controversies
CNET A task force that is shaping a national plan to provide ubiquitous high-speed Internet access tackles the USF, wireless spectrum, and cable set-top boxes. Topics: 3G, broadband, FCC, NextG, USF, wireless
