www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A number of discussions have been held by T-Mobile’s parent, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom with a number of banks about underwriting an IPO for the unit. Partial spinoff of the business which would carve it into a separate entity with its own balance sheet has been considered another option.
Since a past few years, there were [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Besides settling all the claims between them, ¬Samsung Electronics and Rambus have also signed an agreement licensing Rambus’ patent portfolio covering all Samsung semiconductor products including a perpetual fully paid-up license to certain current DRAM products. As per the agreement, US$200 million will be invested by Samsung in Rambus stock.
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A former U.S. secretary of transportation who served under President Bill Clinton has been added as the 13th board of Verizon Communications Inc. Rodney Slater will join Verizon’s board of directors on March 5, 2010.
Slater specializes in transportation, infrastructure and public policy issues and is a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In order to sell controlling stake in Warid Telecom, the Abu Dhabi Group is in talks with several Pakistani telecommunications groups. If the deal materializes, it will create the largest mobile operator in the country. Although, the company denied revealing the size of the stake, it made it clear that it was looking to [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Peru has expressed its confidence of attracting a fourth mobile telephony operator this year. The auction is planned to be launched by ProInversin this year.
The previous attempt of the government to 25MHz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band failed to attract any bidders whose deadline was fixed on November 30, 2009. Due to the [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile video application will be supported by AT&T across its 3G mobile broadband network. The announcement came almost a year after the iPhone app to WiFi on grounds that 3G streaming would consume too much network capacity.
SlingPlayer Mobile app enables users to stream live and recorded television content from their home [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Apple’s browser-based feature enabling consumers to view music available in the iTunes digital store front is now available in the App Store and its catalog of iPhone and iPod touch applications.
The service has been extended three months after quietly introducing iTunes Preview. Through the “Copy Link” option within the iTunes application, Web links to [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the plans to triple the number of devices in the market over the next three years, TelstraClear, a unit of Australia’s Telstra Corp, launched a 3G mobile service for its New Zealand business customers.
Mobile services are already provided by the telco to business customers over the CDMA network. However, the new service riding [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Keeping its focus on the high-end handset market and strengthening its presence in advanced markets, Samsung Electronics hoped to sell 260 million to 270 million handsets globally this year.
A record 69 million handsets had already been shipped by Samsung in the fourth quarter, up 31% from 52.8 million a year earlier. The company had [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 15.1% drop in the net profit has been recorded by Singapore telecommunications firm StarHub Ltd in its fourth quarter due to higher cost of equipment as the operator launched Apple’s iPhone in December. The net profit lowered from S$87.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2008 to S$74.2 million in 2009. The service revenue [...]