Wireless News

Indian telecom shares climb on 3G license hopes

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Shares of Indian telecommunication companies extended their rally Friday -- the last day for firms to apply to join a crucial government auction for spectrum to carry high-speed third-generation mobile services. But while...

LTE May Heat up Mobile Net Neutrality Debate

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:44:00 GMT

Fine-grained network controls that are coming with next-generation mobile technology could make some demanding mobile applications such as video perform better but may also raise net neutrality concerns. LTE ..

China Mobile Wants IPad, and Chinese 3G for Apple's IPhone

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:43:00 GMT

China Mobile hopes to offer both Apple's iPad and a version of the iPhone that supports China's homegrown 3G mobile standard, comments by China Mobile's top executive showed on Thursday.China Mobile is "interested...

Pricey Nexus One Moving To AT&T, Sprint Networks

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:41:00 GMT

Google's Nexus One may have gotten off to a rocky start with consumers, but the "superphone" is making fast inroads with wireless carriers. Google this week started selling a Nexus One that will run on AT&T's 3G network...

Clearwire deal with T-Mobile becomes more likely

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:40:00 GMT

The prospect of T-Mobile USA joining the Clearwire party became more likely as the CEO of TMo's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said he wanted to double group revenue from mobile data, while improving margins...

Cautious Telstra chooses LTE trial partners

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:00 GMT

Australia's Telstra is the biggest flagwaver for HSPA+ and sees LTE as a technology to be kept just for high demand hotzones, at least for the next four years or so. However, that cautious approach is not preventing it from...

Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Platform To Ease 4G Migration

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:38:00 GMT

Alcatel-Lucent hoping to cement its position in the next-generation wireless network business, unveiled on Thursday an upgraded platform intended to help ease carriers with their upgrade plans. The Paris-based telecommunications...

New 4G tech may heat up mobile Net neutrality debate

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:37:00 GMT

Vimpel Communications posts 4Q profit

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:36:00 GMT

Russian telecommunications company Vimpel Communications posted a fourth-quarter net profit Thursday, reversing a year-ago loss as it added new mobile and broadband subscribers.The company earned $283 million...

T-Mobile USA's M2M strategy is 'to be easy to work with'

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:00 GMT

T-Mobile USA Inc. is attacking the machine-to-machine space with four SIM form factors to enable companies that want m2M solutions to use the one that best fits their needs, said John Horn, national director of M2M at the...

NTC to push through with 3G auction

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:33:00 GMT

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said it would push through with the auction of the last third generation (3G) frequency because the government is already losing millions of pesos from the delay in assigning...

Velcom launches commercial UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ network

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:32:00 GMT

According to TeleGeography Telekom Austria Group's Belarusian subsidiary Mobile Digital Communications (Velcom) has announced the official launch of commercial services based on UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+ technology...

Alcatel-Lucent lays groundwork for next-gen mobile services

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:31:00 GMT

Alcatel-Lucent's new Ultimate Wireless Packet Core is designed to let operators get a handle on the current mobile data explosion and offer subscribers more advanced services, the company said on Thursday.These are ..

DOCOMO Reorganizes Chinese Operations for Long-term Growth

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:30:00 GMT

NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will expand the role of DOCOMO China Co., Ltd. to strengthen delivery of high-quality solutions, services and support and facilitate new growth in the fast-expanding Chinese mobile ...

Fujitsu Begins Shipping LTE Base Stations to NTT DOCOMO

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:29:00 GMT

Fujitsu today announced that it has begun shipping next-generation mobile base station systems to NTT DOCOMO, INC., which plans to launch mobile communication services in Japan based on the next-generation...

SwissQual Offers Drive Test Solution for LTE

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:27:00 GMT

SwissQual, the Swiss network quality measurement company says that it is now offering a drive test solution for LTE network testing. This new solution offers a Diversity probe providing RF scanning together with application...

Mobile internet user base growing rapidly in BRIC countries

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:25:00 GMT

Although the mobile markets in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) continue to expand, the growth is slowing down. As mobile subscriber bases solidify, it is now the mobile internet user base that is rapidly...

Telefonica, Yahoo! expand mobile search partnership to Spain

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:24:00 GMT

Telefonica Espana has selected Yahoo! to power its mobile internet search experience and sponsored search advertising on Telefonica's Emocion portal. Yahoo!'s mobile search service provides Telefonica's consumers in Spain...

China Mobile posts FY revenues up 8.8% to CNY 229 bln

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:23:00 GMT

China Mobile reported revenues of CNY 452.1 billion for 2009, up 9.8 percent from a year earlier. EBITDA rose 5.9 percent to CNY 229.0 billion, and net profit was up 2.3 percent to CNY 115.2 billion. China Mobile maintained ...

Reliance Comm applies for broadband spectrum auction

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:21:00 GMT

Reliance Communications, India's No 2 mobile operator, said it had applied to participate in an April auction for broadband wireless access (BWA) in all of the country's telecoms zones. The company had also applied for ...

TTI Telecom Continues to Expand Its Customer Base

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:19:00 GMT

TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. , a global supplier of Operations Support Systems (OSS) to communications service providers, announced today that it will implement its Service Management solution at MTS...

Uganda Telecom Boosts Community Health

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:18:00 GMT

Uganda Telecom (UTL), one of the leading telecommunication companies in Uganda has given out 87 free fully connected mobile phones to boost community health service delivery.The phones to be channelled through ...

Zimbabwe: Mobile Operators Get Ultimatum

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:16:00 GMT

THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe has given the country's three mobile operators an ultimatum to ensure that all activated mobile lines are registered with the firms by August 10...

Ethiopia: Seacom, ETC to Sign High-Speed Undersea Connection Agreement

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:15:00 GMT

The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) will sign an agreement on March 18, 2010, with SEACOM for the laying of high bandwidth fibre optic cable systems, which are part of the Next Generation Network...

Nigeria: New Generations Telecoms Buys Nitel for U.S.$2.5 Billion

editor@teleresearchlabs.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:14:00 GMT

AFTER a rigorous bid which saw five consortia, jostling for the soul of Nigeria's first National Telecommunications carrier, NITEL, the New Generations Telecommunications Consortium, Tuesday, emerged...