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[[ 3G ]]
Samsung Launches First TD-SCDMA Handset
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16346.php
Philips, Samsung and T3G have announced that they are bringing
TD-SCDMA handsets to the Chinese market. The Samsung video phone,
announced in August 2005 is available now and has already been
experienced by Huang Ju, China's Vice Premier. The Samsung...
[[ Financial ]]
NEWS SNAP: Telefonica 4Q Net Profit +52%, Spain Still Grows
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16332.php
Telefonica, Wednesday posted a 52% jump in fourth-quarter net profit,
boosted by several Latin American acquisitions and Internet-driven
revenue growth in its key Spanish fixed-line division. ...
Cesky Telecom To Join Forces With Eurotel
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16333.php
Cesky Telecom said Wednesday that a new integrated telecommunications
operator Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, a.s. is to be formed. ...
Poland's KGHM: Polkomtel 2005 Net Profit Up 16%
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16336.php
Mobile telephone operator Polkomtel, increased its full-year net
profit by 16% in 2005, to 1.07 billion zlotys ($1=PLN3.1618),
according to figures issued Wednesday in the consolidated
fourth-quarter report of shareholder KGHM Polska Miedz. ...
Unefon revenues decline 10% in 2005
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16337.php
Mexico's fourth placed mobile operator Unefon saw revenues fall 10% in
2005 to 4.0bn pesos (US$382mn) from 4.4bn pesos in 2004, the company
said in a statement. ...
Sonae confirms bid for control of Vivo
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16338.php
Portuguese industrial conglomerate Sonae SGPS has clarified that a
desire for control of Brazilian mobile group Vivo is one of the
considerations in its recently proposed takeover of Vivo shareholder
Portugal Telecom, according to a note to Portugal'...
[[ Handsets ]]
Nokia Opens Mexico Handset Factory
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16345.php
Nokia has opened the expansion to its Reynosa, Tamaulipas plant in
Mexixo, which is intended to boost its mobile-device production. With
an investment of more than US$50 million, the expansion provides
greater capacity and flexibility to meet the req...
Top Six Vendors Drive Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales in 2005
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16347.php Worldwide mobile phone
sales totaled 816.6 million units in 2005, a 21% increase from 2004,
as the leading six vendors increased their share of the market at the
detriment of smaller vendors, according to Gartner. The top six
vendors accounted for 79...
[[ Legal ]]
Court to hear Telenor claim against VimpelCom's URS buy on Apr 5
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16342.php
The Moscow Arbitration Court adjourned on Wednesday until April 5 the
preliminary hearings of a lawsuit filed by Norway's telecommunication
company Telenor, seeking to void VimpelCom's purchase of mobile
operator Ukrainian Radiosystems (URS). ...
[[ Mobile Content ]]
Mobile Data Services set to score at World Cup
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16344.php
Ceon, a provider of service fulfilment software for next generation
IP-based services has revealed the findings of an NOP survey examining
consumer attitudes towards mobile digital services at the Football
World Cup. With kick-off less than four mont...
[[ Regulatory ]]
PRESS: Russia's MTS applies for long-distance license
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16334.php
Russia's largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has filed an
application with the Russian Communications Supervision Service to get
a long-distance license, MTS' Press Secretary Galina Istratova said,
Kommersant business daily reported Wedn...
IN BRIEF: US desists from push to force telco privatization
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16339.php
Colombia has managed to convince the US government to back off from
its demands to privatize public telcos and to include mobile operators
in the free trade agreement the two countries have recently finished
negotiating, local daily El Universal repo...
Russian telecom official slams antitrust for Far East frequency comments
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16341.php
An official with the Federal Telecommunication Agency criticized
Wednesday the Federal Antimonopoly Service's (FAS) recent statements
on frequency allocation in Russia's Far East as "groundless." ...
[[ Statistics ]]
Ukraine's DCC subscriber base down 39% in Oct-Dec 2005
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16335.php
The subscriber base of Ukraine's Digital Cellular Communications of
Ukraine (DCC), which operates using the DAMPS standard, decreased 39%
in October-December 2005 to 42,700 users as of January 1, a source in
the company told Prime-Tass Wednesday. ...
Belarus' MDC subscriber base up to 2 million users
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16340.php
The subscriber base of Belarus mobile phone operator Mobile Digital
Communications, or MDC, rose to 2 million users as of March 1 from
1.885 million users as of January 1, the company's press office said
Wednesday. ...
[[ Technology ]]
Cellphones Pose Greater Risk to Airplanes Than Previously Thought
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16343.php
A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the Department of
Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) has found that cell phones and
other portable electronic devices, like laptops and game-playing
devices, can pose dangers to the normal operati...
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